The nation of my immigrant grandparents and the multitudes who came before them is dying though, and few seem to care.
I can remember my father explaining back in the 1950s how America would never be defeated by an external enemy. He believed our demise would be the result of self inflicted wounds. He had been a union supporter and shop steward for his Teamster's local. He watched how greed and corruption turned a once positive force for the working man into a malignant entity. He knew, or somehow intuited, that greed would lead to the fall of the American worker and the middle class that was composed of working men.
Time went by and greed saw the collapse or relocation of one American enterprise after another. While this went on, there was a cultural revolution that saw the destruction of the Judeo-Christian value system that had been the foundation of American thought and motivation. Educational and sexual revolutions were hastened ever onward by the entertainment and mass media industries as Marxists and atheists, degenerates and progressive anarchists, secular humanists and self loathing anti-American Americans gained control of the institutions of higher education and the editorial boards of mainstream newsmedia.
George Orwell's Newspeak was the coin of the realm.
We have become a debtor nation that borrows from the world so we can buy their products and defend their borders with our military. Is this madness or what?
Check out this article for some interesting ( interesting in the Chinese sense of a 'curse') tidbits.
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/40-signs-that-america-is-rotting-from-the-inside-out
I recommend a just published book by Patrick Buchanan, who says it all a lot better than I ever could. Read it and weep, but don't say no one ever warned you.
