America - Sliding Down The Shitter

[TaraJo]

Have you ever lived in a third world nation?

Interesting question.  Current political discourse routinely compares America to third world countries as though they're the bar we have to beat.  It's either "they do this, so why can't we?" or "they don't have this law but we do so we can't compete with them."  I find it alarming that we're comparing ourselves to third world nations and dismissing successful, happy, peaceful nations as being socialist nightmares.