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The plague of political correctness has spawned another equally virulent plague of refusal to assume personal accountability, which together are exterminating the qualities that formerly made this nation great and the envy of the rest of the shit-for-brains world. It has become a massively hysterical cycle of self destruction, fueled by a complete suspension of reason, accountability, and plain old common sense.
I had always been comforted by the thought that those who represented the bedrock of our former greatness, the patriots who fought and died for our freedom, the patriots who "asked not what our country could do for us", the patriots who kept the flame of liberty burning by educating themselves as best they could, paying the taxes they owed on time, contributing to the welfare of family, community, and nation by conducting their affairs and responsibilities conscientiously and in good faith, and all those Americans who kept their eyes on the ball of justice, fairness, courtesy, fair play, and thankfulness for our Constitutional bounty to pursue happiness for ourselves and our children, all those as well as the majority, who just went about their business without being a pain in the ass to their fellow citizens, would keep the spectacular concept, conjured out of chaos by our Founding Fathers and preserved by the Great Emancipator, alive for ourselves and posterity.
The past few years have shaken my faith in America's future. I pray I am proven wrong.
“‘I deserve; I am owed; I must receive’ is our mantra. ‘We must become more like the [rest of the] world’, rather [than] they like us. ‘War is caused by mis-communications’, rather than [by] intrinsic evil that is difficult to negotiate away. ‘America is simply one of many nations, exceptional only to the degree that we suffer from unusual race, class, and gender transgressions’. ‘The founders and their epigones were mostly preeminent as racists and elites’, not geniuses who knew far more than 99% of us today.We are fast becoming a nation of whiners, instead of the nation of winners that we had been for two centuries. And the leftists who currently hold sway in our government, our mainstream media, our entertainment industry, academia, intelligentsia, and miscellaneous other "-ias" are working furiously to cement our newly minted mediocrity in a monument to "no return".
I think all that [above] more or less sums up the lesson from today['s] schools and colleges, and explains why today the average American when abroad rarely defends his country from the caricatures and attacks of foreigners, or why we read daily of the errant policeman, not of the thousands of deadly miscreants he is asked to monitor, why [we] are told ad nauseam that health care is broken [or] ruined, never that, hourly, millions of dollars are given in emergency-room care to those here illegally, or who arrive suffering from gang trauma, or those who chose not to purchase health insurance — and who were given topflight care, which earns no thanks when good, but often a law suit when not perfect.” [emphasis added]
— Victor Davis Hanson
The plague of political correctness has spawned another equally virulent plague of refusal to assume personal accountability, which together are exterminating the qualities that formerly made this nation great and the envy of the rest of the shit-for-brains world. It has become a massively hysterical cycle of self destruction, fueled by a complete suspension of reason, accountability, and plain old common sense.
I had always been comforted by the thought that those who represented the bedrock of our former greatness, the patriots who fought and died for our freedom, the patriots who "asked not what our country could do for us", the patriots who kept the flame of liberty burning by educating themselves as best they could, paying the taxes they owed on time, contributing to the welfare of family, community, and nation by conducting their affairs and responsibilities conscientiously and in good faith, and all those Americans who kept their eyes on the ball of justice, fairness, courtesy, fair play, and thankfulness for our Constitutional bounty to pursue happiness for ourselves and our children, all those as well as the majority, who just went about their business without being a pain in the ass to their fellow citizens, would keep the spectacular concept, conjured out of chaos by our Founding Fathers and preserved by the Great Emancipator, alive for ourselves and posterity.
The past few years have shaken my faith in America's future. I pray I am proven wrong.
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