Born in the USA
June. Oh, June.
June was the month the Supreme Court decided that employers had the religious right to decide what medical treatments their insurance would or would not cover. Your employer doesn't "believe" in blood transfusions? Sucks to be you. Your employer refuses to acknowledge psychiatry as a medical profession? Your employer have a problem with doctors who treat infections with antibiotics instead of a scoopful of medicinal leeches? Sorry, it's leeches for you.
Just kidding, of course. The ruling is about whether women can get medications or other treatment related to the sexytimes. The high court of the land doesn't give a damn about any religious proscriptions that don't specifically address vaginas.
We're going to take that as a very obvious indicator that America is screwed. We're going to go elsewhere for our sign that America has been abandoned by the fates altogether.
Remember Open Carry Texas, last month's choice for sign of the upcoming apocalypse? June saw the NRA apologize to them after the NRA criticized their extremist "antics." Not coincidentally, it was also the month two militia members considered too extreme for the Bundy Ranch crowd murdered three people in Las Vegas. June saw Eric Cantor lose his Republican primary for not being the sort of extremist the Republicans wanted him to be, and saw the Republican Party proto-campaign against Hillary Clinton reduce itself to paying a guy to follow her around in a giant squirrel costume. June was the month America lost the plot, I think.
But as for the single thing that might be cited in future history books as the sign of our societal downfall, presuming there are history books at all, it would likely be the waves of telephone calls that forced the town of Hailey, Idaho, to cancel their homecoming celebration for returning POW Bowe Bergdahl.
[The town cited] concerns that the town of 8,000 could not handle the even larger national influx of supporters and—more worryingly—protesters that would show up in the wake of the current media storm. It should be noted that the town had had a Bring Bowe Back event every year he was held in Afghanistan, but now that he's freed they've had to cancel it over concerns for public safety.
The calls followed a Fox News campaign
condemning the prisoner exchange that released Bergdahl as a sign of President Obama's un-American stance and speculation by network pundits over whether the freed Bergdahl, whose father had grown an unkempt beard in a show of solidarity with his long-captive son, had been
secretly converted to radical Islam.
Yes, America, that happened. Outraged conservatives demanded, and got, the cancellation of a hometown parade for a returning American prisoner of war. There's your symbol.