America Going Downhill - What's Going Wrong?

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       Zeno Potas

      A consortium of think tanks from almost 90 countries released their Economic Freedom of the World Report. The United States is no longer among the top ten countries when it comes to size of government, rule of law and property rights, soundness of the money supply, regulation, and free trade. We now rank twelfth, down from second as recently as 2000. For the record, we now trail Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland, Mauritius, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Australia, Jordan, Chile, and Finland.

      U.S. legal system and our respect for property rights

we have fallen to 36th, trailing countries like Malaysia, Namibia, and Cyprus. The report concludes that the United States “experienced a significant move away from rule of law and toward a highly regulated, politicized, and heavily policed state.”

How did we get to this point?

      The world sees us differently than we see ourselves.

In today's world Americans live in a splendor compared with the rest of the world. We have achieved the highest stage of human progress ever known to mankind yet, all we ever hear are complaints about how horrible it is to live in such a rich, powerful country that has done so much for the world. There are many who want that to change. They want to tear down the foundation of what America has accomplished for their own version of utopia.

So, how did we get to this point?

     

      We refuse to teach patriotism to our kids, instead our kids are taught in schools and in media that our country is a horrible place and that everything that happened in America’s past as evil and backward and was founded by imperfect men that no longer are relevant. So it should come at no surprise that millennials lean to the Left when they constantly have liberalism shoved down their throats by their schools, their favorite musicians, and Hollywood?

      We coddle our best and brightest college students so much that they get “triggered” by hearing things they don’t like. We expose them to professors that are Communists and radical anti-Constitutionalists then expect them to be tough, competent and capable enough to keep the Republic going forward.

     Black and Hispanic Americans are incessantly encouraged to create and nurture racial grudges by the Left. Caucasians are constantly be put down, degraded, and discriminated against via programs like Affirmative Action, but still most Caucasians won’t increasingly adopt the same racist attitudes that the Left encourages minorities to hold.

      We bring in enormous numbers of immigrants from non-Western, Socialistic and often backward countries, immerse them in a Leftist culture that strongly discourages the assimilation that their fore bearers embraced.

      We ignore lawbreaking by illegal aliens while playing political games with our justice system based on whether a Republican or Democrat is being targeted and wonder why Americans are losing respect for the rule of law.

      Congress has written laws that are too complex for its own members to read and understand. Members of Congress in fact rarely read any legislation before voting on it and each political party is controlled by a small leadership group that punishes members who defy it instead of doing what is right for the country.

      We run up an astronomical debt that we never intend to fully pay off, large parts of which are held by nations hostile to us.

      We allow speakers we disagree with on college campuses to be violently shut down but continue to claim to have our right to free speech honored.

 

       The police now can charge exorbitant fees to allow someone to publicly exercise his Second Amendment rights and social media giants can quiet anyone they want with so-called “fact-checker censorship” financed by those outside the country that are not even American citizens.

    

      We trash the police at every opportunity and give the benefit of the doubt to the criminals they arrest instead of to them.

       We abandon the pure capitalism that made our country so rich, pile regulation on top of regulation, and exorbitantly tax the most productive members of society in order to create a system of Socialistic Corporatism. 

 

      The United States has been on the wrong course for decades. It is the proverbial snowball rolling downhill continuing to gain speed while rolling over everything in it's way. The question is – What will America resemble when it hits bottom?