America is dying before your eyes.

The title of this post comes from Mark Steyn.  The complete quote is: “America is dying before your eyes. Why pretend that’s normal?”^<1>

Forty-six per cent of registered voters think that “the real problem is that the system no longer provides for any meaningful course correction,” he notes.  Whether it’s the open borders, off-shoring, politicians in thrall to foreign nations, or casual foreign military adventure you can bet the political class don’t give a tinker’s dam about what the sovereign people think.  Sovereign how exactly?

It would be one thing if the political class truly had the interests of the nation and its founding citizens close to their hearts, but it does not.  What isn’t lunatic — debt, spending, war, unfunded liabilities, inflation, bubbles, malinvestment, stock buybacks, and endless currency debasement — is positively malevolent — climate change, electric vehicles, the wild growth of non-governmental subverters, 15-minute cities, poisonous “vaccines,” bogus pandemics, homomania, defunding police, mass third-world immigration, CBDCs, prosecutorial nonfeasance, politicized courts, feminist treachery, casual abortion, surgical mutilation of children, extinguishment of parental rights, censorship, surveillance, corrupt federal security agencies, corrupt elections, tolerance of dark money, constitutional destruction, protection of AntiFa, media dishonesty, cultural debasement, destruction of government education, and through-the-roof arrogance.

Such laundry lists are effortlessly composed from memory, such is the astonishing extent of the century-long assault on this grand experiment in self-government. 

The notion that I had after Western Civ. 101 in college of a gradual upward drift to greater and greater enlightenment, efficiency, comfort, wealth, security, and health has proved to be wildly naive.  In the space of 30 years the U.S. has headed straight into the arms of plutocracy, invisible government, unbelievable public corruption, cultural decay, and a contemptible, feeble surrender to the very worst of people intent on our destruction and subjugation.

Notes.
^<1>“The Real New Normal.”  By Mark Steyn, Steyn on America, 9/8/23.