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The world has spun too fast, lost its moorings, rudderless we drift into vacant seas, storm clouds gather. America is adrift, we can all feel it. So many crises afflict us, it is as if a wave has crested and all we can do is stand in its wake and weigh the damage, absent memories of what came before. Where to start but in some reflective thoughts on the passing of these times.
Lost connections are the curse of our days. The rise of mental illness, depression, suicide, particularly among our youth, rising drug addiction, lowering life expectancy, the list goes on and on. The answer is to medicate America, more pills, more prescriptions, and just more misery. What we have lost in terms of community, friends, churches, and family has resulted in all of this. It is not a health care crisis, it is a cultural crisis, a rot in our soul.
When did this war on race begin, where did this sudden hatred of white people come from? What is a white person anyway? Am I supposed to have more in common with say, a Bulgarian than with my Mexican-American neighbor or a black man that has roots in America going back almost four centuries? What foolishness is this? We were moving on from all of this, but race has become an industry, a grievance culture that has taken deep roots. If not thwarted, we will fully Balkanize, our future will make the Croat Serb-Albanian-Bosnian divide seem like a picnic.
We can’t even discuss certain things anymore; What is a man, what is a woman? I don’t even begin to understand what this sexual identity crisis is all about. Just to say this, incurs wrath. Something isn’t right, or maybe I am just getting too old. Our hearts cry out, not in judgement, but for the lost souls, the confused and depressed, the anxiety and pain that so many feel. We need a way forward, not to target the individual, but to make us whole and regain our meaning in this life.
Watching the news in the aftermath of the just passed 4th of July holiday was an eye-opener in what has become the new America. The tons of trash left on our beaches here in California, in Orange County, up on Lake Tahoe defies belief. We see it every day driving down our freeways, in our parks, preserves, everywhere, nothing but trash, our state has become an open pit. But to see the trash left on our beaches and lakes was entirely something new, something otherworldly.
The homeless crisis is not one of poverty, joblessness, and despair. Oh, it is a part of those things, but at its core it is one of mental illness, drugs, addition and our local governments acting as enablers in this crisis. Why are we allowing this? The vast majority of the homeless need treatment, interdiction and tough love. Not free drugs, free camping sites and sidewalk bathrooms on Main Street. We were better than this.
We have lost our nerve and our will; we seem very happy to send cluster bombs (outlawed by almost every country in the world) to Ukraine to fight a nuclear armed Russia but we have an open invasion of our southern border that our leaders turn a blind eye. Our seemingly Senile-in-Chief in the White House has openly hinted at regime change in Moscow, grounds for an undeclared war declaration, which means WWIII and carnage and death that we can’t even fathom. We will lose American cities at the cost of millions of lives. All for the Donbas?
In 1818, the borderlands of Florida, then part of the Spanish Empire, was ruled by gangs, cutthroats, thieves, it was a lawless region. These roving bands of miscreants would routinely cross the border and wreak havoc on American settlers in southern Georgia and Alabama. President James Monroe sent General Andrew Jackson down to check things out and report back. He did more than that, he crossed into Spanish Florida and took the cutthroat gangs to the woodshed and cleaned up the mess the old-fashioned way. Spain was feckless and soon after, through negotiations they ceded Florida to the United States. Problem solved. We don’t have to advocate for the annexation of Northern Mexico as the 51st State, but for the love of God, if the Mexican government can’t fix this problem, then we can and should. We are being invaded. Send the military, and stop the invasion at the source. Short of that, close the damn border and start respecting the sovereignty of the United States.
If a wayward phone call to Ukraine was found to be impeachable, then what of the allowance of a foreign invasion of our country? The complete negligence by the Biden administration is beyond criminal.
We have become the feckless empire, sending our men and women to fight and die in far off lands, sending billions of taxpayer dollars to defend the Dnieper River, all the while our country is invaded by drugs that are killing hundreds of thousands, by gangs, terrorists, child traffickers as our country rots from the inside. Even ritual suicide is more noble than this.
There is still a chance to change course, but the hour is late, we are running out of time. There are millions of patriots who still get it, that will die to defend this Republic. However, what ails us goes deep, in our loss of culture, community and faith. It can’t all be solved by the waving of a wand from Washington D.C.
The world is changing rapidly, we are entering the phase of a revolution driven by technology and the changes are overwhelming us. The old world we grew up in is no longer, it has passed. The opportunities on the one hand are almost limitless, breathtaking, but the destruction left in its wake has been devastating. Can we enter this new world and keep our dignity and stay grounded and preserve our liberty, sovereignty, freedom, and faiths? Or will it all be swept off to sea?
I passed on and crossed the river to rest in the deep shadows of a giant oak, the breeze upon me, fresh and exhilarating, the river’s waters running steady, sparkling diamonds on the crest of the rising breaks in downfall current. The tree stood tall, old, covering, protected and sure, the soft grass underneath given way to the deepness of earth’s coolness. We had returned and rested at last.
The root of the problem is Americans no longer have as their motto ‘In God we trust.”
Actually, I see it as Americans having lost their nerve.
I’m a good person. Therefore, I hate white people.
I’m pink.
I am an American living in Ireland and am witnessing the demise of Western civilization in Europe, notably in France at the moment. This rot you speak of is here in Ireland and it is depressing. We through G_d out of our schools and allowed our liberalism to invite those who despise our freedoms and belief in the individual to enter our country ,aided by the globalists and leftists, to infiltrate our institutions in order to destroy us. We need to fight. I am heartened by the news of parents waking up to what is happening to our children through the transgender assault on them. Others are beginning to see what elitists have in store for us. We can win but it is going to be a long, difficult journey. Thank you for this article.
It’s the same in England, Scotland and Wales. The Scots and the Welsh are at least openly leftist, the Tory government is almost as leftist too, all seem to be World Economic Forum puppets.
The problem is, as you say, global not just the USA, if it’s global that puts the blame on the United Nations, yes the WEF is bad news, but they work through their UN ‘donations’
The massive people trafficking is coordinated by someone somewhere, the UN are ideally placed to achieve this, millions of people invading the western world, deliberately.
They achieve their 17 sustainable development goals and Agenda 2030.
Agenda 21 (owned by the UN) ended with forced vaccination and death, how will Agenda 2030 end?
Defund the UN now!
Before the war had ended, did not Churchill, in anticipation of being thrown from office, order the dismantling of the Colossus machines at Bletchley Park, the world’s first digital computers? In order to keep them out of the hands of the Reds?
Then, after Churchill was gone, the British Reds gave a pair of Rolls Royce turbo jet engines to the Soviet Reds, who copied them for Powering the MIG-15 air supremacy fighter.
I assume this violates the concept of “Loyal Opposition”.
Threw, sorry about the typo in my comment
We got it. Great post. No need to apologize. Peace, and Cheers! 🙂
In the mid 1990’s, I returned to La Jolla, CA after ten years in the Navy and university studies, only to find the spectacular beach areas of my birth were trashed and frequented by packs of outside gangs.
Back then, it wasn’t the homeless so much, but spoiled college punks from SDSU and elsewhere. And the day after 4th of July in 1997, one could walk across the beach and never step foot on the sand for all the trash. The city had to bring in heavy equipment to rake the sands.
Back in the 60s/70s, older La Jolla locals would self-police the beaches and threaten to whoop-ass on younger locals if they left beer cans or trash behind after they partied. And those locals ensured that the streets were safe for the elderly to walk both day and night.
Got into many fights with the interlopers who began the destruction of the beach areas, but finally left CA in 05 after learning the hard way that my territorial gene makeup would soon get me killed or thrown in jail (again)… given that law enforcement was already being hog-tied by the bureaucrats back then..
Failed state achieved by the Marxist visionaries.
we are in the continuing battle between Good and Evil- that has been going on since the beginning of time The Evil ones have tremendous power and money to destroy us that believe in God. They ridicule us- outspend us- corrupt our institutions- destroy our families, churches, schools, and courts. They seek absolute power and when they actually get that power- they destroy everything they can. Evil is Godless and it does not know truth- love- or life. Evil worships Lies- Hate- and Death. that is what we see all too often.
Know God know peace
No God No peace
What we are witnessing is man worshipping at the altar of man.
He is a foul thing left unattended.
Really? If man is an evil, depraved, and foul creature by his very nature, if left to his own freedom and liberty, if he is foul by virtue of his birth, as the Judeo-Christian doctrine of Original Sin and the Fall of Man claims, then man cannot be trusted with freedom and liberty. He is too foul and evil for freedom and liberty.
And the proper political system to control and leash this innately foul creature is a THEOCRACY.
“Since man is innately depraved, the Puritans argued, a dictatorship ruled by the elect is required to curb his vicious impulses and enforce the Lord’s commandments. Since wealth, like all values, is a gift from Heaven, men of property are not owners of their wealth, but stewards charged with a divine trust; such men are properly subject to whatever economic controls the elect deem it necessary to impose. God, in short, rules nature; his agents, therefore, rule men.” – Objectivist philosopher Leonard Peikoff, “The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America”
Mankind is not inherently good or inherently bad but every single government that has existed without a religious background has been tyrannical every single one.
There can exist freedom, liberty, with law. It work here for a while at least, and longer in Rome.
Some people do seem to need guide rails more than others. Some people need incarceration, some just need to be killed.
do not lose faith or hope for our future. Until very recently- the Godless left had almost total control of the message- television- movies- newspapers- magaz9nes- and most of all our school system. The internet has changed the world drastically in a very short time- THEY CANNOT CONTROL US ALL THE TIME- THEY TRY TO STIFLE OUR VOICES- but we grow louder and stronger. the Godless Left always uses the same play book- SILENCE ALL CRITICS of their agendas. Silence critics of their criminal behavior. most of all SILENCE THE TRUTH; one little- e-mail can reach millions within a few hours. notice how the Left went crazy when Musk bought twitter- of course they did- now they cannot control all the free speech out there now; It will not be easy- but We will Win in the end- God is always on our side.
sloths, thievery, no honor, or self worth, … were all to follow the 10 commandments we would have no situation such as this… The communists have taken God out of the Classroom and replace him with sex manuals from Pre-K through College…. the perversion of man into animals is near complete… the destruction of the family unit near complete… the lies the hate the name-calling.. are all to destroy America with the believers and their arms out masks on readied to do the business of those they placed into power. Sadly, this will end in blood… or pillars of salt. It is everything Germany did prior to Hitler taking the reigns of power.
That’s the problem. No one can follow the 10 commandments–not one. That’s why we need a Saviour. Everyone needs a Saviour–except of course for THX–he is his own saviour..
Excellent article, Mr. Finch. You have expressed the despair that so many of us feel as we watch our world fall apart. I live in Canada and the same rot is taking hold here in our largest cities, namely Vancouver and Toronto. (My city is too cold for homeless encampments to take hold – they would all freeze to death overnight – a blessing to live in a cold place!). Our government calls giving free drugs and paraphernalia to drug addicts and setting up “safe injection sites” safe supply and harm reduction (what total BS), and then lament the “accidental” overdoses and deaths.
I read an article just last week about a 15-year old girl who died of an overdose of Dilaudid. She became “hopelessly addicted” after just using it a few times. How tragic – not for her, but for the parents. In what kind of society does a 15-year-old, 15, even consider taking this kind of potentially deadly opioid? They haven’t even had the opportunity to feel the acute pain of cancer yet.
How come so many young can’t even face “normalcy” anymore or deal with the trials and tribulations of becoming an adult? What kind of parents watch in glee as their young are being “enlightened” (indoctrinated) and they support their transition, even before they’ve reached puberty? Don’t they remember how confused they were at that age?