Author Caroline Miller ruminates on the national debt, America's credit rating, and how the Iran War and social programs are hastening a financial downward spiral.

Patriotism is out of favor these days, dropping from 70% support in 2000 to 38% today.  (“The Strange Triumph of a Broken America,” by Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb. 2025, pg. 50.)  Because we choose our leaders in a democracy, the decline says the voters are unhappy