OPINION:
The United States has been the most powerful, productive, benevolent nation the world has ever known. But will we ever again see these glories?
Once the world’s largest creditor nation, we are now the world’s largest debtor nation. No longer a net exporter, we are now a net importer burdened with a huge trade deficit. Where once we made giant advances in economic rights, today we boast a feudal-sized wealth gap and large populations languishing in Third-World-style poverty.
Once known for families saving and buying within their means, now we have more excessive spending and credit-card, mortgage and student-loan debt than anywhere else in the world.
Once we boasted peaceful and productive schoolhouses and workplaces; now we are projecting scenes of gun carnage.
Once featuring open and orderly streets, now there are political gun battles, curfews and disfigured bodies and storefronts in cities across the nation.
Once we were able to detect, treat and prevent infectious diseases with great aplomb. Now we are unable to convince citizens to wear masks and thereby stop killing their neighbors.
Once known for highly ethical, service-oriented politicians, we are now awash in power-hungry tribal despots who disavow any hint of honest oversight of their activities.
KIMBALL SHINKOSKEY
Woods Cross, Utah
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