No Better, Maybe Worse

What a disappointment. We are no better or worse than anyone else. I thought we were better but only because of circumstances--our good fortune to have escaped from imperial and colonial crap and internecine wars and to have the resource endowment of the gods. 

We were never any better, only incredibly lucky, and with Trump we may show that we're the lowest of modern developed democracies, which is where we have been trending, to outlier status in the care of our people and the environment. We may be worse than everyone else.