Once upon a time, our beautiful western cities were the envy of the rest of the world, but now they serve as shining examples of America’s accelerating decline.  The worst parts of our major western cities literally look like post-apocalyptic wastelands, and the hordes of zombified homeless people that live in those areas are too drugged-out to care.  The ironic thing is that these cities are not poor.  In fact, San Francisco and Seattle are among the wealthiest cities in the entire nation. 

So if things are falling apart this dramatically now, how bad will things get when economic conditions really start to deteriorate? We like to think that we are setting a positive example to the rest of the world, but the truth is that they are laughing at us. America is in an advanced state of decay, and it is getting worse with each passing year. If we keep doing the same things we will keep getting the same results, and right now there are no signs that the overall direction of this nation will change any time soon.