Trump

Which was slang when I was 10 and entering public school for a fart. And strangely, by some serendipity, means the same thing yet again. Apparently 39% of Republicans favour him. What a mentally ill country that is, and despite all the balanced Seppoes I've met over the years I'm always aware that I only ever meet the 17% who've actually wandered outside their borders. I'm sure that 100 years ago you could have come up with a fairly large list of things that were badly wrong with the UK and you could still do twenty quite easily, but America is so sick that it's got to the point where I almost wish for them to have a proper enemy again. Which surely can't be good.
They'll sometimes look outside and conclude that because most of the rest of the world don't have wealth, they must be ideologically wrong even while they don't understand what a massively privileged and historically fortuitous set of circumstances has actually created where they are now. Yet they're still a third-world country in terms of basic human issues. 'The Land of the Free"? As various historians -  I'll include Stephen Fry for having taken that on board - said, the Pilgrims came into a continent where 90% of the population had been wiped out by diseases they had never been exposed to before, those immigrants having been chucked from where they came from for being too religiously intolerant. So, they teach their kids, even the great-great-grandchildren of slaves to celebrate bigots every year.
I really like it when a few Americans in the public eye emigrate to Europe; I know that they'll never affect public opinion over there when they do so except largely in a negative sense, but what else are they meant to do when you just can't stomach the norm? I work for American companies sometimes and buy Chinese-made clothes, but we all know that unless you're in the fortunate (and generally moneyed) position of being able to choose fully ethically, there's not much else you can do,
In summary, I'm not saying that America is actually a force for destroying the whole world. But it could quite easily turn into one with its widespread pockets of religious fanaticism, military power and overriding sense of justice based on misinterpretations of historical events from hundreds of years ago. Add a new enemy that undercuts the fundamental ideology and the picture's fairly well complete. I'll still watch Star Wars VIII or anything by the Coens, mind.