We've succumbed to a unique American meanness; magnified in the echo chambers of our bi-polar national discourse and amplified by millionaire bloviators.
The mega-rich fleece the masses, while the masses defend their right to be fleeced.
Our middle class is disappearing at its own insistence; victims defending their right to be eliminated.
America was the land of opportunity now vanished into gamed financial complexity, earning the lowest rank of economic mobility in the modern world.
America was the land of religious freedom, now split into right and left hemispheres reflecting our dysfunctional political predilections.
America was the land of free expression, acceptable thoughts now sublimated to the national delusion of exceptionalism.
Have we destroyed the nation born of the blood of patriots: Men and woman with noble impulses for people who would follow?
Or were they just as mythological as our exceptionalism, those patriots who formed and nurtured the nation we know today?
We've allowed manufactured outrage to replace the news.
Our politicians are bought by the highest bidder.
We hold firm in our corners awaiting the next opportunity to vacuously pounce on our political opponents.
Our educational institutions have turned away from the quest for virtue to the achievement of material success.
We've subordinated our noblest impulses to the transient pleasure of maximizing shareholder value.
The soaring American spirit is not only doomed; it has no chance of resurrection.
And now we're surprised at the candidacy of Donald Trump?
Robert DeFilippis
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