Losing our soul

Posted today on Defiant Majority:

And I ask myself today, what does the United States gain if it inherits the whole world but loses its soul? The soul that made this country a unique experiment — a beacon for the whole world to envy. Today, the United States my ancestors and I knew as a child no longer exists. In many ways, it has become similar to the aristocracies and totalitarian countries they fled.

For example, today, the United States is in a perpetual state of war. In fact, I cannot remember a time in my life when our country wasn’t at war. When I was born, the Korean War was raging. When I became a teenager, there was the Vietnam War. After that, the Cold War with the Soviet Union began to heat up, and soon after its collapse, our outgoing president, George W. Bush declared a so-called “War on Terror.” (read more)

Has the U.S. lost it’s soul? Perhaps not completely, but we may well be well down a one-way road. It reminds me of something I heard a few years ago: The United States is now the longest lived democracy that has ever existed. Statistically, that’s not good. We’re an anomaly… and most anomalies, eventually, vanish from the board.