Stephan:   By any social outcome measure, I can think of, from maternal mortality to childcare, to care for the elderly, to incarceration, to police brutality, and on and on, the United States has deliberately, and with intention, become a second-rate country. I just hate having to write that sentence, but facts are facts. And now we have the overturning of Roe by six political hacks and christofascist ideologues. As this report lays out, "Of the 36 countries the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs defines as developed economies, all but two -- Poland and Malta -- allow abortions on request or on broad health and socio-economic grounds," and most of the rest of the developed, and even developing world, is moving in the opposite direction from the U.S. The only countries that aren't are religious autocracies, which is what we are rapidly becoming. I am so tired of politicians telling everyone how we are the world leader, Reagan's "shining city on a hill" when, in fact, we have become a negative outlier by almost every measure of social wellbeing. If we won't face the truth we will only continue to decline further. November is going to tell the tale as to which direction we go.