Thank you for the optimistic article. Much needed.
Get rid of Obama and the democrat senate and a few dozen corrupt GOPe RINOS and we can start rebuilding!!
CONSIDER THE SOURCE.
“HOW LITTLE DO MY COUNTRYMEN KNOW WHAT PRECIOUS BLESSINGS THEY ARE IN POSSESSION OF AND WHICH NO OTHER PEOPLE ON EARTH ENJOY” THOMAS JEFFERSON”
“The final asset is America’s unique global leadership role. “
This article quotes Madeline Halfbright and Zbig Brezinski like gods of intellect. No doubt we have much, so did Rome. We both have invading hordes too, and an effeminate Emperor.
America today is unrecognizable from what it was like just twenty years ago. In another twenty years it will be a Third World basket case.
Time to rebuild and clean-up folks!
I wonder if Rome’s economists said the same?
National Security Advisor under Obama and his top leaker.
His opinion is therefore NOT objective.
It isn’t remaining as a place to make money and a dominant military that interests me, the things that I cared about, being American, and sustaining “America” are already done, a thing of the past.
What made us special, and America, what we fought for, is already lost.
America holds together during declines because our bedrock traditions are intact and respected. We get our fill of a counter-culture and we then pull back to the things that are tried and true.
Now does anyone think those traditions are still intact today?
Pretty rediculous quote by Kissinger given the year he made it, since the postwar years though the fifties were America’s peak.
Isn’t Tom Donilon an Obamabot??
Decline Ha...just wait till the Green River Formation comes on line...3 Trillion barrels of oil and 1 trillion recoverable with today’s technology....according to the USGS
We have now passed the “tipping point” in this country, and the unproductive element of our population now outnumber the productive. No past civilization has ever survived such a situation as we now find ourselves in, and I don’t see how, at this point, we could ever turn it around.
Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution (often referred to as The Theory of Survival of the Fittest) describes the positive effects resulting from any “pressure” on an animal species that removes the least fit among the species and allows only the most fit of the species to reproduce. Many of us are well aware of this “Survival of the Fittest” theory, but few are aware that Darwin also makes mention of the negative effects resulting from unlimited reproduction of a species’ least fit when the weak, the lazy, and the stupid are left unchecked.
We like to think otherwise, but our species, Homo sapiens, isn’t that long “out of the trees” and the same laws of nature that affect all of God’s creatures apply equally to us. If we were to observe any other species that had been allowed to reproduce without limitations, we would know immediately what the consequences will be.
Whenever the weak; lazy; and stupid of a species are allowed to reproduce unimpeded by predators that feed off the weak; lazy; and stupid, they soon outnumber the strong, productive, and intelligent. When the weak/lazy/stupid dominate the gene pool, the entire population becomes weak/ lazy/stupid, and then the population collapses.
In the past, when these collapses occurred within human populations, they have been referred to as a “Malthusian Collapse.” Thomas Malthus, a Nineteenth Century Economist, thought these collapses were caused simply because past civilizations had reached a point where human populations could no longer produce sufficient food supplies to feed themselves, but he never pinned down the exact reason for the food shortages.
We now think these collapses of past human civilizations have occurred whenever the unproductive weak/lazy/stupid greatly outnumber the strong/productive/intelligent of the population. In other words, the majority of the population becomes too lazy to perform the work necessary to provide for themselves and what’s left of the strong/productive/intelligent refuses to continue to do it for them.
These collapses have occurred at frequent intervals throughout human history, and Western Civilization is, in my humble opinion, currently on the cusp of one of these collapses.
In 1961 our coinage was made of Silver and our dollar was backed by Gold.
In 1961 we had a president that believed in the goodness of the USA and the superiority of Capitalism. Today we have a president that United States that believes that the US is a purveyor of evil in the world and is dead set on destroying the power and might of this nation.
In 1961 the United States had a Congress that believed in the Constitution of the United States and defended the powers of that body against the incursions of those powers of the President. Today the Congress is almost wholly unwilling to defend the Constitution against an imperialist President that openly states that he will act unilaterally to usurp the legislative power of the Congress.
In 1961 we were an English speaking nation that demanded that immigrants come here in a lawful fashion and learn English and assimilate in to our society. Immigrants also had to support themselves or have a sponsor that guaranteed that the immigrant would not be a burden on society.
In 1961 public employees could not form unions and were generally paid much less than their private sector counterparts.
In 1961 the United States was a net exporting nation of industrial products. In 1961 the United States was the banker for the world not the debtor of the world.
All of the unity, strength and greatness that was the United States in 1961 has been weakened and eliminated by 50+ years of Socialist Liberal reform and social engineer purported to make us all equal.
Well the only way that the socialist liberals can make us all equal is to make us all equally poor and miserable. And by hook or crook thet’re are succeeding.
Sorry, this is horseshit. We aren’t the same country were were in 1961. We aren’t even the same “Americans”.
“For all our optimism, Americans have always worried about our place in the world. It’s in our DNA, and it helps drive our renewal. “
Our DNA isn’t even the same. We’ve mutated reinforcing all the worst that is in our midst. We have violated the laws of natural selection providing for the survival and prospering of the fittest and the brightest. We have allowed and encouraged mediocrity to rise when it should not have and what is worse, we have thrown up terrible barriers to success.
America will never be destroyed from the outside.
If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.-- Abraham Lincoln
Sorry, clear thinking people are being breeded out
he is wrong.