"What's happening" looks the same for all end-stage empires.
You can tell when an empire is in decline - it forgets, or loses confidence in, its own culture and values.
It forgets what once made it great and instead pursues expansion, hegemony, and imposing its forgotten values on others rather than living them itself.
It’s a shame.
“Make America Great Again” should mean America remembering and living again its values. It's values that are the bedrock of a culture.
When we think of America as she used to be, before the endless wars, the Dulles brothers, the labyrinthine neocon deep state, we think of what The Judge captured in that gaudy opening countdown of his:
freedom to make one’s own future, free from too much state interference. Compare that with China’s idea of community and conformity.
We think of “all men are created equal". How does that square with the Epstein list or tax avoidance for corporates and billionaires?
We think of the frontier spirit: tough people relying on themselves, driving westward in search of better lives for their families. But what does that mean today, to those living in caravan parks or numbed out on fentanyl?
People once ran to America. Now, they run away from it. What’s needed is a spiritual cleansing, a return to the faith that freedom, equality and self-reliance, not domination, are what make a nation great.
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