<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Chateau Heartiste]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://heartiste.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[CH]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://heartiste.wordpress.com/author/roissy/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Goodbye America In A&nbsp;Photo]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>This post is the start of a series featuring photos from readers that best distill the essence of a nation in decline. Our virgin Goodbye America photo entry is from reader Kyo,</p>
<blockquote><p>OT for the “Goodbye America” crowd: the nation encapsulated in the background of one photo. Michelle Obama is giving a speech full of the usual retread anti-racist pablum at a high school.</p>
<p>On the right is a woman who looks to be in a state of delirious ecstasy to be where she is.</p>
<p>On the left is an unhappy man clapping because he’s read his Solzhenitsyn and knows what happens when people don’t clap when the regime wants them to.</p></blockquote>
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<p>Obviously, we can&#8217;t know for certain from looking at a photo what&#8217;s going through a person&#8217;s head, but if facial expressions could talk&#8230; abject prostration, from both the man and woman, comes to mind.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s amazing how quickly a nation can fall from world-bestriding power and faith in itself to a caricature of cultural collapse and masochistic submission. In a single lifetime, America will have gone from a roomful of 26 year old wunderkinds launching man into space and onto the moon, to a nation of whiny infants crying about privilege and microaggressions and wondering how to make a living with their liberal arts degrees.</p>
<p>Readers are welcome to submit their own Goodbye America photos. At the end of the year, winners will be announced. Do you have the photo that &#8220;sez it all&#8221; about post-America? Submit it to CH and make sure you watch this space from poolside!</p>
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