The American decline is disturbing.

Americans scream that the world will not end if sodas are banned, but will the world end if sodas are legal?

You know the US is doomed when a Libertarian forum bans you and Americans say the ACLU, the Institute for Justice, the Libertarian Party, and Oathkeepers were all founded by Stalin.

You know that you live in hell when you lose your ID, but the bus or train that can take you to the city where you can replace your ID requires an ID to buy a ticket.

Americans think tyranny is a fun game, but Americans don't realize that only the leader can be famous in a police state.

In a free country, singers, actors, writers, and sports stars are not limited and can be successful because they are talented and work hard.

In a police state, every individual success is a state success. Every book, song, movie, and sports stars must glorify the state. Any writer or singer that criticizes the government disappears, is arrested, or is killed. Any dangerous book, movie, or song must be written in code.

In a police state, some of the most dangerous jobs are being a journalist, lawyer, or priest.

In a police state, the leader and citizens are praised as noble.

In a police state, enemy countries are portrayed as having brutal dictators and foreigners are mocked and ridiculed as savages.

Part of the reason the collapse of the US is so depressing today is that young Americans think censorship, gun bans, immorality, wiretapping, forfeiture, checkpoints, TSA groping, torture, NDAA indefinite detention, and extrajudicial assassination are perfectly acceptable.

Americans don't even know what Independence Day means.