The Editor, Sir:

Call me a pessimist, a cynic, what you will, but mark my words well with caution and without upsetting yourselves.

The crystal ball has turned dark and the light has burned out on the future of my country, the United States of America.

America today is a decaying society, a doomed amalgamation of cultures that share the illusion of a national vision, one that represents the failure of dreamers and the accomplishments of liars and fools.

The 'greatest generation', or so it calls itself, is dying out far too slowly. Its legacy was to put the best spin on the self-image of a world it was largely responsible for making, one that even today destroys itself with wars and suffers the constant threats of nuclear annihilation and chemical pollution, while ideological, religious and economic conflicts run rampant, like plagues, institutionalised by its own elitism, ineptitude, corruption and greed.

Failing efforts

The boomer generation, today the largest part of that same, sad legacy, is so divided, so individualistic, so self-absorbed with its own survival and security, that it cannot find enough unity of purpose to save itself from its own hedonism and gluttony, let alone create and maintain a secure future for its children or grandchildren.

Though they started farther ahead of past elections and have worked at doing everything that has historically given past candidates an advantage, today's 'would-be-presidential' Democrats will eventually be discredited and fail in their efforts.

Their conservative competition simply has too much money, power and self-interest to allow them to succeed.

It understands and will take full advantage of the fact that a majority of Americans are simply not ready, nor sophisticated, nor mature enough to go beyond gender and race in the selection of a national leader.

I am, etc.,

Ed McCOY

mmhobo48@juno.co

Bokeelia, FL

Via Go-Jamaica