Reply #15: My love of country was killed at My-Lai and Kent State.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Followed by similar events around the world spurred by "patriotism", racism, religious and ethnic bigotry. America's decline is well underway. We are stewing in the poisen of our own rapacious and thoughtless greed. We have a government that is owned and run by representatives of our homegrown ruling class. The "democracy" that we love to advertise is a sham.

And, the fault is that of the citizenry that are too busy accumulating junk and worshipping celebrities to pay attention or give a damn. The Roman bosses bought off their citizenry with bread and circuses provided by their conquests and client states. We've been doing the same for decades. Now, the client states we've bought or conquered have grown weary of paying our bills.

To paraphrase someone else, "We've become a people who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."