[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

It is doubtful that we will long survive. The creature you point to is merely a symptom of a terrible inward rot. The rot is what is killing us; egalitarianism, baby murder, sodomy, drug addiction, divorce, weird music, art and theater, an invasion of people who have come to sack and in large numbers, excessive pity for worthless creatures. The list of vice goes on and on. Yes, we are dying. It is possible we can recover but not probable.

[Always A Marine]

Well stated. I do not like what you wrote, but I agree with it.

[publius911]

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[Envisioning]

Not mine, but brilliant and true..........

The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.. The republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.

[LostInBayport]

I’m afraid your post is accurate. It would be possible if we had some organized resistance. Once I had thought this thing called the “Republican Party” was the organized resistance, but I have been relieved of that notion since last November.

I still have hope, but if the nation is inaugurating another democrat or a Jeb Bush in 2017, that hope will vanish.

You are right about the “inward rot” in our society. A large chunk of younger people (under thirty) seem to be devoid of not only manners and intelligence, but spirituality and the merest care toward other people outside of their immediate circle. I am by no means talking about all of the people in that age group, but there is something very lacking in many of them.

[Art in Idaho]

Well said. It is possible we can recover but not probable.

Our only chance of recovery is if we get back to Judeo-Christian ethics and values. Going to be a slog and is the responsibility of each of us. 'All politics is local' starts with us. Plymouth Rock redux. .

[jmacusa]

Drug addiction is a medical matter. Divorce, a matter of the human spirit. ‘’weird music’’? That’s what they said about Beethoven and The Beatles. Art and theater? Please. Both imitate life. What is killing this nation is a Marxist in The White House.

[arthurus]

The disease was probably unavoidable. It is caused by wealth and prosperity. The nation has grown so wealthy that it has long supported two deleterious classes of nonproducers. One is the welfare class of gimmedats and the other is the academic/MSM/trustfunder/public union class of mostly intelligent people who have time and sufficient lack of perspective and historical knowledge to dream up utopias and the time and wherewithal to force their fantasies on to the productive portion of society that can't resist effectively because, as producers, they work for a living and don't have the time to demonstrate constantly and en masse nor do they notice the resulting creeping bureaucratic totalitarianism until it has almost swamped them and it is too late. They are two busy producing. It is too late when the schools have inculcated dependence and statism into several generations of children, three quarters of a century of creeping takeover of the schools and at least 35 years of pretty much total control by the people with too much time on their hands who are puppets of those who aim for total power and riches for themselves.

We could elect Trump and he could EO all the agencies out of existence and balance the budget thereby and it would all still tend toward a grey socialist future because of the immense population of people who can conceive of no other way than dependency and if the society becomes superprosperous again because of business taxes and most regulation being swept away then there is that problem of the drones in rich societies throwing sand into the gears all over again, this time more quickly, because we don't start with a small population of freedom minded independent producers. We still have that 50 or more % drones in a large population.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

You nailed it!

We won’t survive is my verdict.

[B4Ranch]

We won’t make it because there not enough patriots who are will to stand on the ammo box. I’m too sick to consider that option anymore.