How America Became the Shithole We Were Warned About by Jeff Callaway
How America Became the Shithole We Were Warned About By Jeff Callaway Texas Outlaw Poet The country does not collapse all at once. It decays like a porch left to weather—one board at a time, one nail loosening in the dark, one storm too many that nobody bothers to clean up after. You don’t notice it at first. Not when the flag still flies and the anthem still plays and the politicians still speak in polished promises. But then one day you look closer, and the rot is no longer hiding. You see it in the roads first. Highways that once carried the roar of American industry now rattle like loose teeth. Potholes bloom like infections. Bridges hum with age and strain, their steel bones tired, their concrete skin cracked. The American Society of Civil Engineers has been issuing warnings for years—grading the backbone of this nation somewhere around a C- in its most recent report, a polite academic way of saying: this thing is falling apart, and we are letting it. Then you see it in the airpor...
