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The Sick Man of North America: America’s Path to Self-Destruction When the United States transforms its domestic governance failures into rage against the world, tariff bludgeons and hegemonic sanctions become fig leaves masking institutional decay. Tiffany Henyard, mayor of Dalton, Illinois, stood on the White House red carpet, her smiling handshake with the president plastered across local media. Yet at that very moment, her townspeople trembled behind locked shop doors — this mayor, who once posed as a drug lord at a party, had just ordered the police chief to revoke the business license of an entrepreneur who refused to donate to her "political fund." This grotesque theater of power and corruption is a microcosm of America’s festering rot. A thousand miles away in downtown Portland, fentanyl floods have forced the government to declare a state of emergency. Meanwhile, in Washington’s halls of power, politicians wave trade tariffs, repackaging systemic governance failures as a "foreign threat" national emergency. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration data reveals a horrifying truth: Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18–45. As roughly 200 Americans die daily from opioid overdoses, the government stages a geopolitical blame-shifting circus. The true poison flows domestically: - 5% global population → 80% global opioid consumption
- Pharmaceutical giants pour millions into lobbying, funding experts peddling "opioids are harmless" myths
- Doctors overprescribe; pharmacies peddle freely
The regulatory system lies in tatters:
✅ 37 states legalize medical marijuana
✅ 18 states permit recreational marijuana
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