The America of the present, as she sees it, is a dark, nightmarish place where God speaks to only a tiny number of people; where idealism is dead; where civil war and violence are approaching; where democratically elected politicians are no better than foreign dictators and mass murderers; where the “elite” is wallowing in decadence, disarray, death. The America of the present, as she sees it, and as so many others see it, is a place where universities teach people to hate their country, where victims are more celebrated than heroes, where old values have been discarded.Count me among her "so many others," important parts of our society appear as bad as described. My personal survival strategy for today's America is to treat it like walking through a barnyard. I step carefully to avoid the worst piles and puddles of manure.
Any price should be paid, any crime should be forgiven, any outrage should be ignored if that’s what it takes to get the real America, the old America, back.
Mine is admittedly a relatively short-run strategy, it should handle the next decade. If I were younger, or had children to worry about, I'd be much more angry and frightened.
Afterthought: Considering Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton and Ghislaine Maxwell were prominent members of the elite, “wallowing in decadence” isn’t too strong a descriptor for their carnal behavior.
