Dear America,

From where I sit you are a land of inequality. You worship money. It is your true religion. It creates a system of ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ based on many criteria – race being the most obvious.

The ‘haves’ have create a system that will always give them the advantage – through neighbourhood, education , attitude, arrogance and sheer purchasing power. That is exemplified by Donald Trump. Nobody earns a million dollars, let alone a few billion, they get that money through exploiting others.

Fair pay is about what is a fair hourly rate for what a person puts in. To earn thousands or more for an hours work is obscene. But we live in an age where sports-people, movie stars and bankers all believe that they are worth the millions they get paid. They are manifestly not.

America – I think you use religion as an excuse. It is for Sundays. Morality does not intrude into your business practices or politics.

There is a bubble. America (and a number of other countries) lives in a bubble.

The rest of the world (most of humanity) is living in abject poverty and filth, starvation and war, largely as a result of the inequality perpetuated by a system that feels that it alright for big business to make billions of dollars out of starving, desperate people; that it is alright to rape the planet for profit.

America, I personally do not think that is right.

I would put as a priority the protection of nature and halt the slaughter of wild-life.

I would want a fairer world without grotesque inequality.

I want the human population reducing by half.

I want a system that is fair and does not generate poverty, starvation, war and religious fundamentalism.

I suppose, in the eyes of many Americans, that makes me a communist.

Oh – and I’d move to a global government and away from the primitive tribalism of nations.

America – I think we need to grow up – and grow up fast – before we completely destroy the planet that gives us life in the pursuit of the dollar.

Best wishes – Opher

PS – there’s more to life than the pursuit of money – but there won’t be if we keep pursuing money at the expense of the planet.