Letter to the editor: Presidential candidates should consider state of America

As America sinks into a cesspool of sexual degeneracy and child-grooming, an invasion at our southern border, unbridled crime, mass homelessness, and hordes of mentally ill and addicted, $175 billion has gone to fund a distant proxy war that our government artfully kindled — specifically, former Undersecretary of State neocon zealot Victoria Nuland — by orchestrating a coup and installing Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the U.S.-deferential president of Ukraine.

It is not the first time Nuland has dabbled in the destabilization of world affairs. Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan all lend a crimson blush to her resume. She has delighted in brutal overthrows and stuffing billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars down the gullet of the military-industrial complex.

Nuland has faced no reckoning for the body count, nor our politicians for the costly fleecing of a ravaged America.

I suggest the 2024 candidates take a walking tour through this unfiltered America. Filthy and run down, it reeks of urine and is smeared with feces. And the perforated citizenry are hunched over in zombified euphoria: In an underpass, public library bathroom stall — in front of CVS, a needle is left jutting from a bare, grimy foot, and as unfazed pedestrians walk by, a head droops to the ground into unconsciousness.

Perhaps, candidates, after the tour, you will recall the foremost duty of an American president. Perhaps then you will deserve my vote.

Scott R. Hammond

Point Breeze