I need to tell you about something that’s been breaking my heart.
Last summer, I took my kids, Hayden and Eve, on a two-week road trip across the heart of America. From South Dakota to Wyoming to Montana.
We fired guns at a range outside Cody. We camped in Yellowstone under stars so bright it felt like the sky was showing off. We sat at the famous Cody Rodeo while families around us waved American flags with a pride that made my chest tight with emotion.
The people we met were extraordinary.
At a local diner, the waitress gave us the warmest service and the best pie I’ve had in years. At the hotels we stayed in, we were treated with overwhelming kindness and sincerity.
I am not an American citizen. I was born in Malaysia. I run Mindvalley, an American company. But I’ve spent nearly three decades traveling across your country—from my college years in Michigan to speaking events in Florida; from tech conferences in San Francisco to quiet conversations in Ohio diners.
And here is what I know to be true:
The American people are not the problem.
The warmth I felt in Wyoming, I have felt in every corner of this nation. In so-called “red” America and so-called “blue” America. Among people who voted for Trump and people who voted for Biden. Among ranchers and professors, veterans and artists, churchgoers and skeptics.
Goodness is everywhere.
So why does it feel like you are at war with each other?
The rodeo speech that changed something in me
At the Cody Rodeo, the announcer stepped into the ring and gave a speech called “Why We Stand.”
He spoke of soldiers who never came home from Vietnam. From Iraq. From the beaches of Normandy. He spoke of sacrifice, of freedom, of a flag that represents something men and women were willing to die for.
The crowd went silent. Hats came off. Hands covered hearts.
And I thought: This is real. This love of country is real. This reverence is real.
These people are not hateful. These people are not ignorant. These people are not my enemies.
Then a second thought hit me hard:
Who the hell convinced Americans that they are enemies of each other?
I was manipulated too
I need to confess something.
For years, I consumed media that painted a certain picture of Trump supporters. I read the tweets. I watched the clips. I saw the worst moments replayed on loop until they seemed like the whole story.
I absorbed a caricature.
Then I went to Wyoming. And I met human beings.
They didn’t match the cartoon I’d been sold. Not even close. These were people worried about the same things everyone worries about:
Can I afford to get sick?
Will my children have a better life than I?
Why does it feel like the whole system is rigged against regular folks?
These aren’t Republican questions or Democratic questions. These are human questions. These are kitchen-table questions.
I realized I had allowed myself to see my fellow human beings as enemies—because it’s easier to hate a cartoon than to sit with complexity.
If I were manipulated, I suspect I’m not the only one.
The inclusion paradox
There is a hard question I had to ask myself—a question raised by philosopher Ken Wilber, whose course “Integral Life” is part of the Mindvalley curriculum.
He describes a strange paradox in our modern culture. We have a “leading edge” of society that prides itself on love, diversity, and inclusion. We fight for the environment. We fight for minorities. We fight for the oppressed.
But there is one group we often feel comfortable excluding.
Wilber calls this a “performative contradiction.” How can we claim to be the movement of diversity if we look down on half the country as “deplorables”?
We cannot claim to stand for “inclusion” if we hold contempt for diversity of thought.
If our tolerance stops the moment someone wears a red hat, it isn’t tolerance. It is just another form of tribalism wearing a nicer outfit.
We have to be better than that. True inclusivity means holding space even for those we vehemently disagree with, understanding that their pain is just as real as ours.
The machine that profits from your division
Here’s what I’ve come to believe.
There are forces that profit when Americans hate each other.
The equation is simple:
When you’re angry, you click. When you click, someone makes money.
When you’re afraid, you watch. When you watch, someone sells ads.
And when you are divided, you don’t notice that your wages haven’t kept pace with inflation while CEO pay has soared. You don’t notice that healthcare bankrupts half a million families a year. You don’t notice that the same corporations often fund both parties, ensuring they win no matter who is in the White House.
The platform owners know exactly what they’re doing.
A study from MIT found that falsehoods and outrage-driven content spread six times faster than the truth.
Internal Facebook files leaked in 2021 revealed that their algorithm privileged anger to such a degree that even Meta’s own engineers warned it was “ripping society apart.”
Ken Wilber calls this the “Culture of Post-Truth.”
It creates a state of “aperspectival madness”—where we lose our shared reality and retreat into warring tribes. When algorithms prioritize outrage over facts, truth vanishes. And when there is no truth, there is only power.
The division is not an accident. It is a business model.
And all of us—left and right, rural and urban, MAGA and progressive—we are the product being sold.
Then comes the second wave: The Bots.
A 2024 USC study analyzed online traffic during political flashpoints. What they found was chilling.
Nearly half of the most viral, toxic conversations weren’t coming from humans.
They were generated by bots. In some cases, bot activity spiked from 20% to 43% of the total conversation.
These weren’t Americans. These were automated scripts originating from Russia, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Macedonia.
Think about that.
When you see a comment that makes your blood boil, when you rage at “the other side”—half the time, you aren’t fighting a fellow citizen. You are fighting a line of code from a server farm halfway across the world.
It is a foreign algorithm wearing the mask of your neighbor.
The bots are designed to make you hate each other. The actual Americans I’ve met just want the same things.
Something doesn’t add up
I’m not an economist. I’m not a policy expert.
But I’m someone who has built a life on questioning assumptions—what I call “brules,” the bullshit rules society programs into us without evidence.
In a “Post-Truth” world, b-rules thrive. They fill the void where facts used to be. So I decided to look at the actual data. And the reality I found didn’t match the stories I’d been told.
Here are four ideas worth reexamining.
1. On the economy
I always heard that one party was better for business, better for the stock market, better for jobs. It seemed obvious. Everyone repeated it.
Then I looked at the record.
Since 1933, the stock market has performed more than twice as well under Democratic presidents (NYU / Stock Market Historical Review).
Job creation has nearly doubled.
And 10 of the last 11 recessions began under Republican administrations.
I’m not sharing this to score political points. I’m saying: the story I was told was a “brule”. It didn’t match reality.
2. On immigration
I was told immigrants were driving crime and draining resources.
But study after study shows the opposite.
Texas—a state at the center of the immigration debate—found that native-born Americans commit violent crimes at nearly twice the rate of undocumented immigrants (Texas Dept. of Public Safety, 2024).
And in 2022 alone, undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in taxes (ITEP, 2024).
They pay billions. They work in agriculture, construction, elder care, and childcare—industries that would collapse without them. Many can’t even claim refunds on the taxes they pay.
So if they’re not causing crime… and they’re not draining your taxes…
Why have we been taught to fear them?
Who benefits when we are afraid of the most vulnerable among us?
3. On healthcare: the freedom to fail
530,000.
That is the number of American families that go bankrupt every year due to medical bills.
In Canada: zero.
In Germany: zero.
In the U.K., France, Japan, Australia: virtually zero.
This isn’t because Americans are sicker. It’s because of policy choices made by people who benefit from the status quo.
But here is the brule we’ve been taught: safety nets make people lazy.
The data shows the exact opposite.
Countries with robust social safety nets—like Sweden, Norway, and Denmark—are hotbeds for entrepreneurship. Sweden produces more unicorn tech companies per capita than any region except Silicon Valley.
Why?
Because entrepreneurship requires risk. And risk requires security.
In America, “freedom” often means the freedom to fall through the cracks.
In social democracies, the government provides a trampoline.
When you don’t have to worry about losing your healthcare because you left your corporate job, you are free to be brave.
4. On the American dream: a personal warning
I was always told America has the highest upward mobility in the world—that this is the only place where anyone, from any background, can make it to the top.
It is a beautiful story. But I decided to look at the rankings.
The Global Social Mobility Index ranks countries on how easy it is for a person to start at zero and climb to the top.
The United States ranks 27th.
The top of the list? Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden.
The “American Dream” is now statistically more likely to happen in Scandinavia than in America.
So why do we resist the very policies that would fix this?
I believe it is because Americans have been manipulated into confusing “Social Democracy” with “Communism.”
And I need to make a distinction here that is deeply personal to me.
I am an entrepreneur. I love entrepreneurs. And I hate Communism with a fire that comes from my own blood.
The Estonian side of my family owned a farm on the Baltic island of Hiiumaa for hundreds of years. But when the Communists took control of Estonia in the 1940s, that legacy was shattered.
They sent a massive portion of the Estonian population to the gulags. My children’s great-grandparents were marched into a forest, lined up, and shot in the head. They were buried in unmarked graves.
Their sin? They were farmers who happened to own their own land.
This is a scar on my family’s history. That land was stolen, and it was only returned to us in the early 1990s when Estonia finally threw off the shackles of Communism and property ownership was legal again.
So you can imagine how I feel when I hear Americans screaming the word “Communism” at things that are clearly not Communism.
I know what Communism is. I know the smell of the graves it digs.
And I need you to know: A safety net is not Communism.
We need to understand the difference between three very different things:
- Communism: The government owns everything. They shoot you for owning a farm. (Think Soviet Estonia).
- Socialism: The government owns the means of production.
- Social Democracy: The government provides a floor so that capitalism can thrive. (Think modern Europe).
The tragedy is that by fearing the ghost of Communism, Americans have rejected the very systems that would make their capitalism stronger.
You can’t take big risks if the system is designed to crush you for stumbling.
When I look at my family’s history, I know that Communism destroys the human spirit. But I also know that unbridled capitalism, without a safety net, breaks the human body.
Real freedom requires a floor you can’t fall through.
The scripture I can’t stop thinking about
After Wyoming, I took Hayden to Ellis Island.
We stood at the base of the Statue of Liberty and read the famous inscription: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…”
I thought about my own family—immigrants who came to Malaysia with nothing. I thought about the families at the rodeo, many of whose ancestors arrived the same way, chasing the same dream.
Then I remembered these words from Jesus:
“I was a stranger and you welcomed me.” (Matthew 25:35)
“Whatever you did for the least of these, you did for me.” (Matthew 25:40)
I’m not a theologian. But those verses haunted me on that island.
I started wondering: What would it mean to take them seriously—not as a political slogan, but as a genuine challenge to how we treat the desperate?
Christ didn’t say: Fear the foreigner. Blame the stranger. Build walls and turn the desperate into demons.
So how did so many good people of faith end up cheering for rhetoric that seems to contradict the teacher they follow?
I don’t ask this to judge. I ask because the contradiction breaks my heart.
The real enemies are not each other
If I could share one insight from an outsider looking in with love, it would be this:
The veteran in Wyoming and the activist in Oakland are not enemies. They are prisoners in the same cell, fighting over crumbs while the warden laughs.
The immigrant picking strawberries didn’t move your factory overseas.
The college student protesting injustice didn’t write the tax code that lets billionaires pay lower rates than nurses.
The single mother on food stamps didn’t create a healthcare system that charges $800 for insulin that costs $8 to make.
Your frustration is real.
But the target you’ve been given is wrong.
And while you are fighting your neighbor, the systems that squeeze you keep squeezing.
What I’m asking
I’m not asking you to change your vote.
I’m not asking you to abandon your values.
I’m not asking you to agree with me.
I’m asking something simpler:
Be suspicious of anyone who tells you to hate.
Be suspicious of the media that makes you angry every single day—because anger is profitable, and you are the product.
Be suspicious of leaders who need enemies more than they need solutions.
And ask yourself, honestly:
Is my life actually better under the policies I support?
Are my bills lower?
Is my healthcare more affordable?
Are my wages keeping up?
Do my children have more opportunity than I did?
If the answer is no, then maybe, just maybe, you’ve been convinced to fight the wrong battles.
I dream of an America that finally lives up to its own giant story.
That dream doesn’t belong to the left or the right.
It belongs to anyone willing to fight for it.
Not fight each other.
Fight for each other.
PS: If this article stirred something in you—agreement, discomfort, clarity, anything—leave a comment below. Honest dialogue is how we start healing what’s been broken. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
334 Responses
Thank you for your thoughtful reflection. I truly respect the compassion and personal history behind your views. At the same time, I’d like to offer a gentle counter-perspective—one that acknowledges many of the truths you raised but also adds a few nuances I believe matter.
I agree that America faces real challenges: polarization, economic pressure on families, and a media landscape easily manipulated by foreign actors. Your point about bots is an important reminder that not all division is organic. But I also think some of your conclusions overlook the strengths of the American system—its constitutional limits on government, its protection of individual liberty, and its unusual resilience. These are the very structures that have allowed millions, including you, to thrive.
On immigration, I believe compassion and responsibility must go hand in hand. Many European countries now struggle precisely because compassion was applied without adequate screening. Distinguishing between legal immigration and uncontrolled illegal entry is not hatred; it is prudent governance. A sovereign nation must ensure that those entering its borders respect its laws and core constitutional values.
Regarding healthcare, universal systems offer benefits, but many of them—including Japan’s—face long-term financial strain from aging populations and rising costs. These systems work, but only through high taxation and constant political adjustments. The trade-offs should be acknowledged before presenting them as effortless solutions for the U.S.
What I find particularly noteworthy is this: you emphasized that entrepreneurship thrives in Scandinavia, yet you chose the United States to build your company—and succeeded. That raises a fair and meaningful question. If America truly ranked 27th in opportunity, what made you stay? And what made success possible for you here in ways you did not pursue elsewhere?
I also hear and respect your family’s trauma under Communism. That pain is real. And perhaps for that very reason, it is important to recognize how the American constitutional framework was deliberately designed to prevent the authoritarian collapse your relatives endured. Limited government, checks and balances, and individual rights are not abstractions—they are safeguards that have drawn generations of immigrants, including yours and mine.
I appreciate your call to reduce hatred, but I also notice how moral framing in American politics can become one-sided. Republicans are easily portrayed as cruel or fearful, while the risks of poorly managed immigration or unsustainable social spending receive far less scrutiny. That imbalance concerns me, because thoughtful disagreement should not be treated as moral wrongdoing.
Critiquing America is necessary. But so is recognizing what makes it exceptional—its founding principles, its freedoms, and its ability to reform without abandoning the ideas that made it extraordinary. As someone who grew up in Japan, I’ve always appreciated the ideals this country stands for. My hope is simply that our conversation can reflect both truths: what America must improve, and what America must never lose.
Thank you for speaking out for us all.
We are all connected.
Dear Vishen,
This was such a lovely read. I am an Indian citizen but remain deeply interested in what’s been unfolding in the United States of America since the current Republican Government under Donald Trump took charge.
I love how this was such an honest and well-intentioned attempt to blur the deep libes between the red and the blue.
I hope this article on your blog reaches the very right people and places where it is duly understood and appreciated.
I agree. I am from Sweden born, raised here and now finally retired from work. Since I belong to the peaking generation, born in late fifties, I belong to one of the most privileged People in the world. I am also a Child of the socialdemokratisk era in Europé. Its Hard to understand sometimes and easy to take for granted how imported it is for a human being to feel safe and treated on icual terms. To have a work , ability to study a own flat when you are 20, an a social system witch hold you an fell safe. In in the place I was born , I have all this and every Day I fill my heart with
Gratade for that.
Hello Vishen <3 I have read every word to the end.
We as people have been what I call "Dumbed Down": simplified so as to be intellectually undemanding and accessible to a wide audience. This is the term that I use to refer how we are manipulated by our Governments and other Powerful Groups of People. So many of us follow like sheep, which is also referred to as a "Herd Mentality".
Are we all so vulnerable that we just follow: or do many just not care and choose to go along with the status quo : or is it too much work to be bothered with !
I have saved this information written by you so that I can review it at any time. You have left me speechless in so many ways with your awakening information. When someone like you puts it right in our faces , we have to think about it and explore more deeply into how people are treated and controlled in so many different ways. And here we are oblivious to what is truly going on around us.
Thank you for the awakening and I will keep your words close !
Vishen, this is the most important text you’ve ever written. I wish everyone could read it and then try to use the “us and them” argument. Please send it to the main papers as a Letter from a reader – it needs to reach more people than us who already follow you.
thank you for raise your voice fearlessly!
We are no longer allowed Capitalism in The United States of America. What we have is criminalism, business in partnership with government is criminal. We are a Republic, not a democracy!! We are intended to have plural party elections, where the runner up becomes VP. A check and balance deliberately stripped by those that hijacked our republic. The real problem is bankster supremacy and oil Barron tyranny. The same banksters that print the fake dollar bills, (aka, federal reserve notes) are the ones in control of the petroleum, being sold at less than its full value as deadly DIEsel and toxic gasoline. Not only does this create a double compounding economic enslavement, it is evil.
We must restore plural party elections and our Republic!!! The two party system is really a one party system providing the illusion of choice. The banksters that hijacked our republic have created the Divide & Conquer Championships of the World!! The banksters win and everyone else loses.. We are all much more alike than different. Red & Blue May both be cool colors. However, it takes a full spectrum to represent us all.
The answer is to restore our Republic. Kick the banksters out! End the FED! Eliminate the irs. Defund the epa!! Only with real, sound money, backed by the solar hydrogen economy can we create wealth, health, liberty and prosperity for ALL lives ‘pon this planet.
You are so close Vishen! None of this has happened by accident. Everything happening now is by design. The chains of the Constitution were to bind the government from growing out of co trim and keep those who seek power from being able to grab it. We must get the federal government back in its fire pan. We must undo the upside down pyramid of laws created by the Congress critters of the banksters to control us and return to follow the rules set in place to limit the government.
Right now is rule by fear. Fear is no place to live. Responsible individuals must conduct themselves properly and live by positive example. Do not buy what they are selling! The entire system is based on the Rockefeller mentality of “competition is a sin” and the ends justify any means. This bankster supremacy and oil Barron tyranny must end.
Thank You!
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Tai Robinson
Well said, Vishen!
I shake my head and slap my forehead far too often these days. I agree with all that you stated and I really appreciate your insight as someone who has truly seen the flip side of the coin. From my perspective, we as Americans, need to wake up to the deceit. It’s remarkable how easily we, as humans, can be swayed. I’ve always had questions for officials, elders, teachers, authorities… but I’ve seldom received answers. Now my questions are to the billionaires who are running our country. “How do you sleep at night? Where is your empathy for others? Who are you serving?” There are so many questions and few, if any, resolutions. It’s all in the name of ego and how “I” can benefit. There’s no “we”, as in, “We the people.” This whole subject makes my stomach turn. I know that there’s a greater plan, but seriously, Universe. I’ve held your beer for too long. Why put us thru this BS? So many lives have been ruined, families broken up, murder in the name of war on drugs, name calling of hard working individuals who only want to survive, refugees from truly war torn lands being labeled because someone decided if your skin was a certain tone, you worship a different god, etc, then you’re a piece of sh!t. You know the rest.
How will this end? Who will win?
Your comments on bots from foreign advisories is important, but the damage is done. Minds were changed and monsters were created. Now what!? *sigh*
I’m hopeful that there will be a turnaround within the year, but so much damage has ensued. This damage control is going to need some miraculous intervention.
From what I’m seeing on the US west coast, that we as regular citizens are helping out those in need. Our food pantries are empty, the homeless population is growing, children are hungry in school so learning is harder and behavior is less than kind. The elderly on fixed incomes, like myself, the working person barely making ends meet, the small business trying to stay afloat, are the ones serving our fellow Americans and foreign friends. People are giving small amounts, but they are giving. Whilst the billionaires are padding their pockets, bitching about taxes, and going to outlandish parties…
There are a lot of very wealthy people giving, I know this, and I’m grateful for their generosity, but it’s not theirs or our responsibility to support those in need. We just do it because we have a heart and we remember how hard it is to struggle.
Everything has become polarized and common sense and the ability to THINK has gone out the window. What the media is selling benefits them and the companies that pay them to advertise.
1. Immigration / when did believing that people should enter our country legally and if they don’t that are not illegible for benefits become a bad thing? Obama, Hillary, Bill Clinton, all said the same thing, come here legally or you are going to be deported. ZERO BAD PRESS. So who is controlling the narrative and who’s buying into it because it fits, not what they use to believe, but their agenda.
Story – your family goes on vacation, while you are gone another family breaks into your home, the woman has a baby while there. You return home, the baby has now become a member of your family, you will educate, give aid, support this child and her family. Is it reasonable that we should vet people who live in our home? Does it no longer make sense that people here illegally, and have children, those children aren’t automatically U.S. citizens. Does think our country spending 7 billion for housing, feeding, illegals here in New York?
We are almost all on the same side of this and now the press paints those who support coming here legally as haters.
2. Medical – Vaccines – Big Pharma accounts for 25% of the nightly news ad budget. MAYBE they influence what is reported in regard to medicine and vaccine? FACT – the FDA, CDC, Big Pharma, have not published ONE study on the safety of giving children two or more vaccines at a time. CDC recommends 20 vaccines for babies without knowing the effect of the cumulative effect. Those of us who chose not to get the covid vaccine where villainized. It didn’t prevent getting Covid, didn’t prevent its spread, and created more injuries and deaths than all other previous vaccines combined. And the media said nothing. Doesn’t common sense say the companies who made this unsafe vaccine be held responsible, they are not. In AMERICA people shouldn’t be forced to take a poorly tested, ineffective, dangerous drug, but they were. Long after companies and the government knew the harm. 1950, baby boomers, 3 vaccines. Healthy, autism 1 in 10,000, drug companies responsible for their product. No childhood diabetes, obesity, over 30% chronic illness, and AMERICA has said nothing as our children became less healthy.
AS LONG AS THE MEDIA, BIG PHARMA, AND THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY CONTROL THE NARRATIVE IT WONT CHANGE.
FACT
We account for 4% of the world population and 70% of legal drug use. 75% mind drugs.
We have the most expensive medical in the world.
Over medication a leading cause of death.
Medical cost leading cause of bankruptcy.
Worst world wide death rate for covid, gave hospitals $10,000 to ventilate covid patients, kiss of death.
Doctor misdiagnoses a leading cause of death.
Most expensive and least effective medical treatment.
Autism 1 in 31 – yep- we are the worst. California with strict vaccine mandates, boys 1 in 12.5
ALL THIS AND THE MEDIA SAYS ZERO. RFK IS BEING FOUGHT AT EVERY TURN.
You want America back, start by stop listening to the main stream media.
Vishen has Courage.
Your Mindvalley programs will help us change our vibrations and join together to defeat the Global Dark Powers that rule this world. We must unite to defeat and shed light on the global elites (they delivered the Statue of Liberty in a pact to America). See it is not as simple as your thoughtful blog. There are layers much deeper.
Now that you think you ‘see,’ dont stop digging and scratching. This is the first level of sight. Once you learn this has been planned and set in motion by a small group of elites (you rub shoulders with these ‘people’) for centuries, planned wars and resets and MKUltra and the educational systems brain washing, blackmailing, gaslighting, The ONly Answer is to RAISE our Vibrations together to experience the different outcome. WE CAN DO IT. Acknowledge our telepathic powers, our healing abilities and send love and healing to the hearts of the fallen. Ask God Consciousness to heal and raise them up, to change hearts and minds. Let us all envelope humanity in a giant healing bubble of love.
Your message began by tightening my heart, until it brought some tears, Vishen.
I want to Print and before translate to Spanish and give it as a Christmas gift for my students on next week’s finals.
I thank you for the thorough analysis, too many close friends getting sucked dry by the epidemic that Erwin Valencia and Kate Princess of Wales mentioned recently, the epidemic of disconnection.
No more. I’ll practice it consciously everyday. Staying as connected as I can be. Set an example to my students and nephews (2).
The world is better because you are active in it for all of us!! Blessings Vishen 🙌🏼
Thank you Vishen for sharing this information.
I usually don’t read emails of this length, but really glad I read this one. I voted Blue; my best friend voted Red. She is one of the kindest and generous persons I know. I wholeheartedly agree with your views.
While I agree with the gist of what you say, I do have a couple of nitpicks:
1) People often look at what is going on in the early years of a new administration and say it’s the result of that administration, but they fail to consider there’s a lag time (often several years) from the previous administration’s actions. A current example is a chart presented by Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, ostensibly showing “surging prices” under Trump, but as astute readers pointed out, “Joe Biden was president from January 20 2021 – January 20, 2025. Also, this chart is not representing the cost of electricity. It is showing the average past-due balances of Americans, which soared since 2022 under Joe Biden’s presidency.” So what initially appears to be a Trump problem, on closer investigation, turns out to be a delayed effect of a Biden policy.
2) Health care: Again, a casual glance at the numbers may look like a win for “democratic socialism,” but take a closer look. Canadians can’t get in to see a specialist for their condition for sometimes years, but they can get MAID (medical assistance in dying) in 90 days. “Financial hardship” is not only an acceptable reason to apply for MAID, it’s a rapidly-growing one. So what if they’re not “declaring bankruptcy” due to medical bills? it’s still a case of unaffordable health care.
The UK has a “crisis” of people getting dumped from NHS for living longer than expected, left waiting for care (“Out of 6.23 million patients waiting for treatment, 48% remain completely unseen, trapped in an ‘invisible waiting list crisis,’ the Patients Association warns.”), or being denied drugs necessary for their conditions. Then there’s the occasional tale of people not allowed to leave the country for medical treatments not available. Sure, British patients aren’t “going bankrupt,” but they AREN’T GETTING TREATED, EITHER! So looking at how many people go bankrupt trying to pay for treatment some countries won’t allow you to receive at any price isn’t exactly the most reliable way to evaluate a country’s health care.
You are a very smart and gifted human being. Thank you for standing up for the truth. Thank you for your courage
Well said Vishen
Great read and necessary for regular people to understand. It can be shared globally too and give insight into why people ‘hate’ their enemies or someone different to them. Up close, people want the same things.
Who leads the hatred? It can’t just be bots- there are people and corporations, power hungry people behind Facebook algorithms etc. I hope we as humanity can unite with the earth against this true poison that destroys our soul. With love ❤️
This touched me very deeply, and I thank you for your continued efforts at fighting ignorance in today’s world of the INFORMATION age! This is most definitely an American problem, and it is a WORLD problem as well. Other countries listen to this disinformation media broadcasts, and have fallen prey to the internet bots you speak about. One of the most helpful things in your article today , for me, was your concise explanation of the bots: comments that are lines of code, from foreign algorithms wearing a mask. This explains a lot, which I’ve been questioning , but not understanding, so THANK you, again. Keep up the good work. We are very appreciative of your help.
I am extremely disappointed by the shift in your content towards U.S. political rants. I joined Mindvalley for personal growth and education, not for political commentary on a country where you are not a citizen. These political rants feel divisive and completely misaligned with Mindvalley’s mission of unity and elevation. It feels less like “enlightened leadership” and more like an outsider venting his personal frustrations about the U.S. You are alienating your U.S. base and have not earned the right to constantly critique a country in which you do not vote. Please stick to education, as you are losing your vision.
This article touched me deeply because it is informative, insightful and from the heart. This is how we need to learn, think and communicate if we are to extract ourselves from the brainwashing and evolve into people who can co-create a world where ‘all humans are created equal’ and there is ‘liberty and justice for for ALL.’
This was a truly outstanding article! I hope it is seen and read to the end by millions of Americans!