5 Ways America's Success is Ruining Our Culture

Townhall ^ | 05/18/2018 | John Hawkins

[IronJack]

We’re a culture drowning in excess. We can win over dearth; we may not survive surfeit.

Adversity brings out our best. Success seems to rot our souls.

[goodnesswins]

You said it very well...sadly.

[GOPJ]

Liberal elite ideas spread to our children in indoctraination centers - and to adults via the MSM are killing the country.

[Lurkinanloomin]

It was the takeover of media and academia in the 1960’s by leftists with an agenda that was critical.
Nonstop propaganda denigrating the founding and history of the country.

[pboyington]

We can go to Mars, cure cancer, AIDS, to start with and then we can get the Millennial Generation off its collective Marxist asses.

[Lurkinanloomin]

In regard to #4:
The strongest military in the world is useless when it does not defend the country.
We are being colonized.
The proportion of fraudulently documented foreigners has never been higher.
U.S. citizens are dying here at their hands.
There should have been troops on the borders 9/12/2001.

[DesertRhino]

“We’re a culture drowning in excess. We can win over dearth; we may not survive surfeit. Adversity brings out our best. Success seems to rot our souls.”

Rome...

[CptnObvious]

The Answer is Giving. Wealth without giving leads to ruin and boredom.

[rjsimmon]

We are the only nation with a flag on the moon.

I thought it was on Mars???

[gr8eman]

Speak for yourself. The lower IQ amongst us tend to speak in platitudes

[LouAvul]

We're simply following historical patterns, viz. men with dreams build empires. They then turn those empires over to idiot sons. Idiot sons urinate the whole thing into the wind.

We're naive in believing the USA is an eternal concept. I believe God is conditioning/fabricating another country, as we speak, to pick up the banner. Hungary, maybe? And we're going to fall into the dustbin of history.

[arthurus]

Mostly it comes to one thing.
America is rich and can afford to support a large portion of the population in idleness- welfare pople who then vote to increase and extend their welfare and their idleness and very smart people in Academia and in sinecures and just plain leisure. They, having no experience in production think that plenty and wealth are natural conditions and dream up ways to make everyone "equal." That group of idlers controls their ancestors' wealth and ours and forces their view on society and pays for their schemes with the resources they extract from us by means of their control of the government which they have because they have the wealth and time to get it. once a free society becomes rich it becomes either a mercantile oligarchy or a bureaucratic oligarchy or a mixture on the way to a totlitarian oligarchy. It is inevitable unless modified by conquest or/and collapse.

[GOPJ]

You’re right Lurkinanloomin.

[Crucial]

Yeah, I see people struggling to pay bills. I don’t see this windfall of economic success the author speaks of. It’s at least not as prominent as he tries to portray it. I do agree also that we coddle our enemies too much and put our troops at risk with our rules of engagement.

His best point is one I had missed. Rank and file liberals really are tilting at windmills, trying to relive the civil rights movement over and over again. They can’t be their heroes because it’s already been done. You can’t be MLK or Rosa Parks. They’re doing nothing but stroking their egos and trying to be false heroes.

[Rummyfan]

Every time I see a car with a Bernie bumper sticker, I cringe. Even worse are the a-holes driving with Obama-Biden ‘08 stickers still on their cars.

How can people be so stupid?!

[caww]

....”It was the takeover of media and academia in the 1960’s by leftists with an agenda that was critical”....

Since then there is always something they are ‘preparing’ to ‘grab’....they go for it always in a crisis, often ones they create.

[IronJack]

Don’t be so hard on yourself.

[Crucial]

He’s wrong about a rival Left. We have the globalist cabal.

[Brian Griffin]

Almost all Americans have no idea what rich really is.

About half have a comfortable lifestyle.

About 20% have it pretty good at government expense.

About 25% are struggling.

About 1% are really rich.

Having lots of Chinese-made chattels which can be carried to the curb in about two months if you lose your job doesn’t make you rich.