Civilizational Decline is a Choice - We have so much worth defending.

American Thinker ^ | 10 Sep, 2026 | J.B. Shurk

[MtnClimber]

When pundits say that the United States — or the West, more generally — is “in decline,” what do they mean?

Are they talking about Western nations’ rising and unsustainable sovereign debts, including a U.S. national debt of over forty trillion dollars? Are they acknowledging that forty-plus years of “free trade deals” have hollowed out once-bustling manufacturing and industrial towns and left tens of millions of blue-collar workers unemployed and dependent upon government welfare? Are they admitting that a century-long public policy campaign designed to arrest population growth by discouraging marriage and families and encouraging promiscuity and abortions has created a highly sexualized, self-indulgent, and lonely world? Are they recognizing that open borders and Western governments’ traitorous betrayals of their own citizens have transformed relatively peaceful countries united by common cultures into battlegrounds where warring tribes from around the world attack Western nations’ histories, churches, traditions, tranquility, security, identities, and beliefs?

These are all symptoms of decline. There are many more. But none of these sizable problems is a death sentence for Western civilization.

After all, we live in a world where fifty million people live as slaves today. Nearly twenty million of those slaves toil in India and China. However, when political pundits describe the U.S. and the West as “in decline,” they usually describe the future as belonging to the planet’s two largest slaveholding nations. From the point of view of Christians and other enslaved minorities, India and China are Hell, while the West is the Promised Land.

Similarly, communist China runs the most sophisticated domestic surveillance system of any nation in the world. News flows are strictly regulated. Social media accounts are monitored. Purchases are tracked. Citizens’ “social credit scores” are adjusted to reward “correct” behavior and punish “incorrect” thoughts. While Western governments are shamelessly copying

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

[MtnClimber]

The left prefers the Godless model that China represents.

[ckilmer]

Everyone knows this stuff. We’re in a constant war with Chinese, Muslim narco Indian decadent west. The cure for all of them is complete strip down and reform American educarion

[SMARTY]

The young and the indoctrinated do not understand or value the civilization we enjoy and which makes our lives so much better than what previous cultures had. They don't understand what it took to reach and what it TAKES to uphold and maintain our civilization.

Like spoiled children...they think it will endure and provide for them and their 'ease' without any effort or sacrifice on their part.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting.

[imabadboy99]

careful, partner. We have a lot of neoCONs who think “free” trade is the bees knees and that the interest of ‘muh corporation’ override any and all interests of the citizenry. And we need open borders for ‘muh cheap leabor’ for muh corporation. Because that’s “conservative”.

[imabadboy99]

Ghislaine Maxwell’s father wrote the history books that are teaching ‘history’ to your children. And nobody is doing a damn thing about it.

[BroJoeK]

From the article: "...we live in a world where fifty million people live as slaves today.
Nearly twenty million of those slaves toil in India and China. "

Such numbers are very squishy and depend 100% on your definition of "slavery".

About half of the 50 million are "forced marriages", which may mean underaged girls or simply women pressured by their families to marry their families' choice of mate, and then prevented by laws from divorce.

Also, "forced labor" is vaguely defined and can include people working off debts.

Bottom line: there are political agendas behind the number "50 million slaves" which are not clearly apparent and may mean something quite different from what the headline number suggests.

[Salman]

All over the former “free world” the ruling classes have abandoned civilization.