My Last Letter To America

To whom it may concern:

I know you. I have known you all my life. Though I have not lived in your country, I have kept a close eye on you.

You were founded in war and you continued to be a warrior nation ever since. You have created a war machine that is second to none in the world.

You have created an economy that is the same.

You have been responsible for some of the world’s great innovations and you have profited from them immensely.

But on the other side of the coin, you are the most wasteful nation in the history of the world. And a lot of it has to do with the idea that the richer you are the more you are ‘entitled’ to behave irresponsibly, because you have earned the right to do so.

You have practiced economic imperialism to keep the flow of resources you need coming.

Your corporations make the law by buying politicians, and as a result, de-regulation is slowly killing your environment and dramatically affecting the environment of the rest of the world.

Your boast about low unemployment, but the reality is that the majority of those employed people have to work two or three jobs to make ends meet.

You have let insurance and pharma companies inflate drug prices to the point where no one but the rich can afford them.

You have taken from public education in a concerted effort to keep your people ignorant and barely capable of critical thinking.

You have pounded the mantra of white nationalistic patriotism into their heads to the point where all minorities are hated.

You have, through your deregulation of business, virtually ignored and created huge disbelief in the world wide need to address climate change.

You have neglected your country’s infrastructure to the point where it will soon be seriously affecting your productivity as a nation.

You have ignored the need for universal health care, believing it is a privilege and not a human right.

And you have run up the largest debt in the history of the world.

But most critically you have put an administration in power that is determined to isolate you from the rest of the world, at a time when universal cooperation between nations is a firm imperative.

The net result is that your country is the baby that is being thrown out with the bathwater, as one by one, nations around the world, nations that need to trust you, stop doing just that.

You operate under the outmoded idea that military might means true power, when, in fact, economic might has replaced that notion years ago. And your economic might in the world has been reduced by the isolation you practice.

What all this means is that unless you join the world again, and assume a responsible, humane, forward thinking leadership role, the likelihood of your eventual doom is very high.

But this is something you cannot achieve in your current state. You need to change gears, and shed the outmoded notion that living in the past is a sensible way to get to a prosperous future.

Having said all that, I am saying goodbye, because my country have been infected by the same malaise, and my contribution to helping that situation will have more effect than sending out messages that fall on mainly deaf ears.

I wish you all the best. I always have. But right now, you’re playing a short game in a long game world. You need to put on your specs and look around. If you do, you might see that you are looking at a lot of rough road ahead, on almost every level imaginable.

But until you heal your internal divisions and you become a country by the people and for the people again, any objective observer will tell you that this does not look good.

Adios amigos. I wish you all the best.