A Country of Bumpkins

Hicks. Boors. Hillbillies. Hayseeds. What are we Americans if not a bunch of rubes and rednecks, too stupid to recognize our unprecedented good fortune or too ungrateful and unthinking to care. This is how it must all end, in an indescribable eruption and orgy of malign incompetence and the intentional, organized, short-sighted, self-serving vandalism of our institutions and their reduction to rubble.