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The social contract was destroyed by social media. Also, an inability to sue social media companies for product liabilities and the harms they cause, due to the obsolete and anti-consumer Section 230 liability shield.

Section 230 is outdated and keeps Americans, their family members, their privacy, and their safety at risk.

There are no communitarian values left after COVID lockdowns brought out the Ill-mannered, unempathetic, self-pitying and self -serving worst parts of most of us.

Simply put, they’ve been replaced by rampant consumer and celebrity fetishism.

That’s leaves us with lives with little meaning or purpose.

Most people say they have no friends and are lonely loners. Our government tells us to stay home every year — this year, it’s saying, “don’t fly, you might even get measles.”

If a tree is poisoned by rotten fruit, nothing good will descend from it. Trump’s leadership seeks to normalize crime, not fight it. His leadership is each person for themselves, the rich will be fine, like Herbert Hoover believed.

We need to revive the social contract, the golden rule, and explain why communitarian values save us all money.

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