Prosperity is leading to cultural collapse

Democrats are at least partly responsible

Since time immemorial, mankind has conceived of all manner of weaponry to help one person kill another. Societies developed for a common purpose in a world of suffering set as objectives the common good but soon after developed armies, navies and eventually air forces to “defend” their society, but defense was the least of their objectives and most of the weaponry they developed was not bullwarks or ramparts or moats to protect their population but bombs, tanks, rockets, machine guns, napalm, and missiles which they could couch in the name of “defense” but in fact were designed to kill others who posed no imminent threat - attack weapons.

Killing one another has been a human hobby since mankind first walked the Earth. Wars between societies were premised on religious differences, desire for geographical expansion to reap the rewards of exploiting neighbouring countries resources, differing ideologies and sometimes just to satisfy the ego of a leader fortunate enough to find themselves in power.

We have become so efficient at killing we have become indifferent to the value of life. Dropping atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima was not to “end the war” or “save lives” but simply to establish United States as a world power ahead of rival Russia. Bombing Laos and Cambodia (who were not at war with United States) and leveling towns with napalm and its horrific consequences for those whose homes were fire bombed was not a strategic necessity to end the war in Vietnam, it was to inflict harm on others for the thinnest possible excuse and test out the technology developed by Louis Fieser and a team at Harvard in 1942, later advanced for profit by Dow Chemical who proudly claimed their variant would “stick better”.

The U.S. military comprises 1.3 million people in uniform. There has not been a war on American soil since 1812 when Canada handily routed the Americans and burned down the White House. American soldiers are not “defending America” when they attack others in Korea, Vietnam, Italy, France, Germany, North Africa, Spain, Afghanistan Iraq or Crimea.

America, with its 340 million population, has seen remarkably few American soldiers killed in wars (other than the Civil War). Only about 53,000 Americans were killed in World War I, another 47,000 in the Vietnamese War, about 34,000 in the Korean War, less than 5,000 in the war in Iraq, World War II was the outlier, with 420,000 Americans losing their lives.

Add that all up, and the total loss of American life in wars since the Civil War pales in comparison to the 655,000 Americans killed by other American in the Civil War.

Anyone who thinks the $886 billion U.S. defense budget is about defending Americans is deluded. It is about creating a selling arms for profit to the military-industrial complex and expanding U.S. power in the world of geopolitics. Annual exports of arms by the U.S. comprise some $15 billion annually with the largest customers being Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel, Kuwait, Ukraine and Japan. Millions of people invade the United States every year across its southern border and the American “defense” industry is impotent to protect United States from this invasion.

The number and size of the protests claiming a “genocide” in Palestine and calling for “death to America” is evidence the U.S. does not defend itself from foreign or domestic attack. American leaders look the other way seeking political advantage by supporting those demonstrating if their number is large enough to swing votes towards one candidate or another in an election.

But the saddest failure of all is the inability or unwillingness of United States to protect is own citizens as yet unborn. About 64 million unborn Americans lost their lives to abortion since Roe v Wade was decided in 1973, and the right to kill the unborn for any reason (often no more than convenience) has become a major issue in this year’s Presidential election.

One has to wonder. Hundreds of billions of dollars spent on defense, total loss of life owing to war less than 2 million since United States was founded, but 64 million unborn children killed in just over 50 years. Protecting those children and paying for their care until adults would cost a lot less than $886 billion a year.

I need not point out that each of us was at one time an unborn child.

Bill Maher has no children, often jokes about that, and one can infer would find a child “inconvenient”. He has that in common with most of the 64 million women who had abortions, since the number of those whose own life was a risk or were victims of incest or rape is a tiny fraction (unless they were from Arkansas - where no one has to greet the bride saying “welcome to the family” at a wedding).

Immigration brings people from different cultures, while organic population growth expands the population who grow up with American values. If the number of immigrants outpaces the number of children born as Americans (regardless of where their parents came from) the imported culture will soon overwhelm the domestic culture and it will ultimately collapse.

Some would argue the American culture of hard work, personal freedom, small government, equal opportunity to prosper in a free market and respect for the country’s history and flag are not worth protecting. I suspect few of those people were born in America.

It is the Democratic Party in U.S. politics that wants open borders, unlimited immigration, big goverment, “woke” policies, a socialist ideology and a “soft on crime” legal system. Tell me why that won’t make the problems worse.

A change in the administration is a necessary first step to right the ship. Biden has to go.