IS AMERICA GOING OUT WITH A WHIMPER?

Our president is deteriorating before the world’s eyes and the GOP Congress continues to tell us all is well. Day after day we read the crazy stuff Trump writes on Truth Social. Truly crazy. When will the people who take care of America start to care? Now he’s heading to Davos. Into a firestorm of his own creation. We are watching the realignment of the world order, instigated by one man, whose intent seems to be turn the world into a WWF cage fight. Our allies. Our friends. They are all looking for ways to circumvent the chaos that America has become. They are forming alliances that will diminish our economic future. And our security. They are seeing America as a bad bet. Not trustworthy. Not stable. No longer a beacon of hope, freedom, opportunity, or justice. We read, “Americans are entering the most dangerous world they have known since World War II.” Warning we “are neither materially nor psychologically ready for this future. For eight decades, they have inhabited a liberal international order shaped by America’s predominant strength” and “have grown accustomed to the world operating in a certain way.” European and Asian allies have cooperated with the US on both defense and trade. The power of those alliances has prevented serious challenges to that order. Global trade has generally been free. Oceans have been safe for travel both by humans and container ships. Nuclear weapons have been limited by international agreement. “Americans are so accustomed to this basically peaceful, prosperous, and open world that they tend to think it is the normal state of international affairs, likely to continue indefinitely. They can’t imagine it unraveling, much less what that unraveling will mean for them.” You don’t need a crystal ball to believe that. We all know the old proverb ‘You don’t miss the water till the well runs dry.’ We’re experiencing it right now in our city streets. In the loss of civil liberties. Loss of free speech. Loss of freedom from persecution because of skin color. Loss of the things that make America, America. America’s well may be running dry. Will the powers in DC continue to stand by and watch while it does? What will it take to stir you to take responsible action? Or have you fallen so far down the rabbit hole that you are no longer able to act?