Posted on 03/26/2021 6:59:24 AM PDT by SJackson
And gold is the reason for the wars we wage.
These are the End Times and the Rapture is very close.
“...Is civilizational decline reversible?..”
Ask the ancient Greeks, Roman Empire, Iroquois League, 5 Civilized Tribes, etc. But even at that, none of them fell because they wanted to and hated themselves.
Was it Vladimir Lenin who said,"the last capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them?" It seems that there is not a single institution in America that has not been marginalized if not wholly suborned by the Chinese. That is the likely path to our demise but the Chinese might be their own worst enemy, they might just slap us in the face, they might just galvanize the spirit of America.
“I’m old and not going anywhere, but I hope younger people will seriously consider leaving if things get too bad.”
Wow, with people like you it’s no wonder we are in the mess we are in. And just where do you suggest that the “younger people” go? This is OUR country, and we will fight and die for it if necessary. As Zapata famously said “I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”
>>Is civilizational decline reversible?<<
Only with Trump — no one else.
People will only fight when they have nothing left to lose. As John Adams pointed out, people have to be willing to not risk their lives, but risk their comfort. And when the FBI is rounding up people just for being there on the 6th, people will have to re-think the loss of their comfort before they fight.
I think this formula is why we see the left in the streets. These folks have nothing to lose, so even a slide into hard communism is something they at least perceive as an improvement. The right has a little more at stake.
Great comment...
The basic problem in America, IMO, is the nation's loss of "virtue" in the classic sense of the word. Weak men brought down the Roman Empire, and it's happening here.
"If such an institution, which gave the people an interest in their own government, had been universally established...the seeds of public wisdom and virtue [my emphasis] might have been cherished and propagated in the empire of Rome,’ which ‘under the mild and generous influence of liberty’ [my emphasis] … might then ‘have remained invincible and immortal."-- Gibbon, Edward, and Hugh Trevor-Roper.The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
No one knows if the loss of American prowess has reached a point where an external threat cannot be overcome. But our liberty is being swiftly eroded; and, as far as I'm concerned, all bets are off.
Hard times make strong men.
Strong men make good times.
Good times make weak men.
Weak men make hard times. <——— You are Here!
No and no. Hence my comments. Without a vanguard, someone to pick up the flag of liberty and march it forward, most work-a-day Americans are going to do what they're told as the noose tightens.
Lacking an open season on leftists, I’d say we’re doomed.
This has been coming for decades. Trump was a reprieve, not a pardon.
More than one of the nation’s founders said words to the effect that ‘Our Constitution was designed for a moral and religious people only’.
Will anyone argue that a society that promotes, makes wealthy and gives awards to “Artists” like Cardi B” while banning Dr. Suess can be characterized as “Moral and religious”. (I know, That’s just two of many but you get the point)
“Be prepared” Baden Powell
No. America is done as I have known it. The democrat seizure of voting kills any chance of new politicians and flooding the country with third world violent people gives than a standing army. It is over. Prepare accordingly.
If you want to destroy the functioning private schools, open up vouchers
Republics have a short life span.
People don’t want freedom, they want a kind master
So do you think the people who left Europe and came to America should have stayed in Europe? It takes a lot of courage to leave everything you know and start in a foreign land. There is no shame in taking your children to a safer place that will give them more opportunities than they have here. White boys are being discriminated against and parents have a duty to protect them and rescue them from the situation if at all possible.
People on FR talk a lot about fighting, but they don’t say how. So far, nobody has done anything but talk.
That is insightful and very true.
In our case, the barbarians – i.e., the forces of anti-civilization – have been inside the gates for over half a century, making their Long March through the institutions. We allowed their Marxist poison and their postmodern anti-rationality to seep throughout our schools and universities, and their false but seductive narratives to be promoted in our news and entertainment programs, until they secured the culture and corrupted the political landscape as well – so successfully that we elected, twice, a President who denied American exceptionalism, explicitly declared his agenda to “fundamentally transform” the country, and inspired his followers to believe, "Yes, we can."
It's more a matter of not having challenges that make people discipline themselves than of barbarians inside the gates. Confronted with some challenge or threat, people will come together sooner or later and work to stop it -- not too late, one hopes. Without such a threat people will eventually turn on each other or else grow soft and complacent. It's a lowering of energy, plus turning what energies there are against each other. The country gets through times like these by having some task to focus on or some external threat or enemy to rally against.
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