In all seriousness The Hague has no jurisdiction over Americans and Congress has already authorized military use of force against Brussels should they ever attempt to prosecute Americans.
U.S. tax law needs to change for this to happen. Individual health care should be totally tax deductible (the way it is for businesses) or should not be tax deductible at all for business (a small step in this direction by the Obama Administration was vilified as a "Cadillac Tax"
Medicaid spending-- driven by huge federal incentives-- is crowding out state dollars for higher education. Medicaid enrollment has increased 50% in WV in the last decade (while the state population has declined). The US is making a policy choice to funnel more of GDP into a wildly inefficient health care system to support obese and aging populations, instead of funding K-12 and higher education.
Florida is overall one of the best run states in the country. The public pensions are largely pre-funded and there's no state income tax. The biggest issue is the property insurance marketplace.
My family member died from his addiction and I'm still angry at him. He made several decades of selfish, disastrous choices. He had every advantage in the world and squandered it all. I'm angry we don't do more to fight these drugs. Drug dealing is very much a violent crime, it killed my cousin. The popular culture that celebrates drugs and dealers.
Plenty of blame all around but central is the person who decides to use.
Most of the Ivies were much more academically rigorous in the past. There were no ideological, unrigorous majors like Sociology or Gender Studies. Graduates were expected to read both Greek and Latin.
Clearly you didn't learn the meaning of "barbaric". Memorization and mastery of vocabulary and multiplication factors are a base towards more advanced learning.
The benefit to the United States from the dollar serving as the world's reserve currency is enormous, and poorly understood. Congress has been foolishly pursuing fiscal policies that put it at risk.
Culturally the U.S. inherited a strong and aggressive maritime tradition from the pre-eminent naval civilization, the English. American colonists were famously pirates, some of whom operated as far away as the Indian Ocean. The spiritual father of the U.S. Navy is John Paul Jones, a brawling pirate and revolutionary war figure who responded "I have not yet begun to fight!" when asked to surrender.
"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way."
Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont (16 November 1778)
"The future naval officers, who live within these walls, will find in the career of the man whose life we this day celebrate, not merely a subject for admiration and respect, but an object lesson to be taken into their innermost hearts. . . . Every officer . . . should feel in each fiber of his being an eager desire to emulate the energy, the professional capacity, the indomitable determination and dauntless scorn of death which marked John Paul Jones above all his fellows."
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, address to Naval Academy