Hello Umar I have been reading for a while and I thank you for your opinion articules . As a Portuguese and therefore European I have been constantly thinking about how the USA got to this point. My country was/is considerable poor and as a kid growing up in the nineties I looked at the USA in awe ,so much that I concluded my master’s degree last December in American Studies. What is ironic is that I entered in my master’s with one idea about the USA and left with another , namely how much over here we don’t know about the negative aspects. I ended up writing my dissertation about spike lee films, a director that is not famous in Portugal and maybe in Europe and who knows perhaps even within the USA among white Americans . What I want to say is that I am really sad for a country with so many beautiful cultural aspects that has changed to give place to lunatics . The more I learn about the differences about Europe or Portugal and the USA I no longer have the American dream but the Portuguese Dream . It’s honestly good to live on this other side. To walk the streets and feeling safe . It’s just such a different culture … It’s like the USA is no longer a first world country and it saddens me