https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jan/11/is-america-dying/Is America dying?Through it all, we are always the last man standing
Don Feder
January 11, 2022
Is the United States about to limp off the stage of history? The answer is yes — and no.
Doom and gloom seem to be the order of the day. According to the latest Rasmussen Survey (for the week ending Dec. 30, 2021), less than 30% of likely voters believe the country is heading in the right direction. In an Axios poll taken around the same time, more than half of adult Americans said they are fearful of the year ahead.
Admittedly, there’s plenty to be anxious about: chaos at the border, inflation at a near 40-year high, 12 major cities with a record number of homicides last year, school children indoctrinated with anti-Americanism, serious efforts underway to nationalize elections and abolish representative government.
Many Americans don’t think we’ll last another three years. History proves them wrong. America is a success story that’s always on the verge of failure. Yet we survive — sometimes inexplicably — and against all odds.
Since July 4, 1776, America has been a lost cause.
After the Declaration of Independence was signed, we suffered a string of humiliating defeats until George Washington’s Christmas Day attack on Trenton. That year, the Continental Army marched to its winter encampment in rags, leaving bloody footprints in the snow.
That we survived four years of Civil War, with 620,000 dead, is another miracle. In the North, a large part of the public didn’t want to fight, forcing the Union to institute conscription for the first time in our history. The South had better generals and won most of the important battles up to Gettysburg. Yet we came out of it one nation.
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