Its truly a lovely sentiment to say "were all in this together" but its a total lie. Obviously minorities and the elderly are dying at a much greater rate, and the poverty in minority communities, and the major corner cutting of many nursing homes, is not helping the death rate of this pandemic in the least. In other words, though I don't think of Trump as a good leader, Im not going to be thinking that the major difficulties with a pandemic in America are even close to entirely his fault. 

Did Trump decide on the healthcare system of America? overlapping and bloated and heavy on end of life care? Did he really make all the warehouses to die in? Did he really create all the inequality in the economy? Did he really force at gunpoint all the people who voted for him? Did he create the modern republican party? Did he invent the myth that the ultimate evil is the modern American State? Did he create the myth that the markets invisible hand cures all evils? Did he really make the superpatriot- pseudo Christians?

When good times return (however you define the good times and it usually is involved with money and prosperity in this Christ obssessed metaphysical brothel), I guarantee, the idea that we "are all in this together", will go out with air quotes and parachute pants, just another cultural cipher of the self-deluded, without a note or echoing hint of any permanence whatsoever. Nothing is permanent in America; which is beautiful when you think of pandemics, but no so beautiful, when you think of the millions so desperate for a savior they would vote in a narcissist clown who thinks the imperial presidency is a place to audition for another reality show.

One of the great problems with the modern world, especially in the country that I live in, is peoples absolutely addled belief concerning what belief is; many here if not all, think that belief is something just inside the mind or the soul, like some kind of platonic form, that can be changed at will depending on the will and the will alone, and it need not have anything to do with the "outside" world whatsoever, as if the mind is something separate from the rest of nature, and as if ones actions have no bearing on ones beliefs.

Let us do a thought experiment that demonstrates fairly clearly what I am saying: suppose somebody tells you that he believes that children are the future and we should do everything in our powers, to insure that they are given a great start and great opportunities for education and play; that their childhood will be the envy of nations and generations everywhere. Yet when at home he beats his own kids frequently; he doesn't show up at parent teacher conferences; he doesn't give a shit if children have any sort of guaranteed healthcare; he doesn't care if they are vaccinated and die of all sorts of preventable diseases. Would anyone in their right mind, actually believe that his state beliefs accurately reflected his beliefs? NO!

That's because a belief is really how we are disposed to act in certain situations--so if he were more supportive of his children in his own family, and more supportive of nurturing children in general, we would come to the conclusion that his state beliefs, are his actual beliefs, and not before getting the evidence.

That is the problem with the united States--just repeating something over and over will make it come true, just like a magical incantation, regardless of whether we are starving parts of the government that help children, and regardless of weather tons of states decided not to do Medicaid expansion, due to the SOTU ruling that Medicaid expansion was optional.