[Logical me]

Our country has been relegated to second rate power status by this ass and his clown posse.

Correct and he also has destroyed us within. Our economy may never recover to a super power economy for many years even if the reverse started today.

[pfflier]

I always predicted that we were following (formerly) Great Britain in our social patterns, just lagging by a generation.

Like it or not, the American dream started dying with the British invasion starting with the beatles in the '60s. That started the shift from rugged individualism to flower children and now, unfortunately, they are in charge.