Lousy time for US, or so Sam Smith says
This is a lousy time [says Smith]. We're in the worse economic collapse since the 1930s depression.We can't get out of one war we were never able to justify. We are escalating another war we can't even explain, let alone justify. The environment is deteriorating. Nobody around the globe seems to respect America any more, including many of our own politicians. Our manufacturing economy caved, and so did the hedge fund economy that replaced it. Our Constitution is gaining the feel of a long out of print book. Our politics have never been more corrupt. And the president who was meant to be our messiah has turned out to be only the first syllable of that dream.
We've been in a lousy time for some time. What's happening is not new, only worse. We're finally reaping the full harvest of thirty years of greed, corruption, intellectual dissembling, political intrigue, environmental contempt, and journalistic adultery in which the media deserts its readers and viewers to have endless affairs with its sources.
Basically, America as a nation is in a state of collapse. The First American Republic is over. We don't talk about it that way because it's too shocking and embarrassing, but our politics, economy social values, and culture seem to be in free fall and there doesn't seem [to be] anyone who is both interested and powerful enough to do anything about it. This does not, however, mean our communities or even our states are in a similar state of distress.Sam Smith | Progressive Review
posted by Tom Nadeau at 10:32 AM
1 Comments:
Yes, the US in a long, slow (mabye quick actually) decline into the abyss. Sad, but true.
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