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Historians on the Fall of the USA
In the long term scheme of things super-power nations are short lived and relegated to dusty books on the shelves. Nevertheless, of course, all of them believed, at the time anyway, that they could never fall and that they were inspired and that even God (or the gods) was on their side but the fact remains that their power dwindled and their influence began to wane over time.
There have been several previous world super-powers or empires including the following:
Ancient Babylon
Ancient Assyria
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
Great Britain
Soviet Union
The one thing they all have in common is that they are no longer super-powers and in some cases (Babylon, Assyria) no longer exist.
The United States has proved itself the mightiest of all super-powers the world has ever known. The United States attained this stature, after defeating another super-power (Great Britain), to gain its own freedom and eventually establish itself as the world’s strongest economy and military.
Unfortunately, as has happened so many times in the past…the world’s current and only super-power is faltering and now is but a shadow of its former greatness. There are many reasons that this is occurring. In addition, many reasons those future historians will consider when writing of the demise of the United States. But for the moment let’s consider just ten possible reasons that historians will consider:
1. Turning over the banking and monetary matters to a shadowy private and independent agency known as the Federal Reserve
2. A loss of morals, personal responsibility, and the sense of community
3. A poorly educated citizenry
4. Allowing bureaucracies and bloated governmental agencies to dominate the lives of people, to regulate their personal decisions, and to regulate business and industry into oblivion
5. Massive government corruption at the local, state, and federal levels
6. Ignoring and bypassing the will of the majority
7. Watering down, ignoring, and legislating (Executive Orders included) into obscurity the very documents (The Constitution and Bill of Rights) that enabled the United States to become the great Nation it once was.
8. A loss of sovereignty…the United States is no longer a nation that protects its borders or its sovereignty.
9. A loss of spirituality….a belief that government is God and therefore the ultimate power
10. Government dependence and lack of rugged individualism
I’m sure you can come up with several more points about what future historians will write about when they try to explain why the USA is no more. But I believe the points listed will most assuredly be among those included. In addition, remember this fact… no empire last forever.
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”—James Madison
