Preface
to “The Future of America?”
(Article below)
Presenter: Dick Stetler – November
11, 2021 There are a number of readers who are very
concerned by the rapid acceleration toward the radical changes taking
place in the United States.
All of these changes were created by the present leadership of our
country. Bruce Clark is
giving voice to where these changes may take our nation.
In this respect, Bruce is prophesizing the future.
He is doing so by pointing to other great nations who have risen
and fallen, many of them due to self-inflicted wounds.
My position is to live with whatever happens in
spite of what this world brings into our lives.
Jesus was crucified.
Most of his disciples died a martyr’s death.
The Church completely lost its way when it became the Holy
Roman Empire or when it established Tribunals that tried and
convicted people who held variant teachings that were not part of the
Church’s orthodoxy. Still the surge of spiritual energy grew
even during the Dark Ages. Spiritual energy intuitively knows
that humanity was created to be free.
Such knowledge has surpassed all political and liturgical
boundaries. Bruce is warning of what may happen to America given
the current direction our nationally, elected officials are mandating.
Bruce may be correct. Remember, Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this
world.” In spite of what
any of us believes, this temporary world of constantly changing values
is not our world either.
Our physical world is our simulator for perfecting our responses
and nothing more. The world goes
away when each of us returns to our native environment.
Many people will not understand
this until their deaths when they discover that none of us dies.
Enjoy! “The Future of America?” By Bruce J. Clark November, 2021
Men, like nations, think they’re eternal. What man in his 20s or 30s
doesn’t believe, at least subconsciously, that he’ll live forever? In
the springtime of youth, an endless summer beckons.
As you pass 70, it’s harder to hide from reality.
Nations also have seasons: Imagine a Roman of the 2nd century
contemplating an empire that stretched from Britain to the Near East,
thinking: This will endure forever.... Forever was about 500 years, give
or take. France was pivotal in the 17th and 18th centuries; now the land
of Charles Martel is on its way to becoming part of the Muslim Ummah.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the sun never set on the British
empire; now Albion exists in a perpetual twilight. Its 95-year-old
sovereign is a fitting symbol for a nation in terminal decline.
In the 1980s, Japan seemed poised to buy the world. Business schools
taught Japanese management techniques. Today, its birth rate is so low
and its population is aging so rapidly, that an industry has sprung up
to remove the remains of elderly Japanese who die alone.
I
was born in 1946, almost at the midpoint of the 20th century – the
American century. America’s prestige and influence were never greater.
Thanks to the “Greatest Generation”, we won a World War fought
throughout most of Europe, Asia and the Pacific. We reduced Germany to
rubble and put the rising sun to bed.
It set the stage for almost half a century of unprecedented prosperity.
We stopped the spread of communism in Europe and Asia, and fought
international terrorism. We rebuilt our enemies and lavished foreign aid
on much of the world. We built skyscrapers and rockets to the moon. We
conquered Polio and now COVID. We explored the mysteries of the universe
and the wonders of DNA....the blueprint of life.
But where is the glory that once was Rome? America has moved from a
relatively free economy to socialism – which has worked so well NOWHERE
in the world. We’ve gone from a republican government guided by a
constitution to a regime of revolving elites. We have less freedom with
each passing year. Like a signpost to the coming reign of terror, the
cancel culture is everywhere. We’ve traded the American Revolution for
the Cultural Revolution.
The pathetic creature in the White House is an empty vessel filled by
his handlers. At the G-7 Summit, Dr. Jill had to lead him like a child.
In 1961, when we were young and vigorous, our leader was too. Now a
feeble nation is technically led by the oldest man to ever serve in the
presidency.
We can’t defend our borders, our history (including monuments to past
greatness) or our streets. Our cities have become anarchist playgrounds.
We are a nation of dependents, mendicants, and misplaced charity.
Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in
hotels.
The president of the United States can’t even quote the beginning of the
Declaration of Independence correctly. Ivy League graduates routinely
fail history tests that 5th graders could pass a generation ago.
Crime rates soar and we blame the 2nd Amendment and slash police
budgets.
Our culture is certifiably insane. We have people who fight racism by
seeking to convince members of one race that they’re inherently evil,
and others that they are perpetual victims. A psychiatrist lecturing at
Yale said she fantasizes about “unloading a revolver into the head of
any white person.” We slaughter the unborn in the name of freedom, while
our birth rate dips lower year by year.
Our national debt is so high that we can no longer even pretend that we
will repay it one day. It’s a $28-trillion monument to our improvidence
and refusal to confront reality. Our “entertainment” is sadistic,
nihilistic and as enduring as a candy bar wrapper thrown in the trash.
Our music is noise that spans the spectrum from annoying to repulsive.
Patriotism is called insurrection, treason celebrated, and perversion is
sanctified. A man in blue gets less respect than a man in a dress. We’re
asking soldiers to fight for a nation our leaders no longer believe in.
How meekly most of us submitted to Fauci-ism (the regime of face masks,
lockdowns and hand sanitizers) shows the impending death of the American
spirit.
How do nations slip from greatness to obscurity?
In America, every one of these symptoms is pronounced, indicating an
advanced stage of the disease. Even if the cause seems hopeless, do we
not have an obligation to those who sacrificed so much to give us what
we had?
This is the nation that took in my immigrant grandparents, whose uniform
my father and most of my uncles wore in the Second World War. I don’t
want to imagine a world without America, even though it becomes
increasingly likely.
During Britain’s darkest hour, when its professional army was trapped at
Dunkirk and a German invasion seemed imminent, Churchill reminded his
countrymen, “Nations that go down fighting rise again, and those that
surrender tamely are finished.” The same might be said of causes. If we
let America slip through our fingers, if we lose without a fight, what
will posterity say of us?
While the prognosis is far from good, only God knows if America’s day in
the sun is over.
If you agree, pass it on; if not, simply delete it.
Powering your future,
Bruce J. Clark, CEO
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