Posted 22:36 by Grote 0 comments

Hunter S. Thompson

Admittedly, I've never read any of his books, or seen Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but I've always enjoyed and appreciated his commentary on the sports and sometimes political world on ESPN.com's Page 2 even if I didn't agree with it. In his latest article he talks more about the latter. You can read it here, but the meat of the article can be summed up with this paragraph:

The American nation is in the worst condition I can remember in my lifetime, and our prospects for the immediate future are even worse. I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it. Our highway system is crumbling, our police are dishonest, our children are poor, our vaunted Social Security, once the envy of the world, has been looted and neglected and destroyed by the same gang of ignorant greed-crazed bastards who brought us Vietnam, Afghanistan, the disastrous Gaza Strip and ignominious defeat all over the world.

Fact of the matter is, he's right. I'd like to say that maybe the American Public will wake up, vote in elected officials that care more about the country than their pocket books, but I know better. Someone once told me that the U.S. might be going through what England went through 100 years ago as its empire crumbled, I disagree. I think we're probably looking at another fall of the Roman Empire.