Dear America
Dear America,
the rest of the world thinks you are odd…
In Australia we have Supreme Court Judges – none of us could tell you which party they are aligned with.
You still have pennies, that cost 2c to make. And dollar bills when coins are much more durable and cost-efficient.
You vote for your president on a Tuesday, based on church Sundays and multiple-day journeys by horse and cart.
You are the only country too scared to convert to decimal.
The strengths of your states are a weakness. You compete with each other to give tax concessions to wealthy corporations. And your leader is incapable of creating a coordinated response to COVID-19.
Your obsession with raw capitalism means that people die from health issues they cannot afford to treat, even though they live in the richest nation that ever was. Meanwhile every other modern country provides universal healthcare and spends half as much as you do.
You imprison millions of people for enjoying marijuana (harmless in every way) and then legalise it when you realise you can profit from it.
I strongly recommend splitting in three, with each acting as a country and not a collective of states.