We know what America must do to stave off decline, we’re just too scared, too apathetic to do what is necessary.
The great American paralysis and decline is continually attributed to the war of political ideologies and many folks are keen to place blame at the muddied, dung-laden feet of liberals, progressives, and the Democratic Party but to go there, end there, and go no further is akin buying the ingredients, preparing them, cooking them, and never dishing them up to ingest them. Leaving them to perpetually cook on the stove, in the oven.
When will the American people finally cease being the living dead, darkness, apathetic, fearful, and in paralysis, and go to the table, cut into what is on the plate, taste it, chew it, ingest it, and come to know what the whole point of the endeavor is about?
And it isn’t any political ideology, brother, sister, friend, or foe.
Mr. Victor Davis Hanson, a truly brilliant man has again written an excellent article found here, but as at every turn, at every exercise in reading what anyone claims are the foundational, root causes of our decline and pending demise they all to a one, with the rarest of exceptions, build their case on what occurs with the constant tug-of-war of political ideologies with the massive heavyweight brutes on the left side of the rope and pulling much harder than their weak, pasty so-called conservative opponents.
But this is just another lie.
This is just another hazy layer of the dazed and confused always heeding and going to the delusions put in front of them by Satan rather than having the clarity, the courage, the discernment — THE KNOWING that everything that has, is, and will yet occur is due to the escalating spiritual war taking place within every individual and around every individual without pause, no letup, only ever growing intensity and greater noise, greater delusions.
When this very day we live from coast to coast and every place in between the words of the prophet Isaiah what else can we expect besides decline and eventual destruction?
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Isaiah 5:20
I’m seventy-one years old and have lived in the time, lived long enough to witness the end of America as it was conceived and created, as we were brought about by Divine Providence, by the will of God. Who we have turned from, spit on, and attempted to replace all the while, again, deluded that in doing so we can create a better nation than God ever could.
Is it any wonder what happens daily in this darkened greatly diseased and distressed land takes place?
We the people are mirror images of Adam and Eve in the Garden having listened to the cunning and seductive Serpent to destroy the perfection that was created for them and cast out of that Paradise, that land. For their overt, arrogant, willful disobedience of God vainly, foolishly deluding themselves they could become like God and do better than God ever could.
Imagine that.
And we are no different in America.
And that is why we are in great decline, the worst time in our history on our way of replacing the Civil War as our lowest point and teetering on the precipice of utter destruction. The End. As it was created and has been known.
We are at that point today.
Blind, foolish, and completely oblivious and naive as to what is yet to come due to our paralysis, our apathy, our delusions, banality, convinced we are gods and we could never falter, never fail, never be destroyed — all the while we were, are the very ones destroying everything from within.
We can’t bear our diseases — and we refuse to seek, to know, to implement THE ONLY REMEDY for every illness and rotting stench like gangrene within. Still rebelling, still disobeying God at every turn.
From within so many churches from so many pulpits, to the home, the school, to every institution at every level — foolishly believing we can continue on and prosper, be safe and well, be healthy all the while we remove or reduce God the Creator, Jesus Christ the Lord, the Holy Spirit — not even mentioned or believed in — and pervert and alter God’s inerrant infallible unchanging Word to suit our evil, banal, unholy and wicked ways.
What do you think is going to happen then folks?
Really.
Oh, that’s right — all will be made right and well and great if the guy you like wins an election.
How has that worked for you so far throughout the history of your life?
I’ve lived long enough to know if placing faith in a man, an election, a political ideology thinking that if the person I think is good and right, if only this election, that one goes this way, if only people would think this way politically all will be righted and well is the ultimate folly, ignorance and foolishness.
Only with God, Only by God. Only by our turning back to God. Humbly. Sincerely. Completely. Truthfully. Only in true repentance and obedience. To the Lord. Not to any man, any system of government, any nation can true healing, restoration, health, hope, and prosperity — of the soul, of the spirit, of what matters in this life, not materialistic prosperity — occur.
Only then…only then…
Read on…
Ken Pullen, Saturday, March 2nd, 2024
American Paralysis and Decline
March 01, 2024
Reprinted from The Daily Signal
“We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies.”
So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C.-17 A.D.) of the long decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended the Roman Republic.
Like a patient whose medicine proves worse than the disease, Livy lamented that the Romans knew that they had become corrupt and lawless.
But the very contemplation of the hard medicine needed for restoration—and the furious reaction that would meet the remedy—made it impossible to save the patient.
America is nearing such an impasse.
We know that no state can long exist after opening its borders to over 7,000,000 illegal aliens, requiring neither background checks nor legality.
The recent murder of a Georgia female jogger by an illegal alien and the savage beating of New York policemen by similar others hardly merit media attention.
Everyone knows that neither new appropriations nor new laws are needed to secure the border as it was in 2020.
Instead, we could just stop suicidal catch-and-release, deport lawbreakers, privilege the legal over the illegal immigrant, demand would-be refugees apply for asylum first in their native countries, finish the border wall, and pressure Mexico to stop undermining the territorial integrity of its northern neighbor.
But then we shrug, “We can’t do that”—paralyzed in fear of being smeared as “xenophobic,” “nativist,” or “racist.”
So this generation apparently feels that it can endure the collateral damage of daily assaults on American citizens, the near bankruptcy of our cities, and 100,000 fentanyl deaths per year—but certainly not the idea that it is somehow not politically correct or compassionate.
The same is true of the $35,000,000,000,000 debt, now costing more than $1,000,000,000,000 a year in interest payments—and growing. We all know it is unsustainable. Americans understand it will eventually lead either to destructive hyperinflation, suicidal renunciation of federal debt, or confiscation of private savings.
Yet we ignore the reckless spending and keep borrowing well over $1,000,000,000,000 a year. Apparently, our generation prefers being praised as “virtuous” and “caring.” So it leaves the next generation to be smeared as “cruel” and “unfair” when it is forced to cut federal entitlements and bloated government or face civilizational collapse.
The crime epidemic is also similar. Everyone accepts that no society can long endure quasi-legalized shoplifting or green-lighting smash-and-grabbers and carjackers to be released without bail.
But we assume that such a civilizational implosion will never reach our own sanctuary neighborhoods or safe places of work—at least not yet.
We also know that restoring deterrence by arresting, convicting, and jailing repeat felons will return safety to our streets.
But again, we fear even more that advocating “law and order” will earn slanders like “racist” or “reactionary.”
Ditto the homeless. In an age of self-congratulation and hyper-environmentalism, we know that a million homeless defecating, urinating, injecting, and assaulting on our downtown sidewalks and storefronts is medieval.
We know that it is illegal to camp out on the street and publicly harass citizens or relieve oneself in public.
And we know the cure lies in building and staffing more mental institutions and providing areas far from public spaces where the homeless can find shelter, sanitation, and medical care.
But the very idea of removing anyone from his accustomed sidewalk spot, or the notion of the use of force to transport the mentally ill to proper and humane facilities, terrifies us.
So we walk around, step over, and ignore those on the street.
Is the assumption that the odds of being assaulted or sickened acceptable? Or do we just not wish to learn where the flotsam, jetsam, and human offal of the street end up?
Most accept that had former President Donald Trump just not run for president in 2024 or was a man of the Left, he would not now be facing four different felony court cases.
Most accept that three of the four prosecutors have either in advance promised to get Trump or have proved grossly unethical.
Most know it is wrong to try to remove a leading presidential candidate from state ballots.
Yet many shrug that this new weaponization of America’s legal system is the flamboyant Trump’s own problem, not their own. So they ignore the third worldization of our political system, which they quietly acknowledge is otherwise leading us to a Venezuela-like mess.
The paralysis of American society extends to our foreign policy as well. We deplore the terrorism of Iran and its thuggish surrogates. But we fear more the nasty, costly business of stopping its aggression.
Societies do not always collapse from a lack of wealth, invasion, or natural catastrophes.
Most often, they know what is destroying them. But they are so paralyzed by their fear that the road to salvation becomes too painful to even contemplate.
So they implode gradually, then suddenly.
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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and author of the book “The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won.” You can reach him by e-mailing authorvdh@gmail.com.
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