Why U.S. Tourism Is Down

The meme here offers a suggestion, and I’m sure it’s at least partially right.

But let’s keep in mind that the United States has become a rogue nation more generally.  Our president has threated to use military force as necessary to annex Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal.  At the same time, we’re:

• Destroying our citizens’ health with our war on vaccines.

• Preventing our Environmental Protection Agency from doing what its name suggests should be its mission, i.e., protecting our environment.

• Kicking 13.7 million people off healthcare so as to further enrich our billionaires.

• Destroying public education.

• Trying to eliminate any form of journalism that could be even remotely critical of the president.

Maybe the world’s people simply want to stay away from a country that’s clearly on its way to becoming an authoritarian state.  Tourists aren’t flocking into North Korea either.