Letter: A hubristic nation that is in serious decline

Letter: A hubristic nation that is in serious decline

The rest of the world is snickering. We’ve become a hubristic nation deluded by the myth of our exceptionalism. As we mark the 250th anniversary of our 1776 founding, we’re in the midst of a steep decline. We’re now abandoning our principles of equality and justice for all. We tolerate governmental lawlessness and overreach as we stumble toward autocracy. While other nations advance, we, by our own doing, edge ever closer to the dustbin of histo…