@Frank Apisa,
Good to hear from you as well, Frank. We don't agree at all on the current situation. Biden is, on his best day, a lifelong lightweight and professional politician (like Bernie Sanders, he's never had a job outside government) who has enriched his family through the misuse of his official powers throughout a long career. Sadly, on most days he is a good deal less than that - a liar and delusional somewhat demented old man.
We are indeed a long way from good times , as you say. However, we are headed for much worse.
We're near the end of a long economic expansion & accompanying Bull Market. A recession will follow in normal course fairly soon, one which might be, like most, short and followed by a fairly quick recovery. However the planned government spending and monetary policies being pursued by our "progressive" government are perfectly designed to recreate the "stagflation" of the post Jimmy Carter era, and a long term inflationary period with little economic growth.
The continuing disintegration of local law enforcement in major (mostly Democrat controlled) cities is rapidly destroying public confidence in government, and injuring mostly the minority populations they were nominally intended to benefit.
Our international relations and stature in the world have been badly damaged, and open contempt for the recent actions of our President regarding the ongoing Afghanistan debacle has been expressed by senior officials of Major allied governments. China, Russia and Iran have been emboldened. -- all to our serious detriment. The situation in Afghanistan is likely to get much worse in the next few weeks, as we approach the Aug 31 redline recently announced by the Taliban. Biden has yet to acknowledge or address the core issues in his ill conceived and poorly planned Afghanistan withdrawal , is making vaguely stated promises he can't keep, and apparently ignoring obvious facts (including recent poll results regarding fast-declining public confidence in his ability to lead the country.
It is a very sad tragicomedy, and nothing good will likely come out of it, (except the likely collapse of Democrat legislative initiatives in the Congress as Moderate Democrats run for cover,)
