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| Great Nations in Decline Don't Die, They Turn into Something Else | |
| 2024-01-21 | |
| [Townhall] I felt immune to aging, illness, and injury when I was young. I knew others who felt the same. Soon enough, we all learn that no one is indestructible or even close. NOT INVINCIBLE The springtime of the nation, like the springtime of the young man or woman, can deceive one into thinking that this is how it will always be. Throughout history, some nations have risen to prominence in ways that made residents and onlookers believe such countries would continue forever. A typical Roman citizen probably concluded that Rome was indeed eternal, and 500 centuries
France in the 17th and 18th centuries and Great Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries both seemed to have eternal empires. In the early 1980s, Japan appeared to be invincible, certainly as an economic power. Then, its shifting demographics and loss of industry leadership became apparent. The U.S. was considered a promising nation, and after World War I, its economic and military might began to take hold. After World War II, America became the premier power on Earth economically, militarily, technologically, socially, and entrepreneurially. The list of American achievements from World War II to the end of the century is impressively long, and any decent student of history doesn't need to have the feats recounted here. VEERING OFF COURSE American heartiness seemingly is a thing of the past. We still have a great entrepreneurial and economic engine. We motor on, along with cracks in the foundation, seen by anyone who is observant. Citizens have morphed into consumers. Our elected leaders appear more interested in generating personal wealth than in having the populace become wealthy. | |
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