America on the Edge of the Cliff
American Thinker,
by
Fletch Daniels
Original Article
Posted By: DW626,
11/20/2023 5:56:00 AM
There is more than an average share of discontent brewing from sea to shining sea as ever more Americans get the sense that their country, which has been pivotal to ensuring global security, stands on the edge of a cliff. Many comfort themselves by looking at other pivotal moments in our history where the country’s future was in doubt right before the ship was righted. But, due to a confluence of factors, it is hard to imagine America bouncing back. There are four problems that, if not reversed soon, will lead to collapse, and America will fall.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
FJB 2022 23 24 11/20/2023 6:14:37 AM (No. 1601869)
Thanks to Joe Biden, the far far left and spineless Republicans, they ALL share in the state this country has fallen into today. F em all...MAGA or reap the consequences..I am voting for Trump, but it will take decades to come back from the ruination Biden and company has brought down us. God help us,please.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Highlander 11/20/2023 7:20:18 AM (No. 1601888)
Well, that, certainly, was cheerful to read.
The left’s suicidal death wish is dragging this country and the whole rest of the world into utter darkness. Will God intervene? Not at this time, I believe.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
slipstik 11/20/2023 7:33:51 AM (No. 1601895)
We have been on this road for a long time folks. Biden is just the hood ornament.
This descent was launched in the early 1900's with the "Progressive" movement ushered in by T. Roosevelt. Then a bit later the 16th was installed. Then the 17th became the law and the brilliant design of the founders was irretrievably broken.
The administrative state began in 1932 at the behest of FDR and the nails in our coffin were pounded in with the newly found federal powers.
We the people let this all happen. We ranted about "term limits" because we were too lazy to be the term limiters we were supposed to be.
A political elite super class came about and we just let it happen.
There is no saving is now.
I hope and pray Trump runs and wins, but he can't really save us. There isn't enough time. THAT'S what the usurper in chief has accomplished. He has bulldozed us to the precipice and we are going over whether we want to or not.
Prepare...for our doom is about to meet us.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
The Remnants 11/20/2023 7:40:18 AM (No. 1601904)
I am surprised this is not a Must Read.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chagrined 11/20/2023 7:40:57 AM (No. 1601905)
Excellent and accurate summation, poster # 3!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Venturer 11/20/2023 8:35:07 AM (No. 1601925)
I don't care for myself, I am an old man, but what will be left for my Grandchildren?
Right today our schools and colleges are more interested in teaching them that Homosexuals sex and Transgenders are a trend they should at least try, that abortions are a good method of birth control, that those who work need to be prepared to support those who don't, that Socialism is acceptable, more interested in all of this than teaching them the basics they need to survive and be productive citizens.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 11/20/2023 8:40:48 AM (No. 1601928)
Don't look down - we are already halfway down the cliff. Really, when will SS/Medicare collapse? That will be the point of impact that unleashes total social chaos. I'm certain the oligarchs have an accurate estimate. They're allowing the Border Invasion in a vain attempt to sign up millions more Ponzi suckers. They're not buying it. It's only making things worse - as does every move that the rulers make.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Poorboy 11/20/2023 9:07:14 AM (No. 1601953)
See Kipling's "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" and "The Second Coming" by Yeats...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
curious1 11/20/2023 9:28:23 AM (No. 1601970)
Until the American people eradicate the commies and their useful, incompatible culture, tools that they've imported, you won't turn it around.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
stablemoney 11/20/2023 9:45:06 AM (No. 1601989)
We are over the cliff, and it will take many decades to clean the mess up. Americans will suffer with a low standard of living.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 11/20/2023 9:50:32 AM (No. 1601996)
If it's any comfort every man, woman and child who are citizens owes $100,000 on our national debt alone - and politicians that we put in place keep spending. Pretty soon our national budgets will be taken over by interest payments for our debt. When that happens we're going to see some major cuts in spending, and they won't be pretty. That, or we default and everyone around the world drops the dollar. Those dystopian end of times movies, like Mad Max - mentioned in the article - will be seen as documentaries rather than entertainment.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
RubiconDan 11/20/2023 10:49:54 AM (No. 1602033)
It seems the pessimists rule the day here in the comments. Sometimes I feel the same way but I also know there are still millions of American Christians, maybe 50% of the total population, who are not aligned with the Left. I also know that there are many Red states that will not allow a further descent into the madness of the Left. I think there is some hope for a peaceful or not separation into Red and Blue nations but there is no easy solution to the insanity of the Left and their downward spiral of immorality. A major crisis or collapse I believe would stir up the necessary actions that may precipitate the societal changes seemingly impossible at this time. Our
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
chumley 11/20/2023 11:33:23 AM (No. 1602071)
We LDotters have been saying this since the late 1990s. It was depressing then and it still is. For what its worth, someone with a wider audience finally noticed.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JimBob 11/21/2023 2:50:21 AM (No. 1602348)
It seems to me that a lot of the rot got going during the Lyin' Lyndon Johnson administration, 1965 -1968.
Johnson's ineptitude and mismanagement in Vietnam, coupled with the college deferment system, flooded the universities with people who were not interested in an education, but were simply dodging the military draft. After hiding out in the University system for a good many years, and receiving various degrees and advanced degrees in the process, these draft-dodgers had the paper credentials, and were hired in to teaching positions in universities across the country, to the detriment of the entire university system, and everywhere that it's graduates ended up.
Another signature Johnson project was the 'Great Society' welfare laws. Those laws -still to this day- pay cash money to single females with children, but not if there is a man in the house. This resulted in the breakup -particularly of black families- on an industrial scale, to get the free cash. The result is generations of young black males, growing up without the firm hand of a Dad on their shoulder, guiding them in the right direction, and the result we see today, of the Urban Thug Culture that is destroying most of the major cities in the country.
Also about this time, senator 'Chappaquiddick Ted' Kennedy pushed through a major change in American immigration law, so that if favored people from 'diverse' cultures, people who -it seems to me- are not beneficial to America. Many of these people have joined with the Urban Thug Culture and contributed to the destruction of many of our once-great cities.
Also, the Lamestream Media -taken over by the graduates of the leftist indoctrination in the ruined University system- has been a constant source of Poison to our society since at least 1968, with 'edgier' and 'edgier' shows. What is an 'edgy' show? It is one that is trash, right on the edge of what society will tolerate..... and once that 'edge' has been dulled by familiarity, a new 'edge', more filthy, more stupid, more degenerate than the one before, is established, and the process continues to chip away at what was once a decent society.
The great radio announcer, Paul Harvey saw it coming in the mid-1960's, with his audio essay "If I Was The Devil". You can find it on Youtube today. Listen to his prediction come true.
I think it was Benjamin Franklin who said that "The government we have designed is suitable for governing a decent and moral people, and is completely unsuitable for any other." It seems to me that his words ring true,,,, American society, particularly in the big cities, is no longer of a decent and moral character suitable to be led by our form of government.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Trigger2 11/21/2023 3:30:12 AM (No. 1602364)
The edge of the cliff. I'm sure Joey and his commie demonrat buddies are sorry we haven't yet fallen off the cliff.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/21/2023 8:43:21 AM (No. 1602449)
The march to the new Amerika began over one hundred years ago. Our society of today showed God the door long ago. Along with it, morality and spirituality disappeared.
Nobody cares that America is circling the drain. Why? Because we have all the conveniences of modern life. Why worry about a pesky little societal collapse in America, Fletch? It can't happen here. We're too big to fail. Riiiight.
The way forward will be a very difficult road and for a long time. I would not want to be raising children in today's world.
On the positive side, we can always turn to God, our Holy Savior, for His Love and Wisdom.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Zigrid 11/21/2023 10:48:31 AM (No. 1602555)
I'm so tired of all the gloom and doom...it sells news on both sides...but...it's not the truth...Americans always rally to the cause...my darling husband who passed enlisted after WE were attacked at Pearl Harbor...he was 18 years old and gave five years to save America...and after 9/11 Americans rallied around our country...it will happen again....the socialists in California and DC do NOT speak for Americans...WE shall overcome their tyranny....
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
pensom2 11/21/2023 10:48:34 AM (No. 1602556)
Holy scripture is replete with examples of civilizations, peoples, and communities that, having turned away from God and having worshipped "false idols," have been overrun and destroyed. God permits communities to descend into chaos to the point of destruction. Indeed, it has been prophesied repeatedly that civilization in the last days will collapse and be destroyed. However, there are just as many examples of God protecting and saving the few who continue to worship and pray to Him and who refuse to worship false gods, whether they be idols and graven images or the modern idols of sexual sin, immorality, and money. All of these things can become false gods that people are prone to worship improperly when people elevate these false gods over their love of God, their creator. Many of the godless today have taken up worshipping "the environment" rather than God. They worship God's creations, rather than worshipping the Creator. I pray my grandchildren will cling resolutely to worshipping the One and Only True God. That's the only way they can be protected and saved from the hell that is descending upon the world. Christ is merciful to save.
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