Sunset Republic: With a nation as great as ours, watching the decay in real time is painful — but don't despair, there’s still a lot of America left in America

American Thinker ^ | 03/01/2023 | Nick Lopez

[SeekAndFind]

Everything ends. A hard truth, because we are a sentimental species. We have pleasant memories of more hopeful times, and we yearn for a return of days that will never repeat.

The future that the past promised us was never to be. A rocket powered tomorrow with monorails, a moon Hilton, and push button ease has been denied.

The blue haired, “gender” confused, angry world of today was never part of yesterday’s tomorrow…. Had it been, I doubt any of us would have signed on for it.

What future have we now? What kind of tomorrow is even possible after a few more years of days like today?

If you were to take a time machine back to 1952 and tell the past what 2023 was like, they wouldn’t believe you.

They wouldn’t believe you because they wouldn’t understand the total lack of values... and hope.

They wouldn’t believe you because in 1952, America had the brightest of futures ahead of it — a future like this wouldn’t even be possible or fathomable to the mid-century citizens of the most prosperous and thriving nation in the world.

Can you picture America in 2070? What do you see when you try?

Do you have visions of monorails, flying electric cars, and staycations at the moon Hilton? Or does it look more like a burned out, radioactive hellscape?

Based on our collective performance in recent todays, our tomorrows stand little chance of being able to take care of themselves.

Yesterday they promised flying cars and moon resorts. Instead, we got Satan’s sausage roll performing black magic rituals at the Grammys. Today they promise we will own nothing and eat bugs…. Wanna take a gander at what tomorrow really looks like? I don’t.

[No name given]

This is the result of taking God out of the public square and out of our schools.

[bigbob]

In 1952 most Americans were on the same side.

[Ransomed]

“Can you picture America in 2070? What do you see when you try?’

Fatter, more comfortable and passively entertained. Even more outraged and divided as the 24 hour toxic screen culture becomes more ubiquitous. Unless virtual reality gets really good, in which case a large % of the population disappears into virtual reality isolation creches.

FReegards

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Well we can always vote them out of office except for voter fraud...

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Fatter, more comfortable and passively entertained.

Or maybe a majority Spanish speaking country and a vassal state of the CCP.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Well we can always vote them out of office except for voter fraud...

Which means WE CAN’T. :(

[vpintheak]

I don’t mind the mostly Spanish speaking part so much, but I do mind the CCP part.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Everything ends.

Indeed, everything ends. Historically, empires end in one of three ways:

A. It breaks apart into smaller states (Holy Roman Empire, British Empire).
B. It reforms itself and becomes something else (Roman Republic to Roman Empire, Soviet Union to Russian Federation).
C. It's conquered by an outsider (Byzantine Empire, Ming Dynasty).

For the United States, my bet is A, but all three scenarios are possible.