INTERESTING ESSAY
Men, like nations, think they're eternal. What
man in his 20s or 30s doesn't believe, at least
subconsciously, that he'll live forever? In the
springtime of youth, an endless summer beckons.
As you pass 70, it's harder to hide from reality....
as you lose friends and relatives.
Nations also have seasons: Imagine a Roman of
the 2nd century contemplating an empire that
stretched from Britain to the Near East, thinking:
This will endure forever.... Forever was about 500
years, give or take.... not bad, but gone!!
France was pivotal in the 17th and 18th centuries;
now the land of Charles Martel is on its way to
becoming part of the Muslim ummah.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the sun never
set on the British empire; now Albion exists in
perpetual twilight. Its 96-year-old sovereign is a
fitting symbol for a nation in terminal decline.
In the 1980s, Japan seemed poised to buy the
world. Business schools taught Japanese
management techniques. Today, its birth rate is so
low and its population aging so rapidly that an
industry has sprung up to remove the remains of
elderly Japanese who die alone.
I was born in 1945, almost at the midpoint of the
20th century - the American century. America's
prestige and influence were never greater. Thanks
to the 'Greatest Generation,' we won a World War
fought throughout most of Europe, Asia, and the
Pacific. We reduced Germany to rubble and put
the rising sun to bed. It set the stage for almost
half a century of unprecedented prosperity.
We stopped the spread of communism in Europe
and Asia and fought international terrorism. We
rebuilt our enemies and lavished foreign aid on
much of the world. We built skyscrapers and
rockets to the moon. We conquered Polio and now
COVID. We explored the mysteries of the
Universe and the wonders of DNA...the blueprint
of life.
But where is the glory that once was Rome?
America has moved from a relatively free
economy to socialism - which has worked so nowhere in the world
We've gone from a republican government
guided by a constitution to a regime of revolving
elites. We have less freedom with each passing
year. Like a signpost to the coming reign of terror,
the cancel culture is everywhere. We've traded the
American Revolution for the Cultural Revolution.
The pathetic creature in the White House is an
empty vessel filled by his handlers. At the G-7
Summit, 'Dr. Jill' had to lead him like a child. In
1961, when we were young and vigorous, our
leader was too. Now a feeble nation is technically
led by the oldest man to ever serve in the
presidency.
We can't defend our borders, our history
(including monuments to past greatness) or our
streets. Our cities have become anarchist
playgrounds. We are a nation of dependents,
mendicants, and misplaced charity. Homeless
veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens
are put up in hotels.
The president of the United States can't even
quote the beginning of the Declaration of
Independence ('You know - The Thing') correctly.
Ivy League graduates routinely fail history tests
that 5th graders could pass a generation ago.
Crime rates soar and we blame the 2nd.
Amendment and slash police budgets.
Our culture is certifiably insane. Men who think
they're women. People who fight racism by
seeking to convince members of one race that
they're inherently evil, and others that they are
perpetual victims. A psychiatrist lecturing at Yale
said she fantasizes about 'unloading a revolver
into the head of any white person.'
We slaughter the unborn in the name of freedom,
while our birth rate dips lower year by year. Our
national debt is so high that we can no longer
even pretend that we will repay it one day. It's a
$30-trillion monument to our improvidence and
refusal to confront reality. Our 'entertainment' is
sadistic, nihilistic, and as enduring as a candy bar
wrapper thrown in the trash. Our music is noise
that spans the spectrum from annoying to
repulsive.
Patriotism is called an insurrection, treason
celebrated, and perversion sanctified. A man in
blue gets less respect than a man in a dress. We're
asking soldiers to fight for a nation our leaders no longer believe in
How meekly most of us submitted to Fauci-ism
(the regime of face masks, lockdowns, and hand
sanitizers) shows the impending death of the
American spirit.
How do nations slip from greatness to obscurity?
* Fighting endless wars they can't or won't win
* Accumulating massive debt far beyond their
ability to repay
* Refusing to guard their borders, allowing the
nation to be inundated by an alien horde
* Surrendering control of their cities to mob rule
* Allowing indoctrination of the young
* Moving from a republican form of government
to an oligarchy
* Losing national identity
* Indulging indolence
* Abandoning God, faith and family - the
bulwarks of any stable society.
In America, every one of these symptoms is
pronounced, indicating an advanced stage of the disease
Even if the cause seems hopeless, do we not have
an obligation to those who sacrificed so much to
give us what we had? I'm surrounded by ghosts
urging me on: the Union soldiers who held
Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, the battered
bastards of Bastogne, those who served in the cold
hell of Korea, the guys who went to the jungles of
Southeast Asia and came home to be reviled or
neglected.
This is the nation that took in my immigrant
grandparents, whose uniform my father and most
of my uncles wore in the Second World War. I
don't want to imagine a world without America,
even though it becomes increasingly likely.
During Britain's darkest hour, when its
professional army was trapped at Dunkirk and a
German invasion seemed imminent, Churchill
reminded his countrymen, 'Nations that go down
fighting rise again, and those that surrender
tamely are finished.'
The same might be said of causes. If we let
America slip through our fingers, if we lose
without a fight, what will posterity say of us?
While the prognosis is far from good. Only God
knows if America's day in the sun is over."
Read it and weep, forward or erase it! I read it
and am now forwarding it to you, believing that
we in America are at the moment in time to stand
up, or let it fall! We now may soon beat the next
step in our country's future. I believe that it might be closer than we think
-Author Unknown
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