Jamaal, of Opinionated Voice, said the following in response to my last post:

I think USA was never invincible. It has been unstable for a long time. There is no American dream, and no real democracy. I'm both anti and pro USA. It's difficult to only be one or the other.

Besides pride in or admiration of its principles, being pro-USA requires acknowledging and facing its shortcomings and its inconsistencies. Like the concomitance of pro & anti, America both has a democracy and it doesn't; its citizens vote but only for their favorite ad campaign. The American dream also still endures, because it's being adapted as a fantasy in order to maintain its allure in today's dynamic reality. Of course America was never invincible, it was a role it perfected in front of a mirror and performed it with the conviction of a method actor, so much so that it couldn't tell itself apart anymore from the character. As for being unstable, that could never happen here, those who'd make trouble would be locked up in our flourishing, profitable prisons.

[USA]

5:03:35 AM