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Topic: Reversing America´s Decline |
Reversing America´s Decline
American Thinker, by Jared E. Peterson
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Posted By:magnante, 11/27/2012 9:23:50 AM
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| The ongoing and not-so-gradual loss of American Civilization is the result of two related phenomena: the invasion of our country from the southern border, and our elites´ culture of self-loathing that oozed out of the noxious slime of the 60´s. Western Europe is rapidly losing its own civilization for identical reasons (with invaders more poisonous than America´s, and its own reproductive decadence, thrown in to expedite the process). The first phenomenon -- the invasions -- wouldn´t be happening in either place had they not been preceded by the second
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
bobgray2, 11/27/2012 10:20:20 AM (No. 9035823)
I am afraid that it is irreversible. Ignorance can be remedied, stupidity can´t. Institutional stupidity is now the new normal. All civilizations collapse, and so will ours. That time is fast approaching.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rubinski, 11/27/2012 11:09:24 AM (No. 9035930)
..yes, and we have all the guns thanks to the liberals desire to disarm themselves.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
tisHimself, 11/27/2012 12:24:32 PM (No. 9036080)
Pat Buchanon sounded the alarm on the erosion of American greatness in his 1992 campaign and the books that have followed.
Any culture has an absorbtion rate for new arrivals.
The faux sophistication of the coasts and to some extent, the moral corruption that accompanies wealth and elitism have resulted in a disdain for the values that accompanied this nation at its zenith; we are either at a nadir or the end of our run.
It wouldn´t kill us to get back to Church on a regular basis.
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LittleHoodedMonk, 11/27/2012 12:29:37 PM (No. 9036088)
I am not a parent. Watching two-children families, one has to wonder how we got it so wrong that offspring hate the niceties we gave them growing up that they took for granted. These young psuedo-enviormentalist accuse US of wanton pollution as they wrangle to have the keys for the SUV.
In the end, it is our fault for not spending more quality time as parents, paying attention to school system they attend, and giving them a moral compass to follow.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
KTWO, 11/27/2012 1:03:30 PM (No. 9036171)
Knowing the future is tough. I don´t agree that the high immigration from the south is poisonous. I agree that we hurt ourselves by mismanaging it.
The absorption rate premise is a tool, a way of studying a process. The rate limit is not knowable, no magic calculation exists.
Our policy of discouraging assimilation by immigrants has been madness. We end up with large neighborhoods of one ethnicity where life is no different from the African or Asian locale where the immigrants came from.
We might as well divide the US into a thousand or ten thousand tribal reservations having nothing in common.
I regard Washington as a process too. A failed one that increasingly drains any good from the remainder of the nation.
Our masters in the Imperial City prosper now as never before. Meanwhile the rest of the nation struggles and staggers. Yet the population fails to draw the logical conclusion.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
coyote56, 11/27/2012 1:53:38 PM (No. 9036258)
Yes we need to go back to church; yes we need to get involved in our schools; yes we need to support our founding principles as in a strong military. If churches are not teaching the complete doctrines from studying in Greek & Hebrew they will teach incorrect doctrine, do good to get to Heaven & give boy scout "I love everyione" messages. If parents do not teach manners,morals & principles at home & marry the opposite sex the children will wander lost. If schools do not teach our wonderful history correctly children will never know what FREEDOM they really enjoy. God will not put up with this crap - even history should teach the stupid brainwashed sheep by example. II Chronicles 7:14
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locarno, 11/27/2012 8:27:35 PM (No. 9036726)
A thousand times YES. One of the best articles I´ve read in some time. There was a time when we had the backbone to stand up for ourselves, and the article mentions some of the great battles in Europe that preserved our culture. Today, we would not be able to defend ourselves against a new threat, simply because we´ve become our own enemies. Political correctness, multi-culturalism , and leftist indoctrination in the schools has effectively neutered us. Although its late in the 4th quarter and we´re way behind, the game is not over and we can still pull out a miracle and reassert ourselves again.
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