Here’s a good reminder of how the United States is regarded today.

No, it’s not how like it was just a few years ago when we were a land of law, and we had allies all around the countries that supported honesty and democracy around the world.

Now, the leaders of Canada, Panama, and Greenland all fear for their safety, and the world lives in fear of the insanity into which the U.S. has descended.

What Has Happened in the United States Recently

Hardcore Trump supporters are having a great time watching their hero illegally invade other countries and commit whatever moral atrocity he performed the day before.

The rest of the world is in shock over the fact that Trump has turned this country into an authoritarian state.

It’s easy to understand the thinking of the lady in the cartoon here.

Current Events Can Be Depressing

As the author of the words at left suggests, the Founding Fathers probably did give us too much credit.

But to be fair, they couldn’t have possibly imagined that the descendants of their countrymen would have, 250 years later, devolved into a nation in which criminal thugs would be held the highest regard by a country full of ignorant and hateful people.

When we Boomers were growing up in the last half of the 20th Century, crime bosses were viewed as scum, even when they somehow avoided dying in prison. Now they have taken over the country, and the greatest of all time lives in the White House.

The United States Descends into Darkness