One typo: “From all over the earth, men and women have risked their lives to immerse themselves in this great experiment in freedom and individuality”

Thanks for the mind candy. ◄Dave►

It seems that America’s philosophy also has its emotional aspects.

The key problem of course is that global businesses behave like sociopathic criminals enough of the time that both capitalism and american wind up being hated at the same time they are admired.

I think if you want to defend “america,” you should also defend the rule of law, and you should be attacking those who undermine the soul of your ideas. The global criminals who have economically enslaved a good part of the world. Read Perkins’ books. Those people are the ones who open the door to idiots like Sean Penn.

I like to think that I can see “the big picture” and try to put into perspective the collective situation of the world. While there are many challenges still to face, I see America’s force for good paying off in some of the strangest ways. That technology created by Americans has enabled hundreds of millions in Communist China and other harsh places to raise their standard of living is nothing short of astounding. That the advances you outline benefit the world are the fruit of investment over many decades is proof of our willingness to help others. Sure we have not conquered all problems but life on earth has improved. The fact that our Dear Leader worships Communist China as being more advanced than the US negates our contributions to their current situation, both technologically and economically.

The perceived “decline” of the US relative to other such countries is not necessarily a marker of our civilizations’ decline but rather the raising up of other countries who compete with the US. However, now with forces of domestic subversion ruining our economy, standard of living, and search for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, maybe there is a real decline and fall in our future. Maybe, just maybe our historical exceptionalism will enable us to avoid the pitfalls of other civilizations, but we will have to fight this enemy like no other seen to date.

The treatment is to get back to basics, simplify, re-dedicate and move ahead in all areas of our lives. The price may be some temporary pain but saving, getting out of debt and setting new priorities are key. Recommitting ourselves to excellence, hard work, honesty, justice, and opportunity will lead to a resurgence not redistributing wealth and stifling innovation, creativity and hard work. The biggest challenge will be in revitalizing our educational system. Otherwise, an uneducated population will simply be a boat anchor that will result in the decline and fall of the brightest light in history. God Bless America.

Thank you for such a spark of REAL hope and inspiration. We do live in the best place on earth. even if some of our fellow “citizens” cannot see or will not acknowledge that fact.

Sitting at my Desk in a foreign port, Baghdad, I’m one of the “Crafts, Skills, Trades, Artisans, etc” that joined the exodus in 1977 when I walked away from a movie and went to a job in the North Sea, on a Pipeline Platform off the Coast of England (because I knew it would be the death of Gilley’s).

From this vantage, there is little I could do to change the inevitable fall of Mr. Reagon’s “Shining City on a Hill:” we are beyond the precipice with legions of enemies digging the hole we will be buried in…most fervent, of course, our “Great Leader” in Metrosexual drag.

That I could see where this was leading, even before I found the list of the “Markers of the End of a Golden Age,” changes nothing, and, I see no way to pull back from a freefall into another dark and violent age.

I’m just a symptom of things to come, playing my part reluctantly, but, fighting with all my skills, knowledge, and, Degrees (from afar) that which would be more effective nose-to-nose with the enemy: Socialism.

I’m still married to the beautiful radical Feminist, Progressive Activist (second wife in the movie) I met in front of the Punching Bag at Gilley’s in 1976, that I consider the ‘face of the enemy.’

Neither of us will ever change, and, I would rather be an Expatriot American than fight a battle I’ve already lost (she brings me articals from newspapers, with the things she wants it to say highlighted, and, gets furious when I read the other words in the sentence that flip the meaning).

The end of this “Golden Age” will not be pretty, because, all Socialist/Marxist/Communist Societies in history have two common characteristics: War and Genocide (of the common citizen)…the “Great Ladies” of the Obamanation are ramping up to make it happen, and they’re bringing the war to America (Janet Napolitano reminds me of a Janet Reno redux…Napolireno? …is there a Waco, Arizona?).