Do you think Pulitzer winners truly deserve what they've achieved?

What's really sick is when I think back on the good old days of Nixon's presidency before Watergate. We actually had a lot of social and economic policies under him that were downright progressive compared to where the Dems are nowadays. Oh, the curse of being old...

Yawn
The idea 'America' was in the golden past a "shining city on a hill," as a deluded Ronald Reagan put it, was always a pleasant fantasy, born out of the special circumstances of World War II and a good geopolitical location.
The United States was never really "exceptional" in any unique, unassailable way.
We rebelled against our own government and somehow got away with it.
We took over the middle of the continent, from defenseless, primitive people,
We economically went through many periods of boom and bust,
Socially we behaved (still do) like any other human beings,
The Civil War had to happen because the South was (still is) an embarassment; the North was morally superior and militarily stronger. It's ironic the South now politically has the upper hand--a source of ceaseless amazement.
After a disastrous depression, we we're FORCED to get into World War II, and took way too much credit for the 'win,' after which we appointed ourselves (with a straight face) the World's Policemen.
Today we're a mess, but we always have been a mess. The only things which set us apart are
A gigantic military
An ego the size of Gibraltar,
Good movies.
Two big oceans.

This was a pretty demoralizing read.

the whole human race is a dead end species