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“We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies.”
So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C.- A.D. 17) of the long decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended the Roman Republic.
Like a patient whose medicine proves worse than the disease, Livy lamented that the Romans knew that they had become corrupt and lawless.
But the very contemplation of the hard medicine needed for restoration—and the furious reaction that would meet the remedy—made it impossible to save the patient.
America is nearing such an impasse.
We know that no state can long exist after opening its borders to over 7 million illegal aliens, requiring neither background checks nor legality.
The recent murder of a Georgia female jogger by an illegal alien and the savage beating of New York policemen by similar others hardly merit media attention.
Everyone knows that neither new appropriations nor new laws are needed to secure the border as it was in 2020.
Instead, we could just stop suicidal catch-and-release, deport lawbreakers, privilege the legal over the illegal immigrant, demand would-be refugees apply for asylum first in their native countries, finish the border wall, and pressure Mexico to stop undermining the territorial integrity of its northern neighbor.
But then we shrug, “We can’t do that”—paralyzed in fear of being smeared as “xenophobic,” “nativist,” or “racist.”
So this generation apparently feels that it can endure the collateral damage of daily assaults on American citizens, the near bankruptcy of our cities, and 100,000 fentanyl deaths per year—but certainly not the idea that it is somehow not politically correct or compassionate.
The same is true of the $35 trillion debt, now costing more than $1 trillion a year in interest payments—and growing. We all know it is unsustainable. Americans understand it will eventually lead either to destructive hyperinflation, suicidal renunciation of federal debt, or confiscation of private savings.
Yet we ignore the reckless spending and keep borrowing well over $1 trillion a year. Apparently, our generation prefers being praised as “virtuous” and “caring.” So it leaves the next generation to be smeared as “cruel” and “unfair” when it is forced to cut federal entitlements and bloated government or face civilizational collapse.
The crime epidemic is also similar. Everyone accepts that no society can long endure quasi-legalized shoplifting or green-lighting smash-and-grabbers and carjackers to be released without bail.
But we assume that such a civilizational implosion will never reach our own sanctuary neighborhoods or safe places of work—at least not yet.
We also know that restoring deterrence by arresting, convicting, and jailing repeat felons will return safety to our streets.
But again, we fear even more that advocating “law and order” will earn slanders like “racist” or “reactionary.”
Ditto the homeless. In an age of self-congratulation and hyper-environmentalism, we know that a million homeless defecating, urinating, injecting, and assaulting on our downtown sidewalks and storefronts is medieval.
We know that it is illegal to camp out on the street and publicly harass citizens or relieve oneself in public.
And we know the cure lies in building and staffing more mental institutions and providing areas far from public spaces where the homeless can find shelter, sanitation, and medical care.
But the very idea of removing anyone from his accustomed sidewalk spot, or the notion of the use of force to transport the mentally ill to proper and humane facilities, terrifies us.
So we walk around, step over, and ignore those on the street.
Is the assumption that the odds of being assaulted or sickened acceptable? Or do we just not wish to learn where the flotsam, jetsam, and human offal of the street end up?
Most accept that had Donald Trump just not run for president in 2024 or was a man of the left, he would not now be facing four different felony court cases.
Most accept that three of the four prosecutors have either in advance promised to get Trump or have proved grossly unethical.
Most know it is wrong to try to remove a leading presidential candidate from state ballots.
Yet many shrug that this new weaponization of America’s legal system is the flamboyant Trump’s own problem, not their own. So they ignore the third worldization of our political system, which they quietly acknowledge is otherwise leading us to a Venezuela-like mess.
The paralysis of American society extends to our foreign policy as well. We deplore the terrorism of Iran and its thuggish surrogates. But we fear more the nasty, costly business of stopping its aggression.
Societies do not always collapse from a lack of wealth, invasion, or natural catastrophes.
Most often, they know what is destroying them. But they are so paralyzed by their fear that the road to salvation becomes too painful to even contemplate.
So they implode gradually, then suddenly.
Front Page Magazine could perform a great public service by publishing an article and producing a companion video warning voters that the leftwing dominated Democrat Party is not just coming for your your guns, because it believes in disarming law abiding citizens; it’s coming for your cars and homes, especially, suburban and rural homes.
The Party wants a nation of renters reliant on mass transit, dwelling in Soviet-style apartment blocks under 24/7 surveillance, toiling at the edge of economic extinction..
To hasten the end of private home ownership, Dems led by the Squad will promote mass occupation of temporarily and seasonally vacant primary and secondary homes. The movement will start, has already started, with homeless camping on lands and lawns. But it will spread and escalate to include home invasions and occupations. Police will be overwhelmed, powerless to defend private property.
From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Main Street to Occupy Your Street to Occupy your front lawn, backyard … and home itself .., that’s the nightmare coming sooner than people realize. Raising awareness of the threat could make a real difference in November’s outcome.
I think you just wrote that article. Well done.
All true except that derelicts will only be able to take the property of leftist weaklings. Normal people will fight them off, mostly with guns that are still legal.
True but remember, the leftwing sissies wants the rest of us to share in their pusillanimity by disarming us and thus rendering the rest of us weak and cowardly just like they are.
Liberty, freedom, safety and security are meaningless words if you’re not ready and willing to stand and fight for them and if necessary, die defending them.
The problem we face today is that far to many “sheeple” are unwilling to stand and fight for those things and instead, want and expect someone else to do it for them. That’s a recipe for the tyranny of totalitarianism and it’s various flavors (e.g., communism, socialism, despotism, etc..)
This would work in the America of 20 years ago, but in today’s two-tier justice system, with its corrupt judges and juries, especially in large cities, your life will be over as soon as you defend yourself with a gun. You will be arrested, convicted and jailed.
Perhaps someone needs to publish a list online (and advertise it on TikTok and elsewhere) of the second homes, vacation homes, beach homes, etc. of the leftist politicians and their acolytes, including leftist Hollywood celebs.
I was told by a friend, rather superciliously, that my “Golden Rule” was based in selfishness, but that he aspired to a higher standard, the “Platinum Rule”. When I expressed my ignorance of that “rule”, I was told it was to, “Do unto others as they would have you do unto them.” In other words, give everyone what they want. He lives on a golf course in a city being invaded by illegals; I wonder how many of them he would welcome into his home if they just moved in? And when they emptied his refrigerator, took his and his wife’s BMWs, and filled every room of his house, would that still be his rule?
Proud to be a “xenophobe,” a “nativist,” and a “racist.” Go ahead, smear me. The ones who are afraid to speak up for fear of being smeared are the gutless racists nativists and xenophobes.It’s just so much more easy to call them RINOs
Prior to 1965 we didn’t really have these problems because there were mental institutions and there weren’t rampant illegals entering the country by the millions.
Put the blame where it belongs……on naive do-gooders like Ted Kennedy and the insanely corrupt Joe Biden.
Can’t we bring back Operation Wetback again? It worked.
Joe Biden has allowed 8 million unvetted military aged men to enter the country illegally. They are unaccompanied by their women. What could possibly go wrong, Joe? That is precisely how Sweden went from being a peaceful homogeneous society to become the rape capital of Europe. Where, oh where, are the feminists?
Livy was right and he may as well have been describing present day America.
America is definitely in the long decline of its national character that, in this era, will finally end the American Republic. Corrupt and lawless doesn’t begin to describe post America.
“Most often, they know what is destroying them. But they are so paralyzed by their fear that the road to salvation becomes too painful to even contemplate. So they implode gradually, then suddenly.”
Yeah. Hemmingway said the same thing and he’s one of the best writers ever, despite his dopey sociopolitical opinions. America is here. Right now and no doubt about it although most conservatives fool themselves into thinking the American dream is eternal, fools that they are.
America needs a Julius and Augustus Caesar. Nothing else will save us. It really is that simple – and unnecessarily complicated.
If left wing American Jews can turn away from suicidal liberalism—and many are—then it is not too much to think that other, less committed cohorts of the entrenched left will also come to their senses.
You make far too much sense. So much so that what you suggest is entirely unacceptable and a serious threat to the lying, conniving, two-faced, fork tongue, duplicitous, slimy backstabbing parasitic grifters that populate Crapitol Hill and the greater Washington DC area.
Simply stated: what you suggest is a threat to how they make a living. Graft and corruption is “baked into the cake.” Honesty, frugality and accountability are fictions the political class sells to the naive and ignorant public at large. The insiders knows it’s all bullsh*t.
We can accept our current social monstrosity or taken action crush it.
I believe the French revolution started similarly?
America will soon see its own terror.
That the radical leftists in LA would even consider, let alone hire illegal aliens for police officers (to police legal citizens) and, that the radical leftists in Sacramento would even consider, let alone authorizing home mortgages without interest charges (that places them in a 120% welfare dependent class) for illegal aliens speaks solely to their perception of reality and living in a sovereign first world nation. The LA City Council and the Sacramento Legislature should be tarred and feathered and ran out of town on a rail and forbidden to hold any elective office ever again.
For that vicious illegal migrant from South of border Jose Antonio , is such a malicious criminal that he murdered a young innocent college student who was in training to be a nurse.
That horrible and incident is one example out of many which further proves the That vicious illegal migrant from South of border is such a malicious criminal that he murdered a young innocent college student who was in training to be a nurse.
That horrible and incident is one example out of many which further proves the impotence of strong secure US .Mexican borders.
As Ronald Reagan had rightly and wisely, declared in a speech, “A nation without borders is not a nation.”
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Part of this article reads “We know that no state can long exist after opening its borders to over 7 million illegal aliens, requiring neither background checks nor legality.”
It further informs its reader about “The recent murder of a Georgia female jogger by an illegal alien….”
For that vicious illegal migrant from South of border Jose Antonio , is such a malicious criminal that he murdered a young innocent college student who was in training to be a nurse.
That horrible and incident is one example out of many which further proves the That vicious illegal migrant from South of border is such a malicious criminal that he murdered a young innocent college student who was in training to be a nurse.
That horrible and incident is one example out of many which further proves the impotence of strong secure US .Mexican borders.
The GOP in Congress has already succumbed for the most part, thus their constituents feel voiceless, hopeless and despair. Thankfully FOM, Breitbart, The Federalist, JNS and a few others keep the torch burning..
Andrew Breitbart isnt here, but Trump is – but just everyone is worried that because of the nonstop political assassination attempts against Trump by the lawless left coup plotters – that someone (hired by, or even influenced by) will do a JFK on him.
Treasonous people, lawfare, woke brainwashing, hate-cowtowing and antisemitism, violence, cancelling/voice suppression and decimation of liberties and rights are rampant.
WELCOME TO THE BROKEN STATES OF GOTHAM!!
Where the mafioso, drug cartels, criminals and thugs work hand-in-hand with the Big Guys (CCP, Soros and his armies, terror supporters, antifa, BLM, Obama, Obiden, Oblinken) and the Crime Families (Clinton, Biden, etc)
A true leftist utopia it is!!!
Welcome to the Broken States of OBAMA!
His henchmen are running the country and his puppet is an empty suit! An election can take of that.
What’s really bothering me is the silence of the FBI-CRICKETS! MS 13 has gangs in every state. Palestinian
protests happening everywhere-you know there are illegal aliens comprising most of these protests.
Where’s the FBI???????
MS 13 is in every state of the Union. The Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, is rapidly spreading its tentacles around the country. We also have become hosts to violent Haitian gangs. Why doesn’t the FBI go after these uninvited miscreants under the RICO Act? Guess they are too busy trashing Mar-a-Lago and arresting prominent Trump supporters. They have become an international laughingstock and a national disgrace.
So you’re saying this “son of Hamas” is lying or maybe just riffing. Years ago in the original Obama regime there was another “son of”. He was featured on Fox cable news. He looked into the camera with a particular stare. His eyes looked disconnected from his mouth as he spoke, I know different cultures have different uses of emotional display but I did not find him sincere. I see the same dead stare on this new “son of” and so I do not believe him.
My point is we are too gullible. Too desperate for leftists or Islamists to defect and join us in our assumed better and more loving way of life. As leftists and Muslims lie for their cause, why wouldn’t they lie about wanting to join us?
It is very hard to trust these days.
Well, Rome fell from within, and that seems to be the plan for America. Our children will not know the Freedoms we held so dear.
A great and sobering article by VDH. America’s collapse is a bitter pill to swallow, indeed.
It is neither virtuous nor caring to turn a blind eye to millions of unvetted men entering the country, which brings with it rampant drug/fentanyl smuggling, child?sex trafficking. The Democrats stand on their soap box and rail against the 20138 gun deaths in 2022 (non-suicide number), and ignore the 109,680 fentanyl deaths in 2022. Perhaps because the fentanyl importers, dealers and users are most likely to vote for them. They also ignore statistics that the overwhelming majority of gun-related deaths occur in the cities they have managed for generations. Too much work to go block-by-block in Baltimore when it’s far easier to clamp down on decent people in ‘fly-over’ country.
A government’s primary responsibility is to provide safety for its citizens. If it cannot do that it is of little value to its citizens. We currently inhabit a failed state. I wish I had a plan that could help. I don’t.