Singing the American Blues

America is no longer a good place in which to live. In case you disagree, consider the following:

Racism is soaring thanks to the Democrats making everything about race, from appointing a Supreme Court Justice to picking the (grossly ineffective if not downright moronic) Vice-President.

America now ranks as the fattest nation, with fast food joints and ice cream stands everywhere you look, in mall food courts and along the highways, and advertised heavily on the airways. The average American woman today weighs 30 pounds more than her 1960 counterpart. Pizza and heart disease have replaced religion, where just uttering the word "God" in the wrong place can get you fired. 

Our students score abysmally low in reading, writing and math as compared to other nations. Low-scoring high-schoolers get accepted into colleges based on their skin color, then drop out because they are not equipped to do the work.

Abortion is the national sport, with women frantically protesting the possibility of ending the killing of unborn children, claiming it has something to do with "women's health" instead of saying what it really is. (I had three abortions myself and never once considered it a health issue, rather the inconvenience of not wanting to have a baby with the particular man who had fathered it.)

And we have mass murders, pretty much all the time. Teenage boys, and older men too, get their hands on guns and go out and kill as many strangers as possible as quickly as possibly. Nobody wonders why they do it, or addresses the root causes of such blatant mental illness. Instead they just blame the guns instead of the gunman and ultimately excuse the crime by saying it's the fault of the NRA and naturally Donald Trump.

No guns? Okay, then they'll just shove a stranger into the path of a subway car, or ram their van into a crowd of people. Gang wars kill hundreds of young black men each week in a few of our major cities. Countless scores of homeless people sleep and defecate in public in once-lovely cities like San Francisco, LA and New York, all now centers of filth and crime. And our cranky old demented president says it's all "a tragedy" and we're "not gonna take it anymore." 

But there's still a couple of good things about America: You can easily find a doctor who will go ahead and  mutilate your body to change your gender, and you'll get a pat on the back and maybe your own TV show for doing so. And none of the sports teams have Native American names anymore. At least that.