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I can strongly relate. In the worst times of the 70’s I really thought the US was cooked. I lived in New Jersey at the time and frequently visited NYC which was just simply falling apart. Today, things aren’t just falling apart meaning degrading, deteriorating, they are *violently* falling apart. Because they are being deliberately dismantled.

I didn’t have the maturity at the time to understand the remarkable ability of the US and its people to turn things around. Since then I have come to understand what a liberty-loving and entrepreneurial people can accomplish.

I suppose I have that ability today, but never in my thinking did I imagine a time when half the people in this country would abandon the engrained placement of liberty on the highest pedestal; EVEN IF those people didn’t feel they had much of a pipeline to that liberty, there was a recognition that it was there and available if only it could be seized and worked and that thousands of people had used that liberty to accomplish remarkable things; both private and public. And perhaps half of the remaining half couldn’t care less about the restoration of anything we once had. They are completely indifferent as to the revocation of their liberties and are perfectly willing to try out something “new” because obviously, what we had and what we were sucked. History starts today, to them.

Today, I see half the country but above all, the country’s leadership deeply committed to feasting on a corpse, committing the greatest and greatest number of frauds they think they can get away with, and working assiduously towards the explicit goal of tearing down any sort of moral order, socio-economic order and any sort of rule of law any way they can. Unless they think they can harness/game the legal or regulatory system for their own benefit. Then they’re zealots for the rules.

Back then, I thought it was over. But that it could be rebuilt, given the spirit of the people. Today, I think it is over and yet half the country is utterly gleeful about it and wants nothing more than to take their place as a nameless, identityless ant in an ant farm. The clamor to become a government-subsidized drone has replaced the aspiration to liberty. The certainty of government control has attained a level of desirability greater than the desire to be free. This is even as the government, particularly this regime, is revealed as a vicious, lying oppressive amorphous blob of impenetrable bureaucracy that cannot get anything right...except stealing from and tormenting the few remaining holdouts against absolute government control of their lives.

I’m not optimistic.