Excellent essay Angus. I recall my first arrival in a NYC airport, I though my plane must wandered into sub-Sahara Africa, until I actually experienced a couple of their much nicer airports. But, what is really much worse than our infant mortality rate and infrastructure collapse is that our politics is also pure Banana Republic, and racing into a black hole of FULL FRONTAL FASCISM. Note: https://medium.com/@daneke/a-requiem-for-american-democracy-5aa717cc7f40.