America is Not a Competent, Independent Country

To the Editor:
The ever-declining living standard, international image and global influence of America have strongly demonstrated one thing: the United States is not competent to continue as an independent country.
During the initial chapter of American history, our nation enjoyed a wave of beginner’s luck in terms of global success. Luck that only existed because of the United Kingdom’s significant investment into the new world colonies providing infrastructure, defense, culture and law.
Americans did not create the legal system and its principles that have since become talking points for misguided illusions of American grandeur and exceptionalism. Our values of freedom and democracy came directly from the well-established and model legal system of England and Wales.
Left to its own independent home rule, the U.S. has become an indebted and war-mongering train wreck of a nation, akin to a heavily intoxicated teenager on the world stage. Our country has embraced draconian concepts such as secret warrantless searches and dragnet national security programs designed to subvert the rule of law. American history classes do not bother to teach how modern day protections against unreasonable search and seizure have their roots in abuses of power by the King of England. Our human rights record is deplorable, both at the international level with things like Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal and locally with the well-documented racial bias and misconduct issues of the state police and other New Jersey law enforcement agencies.
I’d much prefer to see the Queen as head of state and the Prime Minister as our head of government. As far as I know, London Bridge is not having any lane closures due to fictitious traffic studies for political purposes and the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) actually provides the healthcare it is supposed to.
Besides, it’s not like we can use an anti-tax argument in New Jersey of all places.