If America is heading in the right direction, why have so many of our major cities become cesspools of violence, drugs, theft, trash and homelessness? Once upon a time, millions of young people from all over America flocked to our rapidly growing metropolitan areas.
The shiny new cities that previous generations of Americans built for us are degenerating at a pace that is absolutely stunning.
Detroit was once one of the greatest cities on the entire planet, but now it has become a cautionary tale.
Today one finds articles like the Guardian's "The Death of a Great American City: why does anyone still live in Detroit?" So what has happened to what was once one of the greatest Rust Belt cities? The story of Detroit is a much larger tale of what has been happening in the city of Gary in Indiana - a ghost town in the making.
A large Hollywood Boulevard homeless encampment that residents say is a hotspot for selling and buying drugs, a trash-strewn tent city they say took the city three months to clear, has sparked continued concern as unhoused residents are already returning to the location.
These addicts leave trash and human excrement wherever they go, and as a result San Francisco is an extremely filthy city today.
On the east coast, the city of Baltimore is facing a different sort of crisis.
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