The Great American Experiment …Failed — Game Over!

Have you tried to turn the United States on and off again? Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot? Is it plugged in? WTF?

Erik Blair

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As Democracy Sunsets in America | Photo Credit Pexels

Nothing is more obvious than political discord in America today. You can’t get away from it no matter how hard you try. It’s everywhere in the news, on social media, on the radio, and on hats, bumper stickers, action figures, and t-shirts.

Yes, only in America are there are merchandising opportunities that play on political division.

Try to escape that division and you’ll discover it’s pretty much everywhere in the United States these days.

Rational people are asking themselves, “what the fuck happened to America?” That uncertainty reveals how Americans neglected their civic duty to stay aware of what’s going on in our democracy and that once everything got so bad, we act surprised.

The counter-argument to that is, “well, we elected representatives to represent us. What the fuck have they been doing all this time?” Apparently, they have NOT been representing the people who supposedly elected them.

America is called the “United States of America” because the idea was unity. In the Preamble to the Constitution, it clearly says:

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