I'm gonna have to agree with shittim on this.
If you have read these, you should have enough perspective to realize the current state of America is not really that bad in comparison.
To say things are terrible now is like saying I am poor because I can't afford to pay my internet bill. That's not really poor.
No - I read a lot and I know what's coming that most are unaware of. I have endured a lot already in this life and I see how the country is breaking down into tyranny. Our own government murdered multiple people on 9-11 and you don't think things are that bad??? Every single day cops tase, sexually molest, beat up, crack skulls, and murder with impunity - the courts let them off. Police killed our neighbor's unarmed son and just beat to a pulp my friend's neighbor - putting him in the hospital. They beat up and robbed my brother! Police. There are barely any Constitutional protections left. Read Sons of Liberty Media and The Free Thought Project - and you'll see that America really is that bad.
I can't tell you how many kids I knew from Little League - fresh-faced, cute and boyish - now lying in a grave from drugs - flooded into the country by our own government. Journalist Gary Webb reported on it and they ruined his life and he committed suicide. Drugs literally flooded our area. I watched manufacturing sent overseas and cities gutted - like ours - that are now a wasteland of shuttered buildings and hopeless people who turn to drugs. We took a trip cross country and saw so many towns just like ours with businesses shuttered.
Look online for the guy who videos Philadelphia. It's an eye-opener to see multitudes of people walking around like zombies - high on drugs. Trash is strewn everywhere.
I went to a local Little League game and lost hope for America after watching this nasty youth. They were foul-mouthed, abusive, and ruthless. It sickened me. I could see the effects of a generation of Hollywood which idolizes and promotes the base things in life and churns out a nation of unethical, hateful, base youth.
The pitcher was the most abusive of all. His parents sat behind me - one a teacher, the other a Phd - and said not ONE word to their nasty child as he abused others. All the parents sat there clueless and none spoke up. I finally couldn't take it and I yelled at that kid. The people I was with shushed me, embarrassed, but I lit into him and then the coach for not correcting them. You could have heard a pin drop. But the nasty pitcher did something amazing: he turned and apologized to the boy he had just abused. So what was wrong with that kid's parents??? And the other parents???
So yes I lose hope when I see a generation of spoiled, abusive, unethical youth sinning right in the faces of parents and no one has the gumption to correct them. I don't see many good things happening now.