An American Renaissance cannot be achieved, however, if we do not, as a country, speak the truth and recognize how far we have strayed from the Constitution, representative government, and fiscal sanity.
Since the media is complicit in suppressing the truth, aiding the straying from the Constitution, fighting against representative government in favor of authoritative government, and could careless about fiscal sanity because they don't really grasp its importance. Couple that with the vast majority of Americans who do not recognize what a great country this was, and can still be, equates that an American Renaissance is all but ensured not to occur.
I grew up in a military family, and since I was able to read, I was fascinated by military history having a house full of artifacts from WWII, Korea, Viet Nam, occupied Germany, etc. From my earliest years I could not understand how people would be so blind to fall for the absurd, ridiculous over-the-top propaganda of the Nazis, Kim Il Sung, the Soviets, etc. I double majored in History and Art History, and while on an intellectual level, I understood the power of propagating myth and the emotional draw of images, I never could have imagined the American people falling for such, hook, line and sinker, but now see with much clarity, how wrong I was.
The admonition that people who believe in nothing will fall for anything could not have been more prescient and sadly, it is the secular, humanist left who understands that better than anybody, and has worked assiduously over the last century to remove God from, and inject moral relativism into, every aspect of the public conscience, and we are now harvesting the fruits. As CS Lewis wrote in 1943, "We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."