The American system is badly broken

An unhoused person on a bench at the Columbus Circle monument, in view of the US Capitol in Washington DC. Photograph: Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images

Let’s take a deep breath and, for one moment, forget about Donald Trump, Jimmy Kimmel, the UN, Charlie Kirk, Gaza, a government shutdown and the other crises that we face.

Let’s talk instead about the reality which the corporate-controlled media and the corporate-controlled political system don’t talk about very much.