I think it's more than obvious that America is a ship that's sinking. Slowly for sure, so slow that alot of people don't even notice. And then there are those who know but just don't want to think about it. They can't do anything about it anyway and they put themselves into their work or some other time wasting activity to forget about everything going on around them. But in the back of their minds they know. They can't help but see it in so many different areas: education, family values, health, infrastructure, government, entertainment, crime, attitudes, and too many other areas to list. It seems sometimes the more advanced we get, the worse these problems become. Still, it gets ignored. It will get better, right? We will find a way. We will survive. We will, right?

Here's a commentary that addresses one of the problems: U.S. departing the First World?

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." Jefferson and Roe vs. Wade