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Is The Sun Setting On The USA?
rectly. Ivy League graduates routinely fail history tests that fifth graders could pass a generation ago. Crime rates soar and we blame the Second “People, like nations, think they’re eternal. What person at 25 or 30 Amendment and slash police budgets. doesn’t believe, at least subconsciously, that they will live forever? In the Our culture is certifiably insane—men who think they’re women; peospringtime of youth, an endless summer beckons. As you pass 70, it’s ple who fight racism by seeking to convince members of one race that harder to hide from reality. they’re inherently evil, and others that they are perpetual victims. A psyNations also have seasons. Imagine a Roman of the second century conchiatrist lecturing at Yale said she fantasizes about ‘unloading a revolver templating an empire that stretched from Britain to the Near East, thinkinto the head of any white person.’ ing: ‘This will endure forever.’ We slaughter the unborn in the name of freedom, while our birth rate dips But forever was about 500 years, give or take. lower year by year. Our national debt is so high that we can no longer even France was pivotal in the 17th and 18th centuries; now it is on its way to pretend that we will repay it one day. It’s a $28 trillion monument to our becoming part of the Muslim ummah. improvidence and refusal to confront reality. Our ‘entertainment’ is sadistic, In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the sun never set on the British nihilistic and as enduring as a candy bar wrapper thrown in the trash. Our empire; now Albion exists in a perpetual twilight. Its 95-year-old Sovermusic is noise that spans the spectrum from annoying to repulsive. eign is a fitting symbol for a nation in terminal decline. Patriotism is called insurrection, treason celebrated, and perversion In the 1980s, Japan seemed poised to buy the world. Today, its birth rate sanctified. A person in blue gets less respect than a man in a dress. We’re is so low and its population aging so rapidly that an industry has sprung up asking soldiers to fight for a nation our leaders no longer believe in. to remove the remains of elderly Japanese who die alone. How meekly most of us submitted to Fauci-ism (the regime of face I was born in 1942, almost at the midpoint of the 20th century, the masks, lockdowns and hand sanitizers) shows the impending death of the American century. America’s prestige and influence were never greater. American spirit. Thanks to the ‘Greatest Generation,’ we won a World War fought throughHow do nations slip from greatness to obscurity? l Fighting endless wars they can’t or won’t win l Accumulating masout most of Europe, Asia and the Pacific. We reduced Germany to rubble sive debt far beyond their ability to repay l Refusing to guard their borand put the rising sun to bed. It set the stage for almost half a century of ders, allowing the nation to be inundated by an alien horde l Surrendering unprecedented prosperity. control of their cities to mob rule l Allowing indoctrination of the young l We stopped the spread of communism in Europe and Asia, and fought Moving from a republican form of government to an oligarchy l Losing international terrorism. We rebuilt our enemies and lavished foreign aid on national identity l Indulging indolence much of the world. We built skyscrapl Abandoning faith and family, the ers and sent rockets to the moon. We bulwarks of social order. conquered Polio and now COVID. We In America, every one of these explored the mysteries of the Universe symptoms is pronounced, indicating and the wonders of DNA…the bluean advanced stage of the disease. print of life. Even if the cause seems hopeless, But where is the glory that once was do we not have an obligation to those Rome? America has moved from a relwho sacrificed so much to give us atively free economy to socialism, what we had? I’m surrounded by which has worked so well nowhere in ghosts urging me on: the Union solthe world. diers who held Cemetery Ridge at We’ve gone from a republican govGettysburg, the battered bastards of ernment guided by a constitution to a Bastogne, those who served in the regime of revolving elites. We have less cold hell of Korea, the guys who went freedom with each passing year. Like a to the jungles of Southeast Asia and signpost to the coming reign of terror, came home to be reviled or neglected. the cancel culture is everywhere. We’ve This is the nation that took in my traded the American Revolution for the immigrant grandparents, whose uniCultural Revolution. form my father and most of my uncles The pathetic creature in the White wore in the Second World War. I don’t House is an empty vessel filled by his want to imagine a world without handlers. At the G-7 Summit, his wife, America, even though it becomes ‘Dr. Jill,’ had to lead him like a child. increasingly likely. In 1961, when we were young and During Britain’s darkest hour, when vigorous, our leader was too. Now a its army was trapped at Dunkirk and a feeble nation is technically led by the German invasion seemed imminent, oldest man to ever serve in the presiChurchill reminded his countrymen: dency. ‘Nations that go down fighting rise We can’t defend our borders, our again, and those that surrender tamely history (including monuments to past are finished.’ greatness) or our streets. Our cities The same might be said of causes. If have become anarchist playgrounds. Anyone who knows Virginia logger Tim Bowling knows that he is constantly in a we let America slip through our finWe are a nation of dependents, mendibuying or trading state of mind, and that he often deals in long distance fashgers, if we lose without a fight, what cants, and misplaced charity. Homeion. The sprawling machine/truck/trailer boneyard near his home in Ridgeway will posterity say of us? less veterans camp in the streets while is a key indicator. But he likely got more than he bargained for last August when his trucking entity, based in NC, took delivery of this 2022 Mack Pinnacle 64T While the prognosis is far from illegal aliens are put up in hotels. Day Cab. The Mack factory in Pennsylvania teamed up with dealer Gulf Coast good, only God knows if America’s The President can’t even quote the Mack to add the special surprise. To be clear, Bowling never has supported the day in the sun is over.” beginning of the Declaration of Inde“driver” but did appreciate the humor. (Author unknown.) pendence (‘You know, the Thing’) cor-
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