There are some modern day philosophers such as Molyneux who believe we are entering a new Dark Age. A “fourth turning” as it were. The old cyclical “weak men make hard times” etc….is timeless and true. It is just our ill luck to be living during one of the declines.
We should look around and write this all down for our descendants. When they inevitably ask “How could they have been so stupid?!” Make sure they know SOME of us weren’t.
The recipe, in my opinion, for the death of a nation boils down to two things…..cheap, unskilled labor and fake money. No matter what, those two factors will lead to an eventual societal and economic collapse. Every other bump on the road to unenlightenment is exacerbated by those two things.
That means the slave ships should have been turned away from our shores. And the Creature from Jekyll Island should have been vanquished before it was able to cast it’s illusion of prosperity over the land.
TANSTAAFL……or as Great Grandpa Alfonse used to say…”Anything FREE is worth saving up for.”

Start by floating the absurdity that men can be women, or women can be men; witness atrocity in castrating toddlers, or tomboy girls at age five or six having mastectomies.