Is America Dying?

This was sent to me from a fellow Marine brother with the author unknown, but whoever took the time to write this, he or she has created an absolute masterpiece of gospel truth. I urge you to read it slowly and absorb it all. Then read it again. Nations  of long ago took centuries to fail, not so in today’s electronic world. The script has been written, the play appears to be in its final act – the United States of America as we knew it is doomed. Thank you Al

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…. as you lose friends and relatives.

Nations also 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…. not bad, but gone!!

France was pivotal 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 perpetual twilight. Its 96-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 aging so rapidly that an industry has sprung up to remove the remains of elderly Japanese who die alone.

I was born in 1945, 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 throughout 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 now 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 (‘You know – The Thing’) 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. 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 $30-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 an 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 of us submitted to Fauci-ism (the regime of face masks, lockdowns, and hand sanitizers) shows the impending 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 God, faith, and family – the bulwarks of any stable society.

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.

Author Unknown

Postscript: Read it and weep, forward or erase it! I read it three times and am now posting it to you, believing that we are at the moment in time to either stand up, or shut up! We now may soon be at the next stage in our country’s future. I believe it is closer than we think. God help us.

 

 

 

Originally posted 2023-02-08 11:36:04.

13 thoughts on “Is America Dying?”

  1. I was born the same year as you Jim. I remember the world you remember. I feel as sick at heart for the country I love. This is not just the destruction of the USA, this is a world wide push to destroy all western countries. Ireland now has an extreme left wing leadership and has repurposed the St. Patrick’s day parade to be a celebration of drag queens and LGBTQ agenda. German supermarkets are cutting way down on selling meat and are pushing eating bugs instead. Grade schools in Sweden are giving children bugs for lunch. The woke global cabal is using climate change to control and weaken the will of the people. Control is the intent. Destruction of morality and erasing God is essential to gaining this control as well as the brainwashing of the generations to come. As we the older population dies off we can only pray that enough people have raised their kids with our understanding of what freedom means. They will have to carry on the fight for freedom.

  2. Well said….One major symptom of national decline is the collective inability of a government and its people to defend their own borders and national sovereignty.

  3. This is, without question, one of the most erudite discussions on the state of this once great nation I have read to date. It covers EVERYTHING gone wrong with this country under the piss poor anti-American leaderless socialist democrat party! They will not stop until we are completely buried in a cesspool of ignorance and stupidity. What really irritates me is the fact that this country is inundated with uninformed stupid, reckless voters. Our military is being decimated right before our very eyes and the senior military leadership is pathetic and full of the filthiest WOKENESSS imaginable! That idiot Biden and his circus tent full of idiot clowns are absolutely disgustingly pathetic!!! Again, this article spells it out so even the most uninformed fools can understand…if they want to or care! Thanks for sending, Jim. Hope you and your bride are recovering further from that devastation ordeal you had to endure.

    1. Thanks for the comments Tom. And yes, we are about 80% back to norm here at the house. May even be able to move back into it by the end of the month. Thanks again Brother!!

  4. Colonel,
    I hate to be a guy that acknowledges a major problem but offers no solution. Unfortunately, I’m in exactly that position. The author lays out the raw truths of what we face. Truth, as it is, in itself. And it seems to me impossible to overstate its gravity. Indeed, may God help us. Chuck sends

  5. I once asked a friend if he had ever heard of “chem trails” because I hadn’t. His reply was “No, but I don’t need anything else to piss me off.” Like you Jim, I have about reached my limit. Every day I hear or read something that just drives me even more insane. The article you sent is true and is a good summary of our nation’s current status. Only God’s intervention can save us. May He show us His mercy, and may we be strong enough to right the ship. SF…Rick

    1. Amen Rick. When you were at Khe San, did you ever imagine this would be the kind of society we’d be living in? Of course not.

  6. We bury the dead because human remains decay and stink and become unhealthful. We can’t resurrect the dead, so we do the next best thing. We have offspring to replace ourselves at some point in the future.

    Nations don’t die … but the societies that maintain them become as corrupt as a dead body — and smell as bad, metaphorically speaking. American society today is putrid and unworthy of past accomplishments (no matter how lofty they once were). Why? Because we aren’t maintaining a society that treasures American values. That horse has left the barn.

    Today, Americans no longer deserve the blessings of liberty — you know, that thing that someone else had to die for — so Americans will lose their liberty, as they should. These are not silly axioms that mean nothing … they mean everything: Freedom isn’t free. Freedom isn’t easy.

    Freedom takes risk and hard work. I’m preaching to the choir here, but most Americans haven’t a clue. The proof in this pudding is this: who do Americans vote for to serve in Congress and the White House. One has to ask, “Are you kidding me?” These people who claim they value the American way are the same people who say, somewhat insincerely, “Thank you for your service.” And then they vote for mutton heads like Biden, who then appoints other mutton heads to lead the military, and the justice department, and the FBI.

    It is true. American society is corrupt. I can smell it. This society is no longer worthy of one ounce of our children’s blood.

    1. I like that metaphor, yes I can smell it also, and it does stink to high heaven. I wonder if God smells it, surely he does. I hope this post is passed around the world and back again. You nailed it sir. I tire of hearing “Thank you for your service.” I’m at the point already where I do not even acknowledge it and caused me to k]not where anything that shows I served. Piss on them; where were they or their parents when returned from our war? Probably at Woodstock getting high and making love. I am so disgusted with this society right now, I just might move to another country. Some shgithole that can hold a legal election.

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