Unfortunate Truth
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Men, like nations, think they’re eternal. What man in his 20s or
30s doesn’t believe, at least subconsciously, that he’ll live for-
ever? In the springtime of youth, an endless summer beckons. As you
pass 70, it’s harder to hide from reality.
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. 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 a perpetual twilight. Its 95-
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 is aging so rapidly, that an industry
has sprung up to remove the remains of elderly Japanese who died
alone.
I was born in 1947, 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 lav-
ished 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 blue-
print 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
well 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're 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 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 slaugh-
ter 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 $28-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 annoy-
ing to repulsive.
Patriotism is called insurrection, treason celebrated, and per-
version 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 im-
pending 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 inun-
dated 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 faith and family – the bulwarks of social order.
In America, every one of these symptoms is pronounced, indicat-
ing an advanced stage of the disease. Even if the cause seems hope-
less, 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 is
becoming 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.
*Another well written piece full of truth and patriotic love.
Conservatively,
John
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