Is America a Land of Crazy People?

One has to wonder if the United States has become a nation of lunatics.

First, there is a leading American senator who has publicly avowed that his sole legislative goal is to destroy the career of the current president. America has many problems facing her, but to say to the world that "none of that matters as long as we can destroy the President" would seem to be a textbook definition of sedition.

Second, a group of students printed tee-shirts in order to raise money for research into fighting breast cancer. The reaction of the school was to forbid the students from wearing the shirts.

Third, an American airport was partially shut down because a passenger had a snow globe in a carry-on article of luggage.

There is more, of course, much, much more. America was formerly a leader in modern culture, science and invention. In the former nations of the Warsaw Pact, millions of people listened to the nightly Music USA jazz broadcast by Willis Conover over the Voice of America. America was a nation to be admired, even if it had problems such as lynchings and poverty. America was a nation where anything was thought to be possible.

Now America seems to be a nation largely composed of embittered lunatics. The world is poorer for this.