Once upon time the US was a good-guy in this world, a model of what democracy represented. What it could do. How it could change the world for the better. After the last ten years, I'm not so sure we're projecting that image.
We've now given the world two ten-year wars against muslims, one on pretty much trumped-up charges. Millions of civilian deaths. Torture. Corruption. Our media is alive with constant threats of a third war. We given un-ending support of Israel's UN violations and theft of Palestinian lands. We've thrown in a couple of financial meltdowns costing the world trillions. We're deep in debt with a stagnant economy. Corporations and the wealthy rule the land. They've spent the last few decades exporting our technology and jobs to cheap labor markets around the world effectively gutting our economy. The wealthy own more, and the poor less, than at any time in the last 70 years. A major news network has turned into a propaganda tool unlike anything the country has seen before and has convinced many of the poor that because our president is a marxist, socialist, kenyan, muslim, they should cut taxes on the rich instead of having universal health care. Crazy fundamentalist christian right-wingers are re-writing science and history books to fit their dogma. Our government is broken, corrupt and gridlocked. Right-wing idiots are driving the political debate. Race relations are at a low point and gun sales are at an all time high.
The rest of the world must think we've gone crazy. They might be right.
tnb
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