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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: mystery-ak on March 18, 2023, 02:57:57 pm
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March 17, 2023
Twelve reasons things are not going well in America
By Molly Slag
Anyone paying attention to the news, even if following only mainstream outlets, knows that something is terribly wrong in America. Day by day it becomes more and more evident that a large portion of our citizenry does not comprehend the enormity of the pickle we are in.
Author Yuval Levin opens his 2020 book, A Time To Build, with this observation:
We Americans are living through a social crisis. This is a straightforward fact, and easy to see. And yet part of this crisis, one of its symptoms, is that we can’t seem to get a handle on what it is that’s wrong. It’s sometimes even hard to tell whether the rage, foreboding, a despair that so often shapes the national mood are themselves the essence of the problem or are marks of a deeper dysfunction.
Amen.
Just for amusement, let’s enumerate a few of our tighter tight spots:
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/twelve_reasons_things_are_not_going_well_in_america.html
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I can think of more than 12
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Really, only one:
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. -2 Chronicles 7:14
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Really, only one: If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. -2 Chronicles 7:14
Really, that's the first thing that occurred to me.