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Wow! This writer can cram a lot of gloom and doom into a little space. Sounds like Chicken Little wrote it.

it is a defacto declaration of the second coming of the summer of 1969.

We can't have the sheeple believeing that things are alright with a Republican president, can we?

Apparently, Chicken Little did write it. I read it (way too early to see such a dismal thing) but we were waiting for a School Bus so it seemed appropriate. Thankfully, these Texas school buses (unlike those Boston Buses) have not only headlights & brakes but competent drivers who obey traffic laws & do not speed down dark streets. They're probably even issued Night Vision Goggles, practice evasive driving maneuvers so they can avoid colliding with fleeing newsboys. And in the event of an accident, we'd offer a bandaid & not a rolled up newspaper.A rolled up newspaper might be helpful if the "accident" is dog related...I suggest the author hang onto his papers because he's stepping in a lot of stuff.

I did puzzle over what childhood trauma haunts the writer's psyche, given he uses & painfully stretches his personal experiences as a newsboy into some type of bizarre metaphor for America. Then again he says at the beginning he was running from his imagination so his closing sentence ironically describes not "America" but just his sad overly self-obsessed liberal self: Now the American boy knows something new, that the thing to be afraid of is himself

Couldn't agree with him more...he is something to be scared of...he now wears an "unbiased" lapel pin & writes for a Newspaper. Of course I'm scared of roaches, too. But, I've found they always run from the Light & seeing them stomped with a big Texas boot is very satisfying if I don't have to clean up the mess. (Roaches creep into even the cleanest of homes...usually when there's a little rain...But Raid & a visit from Orkin every couple of years has really been doing a great job keeping their numbers down. Wonder if "Chicken Little" would understand that metaphor...)