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A devolutionary war? Unless things change, a new dark age is upon us in the West.
American Thinker ^ | 18 Mar, 2026 | Eric Utter

Posted on 03/19/2026 5:00:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber

n ever-increasing number of despondent Westerners are taking to social media to state things like, “I took a walk today. I don’t recognize my town anymore.” Or, “Nothing is like I remember it from my youth.” Or, I feel like a stranger in my own country.” Many of us have a longing for yesteryear.

There are multiple reasons for this, but every one of them is either directly or indirectly caused by Democrats and their disdain for the United States and traditional Americans.

Period.

Their policies, such as they are, are soft on crime and hard on law-abiding citizens and taxpayers. Their education system poisons childrens’ minds, teaching them to detest their country -- and that patriotic Christians, especially straight white men, are the biggest threat to the nation. Their teachers tell them capitalism is evil and socialism is far fairer and kinder, a staggering lie.

They inform them that “science” is conclusive and immutable: climate change is destroying the Earth and there are an infinite number of genders. And that Orange Man bad. Each of those things is a bald-faced lie, including that “science” could ever be conclusive and immutable. In their spare time, these rabid indoctrinated indoctrinators tell our kiddies that there are also an infinite variation of families but imply that the worst kind is one headed by one cis-male dad and one cis-female mom, as they put it. And, in too many cases, they may sexually — as well as mentally — abuse them.

In doing so, in committing these crimes, they leave kids depressed, adrift, bitter, and confused. Even broken. What a way to start out one’s life. It is no wonder that test scores are dropping as rates of mental illness have skyrocketed.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 2late; leftism; liberaltruth; mooselimbs
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1 posted on 03/19/2026 5:00:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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The gravest danger to Western countries going forward is the rapid Islamization of their nations. No matter what Keir Starmer, Mark Carney, Catherine Connolly, or Zohran Mamdani say, this is inarguably the case.
2 posted on 03/19/2026 5:00:50 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

I don’t think anything gets better until society really goes hardcore “medieval” on certain people and activities. And I see zero chance of that happening.


3 posted on 03/19/2026 5:03:42 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: MtnClimber

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4 posted on 03/19/2026 5:05:04 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MtnClimber

Look inward and ask each other, “why did we vote for this?” “Why did we not stop this?” RIP West Coast…….


5 posted on 03/19/2026 5:06:12 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: MtnClimber

The great deception. People, especially women, keep voting for this.


6 posted on 03/19/2026 5:16:09 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: MtnClimber

7 posted on 03/19/2026 5:17:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

We turned our back on God as a nation. Evil always rushes in to fill the void. The rot has taken over the past 50 years. Turning back to God is the only way out. We would have to humble our pride and admit our failure, and ask Him to save us. If we haven’t been given over to reprobation we could heal. Praying that the younger generations realize this.


8 posted on 03/19/2026 5:20:41 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: MtnClimber
It is leading to the rapid devolution of Western nations and the consequent degradation of quality of life, safety, and even character. It is a crime, one for which these nations’ leaders should be held accountable.

And you can be certain that they NEVER will be.

9 posted on 03/19/2026 5:23:56 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Lockbox
Look inward and ask each other, “why did we vote for this?” “Why did we not stop this?”

We normies have as much chance of stopping this as a sand castle has to stand against the incoming tide.

Many of us escape to either a state that aligns with our thinking, or homeschooling, or both.

Kurt Schlichter books aren't novels - they're prophesy.

It sucks, but there it is.

10 posted on 03/19/2026 5:26:37 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: MtnClimber

The author is delusional. This country’s slide into the toilet began long before I even knew a single Muslim in America.


11 posted on 03/19/2026 5:31:27 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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To: MtnClimber

I said this in a much more to-the-point way to my fellow teachers back in 2018: “We teach them that they’re living in a racist country on a dying planet. No wonder they’re cutting themselves!” (And I said “we” to be polite, because I sure as hell wasn’t teaching them any of that crap.) They all looked away and shut their mouths, and a few minutes later changed the subject.


12 posted on 03/19/2026 5:32:19 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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Things ARE changing...unfortunately, in favor of the wrong people.


13 posted on 03/19/2026 5:35:12 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: Alberta's Child
The author did not say muslims were the beginning of the slide, just that they are now the biggest risk. The author said that the slide was caused by democRATs:

There are multiple reasons for this, but every one of them is either directly or indirectly caused by Democrats and their disdain for the United States and traditional Americans.

Period.

14 posted on 03/19/2026 5:36:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: ViLaLuz
We turned our back on God as a nation. Evil always rushes in to fill the void.

That's half right.

Secular hedonism is the religion of the West. But it's a false religion and it can not replace Christianity.

There has been a consistent, low-level interest in Buddhism since the 1950s among former Christians, but it is too weird to serve as a whole of society replacement.

The choices for the West come down to Christianity and Islam. So far, Christianity isn't putting up much of a fight.

15 posted on 03/19/2026 5:42:23 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et des phrases)
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Always be optimistic, as earlier Americans have been.

What we face today isn't a tenth of what earlier Americans have faced.

Note that there is a huge religious and spiritual revival going on now, and this is half or more of the battle.

I'ts happening here and also in France, England, and Germany, and on other continents.

There is a huge anticommunist movement going on worldwide, especially in the US and greater North America, but really in South America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania. This is new.

We are reforming our economy here in the US and eventually will address the debt, the dollar, and get back on track: Working in manufacturing, saving, having families.

There is a worldwide anticrime and anti Moose Limb war going on, and it is restoring order, protecting children from trafficking and abuse, and stopping drug trafficking. Whole nations, like Mexico and others south of us, are being claimed from their diabolical and corrupt leaders. It really is happening, and the way to help is to join the reform movement on all fronts.

Support the POTUS and his unprecedented team of wonder-workers.

Pray to the Almighty and repent. Remember 2 Chronicles 7:14 and think about what it means.

We are saving ALL of Western Civilization with His help. This is a wonderful and worthy task.

16 posted on 03/19/2026 5:43:38 AM PDT by caddie (Going forward we all need to become Trump, and also Captain Obvious, and Charlie Kirk too. )
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EP6:12 - For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (KJV)

I agree the reason is due to us falling away from GOD and the great deceiver, Satan, is filling the void with evil which is Islam. Islamists are like locusts, they are a dark cloud on West bringing only destruction as parasites do. Their whole ideology is based on deception.


17 posted on 03/19/2026 5:43:50 AM PDT by grcuster
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Fighting in Congress to send middle-class income and property taxation cap constitutional amendments to the states would make Congress turn deep red come 2027.

The high-income people have the Laffer Curve effect to protect them.


18 posted on 03/19/2026 5:44:46 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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wasn’t the dark ages brought on by basically the same muslim migration?


19 posted on 03/19/2026 5:46:37 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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We had an all American country advancing in a relatively straight line and then JFK got elected, since then we switched to importing the darkest, most strange, violent, and dishonest and bizarrely foreign elements of the world to here and there is no America left as the new people fight over what culture and which religions will take over the ruins.


20 posted on 03/19/2026 5:46:52 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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