America’s Decline: A Call for Unity and Reflection

As I age, I have run into a trend, that I am falling into. It’s a trend of isolation and loneliness, that I find myself doing. Some say oh, get out more, have more fun, then I try to, and bam, right back to the trend I go. Why, simply put, society these days is non-accepting, cruel, mean spirited and angry. While I will always love this country, I did defend it for 16 years, in three branches of the military, I will never understand, why it has become as it is.

The anger is frothing at the top of the glass so to say. There is the anger of the American President, the anger over him being President, of his followers, and his maga call. There is the anger of political hate, racisim, segregation, predijuce and discrimination. There is fear among people for many reasons, from going broke, to being homeless and jobless, in a country that hasn’t had that since before World Wars happened.

Yes, we have electronic advances, yes we have medical advances and more, but what we do not have, is the attitude and knowledge of how to bring all Americans along for the ride. You can improve material belongings all you wish, but if you can’t make it affordable or accessable to all, it will cause pain, suffering and more, anger. The anger, pain and suffering is coming to the top of American society as a whole and frothing over, and spreading slowly. It is a sad state of affairs to see folks.

The differences between generations, styles, and attitudes is sad to witness in my opinion. The last great generation is indeed the one born in my era, the 1950’s. We were handed the greatest society in the world, with the greatest economy in the world, by the hardest working parents ever. While we tried through the 50’s, 60. and 70’s to expand on it and make it all inclusive, we lost sight of it. We lost discipline, we lost vision, we lost durability and most of all we lost cohesiveness as a people and nation. Divisions begen to show in America as never before starting in the 1980’s.

Those divisions between the have and have nots and the color lines are now blurred, hazy and in plain sight for the world to see. I wish it wasn’t so, but it is folks. Can it be healed and where would America start, to do so? That is the major question is it not?

It started in my opinion with the lackadasilale way parenting went. Children were given gaming consoles to babysit them. They were ignored and not raised properly by parents who thought they themselves were abused, but were not really. The old talk to your child came into effect in the 1980’s, brought on by what I call the Cosby Syndrome. No hitting a child to discipline them. The line, was put in place by such sitcoms on tv and followed by Americans since. So, today we now have higher crime rates, more undisciplined children, have become adults who now break laws and society norms like they never existed. It is just a fact in american society now. Look around and you see it everyday.

Children running around aimlessly in stores away from their parents, acting out. Teenagers who put piercings and tattos all over their faces and bodies. angry fights in bars and taverns, people shooting others just to get attention. It happens daily now in the 2020’s. We are into 2025 and almost at the halfway point of it, and the violence is peaking, the anger is peaking, people are mad all the time. Does anyone ever stop to wonder why, and how to change it all? No, we keep at it, like spoiled children trying to get our way. In the end that selfishness, anger and stubborness is killing America. It is killing what may go down in history as the greatest society known to man.

Empires of the past have traveled this road to destruction before us folks. Ask the Incas, Aztecs, the Romans, The Germans and others. History shows what I am saying to be true. All fell from the great heights they achieved over years. Why, because they became self-absorbed, self contained, believed they were better then the world, and they were proven wrong. They allowed themselves to become what they believed was better then the rest. In the end it was their downfall folks. Stop and Think, how Inca and Aztec and Roman and even German Dictators and leaders and empires crumbled. we are on the same course folks, unless we stop it. Can we, that is the real question, is there a voice loud enough and strong enough to wake up the modern American Society to what can come next and stop it before it happens? Or will America, end up a page in a history book of the world, as the once proudest and most powerful empires ever, that eventually crumbled and disappeared into history as what once was? You tell me, Americans, can we maintain and better the country and society we have, or we are now at a point of no return and a crumbling of the best there ever was.? Have we lost sight of the pride, distingusment and honor of our forefathers, Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Adams and more? They believed in a better America, a free America, built for one and all, not an isolated America, not an angry America. How did we get here Americans, and how do we step back, and recover and make it work, instead of destroying what our forefathers put forth for us? You tell me Americans, please! For as we are going, and I am now in the later stages of my life, we may see America, crumble, fall and disappear a sthe once bright shinning star and example it always was. If that happens what comes next for the world, who will replace us, China, Russia, or a communistic world? Will Democracy and Republics cease to exist? Only history and time can give us our answers, ladies and gentlemen, for it wil go as good or as bad, as we the Americna People let it, unless we change it and save it.