Great commentary written by a comitted conservative. An objective look at The US shows nationwide crime hugely down for over 20 years straight (recently  going up in a few inner urban citiy zones), the stock market at record highs, unemployment half what it was a few years ago, mostly effective control of terrorism (hard to control lone wolf attacks do continue), the greatest military dominance the world has ever seen, a greatly deceased budget deficit (the ruinous Bush tax cuts still remain), two disastrous wars not over but largely disangaged from, but the percived fear factor of many Americans is huge. True, we have serious political divides, racism and bigotry continues, a grossly unequal distribution of national wealth, an inequitable tax system, national infrastructure deteriorating due to GOP funding blocks, our health care is vastly the most expensive in the world and not really that good, but overall much has improved during the Obama years. Why all the fear and loathing?