It is very hard to fathom that there are people who still feel that America’s best days are ahead. It is easy to quote all the statistics about how we still are a superior manufacturer in specific industries, or how America is a leader in creating jobs, or any other host of selected facts and figures one chooses to present. Without any doubt there can be a list offered that will fully outline our current competencies and detail all of our past successes with it all supported by testimonies as to our resilience. Defending our current state of affairs or our future direction based on how we choose to see ourselves or on historical accomplishments sounds very much like denial. There are so many perils assailing us from every direction in America and we are increasingly becoming incapable of employing the necessary solutions, so it becomes easier to deny their existence than to admit we are in decline.

The belief that a nation’s greatness is unmatched and endless was undoubtedly the prominent outlook of former world empires as each was in the grips of their own demise. It is an agonizing thought that we appear to be traveling down the very same road to mediocrity. We have arrived to the point in our country where capitalism is no longer the favored economic system, instead our Government is pursuing a socialistic agenda as the remedy for our current struggles. The degree of this transformation can be debated incessantly although it is incrementally progressing by the day. The unfortunate aspect to this is that we can look around the world and realize that socialism is where all great nations or empires have gone to die. It is sad that we choose to ignore the lessons of these other nations by following their same path with the absurd thought that we will do it better.

We are living in an era that we should all mark in our minds because it will be the period that transforms America as we know it. Every facet of our existence and our beliefs are subject to infringement as a “new” America is being mandated while questions linger regarding if it represents the prevalent sentiment of our citizens or not. The policies being implemented on our behalf over the next few years will significantly alter America’s future for better or worse. It is not realistic to assume that if things go wrong we can always recover later because the changes are so monumental as to make a future recovery extremely difficult. The obliteration of our Constitution may well be at hand thus removing the prominent obstacle to paving the way for integrating our nation into a world Government. It seems doubtful that our citizens are really aware of the true magnitude of the policy proposals and the consequences on their daily lives, or even worse they do not care. Most are certainly going about their days oblivious to the changes being made that will affect their lives so dramatically, which is often the case preceding so many tragedies in this world’s history. Americans will indeed notice the shift in the nation once it infringes on their lifestyles and impedes their freedoms and choices, but the damage will be extensive by that point. An uninformed or apathetic public is the means being exploited to reshape the nation as our Government executes its perceived mandate of control and our silence is their affirmation. The thought of what we are becoming is terrifying, and to know it is resulting from our own lack of engagement is disgraceful.