What’s in our future?

Worried about our nation’s future? A nation in which health care, higher education and housing are beyond the reach of the average pocketbook has no future. A nation with a private and public debt overhang of tens of trillions of dollars has no future. A nation in which corporate elites brazenly enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else by buying politicians, manipulating tax law, cannibalizing acquisitions, sending jobs overseas, rigging prices and sponging off government subsidies has no future.

A nation that betrays its allies, cozies up to its enemies, and subverts its own intelligence services has no future. A nation that does not value public service has no future. A nation that invites foreign interference in its elections has no future. A nation in which every racial, ethnic, and religious group hates the others has no future. A nation that can’t get its act together to deal effectively with pandemics and environmental degradation has no future.

A nation that can’t tell fact from fiction has no future. A nation that punishes those who seek and speak the truth, while rewarding criminals and liars, has no future. A nation in thrall to its own trigger-happy lunatic fringe has no future. And a nation presided over by a deranged, self-dealing scofflaw-in-chief—you guessed it— has no future.

There actually is no future worth contemplating unless a vast majority of voters can put the nation back on the rails again in time. And if they can’t, we’ll all just be singing “Bye, bye, Miss American Pie …”

ALEX MIRONOFF

Fayetteville