Life in America Isn’t What It Used To Be

It’s painful living in America right now.

In a conversation I had with my father about 30 years ago, I said that I believed we are experiencing the end of the American Empire–not that this was an original idea.  I based my thinking mainly on the rise of China as an economic powerhouse, but, as it turns out, that was just the beginning.

What most people didn’t see at the time was the terrible consequences of gutting our educational system, the tax breaks for the super-rich resulting in the slow death of the middle class, the skyrocketing impact of big money on law-making, the rise in obesity caused by the decline in nutrition, the erosion of honesty in the body politic, and the abdication of the moral high-road, exemplified by our behavior on our southern border, pulling out of the Paris Accord, etc.

Stupid people (and aggressive lawyers) have brought us to who we are now, i.e., a nation that requires signs like the one shown here.