The End of America

It’s over folks. We’ve lost. We have given up and now it’s only a matter of time until the ol’ flag comes down for the last time. No, really. The United States of America is O-V-E-R!
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Please don’t think this is something I’m happy about. I love America, all my stuff is here. I love the dirt and the air and the trees. This is my home. I hope to be buried in American dirt, if there’s any left by the time I kick off. I hope there is, but let me tell you folks, there is a real possibility that there won’t be. And this is not me being coy, people. I am not saying that there is a possibility of our survival as a nation, of which there is NOT. I am saying that I don’t know whether or not I will be alive to see the end of America, but an end there will be all the same.
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Also, let me be clear, I am not saying the end will come in astronomical terms. As in, one day the sun will explode. I am saying, the United States of America is on final notice. Start the morphine drip and call the priest, because she’s not getting up.
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Who did it? How did this happen? What do we do? All of these are good questions. The answers should be obvious, but if you are reading this with ANY doubt that I am terribly, horribly correct, then you have no idea how we got here. Heck, you probably doubt we are in any trouble at all. You’ll probably enter the afterlife with a confused look on your face, saying, “What train? I don’t see a train.” If you already know what I’m talking about, stop reading now. Go hug your kids and tell them you love them. Tell them to be strong and to never stop fighting. It won’t help them, but it needs to be said. So that one day, generations down the line, one brave soul may remember what great, great, great, great grand-pappy used to say, and rise up. Only then will there be real hope for a resurrection of this ol’ gal. Only then will we be saved.
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Saved? Why, “from what?” you might ask, from our own cowardice my friend. That’s right, t’was cowardice that killed the country. We are a nation of cowards. Not just us, the entire “civilized world” has turned yeller. We champion the unsuccessful. We mythologize the failed. We punish kids who defend themselves on the playground. We prosecute police who injure a criminal while stopping him running from a crime. Prison is the ultimate “Time Out Chair.” Don’t hit, share. If we judge, (even though we’re not supposed to), we judge a person by their intent, not their actions. We intentionally allow evil to hurt and kill innocence and call it, “misunderstood.” Our soldiers have to call and ask permission to shoot at the enemy; an enemy who, by the way, can cut off the heads of our private citizens without ANY reprimand.
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If you hate me by now, if you have already started typing your angry response, don’t bother. You have already won. My time in this world is short and soon enough, I and all my kind will have gone the way of the Dodo. Replacing us, however, will be your new masters. I’m talking about the end of free speech, rap music, independent film festivals, and any hope of legalizing marijuana. Soon will come the LGBT death camps. Go ahead, laugh. It’s funny, isn’t it? It really is hard for me to believe you can’t see it coming. If you agree with any of what I have said so far, I am sorry. Go hug your kids.
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So, “How did we get here?” Easy, we got here by being reasonable. Back in 1945 the United States was criticized by the world for the way in which it helped save the world. It is true, we did some truly horrific things to end the war.
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We firebombed Dresden for starters. We set fire to a whole city with bombs that burned at five thousand degrees, the flames of which could be seen for miles around. It was our intention to break the spirit of the German people. After all, who could fight an enemy so ruthless, so terrible? The after effect was a short rally of Nazi support, but as power shifted the German people had no doubt about the tenacity of their enemy. Defeat was inevitable. A more swift and terrible version of this same story played out in Japan. Thousands died in an instant, tens of thousands more to follow in the most slow and torturous ways imaginable. VE. VJ.
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Victory came at too high a cost to (our) humanity. We pledged to never again allow the need to unleash such hell upon the Earth. And so it began; the turning away from violence to a more peaceful and perfect world had begun. With each new armed conflict around the world we impose upon ourselves greater and greater restraint. While our military technology has increased, our willingness to use it has all but disappeared. We face condemnation from the “civilized” world for using force that is considered, “disproportionate.” Never mind the disproportionality of a suicide bomber against a shop full of mothers and children. What matters is that we are held to a “higher” standard, because we are supposed to be the good guys. Besides, isn’t one man’s “terrorist” another man’s “freedom fighter?”
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So now here we are, more than sixty years after the beginning of our end, facing a ruthless enemy who knows that we can never really take off the gloves. Who knows we can never really use our full power to defeat him, for fear of being seen as using “disproportionate” force. We will hobble ourselves for his sake. We will weaken our selves if he becomes weak. We will not defend ourselves from his attacks for fear of being seen as the aggressor. Like kids on the playground, we will be punished for defending ourselves. He may bomb us, burn us, maim our children, and we defend his cause. On this road, there is nothing but time between him and his victory.
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We face an enemy who is ruthless, and we ourselves are not. We face an enemy who would kill us to silence his own internal conflict*, and we will do nothing except champion his cause. With no want for victory there can be no hope for victory.
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There will be a few of us who hang on to our guns and religion to the end. A few stragglers left to watch the final and inevitable surrender. I am sure there will be fewer still left to see the slaughter and decimation that will follow. In the end, I can only hope that a few tattered threads of Red, White, and Blue survive hidden away somewhere. Waiting for the archeological interests of one of our descendants to rediscover the freedom we so carelessly threw away.
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*The most popular television show in the Islamic world today is Baywatch. Men watch in private and feel ashamed at their sin. However, they know that sin is not of the flesh, but of Satin. It is not their fault they want to watch Baywatch, it is Satin tempting them. And who, pray tell, is Satin? Why, the originator of the SHOW of course! The Good ol’ US of A. It is our FAULT the most popular television show in the Islamic world today is Baywatch because we are Satin.