The decline and fall of America is a bit of a puzzle, somehow idiocy became the New Thing. People are proud of being idiots, vote idiots into office, and scoff at those who are not idiots. Even those in power who are probably not idiots (there must be a couple) pander to those who are in order to stay in office.
I laughed at the comment from Hollywood Fl. We are currently at a dock just a few miles from there. More than half the time part of the dock is under water at high tide. One can be sure they were not originally designed to be underwater several hours a day for days at a time, but sea level rise took care of that.
Personally, I don't think a country can recover after it has sunk this far into total stupidity. Some parts of the world will head off into the future leaving the US and the Middle East behind to wallow in fundamentalism and anti-intellectualism. Eventually a failed US will break up, just as is happening in the Middle East now. That is probably a few decades in the future yet, so I will no be around to see it. But I just don't see how any nation can endure that is as bat-shit crazy as this one.
I laughed at the comment from Hollywood Fl. We are currently at a dock just a few miles from there. More than half the time part of the dock is under water at high tide. One can be sure they were not originally designed to be underwater several hours a day for days at a time, but sea level rise took care of that.
Personally, I don't think a country can recover after it has sunk this far into total stupidity. Some parts of the world will head off into the future leaving the US and the Middle East behind to wallow in fundamentalism and anti-intellectualism. Eventually a failed US will break up, just as is happening in the Middle East now. That is probably a few decades in the future yet, so I will no be around to see it. But I just don't see how any nation can endure that is as bat-shit crazy as this one.
