I'd be a pessimist, but it's so hard to keep up. Seriously, I see pain. The question for me is will there be enough to cause people to change - before it all falls apart. We're building a highly flammable world and we're making more matches.
The people who are getting there first certainly are not planting the seeds of conservatism.
Mostly true. The foundation of civilization is the family and its values; and that continues to be eroded. Any lasting change has to begin there.
There are essentially no sources transferring that knowledge into the next generations.
Nor even the knowledge and value of western civilization.
We can hope for it to be taught by our leaders - political and otherwise - but it seems lacking there. Reagan's rise was over decades and part of a movement, it could not have happened otherwise. My point earlier was we can't expect a conservative leader when there is no coherent core of a conservative movement. Everyone has a part in that, in what we teach, do, choose.
In optimistic moods I remember how hopeless it all seemed under Jimmy Carter - and it changed very quickly; it could again.
It will take more than "a" leader.
Thanks much for your reply and question, now: What do you think the future of this country holds?
I am afraid that I don’t see the future turning out well for America. Hopefully, I am wrong.
I don’t think that any leader is going to be able to right the ship, there is just far too much going wrong.
The main root of the problem is that as a free people we did not instill in our younger generations why we are free, how we became free, the cost of becoming free and what is required to remain free.
Instead it seems like we assumed it would always remain as such, but those who prefer control began to plot how to change it all from within, and at this point they are wildly successful.
Instead of teaching our children to love their country and our freedom, our system of education has taught them the exact opposite on purpose.
The end result is we have those who know the value and price of freedom on the far end of the age scale, and when they die, they are not going to be replaced.
Instead we have perhaps 2-3 generations, if not more, who know nothing about anything, and for all intents and purposes, either do not like or are ashamed of their country. And now they are raising children who are in turn learning even more poisonous types of philosophies.
On top of that dynamic, we have our government importing as many aliens as it can, and these aliens do not know or share our values, they do not care about our history at all, in fact many are hostile to us.
If these trends continue, which seems very likely, America as she once was will never be again.
Once the people that remember her as she was and what made her that way die, she basically no longer exists.
I wish I could be more positive in my outlook, but I can’t see how to reverse course.