Fatal Trajectory

Thomas Sowell: Those of us who are pessimists are only a step away from despair ourselves, so we may not be the ones to offer the best antidote to the view that America has seen its best days and is degenerating toward what may well be its worst. Yet what hope remains is no less precious nor any less worthy of being preserved.

First of all, the day-to-day life of most Americans in these times is nowhere near as dire as that of the band of cold, ragged, and hungry men who gathered around George Washington in the winter at Valley Forge, to which they had been driven by defeat after defeat.

How do people rise up out of the ghetto anyway? It's a 1am, I'm wide awake with nothing to do, and I want to kill myself because I've been programed to think I'm incapable. I want to put an end to that but how to reach Christian forgiveness when everything that happens to you is your own fault?

RUSH: We've talked on this program numerous times about how the pop culture has been lost, that it is just assumed now that everything in it is liberal, and that's just normalcy. It's not even ideological. And that people who are not that way are nerds, geeks, kooks, freaks, people to be laughed at and made fun of.

Or dangerous faggots. Those in power excluding statesmen, do everything they can because they feed off of despair like jackals from their position of convenience in their ivory tower. Spreading the wealth thereby spreading the misery is not leadership in fact it's the worst kind of humanist idolatry.

People want leaders. People respond to leadership. They're desperately crying for some at the elected level in Washington, DC. So we're left to hope that something out of our control arrests all this, like Obama overreaching or the media suddenly seeing the light and start to criticize Obama, all these things that we really can't make happen, like the fog that stopped the British from wiping out George Washington.

We have always had obstacles place in front of ourselves, and the obstacles we have today are not insurmountable. They're not nearly as bad as what George Washington faced. They're not nearly as bad as what the Donner Party faced.

Does anyone imagine that we will care what anyone’s paycheck is when we see an American city in radioactive ruins?

Some have prayed, some have salivated over the indulgence as it is the lure of spiritism. Then there are those who break down, those who break out, and those few who through Jesus break through.