h/t Travis McGee
Posted on 08/29/2021 6:10:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Nothing lives forever, and nations are no exception. The reasons for the downfall of great nations and empires are complex, but if you want to see a great country decline and crumble, it is enough to watch it cancel its culture and destroy its economy through an abandonment of values and fiscal irresponsibility.
Unnatural cultural and economic conditions will lead inevitably to social polarization and civil unrest. This leads to an erosion of democracy, less freedom, and less economic opportunity.
Due to the pandemic, we have seen the global accumulation of power and centralization at the expense of individual liberty. The current Washington and coastal elites are forcibly imposing their cultural views on the American people. The country’s progressives in control of the media, academia, the corporate sector and almost every other institution present a vision of the U.S. as irredeemably racist, evil, and oppressive. Massive reconstitution of the nation is necessary to move forward, in this view.
A country without memory is a zombie. Deleting the past destroys the future. With left-wing extremists driving political debate, destroying monuments, attacking free speech, and censoring everything that displeases the Twitter mobs, America is on the path toward Communist-style tyranny. A total revision of American history, and a forceful implementation of progressive socialist values, will take place in the United States if the current momentum continues unchecked.
With its centralized policies and mixed economy, Europe has been experiencing economic decline for decades. The United States has avoided this fate because of its tradition of limited government, fiscal responsibility, capitalism, and free enterprise. However, massive unproductive government spending with ever growing entitlements and never-ending quantitative easing have become the norm in recent years—largely with bipartisan consensus.
The United States has close to $30 trillion in debt. Interest rates will not remain low forever, especially if inflation continues to increase, which is a virtual certainty given the Biden plan to double or triple government spending. When rates rise, paying for this massive debt will be much costlier. The short sightedness of politicians is steering the American economy toward “Modern Monetary Theory,” a fancy name for socialism.
The left is incredibly self destructive and they blame those making good decisions for their plight.
Everyone should read Sir John Glubb’s “The Fate of Empires”.
This is the Munchausen Administration.
Im afraid were well past the crossroads.
Endless foreign wars? Check
Massive debt? Check
Rule by elites? Check
Corrupt and perverse palace politics? Check
Imperial edicts from the capital? Check
Degraded culture and entertainment ? Check
Pandering to the mob? Check
Open borders to foreign migrants? Check
Yep. It’s Rome, and it’s about 230 AD
h/t Travis McGee
We are well past the crossroads. Conservatives/Patriots talk the talk, but they don’t walk the walk. There are no demonstrations or even riots on the behalf of anything. All there is is angry blogging. Big deal. Everyone is fiddling while Rome burns.
Ostensible ‘conservatives’ have been just as complicit in turning our Republic into an empire.
To this day there are people on here for whom having about 800 military bases in 70 countries can be rationalized; the support on FR and many other “conservative” sites for the debacles of Iraq, Afghanistan, and, going back, to intervening in Vietnam has been loud, strong, and attacked all disagreement as ‘anti-American.
We stupidly gave up our Republic for Empire long ago, so long that it has been rationalized as ‘normal.
It erupted like a bubo in the 1960s as the counter-culture movement. Most people did not recognise it for what it was.
Today, millions of people have allowed it to commandeer their thinking, benight them, and lead them to absurd and dangerous conclusions and positions.
Whether or not decadence can be reversed, once it has established itself in a civilisation, remains to be seen.
Donald Trump believes it can be. So convinced was he that he risked everything--a considerable amount in his case--to save the USA, which he loves profoundly, from destruction by the decadence and those overwhelmed by it.
Pray that his judgment is correct.
Pray that he will succeed.
Pray for the enlightenment of the benighted.
Pray that the greatest, most just nation the world has ever known shall not perish from the earth but will have a renewed ascendency.
Pray for all the people of the world.
Gen. Milley needs one of those oversized Korean Field Marshal’s caps to complete “the Look.”
Playing “world hegemon” was the political consensus after Ww2 just as “isolationism” was after WW1. That consensus is unraveling as 1 political party — the Republicans — backs away from it leaving the Democrats holding the political bag.
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