Self-satirizing destroying U.S.

The other day, Republican presidential candidate, Michelle Bachmann, claimed that Iran has threatened us with nuclear attack.  

I had no idea; how can this happen? Who knew that the Iranian government has been in possession of nuclear arms and willing to use them?

Wait, no, they haven't done any of that, and they do not have any nuclear power to use against the United States. They have said they are not trying to get a nuclear bomb.

If they were going to threaten the U.S. with a threat of nuclear warfare, doesn't that undermine their claims? I find it hilarious and scary—mostly scary—that someone who is running for president can be allowed to make an outrageous statement and be so incompetent.

Throughout my life, I have seen this nation begin to transform into something very disgusting and self-satirical. Within 20 years, this nation turned from a super power with serious people running it, to a corporate cesspool and the laughing stock of the world.  

To be honest, we were on that downward spiral after World War II, but it did not become so apparent until recent years.

We are living in a world portrayed in Saturday Night Live sketches (if anyone watches that still) or where The Onion could almost be a legitimate news source. This country has gone off the deep end and is merely a shadow of what it once was.

In this country, we have cartoonish, rich people who have all the power but don't really want to do anything with it other than to just make more money. We have youth in revolt who want to stop the rich from being oppressive but have no real direction.

This reminds me of the Israelite Liberation Front, from the Monty Python movie "Life of Brian," who planned on doing something against the Romans, but, overall, did not do anything. (Well, at least they were organized.)

This country has news organizations that simply lie to the public because their corporate owners want to make sure the people stay mindless consumers. We have mindless drones running this country that care more about their own needs than the common man's, and it is a perfect example that Plato would use to show why democracy wouldn't work.

What event or sequence of events caused our nation (maybe the entire world) to go down this maddening path of insanity? Is there some chemical they put in food and water? Is it the poor education in the schools?

Whatever the event, something happened to allow a person like Bachmann to run for president and not be instantly laughed off the campaign trail. She has no reasoning skills, says anything (even if it is not true) and would instantly undo any progress that President Obama has made (which is very little, but still something).

Maybe the world was always like this, but I was too young and naïve to really see it until my most recent years.

It is just as likely that I am the last sane person left in an insane world.

All I know for sure is that whatever is wrong with this world is just going to get worse.

I might as well sit down, make some popcorn, and watch the world fall into more ridiculousness before I flee to Canada when whatever new president declares war on everyone.