Lighting this new and self-inflicted Dark Age with our
blindingly intolerant religions
Scoffing at any scientists whose work contradicts our faith
- Or that of our donors
Denying millions to what we trumpet as the world’s finest
health care system
Increasing illiteracy rates with every graduating class of
our overweight and spoiled children
Devolving freedom of the press into cheerfully-empty,
commercially-safe soundbites
Encouraging the ignorant poor to breed freely as the educated
opt out of parenthood
Arming ourselves with god’s blessing for any neo-crusade our
leaders see fit to pursue
Letting our infrastructure crumble around us but
automatically raising cost-plus military spending
Rejecting investment in actual business for artificial
speculation in phony financial innovations
Refusing to set any example on emissions and energy use for
developing countries
Encouraging our own Balkanization through expensive
multi-lingual governance
Rewarding phony, closeted leaders for exporting research,
engineering, production and support
Building up vast stores of usable materials in our dumps for
future hand-gathering by our descendants
Leading the world in time spent at war, anorexia,
tv-watching, debt and obesity
Being the most aware of the importance of reality shows and
entertainment news
Far ahead at portraying environmental issues as wacko
threats to family and economy
Twisting the pursuit of happiness into a god-given right to
shortsighted, selfish greed
Granting ever more control to the rich while
patronizingly-fleecing the shrinking middle class
Measuring the success of political candidates through their
fundraising results
Exporting our pollution to third world industry then
scolding them on human rights
Being governed by multi-generational,
aristocratically-inbred, star-power families
Rigging voting districts upon our election to ensure a
continuing stream of victories
Requiring illegal workers since we made the jobs, conditions
and pay so very poor we wont do them
Institutionalizing a paralyzed two-party system as if it
were mandated by our sacred constitution
Profiting handsomely by encouraging polarization through
destructive and divisive opinionating
Encouraging a faux economic growth through the promotion of
negative savings rates
Performing phony political litmus tests like gun control,
abortion, flag burning and gay marriage
Increasing our infant mortality and bringing back vitamin
deficiency, TB and malnutrition
Smugly relying on disappearing non-renewables for all our
inefficient daily activities
Cynically rejecting sustainability as an expensive hoax spun
by elitist liberal conspirators
Keeping the military in check by granting it a hefty budget
increase every single year
Speaking with a country twang to mask your elitist
background and ownership by the corporations
Stalling progress by staying on expensively-crafted but
childishly-simple message in virtuoso fashion
Scoffing with a god-granted exceptionist superiority at
global opinion, morality and lifestyle
So-called 3rd world Costa Rica has a higher literacy rate
than the undeveloping
United States
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