[jsanders2001]

> That’s where America went wrong, and dead-ended. In trying to be all things to all people everywhere around the globe (not so much a place, necessarily, but an idea, of limitless opportunity and diversity), we have dissolved ourselves right out of existence. Paradoxically, we’ve reached our limit on the timeline of history by not observing the limits which would allow us to continue as a nation.

Truth in a nutshell

[humblegunner]

So basically you’re ready to give up?

[Pearls Before Swine]

The emperor needs some clothes. Any ideas?

Tar and feathers.

More seriously, the question of deluded do-gooder using useful idiots, or secret foreign agent/Manchurian Candidate is becoming increasingly important.

[freebilly]

Time to form The New American Republic....

[Jacquerie]

<>Our eventual demise was baked into our founding documents from the beginning, really.<>

BS. The author is wrong to blame The Enlightenment and founding document.

His views on equality are sophomoric and misleading as well.

[Responsibility2nd]

The emperor needs some clothes. Any ideas?

 

Yeah. Wear this.

[skeeter]

"We're a nation of immigrants"

"America isn't a nation, its an idea"

Altruistic foolishness and still articles of faith among many republicans.

The democrats? They wear their hate for this country on their sleeve.

[Fiddlstix]

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[Nifster]

That comment only applies to perhaps the last twenty maybe thirty years. In fact America did not ‘go wrong’. The commies managed to take over the universities and sell a generation of spoiled kids the idea that everything about America was wrong.....and it continues a pace.

[aquila48]

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[backwoods-engineer]

It was nice while it lasted. America is gone. What’s next? May the South rise again.

[Zionist Conspirator]

All this racial/ethnic/civilizational chaos would disappear if everyone would see that there is a single universal, objective moral code that applies to all people in all places in all times. "Conservatives" who consider G-d (lehavdil!) a creation of the philosophy of "white, western European man" are nothing but atheists and pagans with a veneer of morality.

And I agree: the "enlightenment" was a disaster.

[piasa]

America IS an idea, a story, an experiment, and not a region or a race; the problem is that we have in our comfort and complacency and pursuit of our own individual ends allowed a radical faction of people to organize and redefine the words.