**The Direction of America
Author Unknown (edited)
"Men, like nations, think they're invincible. 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 1949, 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
well NOWHERE in the world.
We've gone from a republican government guided by a constitu-
tion 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 fan-
tasizes 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 $36-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, indi-
cating 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 sur-
rounded 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 poster-
ity say of us?
While the prognosis is far from good. Only God knows if
America's day in the sun is over."**
God has blessed us with a new leader who knows how to win and
now it is time we restore America's glory and the American Dream.
We pray for His Grace.
Conservatively,
John
PS: Unforeseen circumstances delayed my schedule.
Happy New Year and a New Beginning
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