Robert Bruce Adolph

Many people believe what they wish to believe, and when that impulse hardens into political identity, facts and truth become disposable while anything that flatters “their values” becomes sacred.

America’s widening inequality and pay-to-play politics have left millions feeling trapped in a grinding rat race, and in that anger they handed power to a leader they suspected was corrupt, with consequences that will reward the New Nobility while everyone else gets squeezed.

America is not collapsing from outside pressure but hollowing itself out from within, trading shared civic responsibility for grievance, celebrity worship, and the comforting lies of a cult that mistakes cruelty for strength and ignorance for conviction.

From the shattered bridges outside Kyiv to the hollow eyes of Russian officers who once confessed that their whole lives had been a lie, I have watched the same rotten empire of untruth stagger forward, and I am convinced that Ukraine’s refusal to bow will help bring it crashing down.

If the American Dream is dying, it is because a self-anointed New Nobility has quietly rigged the system to fatten its portfolios while telling the rest of us to admire the yacht.

Mr. Trump has treated his solemn oath as a disposable campaign slogan, shredding constitutional norms and moral standards while his enablers in Congress cower in silence before his vengeful whims.

America lost its footing when unrestrained corporate power, partisan fearmongering, and a billionaire-backed political machine hollowed out the institutions meant to protect the public, clearing a path for a leader who embodies the consequences of that long decline.

In the end, when law is bent to serve a vengeful president, the burden falls on the men and women in uniform to choose conscience over career and remember that their oath is to the Constitution, not to the occupant of the White House.

In a sunlit Kyiv shop three months after Putin’s invasion, a stranger kissed my hand and thanked America, a small human moment that crystallized why Ukraine’s fight for hearth and home deserves unwavering support even amid the Kremlin’s reckless threats.

Terrorism isn’t an enemy to be defeated, it’s a symptom of despair and miscalculation—and until America accepts that truth, every strike it makes will plant the seeds of the next war.

Unless honest government acts, AI will serve a New Nobility of monopolists and dark money, turning democracy into pay to play and the rest of us into serfs.

There is one human race, and until America confronts the living legacy of state sanctioned racism with honest education, equal law, and everyday compassion, we will keep mistaking skin tone for character.