America Is Sickly

Roger Cohen writes a column for The New York Times. Today it is written as a conversation between a well-informed mother and her son about how World War I started, and how the situation today has similar characteristics, similarities the mother unconvincingly denies. Along the way, Cohen renders this opinion of our nation, in the mother's voice:

Some people call America an empire even if it doesn’t have an emperor. It is the most powerful country on earth, with soldiers all around the world and different peoples that rely on it for direction and protection. But America’s getting weaker.

Because, like I said, America is sickly. It's getting weaker.

From a progressive, writing for the left's paper of record, that is a remarkably candid (and sobering) view of our national health as the Obama era winds down. If Cohen's assessment is correct, as I believe it to be, voting for 4-8 years of "continuity with Clinton" is tantamount to treason.