What a tragic world we are experiencing.

[Jack Sprat]

Our crippled economy looks as bleak as anyone can remember who lives today. Yet, most of our resources for the last 15 years has gone into military endeavors having nothing to do with national defense, but entirely for the purpose of forcing foreign peoples to accede to accepting our image of what they should be and our expansion of an economy that is failing our own people.

[MrTriumph]

1. More political nighmares: Clinton's impeachment, W's seizure of power, the Iraq war vote.

To be fair, Clinton brought the impeachment upon himself. He knew his enemies and should have known better. Hubris can be a real problem.

[woo me with science]

2. Yup.

American empire benefits the top 5 percent. The rest of us are disposable cogs in the wheel.

[RKP5637]

3. Spreading American Imperialism. America only cares about money, most

people are in the way and an inconvenience to the agenda. Too many Americans have blinders on as to what is really happening. The writing is on the wall, many times, but many still just don't get it ...

[sabrina 1]

4. Yes, it is a tragic world.

[Urban Prairie]

5. Despite the Vietnam/Nixon/Reagan+GHWB eras, I really, really miss living in the 20th century,

the 21st, which is sadly, nothing like I imagined that it would be as a child in the 60s, despite when the Kennedys/MLK were assassinated, and the Vietnam "conflict" raged on, and as I gradually became more aware of the world that existed outside of my own. I thought that the turbulent late 60s-early 70s and the civil rights movements/antiwar music would lead to a future similar to what Roddenberry's Star Trek TOS envisoned, but nope, obviously there are tens of millions in this country whose vision of what our nation should be is to go back in time about a millenium to a 21st century version of Europe's Dark Ages.

[Jack Sprat]

7. I've been thinking the same thing exactly.

We were aware we had an enemy in Krushchev on another hemisphere, but we knew we were surrounded by our people and neighbors. Now, in so many cases, our enemies are among us and hate us as much as any foreign enemy. That's a little much for any of us to live with day after day. The Cuban Missile crisis didn't last long, but the war with our own Right goes on year after year with no letup. The vitriolic rhetoric has hardened the population and it eats at society as the hate continues. When you have people ready to destroy the economy out of pure hatefulness, knowing that it could destroy the country and....................not caring.

[marions ghost]

11. "Our enemies are among us..."

born of the lies and propaganda they swallow out of fear and denial. Our hometown enemies have been created by powerful forces operating behind the scenes. We never thought it could happen here. But you're right, it has.

[Enthusiast]

10. We truly went to shit after the 2000 selection.

I mean, there was political intrigue before that, of course. But at that moment a corrupt supreme court altered the future of the nation and put us on a collision course of destruction.

We have to remember just how completely wrong that decision was. A 5 to 4 decision should never have been allowed to decide a presidential election. It was at least as wrong as Citizens United, maybe worse.

[undercutter799]

6. well you can think about it as a form of welfare

at least the military personnel are getting paid

[HappyMe]

8. The world, at probably any given point in time,

has been tragic.

We, for some reason, usually think that we are immune. :shrug:

[Enthusiast]

9. K&R! I am with you! nt

[Morizovich]

12. !