Dr. Roberts penned one of his best summaries of where Americans stand in this current year.

To be an American today is to collect a basket full of sadness. We have been at war forever for the profits of the military/security complex, for the hegemonic ideology of the neoconservatives, for Cold War hysteria, and for Israel. Huge sums of money have been wasted for no benefit to the American people. Just yesterday I was listening to a deputy sheriff tell me how frustrating it was that he cannot reach the criminal American elite and bring them home to their crimes, but has, instead, to focus on the minor crimes of their lower class victims.

I asked him why it is the lower class that most waves the flag, and he said that patriotism is all that they have that gives them meaning. I responded that this means that they cannot escape their victimhood, and he said “that is what is sad about it.”

He’s not wrong, and when he writes, “…[America] is worse than in Sodom and Gomorrah,” he may have a point considering how he phrases the statement. So again, should two strangers show up one night, talking hastily about looming catastrophe, please pay attention.