The USA is a crazy country
Monday, April 18, 2016 by Dave Winer

Here's something almost no one can disagree with.

We don't have a functioning government.

So you'd think if we were a nation of thoughtful adults, we'd say our first priority would be to get a functioning government. Other things would have to be on hold.

How bad is it? We can't allocate money to do the work to keep the Zika virus from causing large numbers of deformed babies from being born. Should that happen it will be a legacy our country has to live with for 100 years. A fuck up that would be hard to explain to the kids, and to their brothers and sisters. And this is one of the smaller things we're not dealing with.

So when you all come down from your high of Making Our Country Great Again or Feeling The Bern, maybe it won't be too late to work on Getting Our Shit Together.