We’ve Been Going Downhill…23 April 2023

	We've Been Going Downhill

	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 1950, 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 unpre-
cedented 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 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 monu-
ments 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 free-
dom, while our birth rate dips lower year by year. Our na-
tional 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 cele-
brated, 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 bat-
tered 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 grand-
parents, 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

	The end times may be closer than we think. Please pray.

   Conservatively,
   John