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How Nations Slip from Greatness to Obscurity-Is America on a path of permanent decline?
Frontpagemagazine ^ | Jun 17, 2021 | Don Feder

Posted on 06/17/2021 5:38:30 AM PDT by SJackson

Men, like nations, think they’re eternal. What man in his 20s or 30s doesn’t believe, at least subconsciously, that he’ll live forever?

In the springtime of youth, an endless summer beckons. As you pass 70, it’s harder to hide from reality.

Nations too have seasons. Imagine a Roman of the 2nd. century contemplating an empire that stretched from Britain to the Near East, thinking: This will endure forever.

Forever was about 500 years, give or take.

France was the thing in the 17th and 18th centuries. Now the land of Charles Martel is on its way to becoming part of the Muslim ummah.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the sun never set on the British empire. Now Albion exists in a perpetual twilight. Its 95-year-old sovereign is a fitting symbol for a nation in terminal decline.

In the 1980s, Japan seemed poised to buy the world. Business schools taught Japanese management techniques. Today, its birth rate is so low and its population is aging so rapidly, that an industry has sprung up to remove the remains of elderly Japanese who die alone.

I was born in 1946, almost at the midpoint of the 20th century – the American century. America’s prestige and influence were never greater. Thanks to the Greatest Generation, we won a World War fought over most of Europe, Asia and the Pacific. We reduced Germany to rubble and put the rising sun to bed.

It set the stage for almost half a century of unprecedented prosperity. We stopped the spread of communism in Europe and Asia, and fought international terrorism. We rebuilt our enemies and lavished foreign aid on much of the world.

We built skyscrapers and rockets to the moon. We conquered Polio and COVID. We explored the mysteries of the Universe and the wonders of DNA, the blueprint of life.

But where is the glory that once was Rome?

America has moved from a relatively free economy to socialism – which has worked so well nowhere in the world. We’ve gone from a republican government guided by a constitution to a regime of revolving elites. We have less freedom with each passing year.

Like a signpost to the coming reign of terror, the cancel culture is everywhere. We’ve traded the American Revolution for the Cultural Revolution.

The pathetic creature in the White House is an empty vessel filled by his handlers. At the G-7 Summit, Dr. Jill had to lead him like a child.

In 1961, when we were young and vigorous, our leader was too. Now a feeble nation is technically led by the oldest man to ever serve in the presidency.

We can’t defend our borders, our history (including monuments to past greatness) or our streets. Our cities have become anarchist playgrounds.

We are a nation of dependents, mendicants, and misplaced charity. Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.

The president of the United States can’t even quote the beginning of the Declaration of Independence correctly. Ivy League graduates routinely fail history tests that 5th graders could pass a generation ago.

Crime rates soar and we blame the 2nd. Amendment and slash police budgets.

Our culture is certifiably insane. We have men who marry men. Men who think they’re women. People who fight racism by seeking to convince members of one race that they’re inherently evil, and others that they are perpetual victims. A psychiatrist lecturing at Yale said she fantasizes about “unloading a revolver into the head of any white person.”

We slaughter the unborn in the name of freedom, while our birth rate dips lower year by year.

Our national debt is so high that we can no longer even pretend that we will repay it one day. It’s a $28-trillion monument to our improvidence and refusal to confront reality.

Our “entertainment” is sadistic, nihilistic and as enduring as a candy bar wrapper thrown in the trash. Our music is noise that spans the spectrum from annoying to repulsive.

Patriotism is called insurrection, treason celebrated, and perversion sanctified.

A man in blue gets less respect than a man in a dress.

We’re asking soldiers to fight for a nation our leaders no longer believe in.

How meekly most submitted to Fauci-ism (the regime of face masks and hand sanitizers) shows the death of the American spirit.

How do nations slip from greatness to obscurity?

Fighting endless wars they can’t or won’t win Accumulating massive debt far beyond their ability to repay Refusing to guard their borders, allowing the nation to be inundated by an alien horde Surrendering control of their cities to mob rule Allowing indoctrination of the young Moving from a republican form of government to an oligarchy Losing national identity Indulging indolence Abandoning faith and family – the bulwarks social order. In America, every one of these symptoms is pronounced, indicating an advanced stage of the disease.

Even if the cause seems hopeless, do we not have an obligation to those who sacrificed so much to give us what we had?

I’m surrounded by ghosts urging me on: the Union soldiers who held Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, the battered bastards of Bastogne, those who served in the cold hell of Korea, the guys who went to the jungles of Southeast Asia and came home to be reviled or neglected.

This is the nation that took in my immigrant grandparents, whose uniform my father and most of my uncles wore in the Second World War. I don’t want to imagine a world without America, even though it becomes increasingly likely.

During Britain’s darkest hour, when its professional army was trapped at Dunkirk and a German invasion seemed imminent, Churchill reminded his countrymen, “Nations that go down fighting rise again, and those that surrender tamely are finished.”

The same might be said of causes. If we let America slip through our fingers, if we lose without a fight, what will posterity say of us?

While the prognosis is far from good, only God knows if America’s day in the sun is over.


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KEYWORDS: america; communism; culture; society
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1 posted on 06/17/2021 5:38:30 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

It has been a deliberate assault


2 posted on 06/17/2021 5:41:04 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: SJackson; Red Badger

No..... America is not necessarily in decline

America was able to achieve fantastic growth and success in the decades following WW II

The world has recovered and is offering fantastic competition


3 posted on 06/17/2021 5:41:18 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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To: SJackson

“We conquered Covid”???

More like we sheepishly and stupidly let traitors within use Covid to conquer our country—and begin to kill our citizenry.


4 posted on 06/17/2021 5:44:20 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: bert; SJackson

The powers that be, $0R0$, et al, want a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT.

That is the objective. Call it ‘globalism’ or whatever the current epithet is, but it’s ‘communism’ with a happy face.....................


5 posted on 06/17/2021 5:48:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you can be happy............. Nightbirde)
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To: SJackson

Yes.

When nearly half of the public has been indoctrinated to hate and be ashamed of their own country, that is the making of a permanent decline.

The country will decline, the left will cheer until one day, the indoctrinated realize their lives are a mess due to the decline. At that point, it will be too late to stop.


6 posted on 06/17/2021 5:51:23 AM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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To: SJackson
France was the thing in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Bullshit.

The frogs have never been more that filthy gravy and perfume makers that ate rotten meat and stank to the heavens.

They were a middle sized fish in a middle sized pond that lasted for a blink of an eye, and stunk out the joint while doing it.

7 posted on 06/17/2021 5:52:09 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: Red Badger
With slogans like “build back better” and “you will own nothing and you will be happy” the New World Order elites are trying to destroy the middle class.

For most of the history of the world, there have been only two classes: the elite and the serfs. A prosperous, freedom loving, middle class is, in the history of mankind, a relatively new phenomenon.

8 posted on 06/17/2021 5:52:18 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: a fool in paradise; bert; SJackson

New tagline ................................


9 posted on 06/17/2021 5:52:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: USS Alaska

Somewhere along the timeline the writer forgot Spain.......................


10 posted on 06/17/2021 5:54:06 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SJackson
How do nations slip from greatness to obscurity?

SIN!


Oh; killing off over 62 million of our future citizens maight be a factor as well.

11 posted on 06/17/2021 5:54:23 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Freee-dame

“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”
― George Orwell, 1984


12 posted on 06/17/2021 5:55:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SJackson

Well, Donald Trump sure took a crack at reversing the slide. Some people like the slide.

The author seems to be clueless.

Find Jesus, if you can only find pearls to clutch.


13 posted on 06/17/2021 5:56:06 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: bert

We’re going to have to stare straight into the abyss before things turn around.


14 posted on 06/17/2021 5:56:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SJackson

The fake pandemic and election proved otherwise


15 posted on 06/17/2021 5:56:25 AM PDT by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die )
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To: SJackson

The Left’s main weapon against us is big government. They use it, quite successfully and with Republican cooperation, as a cudgel to advance their destructive agenda. If we cannot find a way to put the Hydra back into its cage we are doomed.

We must elect people who will commit to shrinking the centralized power of the federal behemoth that is wrecking the country. There’s no point in voting for anyone who won’t do this.

The Founders of this country would be astonished at the size, power and influence the federal government has amassed. This simply has to be reversed or the republic is done for.


16 posted on 06/17/2021 5:59:31 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: a fool in paradise

It has been a deliberate assault
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By both parties.

Once the Bush League Republicans took over the GOP in 1989 their mission was to block the citizens from stopping it.


17 posted on 06/17/2021 6:00:59 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SJackson

without God’s mercy, yes. We must repent.

Even if we do repent, our fate may be set...but without repentance and turning back to our Creator, we are deteriorating.


18 posted on 06/17/2021 6:02:43 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SJackson

In answer tp the headline...Just re read your Oswald Spengler, “Decline of the West”


19 posted on 06/17/2021 6:02:53 AM PDT by SMARTY (In most places in the country, voting is...a right and a duty...in Chicago it's a sport. D. Gregory)
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To: SJackson

We aren’t “slipping.”

The DC Swamp is selling us piece-by-piece to the Chinese Communist Party for thirty pieces of silver.


20 posted on 06/17/2021 6:06:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Tse-tung)
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