While I empathize with the original author of the sentiments, is not caring the way to go?
First of all, you can’t not care. Writing all of this betrays the opposite.
I look at the condition of things today and compare them to the late 1930’s when Churchill was the man crying out in the wilderness to do something about Hitler before it was too late. There are parallels, but we are a long way from hopeless, and the Jihadis are trying their holocaust trick again too soon from the last time folks tried that trick.
To the original author, I would say, “It’s not like you are getting off of a Higgins boat on Omaha Beach.”
The US has what it needs to not just recover, but come very close to permanently leading the planet for the next 300 years. We need someone to lead us down that path, but the path is nonetheless open to us.
You are witnessing a repudiation of nearly every aspect of the liberal platform, coalition platform (and as such antithetically contradictory though it is). The gay pendulum is about to swing back toward the right too.
Now, if you were in China, Europe, and Russia right now, I’d say you’d have a reason to sing the blues. The whole business model around energy is changing, and with it, so will regimes.
It is going to be a bloody century. As bloody as the 20th remains to be seen, but every petrostate on Earth is going to see big issues. And China, eventually, is going to be forced to open its books.
That is going to be an ugly day. The world has so far ignored the 26 completely built-out metropolises that China has that have nobody living in them. The notion was the they’d lure people out of the fields and into the cities. That didn’t work when the economy sloughed its bowels.
China and Russia are going to have some very serious internal issues in the next 24 months.
We’ll be on our island pumping oil and producing food in a relatively temperate place. This is if we can keep from bungling into a nuclear exchange of some sort.
This is written by someone with zero historical perspective on things. Opportunity abounds. We, as a country, just have to get out of people’s way.
Have to read this piece all the way to the end. This is simply a cop venting. Same thing we do here all the time.