Brings to mind these historians’ warning:
“Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.”
—Will and Ariel Durant
(found this morning reading Sowell’s website again. Durants’ quote seemed to fit today’s topics, and it’s interesting that Sowell thought it important to put in his famous quotes section)
Proof again that morality is destiny. Demography is pretense.
Sorry to be a thumper here, but the bottom line truth is that Christianity -- and America is a Christian nation in that it was specifically founded in principles from the Judeo Christian ethos -- is the deciding element, here. It's the elephant in the room. We fight for Christianity, we fight for America. Even if you're not a "Christian." You live in a Christian nation and enjoy the fruits of centuries of tradition of adhering to a Christian ethic, so you fight for its side to prevail.