T. Belman. This is a great article but let me expand on it. The US is a product of western civilization which has been influenced by The Torah, Greek Philosophy and the Roman Empire all of which gave birth to as the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment. All of which were synthesized in the US Constitution. Because of American exceptionalism, birthed by the constitution, people from all over the world want to emigrate to America.
Unfortunately the left is trying to undue all of which makes America great and make it part of The New World Order. They must be prevented at all costs. We must resist progressivism because it is all regressive. In the words of Pres. Donald Trump, we must Make America Great Again. Get rid of Common Core, Critical Race Theory, Identity Politics,and dependency. Restore Freedom of Speech and Meritocracy to name a few.
The U.S. has, simultaneously, come unmoored from its Judeo-Christian origins, eschewed its shared history and traditions, and lost its MoJo, its Johnson, its testosterone. (The latter may seem incongruous with the former, but it is not.) We have been so accommodating to everyone and everything but ourselves and our way of life that we have forgotten who we are. We do not want to offend those who wash up on our shores, so we subject ourselves to extremes of political correctness and identity politics, even as we give them money and a chance. In doing so, we have lost our shared identity, our cohesiveness, our religiosity… and our soul.
God created man and woman distinctly and with purpose. “Male and female He created them.” He said “Be fruitful and increase in number”… and take dominion over the animals and every living creature. Today, we don’t believe there are distinct genders, and can’t tell if we are men or women — or any one of an infinite number of genders on a spectrum. We permit hundreds of thousands of abortions a year but feel bad swatting a mosquito or killing a mouse. It is not a coincidence that we are losing belief in ourselves as we are losing belief in God.
We have put up with the preposterous debasing of our Founders and watched quietly as their statues have been vandalized, destroyed or removed. We have meekly allowed our history to be rewritten and our Constitution and Bill of Rights to be assaulted.
We have ‘progressed’ from “Gunsmoke,” “The Magnificent Seven,” and “Father Knows Best” to “The View,” “Oprah,” and “Heather Has Two Mommies.” The Marlboro Man is out, the metrosexual is in. John Wayne is mocked for his ‘toxic masculinity,’ transgenders are reading to our elementary school kids.
When a society loses either its religious heritage, its shared history and identity, or its collective cojones, its continued existence becomes problematic. When it loses two of the three, it will fall, whether sooner or later. When it loses all three simultaneously, it will effectively be gone in the cosmic blink of an eye.
Irreligious, mis-educated, feminine… and infantilized. That’s us.
As a result, we are more diverse in superficial ways, like race, than ever before. But less diverse in thought.
And freedom.
@ vivarto:
au contraire, Vivarto. it’s an excellent and pithy summary of what is and what will be in America. to you I say, speak up or hold your peace.
“Because of American exceptionalism, birthed by the constitution, people from all over the world want to emigrate to America”
Lots of people don’t want to emigrate to the USA. I love America. But I think that most people who we designate as ‘communists’ or even ‘socialists’ just want a safety net a little more like…Australia where sick people don’t need to sell there house to pay medical bills. Where auto liability insurance is included in car registration. Where excessive law suits are mitigated. No system is perfect but some people just want a little less freedom and a little more justice.
Our Creator and Sustainer is out and has been replaced with “the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life.”
The future of America does not look rosy but distinctly pallid.
Ted you made a very good introduction to a rather dull article.
I am quite unimpressed with Eric Utter