[Savage Beast]

That tragedy brought out the best in Americans.

It was prosperity that brought out the worst: the decadence of Western Civilisation in America, the spoiled brat generations, and widespread tolerance of government corruption, cultural sleaze, and the empowerment of the Democrat Party, i.e. the Party of Hate and Evil.

Of course, there is nothing good about war and pestilence, and prosperity is a wonderful blessing to be sought, worked hard for, appreciated, and loved, but let's hope the current crisis knocks some sense into the spoiled brats and brings them to truth and reality.

[Alberta's Child]

I've spent a long time thinking about it, and I've now concluded that World War II brought out the worst in this country ... mainly because it was built on -- and further facilitated -- two of the most destructive political-economic influences in our culture and economy:

1. Big Government

2. Globalism

[kaktuskid]

And they still had to deal with polio and measles outbreaks

[Joe 6-pack]

"Of course, there is nothing good about war and pestilence..."

I have to believe that God has his purpose in all things. CS Lewis' Screwtape Letters is a satirical epistolary account of correspondence between Screwtape, a senior bureaucrat demon in hell, and his nephew Wormwood, a junior tempter in his first assignment to corrupt a soul.

When it looked like the world was ramping up to WWII, Wormwood writes Screwtape, gleeful in anticipation of the wave of evil, death and destruction about to visit humanity. Screwtape replies admonishing the junior demon that in such times, he should also anticipate examples of unprecedented courage, compassion and charity that would rise in the face of widespread death and privation.