One article from 1966 written by Francis FitzGerald, I found to be extremely thought provoking, even if it was written from a leftist perspective. She wrote, in part, painting a vivid picture:
“Before entering Saigon, the military traffic from Tan Son Nhut airfield slows in a choking blanket of its own exhaust. Where it crawls along to the narrow bridge in a frenzy of bicycles, pedicabs, and tri-Lambrettas, two piles of garbage mark the entrance to a new quarter of the city. Every evening a girl on spindle heels picks her way over the barier of rotting fruit and onto the sidewalk. Triumphant, she smiles at the boys who lounge at the soft-drink stand, and with a toss of her long earrings, climbs into a waiting Buick.
Behind her the alleyway carpeted with mud winds back past the facade of new houses into a maze of thatched huts and tin-roofed shacks called Bui Phat. One of the oldest of the refugee quarters, Bui Phat lies just across the river from the generous villas and tree-lined streets of French Saigon. On its tangle of footpaths, white-shirted boys push their Vespas past laborers in black pajamas and women carrying water on coolie poles. After twelve years and a flood of new refugees, Bui Phat is less an urban quarter than a compost of villages where peasants live with their children. The children run thick underfoot. The police, it is said, rarely enter the quarter for fear of a gang of teen-age boys whose leader, a young army deserter, reigns over Bui Phat.”
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President Donald Trump’s terrible tariffs are terrific for America, and they are simply one segment of the Trump administration’s economic strategy to save America’s economy, supply chains and rebuild our production base, because he recognizes our current situation as a national security issue.
The U.S. Judiciary and our court system at every level has undergone a metamorphosis throughout the last six decades that has it resembling something one is more likely to find in a Third World Banana Republic or the old Soviet Union rather than in America, a country where Justice was once thought to be blind and our courts actually used to work to protect America and Her people instead of protecting Her enemies as we witness today. I am sickened to the depths of a country outhouse’s manure pit to know that there are thousands of men just like Judge James Boasberg who are all too willing to betray their oath to the Constitution [flawed and damaged at it already is] and America as if it is of no more consequence than their morning dump on the toilet.
It would be beyond fantastic and amazing, if everyone in America could get along whether they have political differences or not, but unfortunately there have been a multitude of people in our country who have strived to divide and conquer by way of coalitions of minorities in all areas of all issues, and E Pluribus Unum be damned. It’s simply not our reality in modern day United States, and it looks like it’s going to remain this way for quite some time. 
I know many people say Zelensky disrespected President Trump and Vice-President Vance on the 28th of February, but I didn’t see it quite that way. If I had been Zelensky, I never would have gone out before the cameras in the first place without having it settled in my mind exactly what it was I’d be signing. But he was 100% right to ask Vance “what kind of diplomacy”, since it was all too obvious to me that he and his country were being sold out and sold down the river for an expedient and bad “peace deal” just so Trump could smile into the cameras and proclaim he’d gotten Ukraine “the best deal evah“. 
“We built it. We paid for it. It’s ours” were words declared by Ronald Reagan in 1977, not long after leaving the California governor’s office, and that’s the position President Donald J. Trump has recently taken, by and large if not precisely; but Reagan was reluctant to put any real action behind those words after becoming president, whereas Trump has shown he has the determination of will and the spine to do whatever is necessary to protect and defend U.S. interests in the Panama Canal Zone, putting Panamanian President Mulino on notice to this fact.
Everybody who pays any least bit attention to our nation’s affairs understands that Los Angeles has been plagued by arson-induced wildfires for a decade or better, more likely since even the 1990s, when “progressive” communists became increasingly active and intent on going even further down the rabbit hole of all things “utopian”. And what we have witnessed most recently through the onset of these five wildfires is the Californian people reaping the dire and deadly consequences of what they have sown.
I began to think about the future of our children in America, after I considered our economic situation, $36 trillion in debt and counting, and all the forces that are currently arrayed against them and the parents of our country. And after reading an article by Paul Craig Roberts, I expanded on his thoughts and found my way to write the following article.
What a way for the New Year to begin in America. It certainly does seem to be a foreshadow of things to come, as the Islamic jihadists have recently been thrown into chaos with actions in Gaza and Syria and every one of them wishing to leave a bloody, murderous mark against America.
Across the entirety of our history, for some unnatural reason, our people just haven’t been quite able to leave well enough alone. It’s almost as if they got together one night on a late night drunken binge and all of a sudden said, “By damned … don’t Y’all think we have just too damned much of this pesky freedom and not enough free stuff? Let’s trade our freedom and liberty for free stuff and lifelong care from Big Brother and all his jackbooted stormtroopers.”
The unimaginable presents itself as the average American citizens bear the brunt of debt repayment through increased taxation, inflation and it’s certain to cause internal instability across the country, when our national debt crisis actually really does reach the tipping point, whereby the military becomes even more underfunded than it already is and the government breaks its promises on Social Security and other programs. These are all indications that the country rests on the verge of collapse, unless something of real consequence is done to reverse course, if it’s even possible at this point. 
Looking through the past decades and the prism of history, it is crystal clear that the danger for all Americans emanating from the expansion and growth of the various DC federal agencies has been growing for an extremely long time. We see the proof of the danger by way of traitors like General Mark Milley, who refused to carry out direct orders from President Trump and even went so far as to say he would warn the Chinese Communists if America were to ever mount an imminent attack against them. And so too, we saw Lt Colonel Alexander Vindman, not only spy on Trump but deliver false and purposefully misleading testimony during Trump’s impeachment hearing.