Each day, more people wake up to the fact that, “How can we save America?” is a pointless question. America is already a corpse. Many of us have finally noticed that it’s stopped twitching.
A better question is, “When did America die?”
Was it last year, when Trump signed the spending bill?
What about George W. Bush’s invasion of Afghanistan, allegedly a response to 9/11, which kicked off US involvement in the Forever War?
Was it in 1998, when Bill Clinton was impeached by the House but acquitted by the Senate?
How about Reagan’s 1986 amnesty?
For that matter, what about the Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965?
Or all the excesses of FDR’s imperial style presidency?
1920 was the year when American men inexplicably gave women the franchise.
What about Wilson involving America in World War I?
Was it in 1913 with the ratification of the 16th Amendment, which gave Congress the power to tax incomes without apportionment?
Many mark America’s time of death as 1861, when the Civil War killed the understanding of the United States as a voluntary union and facilitated her transformation into an international empire.
Was it in 1794, when the US government under the fledgling Constitution deployed an army against its own citizens, many of whom were Revolutionary War veterans–for protesting a tax similar to those they’d rebelled against Britain over?
Was it in 1789, when that same Constitution based not on eternal truth but on worldly compromise, took effect?
Taking a long view of history shows that America’s death was not a single, violent event. It was the work of slow poison corroding the national fabric over years, even centuries.
And the poison was baked into the cake from the start–at least from the start of the United States as a political entity.
Consider freedom of speech, which was devised by practitioners of Enlightenment realpolitik to hoodwink Christians into unilaterally disarming themselves.
What we’re seeing are the inevitable wages of Liberalism. A political system based on an attempt to replace absolute good with absolute freedom can last a while in a society with a largely homogeneous demographic, cultural, and religious makeup. We have not inhabited such a society for a while.
There is no putting Humpty Dumpty back together. Nor should we want to. Recreating America ca. 1955 would eventually land us right back in Clown World.
Providence will soon give us the chance to start again and avoid the mistakes of the past. We can build a new, sane order founded on immutable truth. But first enough of us must let go of the homeland where we grew up, and which is just as lost as Atlantis.
If we let go of the past, we can build a future where the rhythm of life harmonizes with human nature, where the state and the market exist to serve man, and where the common good is upheld.
The last black pill has turned out to be the ultimate white pill after all.
And a vital first step is not giving money to people who hate you!
