Debauchery, Debasement, Unreliability & Retaliation have become the US's Defining Watchwords, is this how we want to be viewed and historically remembered?.

Lately I feel like I live on another planet, its like I don't even recognize this country anymore as its devolved so much since 2008, or possibly its just become so obviously corrupt that the American people can no longer ignore the truth.

Historically we've done better, but not since the Kennedy era, since then, we've pretty much been back sliding, back towards a country full of enslaved people ruled by 'supreme leaders' who seem clueless to the plight of the majority of the people.

Especially given that since 9/11 we increasingly live in a surveilled and hostile nation-state, where personal rights are largely ignored and violated, whether it be by cameras, computers, corporate actors/owners or wall street robber barons, as we simultaneously are inundated by independent camera footage showing everyday people and families being snatched off the streets and deported without an iota of evidence and/or thrown into jails or interrogated on the streets by individuals purporting to be protectors of the 'peace' and the peoples individual liberties. The tone and tenor of many news articles about crime, and the 'real?' police insisting they're diligently trying to find the perpetrators of violent crimes whilst they adamantly exclaim they're looking for more possible witnesses, has taken on a sinister tone, it almost makes one think they're really only interested in making sure those witnesses haven't caught anyone on film abusing their police powers. Call me paranoid if you wish, but since the public George Floyd execution by officers of the law I'm starting to wonder if perhaps the criminals and the police have switched places.

Add the inhumane treatment and careless disregard for the health and life of incarcerated individuals, along with a political climate that makes light of mass murder and genocide (in some countries) all the while trading barbs back and forth on national media, like demented toddlers on a Sunday afternoon... doesn't exactly put one's mind at ease,

What have we become"? and will the human race survive?

Sure, most people are decent and kind, but the abuse of power along with high profile individuals hostile and retaliatory actions against anyone that irks them, paints an increasingly dismal picture.

Let's hope diplomacy and common courtesy aren't disappearing in our rearview mirrors. As far as the 'leaders' tasked with supporting the country, well..... ?##@%$

How long will it be before countries on the world stage no longer trust or believe anything the US says or claims to stand for?

Add the gross misrepresentation of the majority of American's by unscrupulous politicians only serves to put each and every American in greater danger, although sadly its not so much other countries the people living in the US need to fear, but the enemy within.

Let's hope for better days. I have the upmost confidence in the majority of the people who live in the Americas, and I believe that through solidarity, action, and by taking a stand for all oppressed peoples we'll come out okay in the end. God Bless America and all the countries who've taken a stand for civil rights and called out countries and their leaders who abuse power, via apartheid, genocide, and manufactured famine, all in the name of capitalism and land grabs run amok, without any consideration for common decency/human lives, of course unless, it is their own.