I’ve been reflecting on the history of human behavior going back to Plato. Accounts of living history come from my German mother’s experiences during the Nazi regime. I certainly haven’t seen any instances of returning to Individual liberty and Economic Freedom that are fundamental to the American Way once it’s gone. I often wondered if those past regimes simply destroyed the risk takers, innovators, and ‘do-ers’. A society of obedient slaves only make the elite comfortable.
” I certainly haven’t seen any instances of returning to Individual liberty and Economic Freedom that are fundamental to the American Way once it’s gone.”
I think America has a core strength that other societies don’t have. It was stupid to think America could establish individual freedom in societies that have never had it, like Iraq. Even England never had the individual freedoms we have unless they were granted by the crown. What the crown giveth the crown can, and has taken back. (Actually, it was parliament that has taken back.)
If we have a surge of conservatism and elect men more like George Washington than Marco Rubio then we can recover. (So long as there isn’t an ongoing crisis that the leadership feels demands we still submit.)
Perhaps the answer is for freedom oriented states to leave the union and fence themselves off. I’d move to Texas in a heartbeat if it left. I love my country, but the country I love no longer exists. (Unless we reestablish it.)