This Is Your Country

I sure as hell don't want anything to do w/ it!

Digby gets behind the Financial Times paywall & looks at books about the impending American crack-up.

At the end of their book, Burns and Martin quote Malcolm Turnbull, Australia’s former prime minister, on America’s tendency to self-soothe with familiar homilies. They are no longer helpful. “You know that great line that you hear all the time: ‘This is not us. This is not America’?” Turnbull asks. “You know what? It is actually.”

I say it's America, & I say the hell w/ it.