When I say those things the entire HZ suggests I've exited Stage Left?

But until people realize America ISN'T a great country any more, America ISN'T a positive moral force, America ISN'T an ideal, America will NEVER become the greatest country in the world again.

As long as we have gun-totin' , flag waving, tax dodgin' shills for megacorporations decrying "entitlements" for citizens while advocating war and defense spending, subsidizing Big Pharma and Big Oil and Big Arms, we will remain a moral sump of a nation, repudiating the Geneva Convention, institutionalizing "collateral damage", breaking agreements faster than we can make them.

As long as there are people who think the US exports freedom, encourages democracy, and promotes personal freedom from the belly of a B-52 the US will also remain one of the dumbest countries in the world. Sometimes we need an Idi Amin to feel better about ourselves, because our behavior is abysmal.