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THEN
Longevity is both a blessing and a curse. The baby born yesterday is in blissful ignorance. As a baby boomer I see how my generation has totally screwed up the world we inherited.
It all really started in the 1960s when we became teenagers. That was a turbulent traumatic decade that today’s young folks really don’t realize.
War in Vietnam. Hippie daze. Political assassinations. Unrest. Cassius Clay, whom you may know of by his Muslim name, became an anti-hero by dodging the draft. A nation that was beginning to move away from its foundations.
I won’t detail each decade since then. Suffice it to say that the patriotism of Ronald Reagan was a high point slowing down our national decline. But since 1993, we have had four presidents all born after World War II.
Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump all merit a case study of their own. Each of them is a symptom and not a cause of America’s loss of self-identity and our collective misdirection.
NOW
Our elected leaders mostly lack an understanding of what this country is all about. They tend to be totally self-immersed with no concept whatsoever of the role they play in history.
Following national news stories, it’s all either he did that or she said this. In other words, it’s all personality-oriented. There is no circumspection or realization of the current-day threat picture in which our homeland exists.
ANECDOTE
I was working in Washington DC just a few blocks from the White House at U.S. Customs Service HQ in an outbound enforcement program called Operation Exodus when Saddam Hussein’s hordes invaded Kuwait in 1990. I helped implement an immediate embargo that augmented the U.S. military response.
President George H.W. Bush handled the first Persian Gulf War very well. He himself was a World War II hero who had been shot down over Saipan in the Pacific.
I have not been able to find a video clip or article about this, but I distinctly recall Senator Joe Biden stating that President Bush would absolutely win re-election and was undefeatable. Unfortunately the Governor of Arkansas and the American electorate didn’t get that memo.
WHAT DRIVES DC TODAY?
Politics! In a word, that’s it. It’s amazing how people achieve such high positions in life and still act like school kids trying to bully one another on the playground.
I’ve always loved geography and am one of those rare people able to visualize maps in my mind’s eye. I suspect many of the denizens of DC would have trouble finding Hawaii on a map.
My recent articles about the Pacific will ring bells only for a very select few in our government. But while they are vying with one another for the spotlight in our nation’s capital, the world is going to hell in a handbasket.
IS IRAN OR CHINA THE WORST THREAT?
Neither! Apathy is the biggest threat to our national cohesion and ultimate survival in a world that is crumbling around us.
Iran is more likely due to apocalyptic theology to do something really stupid to provoke an armed conflict in the near future. Meanwhile, China is slowly and efficiently achieving world domination. Pick your poison.
But, never fear, the noble media will somehow figure out whether Trump or Biden sold our country down the drain with Ukraine. To impeach or whether to worship as blue-blooded American royalty. These are the world-shaking decisions being made inside the DC Beltway at this very moment.
The Titanic was a ship that could never be sunk. But somehow the iceberg failed to get that memo.
We are currently forming the American Conservative Movement. If you are interested in learning more, we will be sending out information in a few weeks.
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