Are we the baddies?

America has an amazing history. Its history of adventure, exploration, art/literature, earth shaking wars, and technology from airplanes to nuclear weapons which have changed humanity forever. We became an empire which with less than 8% of the worlds population controlled more than 50% of its resources.

When I was growing up, the Soviet Union was "The Evil Empire". Have we taken their place? We have tens of millions of amazing people in the United States, who are going to continue to add to the health and happiness of the other 8 billions people on the planet. But are we now the bad guys? When previous empires have crashed, perhaps flitting through a totalitarian phase at the end, do you think all of the citizens . . . The workers and families - did they all suddenly become evil when their government turned the bend? Or were they just the same plain old people they always were, they just let things go to hell?

Are we the baddies now? What is history going to show?