by Allan J. Feifer, American Thinker:

In time, we’ll learn how our country’s political foibles play out.  Will the United States retain even a semblance of the greatness it once possessed, or not?  Measured from our peak to where we are now, there’s a Grand Canyon’s breadth of difference.

There was a time when we led the world into the greatest prosperity ever achieved.  American productivity and genius had the world marveling and trying to imitate everything from our arts and sciences to our culture.  Whether I was working in Venezuela, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Senegal, Israel, Europe, or wherever else, all you had to do to see and feel America’s influence was to read the local t-shirts or listen to the local music.