Most Americans have no idea how close to collapse we are.
‘Most Americans have no idea how close to collapse we are.”
Everything is broken in this country. Education, health care, legal system, government, business, religion, and culture. Good service is almost non-existent in most businesses involved in “service” industries. There are no longer standards of performance much less commonly held beliefs as to what is right and wrong.
Dining out was once a pleasure where excellent food and outstanding service were a goal aspired to by restaurant owners. Today food delivered to a commercial kitchen by food service trucks is warmed up, shoveled on a plate, and dropped in front the customer by an indifferent server who has to be flagged down and asked to refill a drink. Appliances that once lasted for decades now need repair two to three years after purchase. Try to find a good repair person, much less find replacement parts. Education excellence in failing schools is today measured by teacher pay instead of objective student test scores under the erroneous assumption teachers currently unable to impart knowledge will suddenly improve if paid more. The tax burden on productive citizens today is many time greater than the onerous taxes our founding fathers fought the most power empire on the planet to escape.
The concept on which our republic was founded, that government exists to protect individual liberty and the rights of citizens has been turned upside down. Every year the heavy hand of government issues laws, regulations and proclamations to limit the freedom of the individual and force conformance to the whims of the bureaucracy.
Americans no longer take pride in their common love of liberty. Instead they have been divided into warring tribes base on race, ethnicity, sexual persuasion and other identities of passing fancy. Each tribe fights for a greater share of a shrinking pie which is increasingly determined by politicians and bureaucrats, not individual contribution and performance.
Everything is broken and you can feel the collapse coming. Many days I wonder if I’m seeing the world through the same eyes as a fourth century Roman terrified by the barbarian hordes gathering outside the city gates while my oblivious neighbors care only about free bread from government and securing tickets to the next gladiator event in the colosseum.