Thomas Mann had the right idea

"In those days, Germany, a hectic flush on its cheeks, was reeling at the height of its savage triumphs, about to win the world on the strength of the one pact that it intended to keep and had signed with its blood. Today, in the embrace of demons, a hand over one eye, the other staring into the horror, it plummets from despair to despair. When will it reach the bottom of the abyss? When, out of this final hopelessness, will a miracle that goes beyond faith bear the light of hope? A lonely man folds his hands and says, "May God have mercy on your poor soul, my friend, my fatherland.""

-Thomas Mann, Doktor Faustus

Thomas Mann, disgusted with his country, left Germany in 1933 to live first in Switzerland and then here in California, where he finaly died in 1955. This paragraph was the closing of his final novel. Were he still alive, what would he say to us now?