At 250, America’s broken social contract, moral rot, and open betrayal of basic decency and humanity

By: David DeWitt

Outlets: Ohio Capital Journal

Published: June 26, 2026

Words: 1,103

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 3 days ago

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America greets our 250th birthday not as the last, best hope of Earth, but under a noxious cloud of broken promises, betrayed ideals, hateful discourse, public corruption, and petulant, petty public leaders peddling horrendous lies without shame.

A great bulk of everyday people are sinking in a quicksand of endless struggles, feeling desperate, helpless, hopeless, while our feckless, egomaniacal, careless, reckless ruling class showers itself in gaudy, self-obsessed, look-at-me excess.

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