America is withdrawing from the world. We are ever more-rapidly pulling in on ourselves, focusing on internal issues like healthcare, taxation without representation, and the Big Green Lie. Our poor military will be left stranded in Afghanistan for another year or two before they are pulled out “with honor”. Military left in Iraq will hunker down and hide behind their bomb-proof ex-Saddam palaces until they are given leave to retreat, too. Somali pirates can roam free, Putin can kill journalists, Iran can hijack British sailors, Pakistan can gang rape 12-year-old girl children … all with impunity because America won’t be around to say or do anything about it. Don’t care, and can’t afford the effort, any way.

The country is in an ever-quickening spiral of change, except now it’s not HopeNChange, it’s down the toilet change, which leads to national malaise and pessimism. Previous generations have had world wars to bring them together and inject some enthusiasm and patriotism back into the concept of “being an American”. But we are no longer allowed to consider America to be exceptional, so it’s very hard to drum up any of that “can-do” attitude. Especially since *all* the extra wealth we have historically be able to generate is now to go towards bringing a richer lifestyle to the backwards and lazy freeloaders who should not even be alive in a Darwinian world. Even in the face of Islamic (and Russian [and Chinese]) hatred and attacks, our leadership bows and grovels, and expects us to bow and grovel in turn … and to pay our unemployed next-door neighbors because they are talented enough to be able to sit up and breath (and whine).

I read a headline in passing recently that within the next few years, whites will be the new minority in the United States. And I have to wonder if having a majority of new “Americans” who weren’t the first to come here and colonize and pioneer and make up that Constitution has something to do with the new and ever-increasing laissez faire / manana attitude which now seems to be de rigueur for this country.

I really do hope there will be blood in the streets before we give the country over fully to the polar-bear-loving / healthcare-inflicting / taxation-wielding communists. But whatever happens here, the world is not invited to participate nor to kibitz. This is one American who is happy to wave “hasta la vista, baybeee” to all our overseas critics, enemies, and assorted remora . We won’t be back.