text: The US is a country that is, in many respects, in long term decline. The fact that some white males are doing very very well does not make life any easier for the millions of marginally employed (or unemployed) blue collar males across the country. Many of the factories that used to employ large numbers of such men shut down long ago. There is lots of blame to go around and spending trillions of (current) dollars on military adventures abroad over the past 60+ years has made matters worse.