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How Nations Slip from Greatness to Obscurity
Front Page Magazine ^ | 06/17/2021 | Don Feder

Posted on 06/21/2021 6:16:33 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

Men, like nations, think they’re eternal. What man in his 20s or 30s doesn’t believe, at least subconsciously, that he’ll live forever?

In the springtime of youth, an endless summer beckons. As you pass 70, it’s harder to hide from reality.

Nations too have seasons. Imagine a Roman of the 2nd. century contemplating an empire that stretched from Britain to the Near East, thinking: This will endure forever.

Forever was about 500 years, give or take.

France was the thing in the 17th and 18th centuries. Now the land of Charles Martel is on its way to becoming part of the Muslim ummah.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the sun never set on the British empire. Now Albion exists in a perpetual twilight. Its 95-year-old sovereign is a fitting symbol for a nation in terminal decline…

(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: america; decay; decline; fall; usa
Patriotism is called insurrection, treason celebrated, and perversion sanctified.

A man in blue gets less respect than a man in a dress.

[A nation of fighters is now a nation hiding in the basement because Fauci says so]

How meekly most submitted to Fauci-ism (the regime of face masks, hand sanitizers, [and experimental vaccines]) shows the death of the American spirit.

Refusing to guard their borders, allowing the nation to be inundated by an alien horde

Allowing indoctrination of the young [in public schools]

Abandoning faith and family – the bulwarks social order.

1 posted on 06/21/2021 6:16:33 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Yep.


2 posted on 06/21/2021 6:39:11 PM PDT by sauropod (The smartphone is the retina of the mind's eye.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Or worse - invaded and wiped out.


3 posted on 06/21/2021 6:48:07 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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bump


4 posted on 06/21/2021 7:35:17 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Jan_Sobieski

7 minute video. What happens if America is lost?
https://www.brighteon.com/d6c42f61-41e9-47a4-86e9-c03307949666


5 posted on 06/21/2021 8:50:47 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (THE DEEP STATE HATES US! IT DETESTS TRUMP!!)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

It loses faith and faith in itself.

6 posted on 06/22/2021 2:45:27 AM PDT by Nateman (If the Left Is not screaming , you are doing it wrong..)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
A few observations. First, the author is Don Feder. What's his Freeper name?

Second, he perfectly elucidates the travesty that used to be The Republic. But, what's the solution? A litany of our faults does no good. Can we save it?

Finally, as he's going through the symptoms of our implosion, he noticeably omits legalized marijuana and the deleterious effect it's having on America. Weed attracts all addicts, cause even heroin addicts know that where you find one drug, you find them all.

And a big thank you to FR's libertarian morons for pushing that agenda on an otherwise conservative website.

7 posted on 06/22/2021 5:27:22 AM PDT by LouAvul (Lying headlines from fake news articles written by pimps masquerading as journalists.)
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To: LouAvul

Agreed


8 posted on 06/22/2021 6:08:53 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Do everything we’re doing, that’s how.


9 posted on 06/22/2021 6:09:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

bump


10 posted on 06/22/2021 7:27:02 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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To: LouAvul; Jan_Sobieski

We’ve gone from a republican government guided by a constitution to a regime of revolving elites.

<>But, what’s the solution? A litany of our faults does no good. Can we save it?<>

Article V is there for We the People to reclaim our heritage in liberty.


11 posted on 06/22/2021 12:15:12 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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