National news inventory does not inspire confidence in our future

Today's various news stories reminded me that there couldn't be many people who can keep track of all the "news" that inundates us (if we let it).

Here's a quick selection of national items, by way of illustration, in case we wanted to check back into events after a weekend;

• President Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to boost the domestic production of solar panels and their parts in an effort to shift the country toward clean energy. In 2020, 89% of the solar panels used in the U.S. were imported. 
• The President is expected to decide in July or August whether to partially forgive student-loan debt for 40 million borrowers who owe about $1.6 trillion. 
• The U.S. has wasted 82.1 million Covid-19 vaccine doses – just over 11% of the doses the federal government distributed. CVS and Walmart were responsible for over a quarter of the doses thrown away. 
• The Justice Department charged the former top leader of the Proud Boys extremist group and four other members with seditious conspiracy for their role in the Jan. 6 insurrection. 
• The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection of the Capitol will host its first televised hearing Thursday at 8 p.m. Eastern. After more than 100 subpoenas, 1,000 interviews, and 100,000 documents, the committee said it plans to present evidence from its 10-month investigation that show a deliberate, coordinated effort by Trump and his associates to delay certification of Biden’s 2020 presidential election, and how that led to the violence at the Capitol. At least six hearings are planned, two of them in prime time.
• 45% of Americans say Trump is solely or mainly responsible for the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, while 55% say Trump is only somewhat or not really responsible. 
• 83% of Americans described the state of the economy as poor or not so good. 35% said they aren’t satisfied at all with their financial situation. 
• 37% of Americans approve of Biden’s handling of the economy. 80% say that inflation is also an important factor in how they will vote this November. 
• 44% of Republican respondents said deadly mass shootings in the U.S. are something that must be accepted as part of a “free society.” 85% of Democrats and 73% of Independents, meanwhile, said mass shootings are “something we can prevent and stop if we really tried.” 

If you can't find something there that raised your anxiety level or your general angst over life, you just aren't trying.

I found the report on the wasted vaccines to be troubling, when about 13 percent of Americans over 65 have not been fully vaccinated. I also am simply outraged to learn that a significant number of my fellow citizens are willing to accept continued mass shootings as a basic "cost of doing business" for the U.S. 

I also found myself trying to imagine how I would react to most of this news were I President Biden... and I would be inclined to tell the nation we are on our own. Who needs a job so thankless while simultaneously so complex? 

We are rapidly becoming ungovernable, except at the most local levels as it gets tough to even type United States of America without cringing.

Contrast that with the fact that today is the 78th anniversary of D-Day. That should help us gauge just how badly we have fractured as a nation.

S.O.S.