Ampli-Gistics

With the debacle in the Middle East brought about by the previous administration, serious questions are emerging that the U.S. now lacks the ability to project power on the international stage.

Now, with Mexico City’s decision on Monday to approve gay marriage, it appears that local governments in two countries steeped in conservative, Catholic tradition - and allegedly not as progressive as the United States - have taken a far more expansive view of human rights and equality than the U.S.

My take is this - If the U.S. cannot project military power, and we can’t seem to get a grip on human rights and equality in a way that two Latin American cities have done, what can we do in this country anymore? I am ending the year on a pessimistic note, but it seems to me that the only thing we are good at anymore is consuming anything and everything we’re told to, polluting the environment and yet denying the very existence of global warming, cheating the most vulnerable among us, and electing politicians with (and I will be judicious here in my choice of words) elusive grasps on the truth?