The evidence of the collapse of American culture is everywhere—politics, the economy, education, social life, popular culture, foreign policy, and the military—not merely one or two of these but each and all.
Sure, BHO lit the fuse of the fundamental transformation of America, however, our descent has been self-induced.
This from frontpagemag.com.
These symptoms of decay share common themes–our erosion is not the result of poverty and want, but of leisure and excess. We are not suffering from existential crises of famine, plague, or the collapse of our grid and fuel sources.
An over-adherence to a too strict conservative tradition is not our downfall, rather “an excess of liberal twisted ethics and progressivism” has almost exclusively been the cause of our cultural unraveling.
Prior, far poorer, and war-torn generations now seem far better off than what we are becoming.
In short, we are seeing fissures that America has not experienced in our cultural history since the Civil War. The radical Left’s “demand for chaos, anarchy, and nihilism is bringing about norms and customs and an adherence to a socialist agenda that no one in past normal times would stomach.”
Some decay is existential and fundamental; some anecdotal and illustrative.
But either way, the decline was initially gradual over decades; the Obama/Obiden Regimes have kicked the decline into hyper drive—abrupt chaos, overt lawlessness, and invasion have shocked Americans. Below one by one the elemental collapse of our culture is exemplified:
Financial Implosion
As long as interest rates were de facto zero, both parties ran up gargantuan debt. Now the national debt has hit $34 trillion. But two odd things have also happened under The Regime that are beginning to undermine the very existence of the U.S. financial system:
1) Interest rates have soared from de facto zero and are on a trajectory to 5.5%—meaning that the interest on the debt, in theory, in the not-too-distant future will require 20 percent of the annual budget, squeezing out both entitlements and defense.
2) Yet the upcoming rendezvous with economic Armageddon has not slowed a [Regime] intent on borrowing nearly $2 trillion in the current fiscal year.
Military Crises
Americans have lost deterrence abroad.
Confusion reigns among the public over why The Regime fled from Afghanistan, “leaving behind billions of dollars of munitions and equipment in the hands of Taliban terrorists.”
Also:
– A Chinese spy balloon was allowed to traverse the continental U.S. with impunity,
– The [Regime] informed Russia when preparing an invasion of Ukraine that our reaction would depend on the magnitude of Putin’s offensive,
– Military recruitment has cratered, shorting the Pentagon of thousands of soldiers,
– Iranian proxies attack almost daily U.S. installations abroad and ships in the Red Sea, apparently without fear of reprisal,
– Hamas slaughtered Israelis on October 7, but the U.S. has remained indifferent,
– Our retired four stars show their disdain by violating the uniform code of military justice by serially and publicly trashing the commander in chief,
– The Pentagon revolutionized the entire system of recruitment, promotions, and tenure in the armed forces by predicating them in large part on race, gender, and sexual orientation rather than merit or battlefield efficacy, and
– The top brass drove out thousands by stupidly requiring COVID vaccinations from those with naturally acquired immunity.
In sum, the U.S. will either undergo a post-Vietnam-like revolution in the military or, in late Roman imperial fashion, our armed forces will be unable to defend the interests or indeed, the very safety, of the U.S.
Race
– So-called non-white ethnicities and races were achieving parity with or exceeding the majority population in per capita income, and racial intermarriage was commonplace, [but Obama’s fundamental transformation reinvigorated the civil rights movement] and reverted it to precivilizational tribalism. The norm became: racially segregated dorms, safe spaces, and using race as an arbiter of admissions and hiring,
– The [Regime] lumped together an entire cadre of diverse ancestries, ethnicities, religions, politics, classes, and values and dubbed them all ‘white,’ and then smeared them collectively in stereotypical fashion, and
– Our nation’s diversity was made preferable to its unity [as part of the Obama fundamental transformation of America].
The Sexes
– The Left has mainstreamed the previously rare medical malady of gender dysphoria into a transgendered civil rights,
– Leftists, gays, and feminists have destroyed a half-century of female athletic achievement by allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports,
– An accomplished swimmer—Riley Gaines—was cornered, swarmed, threatened, and barricaded in at a university for the crime of daring to state the obvious: that transgendered women are still, in terms of their musculoskeletal physiques and frames, males and thereby have no business competing in women’s sports, and
– A gay senate aide engaged in passive, unprotected sex in a public and hallowed Senate chamber, filmed in graphic detail his act of sodomy, had circulated it among friends and social media. Then, when outrage followed, he claimed victimhood by accusing those offended of being homophobic toward him and his active homosexual partner.
Lawlessness
– We are witnessing the steady erasure of jurisprudence, both civil and criminal,
– Massive looting with impunity is now largely exempt from justice in our major blue-state cities,
– Smash-and-grabs rob stores of billions of dollars in revenue each year,
– Employees and security guards are now ordered to stand down,
– Pro-Hamas protestors shouted support for the October 7 massacre of Jews, screamed for the destruction of Israel and the Jews in it, shut down the Manhattan and Golden Gate Bridges, defiled the Lincoln Memorial and White House gates, and disrupted Christmas celebrations in our major cities with complete exemption,
– In one of the most chilling videos in memory, Las Vegas Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus was recently violently attacked by an unshackled career felon defendant (with three prior violent felony convictions and facing additional new felony counts),
– In our major cities, George Soros-subsidized prosecutors have all but destroyed civil society, and
– Millions of American taxpayer dollars are being wasted [on the weaponized DOJ’s effort to Get Trump].
Education
– One day the President of the Harvard Corporation was a scholar and intellectual, befitting Harvard’s own self-regard as the world’s most preeminent university—no longer,
– Ivy League degrees have become certifications of ideological and woke orthodoxy, and
– In less than five years our elite universities destroy[ed] meritocracy, abolish[ed] SAT requirements, require[d] DEI oaths and pledges, and mirror[ed] the worst commissariat institutions of the old Warsaw Pact nations and Soviet Union.
How and why these elite universities blew themselves up in a mere decade will baffle historians for decades to come.
The End of Sovereignty
– The [Regime] has shattered federal immigration law, as some 10 million illegal entries will have crossed unlawfully and with impunity,
– In this new America of ours, Joe Biden is hale and savvy, while Hunter did nothing wrong,
– Our heroes are Dylan Mulvaney, Gen. Rachel Levine, and the two Sams, Bankman-Fried and Brinton,
– In today’s America, Karin Jean-Pierre is truthful, while Alejandro Mayorkas is honest,
– An innocent and saintly George Floyd was randomly murdered,
– [D]efunding the police brought calm and quiet,
– Dr. Jill is an impressive academic,
– Gen. Mark Milley is a brave maverick, and so is Adam Schiff,
– The flight from Afghanistan marked a brilliantly organized retreat,
– The Chinese balloon really did not take too many pictures of sensitive areas,
– January 6 was an armed insurrection,
– Ashli Babbitt deserved to be blasted in the neck for entering a broken window,
– Kamala Harris is a wordsmith,
– Russian collusion really happened,
– Christopher Steele’s dossier was mostly true, and
– 51 former intelligence authorities bravely came forward to offer their expertise in certifying that Hunter’s laptop was cooked up in Moscow.
In sum, American civilization has been turned upside down, and we have a rendezvous soon with the once unthinkable and unimaginable.
Our last chance for survivable as a nation may very well be President Trump.
May God help us and may God help President Trump.
