Posted on 04/07/2015 2:36:09 PM PDT by Kaslin
As one who loves America -- not only because I am American, but even more so because I know (not believe, know) that the American experiment in forming a decent society has been the most successful in history -- I write the following words in sadness: With few exceptions, every aspect of American life is in decline.
"Decay" is the word.
The Decline of the Family: Nearly half (48 percent) of American children are born to a mother who is not married. Forty-three percent of American children live without a father in the home. About 50 percent of Americans over 18 are married, compared to 72 percent in 1960. Americans are having so few children that the fertility rate fell to a record low 62.9 births per 1,000 women in 2013. And in an increasing number of states, there are now more deaths than births.
The Decline of Education: Compared to nearly all of American history, the average American school teaches much less about important subjects such as American history, English grammar, literature, music and art. Instead, schools are teaching much more about "social justice," environmentalism and sex.
Any of us who receive emails from large numbers of Americans can attest to the deteriorating education -- including among those who attended college -- in written English. In sophisticated commentary on websites as well as in email, one encounters the most basic errors: "it's" instead of "its;" "their" instead of "there;" "then" instead of "than," etc.
Most universities have become secular seminaries for the dissemination of Leftism. Moreover, aside from indoctrination, students usually learn little. One can earn a BA in English at UCLA, for example, without having read a single Shakespeare play.
To the extent that American history is taught, beginning in high school and often earlier, American history is presented as the history of an immoral nation characterized by slavery, racism, colonialism, imperialism, economic exploitation, and militarism -- not of a country that, more than any other, has been the beacon of freedom to mankind, and the country that has spent more treasure and spilled more blood to liberate other peoples than any other nation.
The End of Male and Female: Whatever one's position on same-sex marriage, one must acknowledge that at the core of the argument for this redefinition of marriage is that gender doesn't matter. Marriage is marriage, and gender means nothing, the argument goes. So, too, whether children are raised by mother and father or two mothers or two fathers doesn't matter. A father has nothing unique to offer a child that a mother can't provide and vice versa.
Why? Because -- for the first time in recorded history -- gender is regarded as meaningless. Indeed, increasingly gender doesn't even exist; it's merely a social construct imposed on children by parents and society based on the biological happenstance of their genitalia. When signing up for Facebook, one is offered nearly 60 options under "gender." In various high schools across the country, boys are elected homecoming queen. A woman was recently kicked out of Planet Fitness for objecting to a man in the women's locker room. She was accused of intolerance because the man said he felt that he was a woman.
The End of Right and Wrong: At least two generations of American young people have been taught that moral categories are nothing more than personal (or societal) preferences. Recently, an incredulous professor of philosophy wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times titled "Why Our Children Don't Think There Are Moral Facts." In it he noted, "Without fail, every value claim is labeled an opinion" (italics in original). This extends to assessing the most glaring of evils. Since the Nazis thought killing Jews was right, there is no way to know for sure whether it was wrong; it's the Nazis' opinion against that of the Jews and anyone else who objects. I have heard this sentiment from American high school students -- including many Jewish ones -- for 30 years.
The End of Religion: There are no moral truths because there is no longer a religious basis for morality. More than the Enlightenment, it was the Bible -- especially the Hebrew Bible (which was one reason America's Christians were different from most European Christians) that guided the Founders' and other Americans' values. Not anymore. Instead of being guided by a code higher than themselves, Americans are taught to rely on their feelings to determine how to behave. Instead of being given moral guidance, children are asked, "How do you feel about it?"
The End of Beauty: Just as morality is subjective; so are beauty and excellence. There is no good or bad art or literature. You like Beethoven; I like rap. You like Shakespeare; I like Batman. "Street art" (aka graffiti) is worthy of museum exhibition; paint thrown by an "artist" from atop a ladder onto a canvas is considered high art and fetches over $100 million; and a giant sculpture of a dog with lifted leg urinating adorns the front of the Orange County Museum of Art in California.
If you acknowledge that American society is in decay, it is your obligation to fight to undo it. If you can't acknowledge that American society is in decay, you are providing proof that it is.
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More from the best talk show host nobody ever hears (because he is on opposite Rush)
the title was depressing enough, but when I saw who wrote it, my heart sank even more, because I know Prager’s not someone that screams hysteria.
One of the first things you learn in the military is to get behind the enemy. The enemy is always prepared for that attack from the front. An attack from the rear causes way more casualties because the enemy isn’t protected from that direction, and it scares the crap out of them.
“They’re behind us! I don’t want to be a prisoner!”
Very effective.
The Democrat Party is our enemy attacking us from the rear. The Democrat Party must be dismantled or it will destroy the US.
The USA is going to look a lot more like Latin America. Of course ethnically, but more importantly, politically, socially, economically.
Ya ought to drive through San Antonio. There are large swaths of Houston that you'd not recognize as America.
All the billboards in Spanish, businesses cater to Spanish. I mean even down to the street taco trucks, hand walking ice cream carts...looks like Laredo or Del Rio. Seriously.
Freakin gangs own the streets in many parts of Houston and if one just happens to be an Anglo...don't be truckin through there at night. You'll likely have gang banger pull up beside you and just pop a few caps at’cha.
Think I'm kiddin?
Of course its in decline. The question is: who benefits?
Another indication of America’s decay is that the gay and lesbian coalition at University of North Texas has vowed to disrupt the commencement speech to be given by Governor Greg Abbott at UNT. They are aiming to shout over him, walkout and otherwise create chaos because he does not accept “same sex marriage” and does not respect their civil rights” The time has come, I believe, for we the people to put a stop to the bastardization of our fundamental principles and beliefs upon which this nation was founded and built. What should happen if such disruption is initiated by the LGBT(whatever)there should be a quiet yet firm “kick ass” removal of the disrupters. We cannot let a very small per centage of “people” in this country destroy our constitution and the basic rights of “normal” citizens.
We think about restoring America to a culture when most children had a mother and a father and abortions were non-existent or extremely rare.
We recall a time when children were taught American History in school, to love America, to think independently, to understand free markests and capitalism, and to understand that government handouts are a helping hand - not a way of life.
We knew America when constitutional rights were not ridiculd and trampled for imaginary rights drawn up in a democrat party platform or envisioned in a judges chambers.
One large hurdle to attain that is that an increasingly large number of people have never known an America like that and can’t imagine what we are talking about.
The way things are today is their reality - as far as they know this is the way things are supposed to be.
Another is that there is little hope of ever restoring America until control of the school system is wrenched from the liberals, communists and sexual libertarians.
What are the chances of that happening?
It will never be done without a strong, principled leader in the White House and even then it will be a long and difficult task.
A person was talking about Pearl Harbor.
A High school student asked, “who is she?” Not funny.
“Jay Walking” and “Watters World” frighten the he** out of me.
“They” are out there and “they” vote!
The last line in this piece sez it all.
Maybe do a PDF print version and send it full page to all you know as I have...
Lots of folks delete links especially political ones.
Keep it moving Left and Right
He is also the wisest man in America. If I could have someone else's brain...
Indeed it is speeding up.
Exponentially.
Now, here’s a conundrum if ever there was one: https://www.youtube.com/embed/RBqjZ0KZCa0?showinfo=0&rel=0&hd=0
America's D Generation
Think I’m kiddin?”
Absolutely not. Used to live in Houston but moved to Brazoria County five years ago. I still found it necessary to go into the city twice a week to meet with clients. Told them beginning in January this year I would only meet with them at 8 or 9 a.m. on Saturday and only in a public place in the Rice or Highland Village areas. They agree, understand and wish they, too, could move their businesses out.
And it’s not just Mexicans or gangs that are taking over. Muslim population is also becoming very visible.
Wow. Thanks for that incredibly depressing video.
That isn’t a conundrum. That’s full failure and unfixable. All you can do is try to minimize damage to you and yours.
I don’t see the U.S. Making it through 2016.
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