Of course there is goodness in America. I noticed one of the comments not far under the video you linked to.
It’s important not to confuse the government of a country with the people of that country.
I had a phone call a week or more ago with someone scheduling me for an echo. Apparently the young woman was working remote. It was well after dinnertime that she called and we spent nearly an hour talking about the pandemic and how people were helping others get through this. I told her about the woman on my community Facebook private group who posted one morning that she had 300$ in cash, was going into town to pick up a few groceries and told folks to tell her what they needed and that she would meet their requests until the money was spent. Our pizza place that supplied free pizza to frontline workers
for months, delivering stacks of pizza to area hospitals, fire stations and such. The woman from my gardeners group who hung a Walmart bag of seed packets on my mailbox one day because I was desperate for seeds and wasn't supposed to be going out at all. One man posted a collection of his sweaters for anyone who wanted them--they went like hotcakes. I had a chance to donate the 7$ in cash I had left early in the first lock down through the pizza place to a family whose son suicided and had no money for burial costs. The pizza place let us piggyback their orders to get jugs of bleach. People were sharing sourdough starters, eggs, goats milk, and produce. I managed to deliver a plant to another gardener who wanted to start houseplants. This Christmas a young mother boxed up tons of extra clothing and asked me for empty Amazon boxes and preschool items for a young child who was taken from her mother due to neglect so that she could have Christmas presents. I'm pretty sure that young mother's mother raised her right and so is she raising her child right by engaging her child in service to others.
These may seem like small gestures compared to the Russian/American story that you linked to but they mattered to someone and the generosity of others mattered to me. This whole entire year (and I think I remarked on this on the previous board) I have had the sense that the government has been hovering "up there" somewhere screwing around while the rest of us have been doing what we can to take care of each other here on the ground and getting each other through this. All over I have seen people sharing what they have with others.
They are still doing it.
But we folks on the ground don't make the news.
The politicians and the crackpots make the news. The more salacious the story, the more air time it gets. The good things are obscured down the bottom of the website pages. They are there. Most of the politicians don't "get" us.
Biden gets us. I know without question that he does get us. You speak of goodness? There is goodness in a man who runs for office at an advanced age, who didn't need to run for any other reason but because he thought he could help and from day one, he has been busting his ass trying to get things done for us. The truth is that he started busting his ass long before he took the Oath. You can see it in the level to which he prepared
before taking office.
Yes, there is goodness in this country. There is even goodness on this board. But you have to be paying attention to notice it. ; - )