At the present time, China is the greatest threat to world stability, Russia is the world’s premier aggressor-nation, and Islamist groups are the primary exporters of terror and (religious) totalitarianism.
And, for the first time in history, America is the world’s major exporter of destructive ideas.
This is hard for me to write. One of my books is titled Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph. It contrasts American values with leftist values and makes the case that the American value system is the finest ever devised. I define American values — what I call the “American Trinity” — as “Liberty,” “In God We Trust,” and e pluribus unum (Latin for “From many, one”), the three American mottos found on American coins and banknotes.
No other country has those three national mottos. The book maintains that any country can adopt those values and any country that does adopt those values will be a good society. Its citizens will be the freest in the world and that country will prosper.
Indeed, those values are the reason Americans have been the freest people in the world and America has been, far and away, the greatest land of opportunity in human history.
But America has been gradually abandoning its unique value system and is consequently becoming a less free, less humane, less prosperous, and more corrupt country. In fact, at this moment, America is no longer the best country, the exceptional country, it has been since 1776. There may not yet be a better country. But that is cold comfort.
We are in the incredible position of being feared by many other relatively free societies; more than a few European countries actually reject America’s current values. And they are right to do so.
The most obvious example of America in decline is the perverse American doctrines surrounding transgender issues: the sex (“gender”) of any individual is not a given fact, “men give birth,” men who say they are women may compete in women’s sports, and physicians and children’s hospitals are right to surgically cut off the healthy breasts of young women and even girls who say they are boys.
America’s war on truth, science, and children has rendered America increasingly an outlier in the Western world.
More and more European countries are rejecting the perverse worlds of Yale and virtually every other American university, of The New York Times and virtually every other mainstream left-wing medium, of Boston Children’s Hospital and virtually every other children’s hospital, and of the University of Minnesota Medical School and virtually every other medical school.
Switzerland has just announced that as far as the Swiss nation and government are concerned, sex is not “non-binary.” In Switzerland, there are only two sexes, as has been the case in essentially every civilization in recorded history because that is the reality.
As reported by AP (but apparently not in The New York Times or elsewhere in the mainstream left-wing media), Swiss citizens “are entered into the civil registry as male or female, with no other option.” The Swiss Federal Council declared, “The binary gender model is still strongly anchored in Swiss society.”
Sweden — the American left’s most admired society until it broke with the rest of the West by allowing its children to stay in school during the Covid hysteria — has also broken with America on the transgender issue. Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare ended the practice of prescribing puberty blockers for minors under age 18; and as of December, mastectomies will only be offered in the rarest of circumstances.
Thomas Lindén, a head of the National Board, announced, “Young people who suffer from gender dysphoria need to be able to quickly receive an investigation and be offered adequate care measures, based on the health and medical services’ assessments of the care needs. Good psychosocial care is fundamental.”
In other words, if a Swedish teenage girl says she is a boy, Sweden will offer “psychosocial” care, almost never hormone blockers, let alone a mastectomy.
Between Sweden’s new policy on gender dysphoria and its allowing children to stay in school throughout the Covid epidemic, an American must sadly conclude that at this time in history, Sweden cares for its young people considerably more than America does.
In England last October, the National Health Service (NHS) announced, in the words of the Daily Mail, that “Children who believe they are trans are probably just going through a short-lived phase.” Therefore, logic and morality say, we should not make permanent life-altering changes to their bodies with drugs and surgery.
In addition, “The NHS England draft guidelines are part of the health service’s plan to close the highly-controversial Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock clinic, the country’s only gender identity service for children. GIDS is scheduled to shut its doors in the spring after a review ruled that the service was unsafe.”
Typical of the changes taking place in the UK regarding the transgender issues, Stella O’Malley, a psychotherapist and director of Genspect, an international transgender care group based in England, advised: “Professionals working with children need to . . . make sure they aren’t inadvertently causing harm by providing short term relief that leads to long term distress. . . . At Genspect . . . . we don’t think changing pronouns helps anyone — it creates more problems than it resolves.”
In France, the National Academy of Medicine has issued a statement advocating “psychosocial support” rather than hormone blockers and surgery for young people with gender dysphoria.
Finland had already enacted a similar policy decision as early as 2020. Thirteen European countries now reject the American “non-binary” attack on human sexuality and children.
Sadly, with regard to children’s wellbeing, there are many countries in which American parents would rather raise their child.
I never imagined I would ever believe that.
I wish you a Happier New Year.
Dennis, you are one of the best moral leaders of our time. I lived in Pakistan as a teenager in the 60s and even then I was embarrased by American movies shown in their country. And that was before they dismantled the censor boards in Hollywood!
America and Europe have become moral cesspools. That transgenderism, homosexuality and drag queens are being pushed on young children is evil beyond belief. Evangelical Christians know this is truly the beginning of end times. We are in deep, deep trouble. Deep trouble.
Very True Irene, there needs to be a national divorce to save what can be saved of the USA and a pragmatic partition, something like India/pakistan 1947 ,, civil war may be the only answer
Dennis, thank you for continuing to hold up to our faces the….
Insanity?
Evil?
Deceptions?
Lies…. so much lying!!!!
All of the above and more.
As I participate in my circle of influence you can plainly see we are nation in a state of shock. I am, my friends are dazed and confused.
There is a lot of going through the motions going on.
The initials WTF? are plain to see on every one of our foreheads.
I think there is a national level of PTSD going on in each and every one of us who subscribes to the motto’s you identified in this article.
Day by day we are being driven to our knees.
I don’t think we can draw back from the precipice until that moment of complete surrender happens. GOD HELP US!
Keep up the good work.
Your words though sometimes hard to read speak truth (truth is hard right?) which is the ultimate disinfectant.
God bless you!
Gos bless America!
You listed:
Insanity?
Evil?
Deceptions?
Lies…. so much lying!!!!
It now seems that everything I read has to be DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion). You changed the order and got them correct: Deception, Evil, Insanity. and added Lies for good measure.
Don’t beat yourselves up, Britain is closing down that clinic, but how long ago did we open it? How many kids were offered a two hour counselling session before they were immediately admitted to have the despicable treatment?
We are only now, after decades of the abuse of children, only now are we changing.
Was the change triggered by your outrage?
Hopefully, the insane Left has finally gone a cause too far. Now, don’t get me wrong, a huge part of our population is dumb as a sack of hair and thoroughly propagandized by our media (e.g., only 6% of Americans recently polled had the slightest idea how many illegal aliens crossed the border in 2022, 94% vastly under-estimating it) but I think, or at least hope, that most American will draw the line at being asked to accept that there are 58 “genders” and that confused children should be “treated” by surgically neutering them. Well, one can hope.
America has become the greatest exporter of destructive ideas because morons like Dennis Prager can only offer the Bible as the antidote for secular stupidity.
Fight secular stupidity with supernatural stupidity, fight secular mysticism with supernatural mysticism, fight secular magical thinking with Biblical magical thinking, fight secular unreason with religious unreason — yeh, that’s the antidote — fight unreason with unreason.
The mysticism, unreason, and magical thinking of Judeo-Christianity prepared the way for Islam and Marxism.
But hey, let’s go back to the magical thinking of the Bible, let’s go back to the Christian Dark Ages, it’s better magical thinking than the magical thinking of the religion of Transgenderism.
Beyond reproach
Communism, Socialism & liberalism which are basically the same. The differences are theoretically superficial practically it’s only a matter of time. They are best understood as a kind of secular religion. They have all the elements of a religion. They have their hell capitalism. They have their heaven “true socialism “ which like the second coming in Christianity is always somewhere just around the corner. If not Russia then China then North Korea then Cuba then Vietnam but unlike other religions they intend to create heaven on earth not wait till the afterlife which makes these creeds more dangerous
So who will wave the magic wand to make all men’s reasoning align? Ayn Rand? Your “solutions” to all mankind’s problems seems so simple yet they seem to gain no traction. All I ever hear you say is faith in mysticism is the problem. Perhaps you’d gain some converts if you provided a method to convert all the “religious zealots” to “reasoning” individuals that can do something more than bash Christians. By the way, you aren’t the first who has tried and failed. Go figure.
THX 1138 still praying for you my friend.
God is the only moral absolute.
We are where we are because the Altar of Man is more attractive (easy, do what you like) than submitting one’s self to the truth and the light.
The real work on our condition begins when we humble ourselves before Him. That is why the gate is narrow and few find it.
FYI….. I am praying this in my mind.
Father God I lift THX 1138 up to you this moment. I pray he awakens to the fact that all of mankind is wicked, evil and selfish. It is obvious to even the most casual observer the ugliness we are witnessing bears fact to this undeniable truth. We need YOU! Desperately! Drive us to our knees oh Lord. I pray you change this person’s heart. Reveal yourself to him. In your most Holy name I pray. Amen.
The man is a blinded fool (Psalm 14:1), and prides himself in making it clear ad nauseum.
Casting pearls before swine never brings forth any value.
Mr. Prager
You never mention who is financially supporting the cultural rot that America is spreading over its own country and the world. Why is that? I’m talking about naming names. Who supports transgenderism? Name them.
America has been deporting destruction for decades, Abortion is just one example.