When Did America Turn Into Such A Nation Of Wimps?

When I think about America, I think of the Founding Fathers who were willing to “mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor,” to defeat Great Britain and make this a free country. I think of John Paul Jones saying, "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." I think not only of the brave men who died fighting for their countrymen at the Alamo, but of Sam Houston and his force slaughtering a Mexican force twice their size in retaliation during the Battle of San Jacinto. I think of Teddy Roosevelt getting shot in the chest by an assassin at a political rally and then FINISHING his 90 minute speech before getting medical attention.

I think of the line from George Patton’s speech that was immortalized in the movie,

"When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big-league ball players and the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. That's why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. The very thought of losing is hateful to Americans."

Americans toughed it out through the Depression, saved the world in WWI, WWII and the Cold War -- and then just to put a cherry on top of it, we put a man on the moon.

We live in a warrior culture. Our most popular movies feature gun-toting SEALS, ferocious cops who dispense justice one bullet at a time and superheroes who throw tanks farther than you can throw a Frisbee. We love mixed martial arts and football where 300 pound behemoths slam into each other with enough force to break a normal man’s back on every play. Even our children play video games that quite literally allow them rip their virtual opponent’s heart out and show it to them before they die.

Despite all of that, this country has become increasingly soft and decadent. What the hell happened to us?

How did we get to the point where our politicians have handcuffed the greatest military in the history of Planet Earth to such an extent that we can’t seem to ultimately “win” wars anymore? How did our rules of engagement become so restrictive that we’d rather see our own men die or even lose the war rather than win and kill enemy civilians at the same time?

How did our colleges turn into romper rooms where pitiful mediocrities demand “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” when they hear someone disagrees with them?

How have we gotten to the point where there are so many Americans who EXPECT OTHER PEOPLE to buy their food, pay off their college loans, chip in for the mortgage, take care of their health care and hand them a shiny, happy life wrapped up in a bow – all presumably because their very existence is so wonderful that we should be grateful to have them around?

How is it that the biggest complaint that most young women have about most men today is their stunning lack of masculinity?

How is it that so many people idolize cops and soldiers who do whatever it takes to get the job done on the big screen and then endlessly complain about the men who do that dirty, tough and chaotic work in the real world?

How did we get to the point where we reward and celebrate victims with gushing articles and GoFundMe accounts while many successful people are treated like they committed a crime by actually outperforming other people by a large enough margin to get a huge financial reward for it?

How did our political discussions and much of our culture become dominated by whichever pathetic wimps are fastest to cry out that they’re “offended” or that someone else is being “insensitive?”

Whatever happened to manning up? Whatever happened to taking pride in supporting yourself and your family? Whatever happened to the nation that rewards doers, not the people who are most creative about coming up with new ways to claim life is unfair?

Have we had so much financial success that we’ve become a silver spoon nation full of spoiled brats?

If so, we better wake up because America can’t pay its bills and the higher our taxes and government spending get, the poorer our nation is going to become. The bigger the tick gets, the less blood there is for the dog.

Has our society become so over-feminized that we’ve stop embracing many of the more manly virtues that have made us a great nation?

If so, we better remember that it wasn’t our wonderful communication skills and sensitivity to people’s feelings that made this a great nation. We became a superpower because we out-built, out-fought and outworked everyone else.

Have we gotten so confident of our place in the world without the Soviet Union to challenge us that we believe being a rich superpower is our unchallenged birthright?

If so, then we should remember that today’s superpower is tomorrow’s Ottoman Empire. The haunting end of Shelley’s classic poem Ozymandias should speak to us…

All of America hasn’t descended into mewling about First World problems and caterwauling about grievances previous generations of Americans would have laughed at. We have soldiers fighting for our freedom, a thin blue line protecting us from thugs on the streets, firemen risking their lives, hardnosed capitalists running their businesses and plenty of tough, independent, self-reliant Americans who work hard, play by the rules and who don’t need to be babied along.

If America’s future is going to be as bright as its past, we need a lot more tough people who can solve their own problems and a lot fewer wimpy, whining children masquerading as adults.

1. LBJ started this problem with the welfare system which has spent over $14 TRILLION raising a totally dependent FERAL army which hates us. Those who have paid taxes to support welfare have been vilified from every direction & they are more than a little restless about their current position. Many feel they re being taxed to support their ENEMY. Maybe it would be more efficient to drug test ALL people receiving benefits at any level & then remove those who are testing dirty. Take all the able bodies on welfare & force them to take VOCATIONAL classes, -—which they have to pay at least 10% of the costs for—and cut off their welfare when that class ends. They cannot sandbag & keep failing the class, either. It might be a 2 year program & at the end of those 2 years, they have to drop off the benefit gravy train. They have created a sub—society of total welfare recipients who will never go find a job on their own-—THEY DO NOT HAVE TO!!! WE keep supporting them!!!

2. The helicopter parents who insisted on EVERY SINGLE PARTICIPANT getting an award or a trophy just for showing up & being there hasn’t helped one little bit. We have morphed from the idea of creating kids who have to have self-esteem to kids who think they are ENTITLED to ANYTHING & EVERYTHING they can dream up as a whim. We have 5 year old kids with a cell phone to ‘call for help”. Why are 5 year old kids being left alone in the first place? We have kids who are more self-reliant being punished for being so. It just goes on & on.

3. Those little darlings are growing up to be useless employees-—they have no idea that from the first hour on whatever JOB they might be able to qualify for, their EMPLOYER will be judging them & rightfully so. Pants down to your knees, a face full of metal, a body full of ‘tattoo art’, and a constant use of your cell phone talking or texting isn’t high on the list for an employer to grab you. They are sorely inadequate at personal grooming, also.

Add to that the lack of attending your FREE 12 years of schooling & not having a clue about what you might have a natural ability to do for a vocation. Thanks to the ACLU, such ‘vocational skills testing’ is no longer allowed in the high schools. It was important when I was in high school & it was rarely wrong about what natural skills most of my classmates exhibited. Thanks, ACLU-—another removal from the USA society of a useful tool. Another nail in the coffin of the USA to produce people as strong as our parents & grandparents.

4. We seem to be hell-bent on breeding self-preservation out of our kids for the past 40 years or so. CALL FOR HELP is the mantra. LET SOMEONE SAVE YOU!!!!!! News flash: When SECONDS count-—the cops are only MINUTES away!!!

I won’t have or use a cell phone. I plan on moving about 2200 miles when I sell this property. I have a number of people telling me I HAVE to have a cell phone!!! How can I drive so far without one??? I have driven over 1 million miles in my lifetime, and I am NOT a truck driver. I am a Bookkeeper. One vehicle I bought new —1965 Pontiac station wagon — had over 444,000 miles on it when it went to Sweden for a restoration by a person happy to have it. My current 1 ton 1976 Chevy truck has about 350,000 miles on it, and I put about 260,000 of those miles on it. My 1979 Buick station wagon has over 205,000 miles on it & I put over 150,000 of those miles on it. I owned other cars in my lifetime, even a 1933 Chevy pickup truck-—a 1957 Pontiac—a 1959 Pontiac—a 1956 Thunderbird—a 1952 Chevy fastback—a 1972 Honda 600 car-—& others I cannot remember—and it all adds up to over a 1,000,000 miles-—WITHOUT a CELL PHONE!!! What a surprise. !!! For a female!!!!!!!

5. Kids today cannot do anything much in mechanical settings—not even change a flat tire-—CALL AAA!!

6. This administration is accepting persons with a felony history into our military!!! Just what we need!!!

We have intentionally made a society of WIMPS!!! We reap what we have sown.

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