Says it all.

Zero Hedge on its main page has this great graphic pointing to a Charles Hugh Smith essay^[1] on the economy.

The article's doom porn if you will but not wrong. It's not if but when.

However, the picture is pretty much emblematic of the last 50 years of the U.S. political class's management of the affairs of what used to be a great representative federal republic.

Now we're awash with debt, flooded by foreigners stealing jobs, chasing every known will o' the wisp on the planet with an AK, destroying civil liberties in the name of greasy sanctimonious lies, conniving with vicious leftist street fighters, awash in Hillary Clinton corruption and mendacity, and kowtowing to feminist, minorities, and every species of sexually-deranged freak known to science.

We're long past the point where we could consider this a sane, functioning society. Millions reject basic rationality and despise their own people.

Notes
^[1] "Did The Economy Just Stumble Off A Cliff?" By Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds, republished at Zero Hedge, 8/24/17.