Are We in Decline?

How can the United States pretend to be the world’s exemplar of democracy when it accepts ongoing antagonism and provocation from demonstrably authoritarian governments. The unmistakable messaging is that America is a willing punching bag up to some “red-line” limit yet to be determined. The likes of China, Russia, North Korea and Iran are emboldened to extend their international economic, political and military influence while we exult in professing moral virtue as our society is disrupted from within.

Like it or not, America is in a state of leadership decline, perhaps most evident at its southern border. A laughable open-door horde of illegal and unvetted immigrants is a growing threat to the citizens our national officials take oaths to protect. Aside from growing numbers coming from adversarial regimes, these newcomers are not even required to follow identification and health protocols demanded of our established population. The scarcity of immigrant families in relation to single men should also be a source of general concern.

Evident effects of electronic communications, work-from-home acceptance, increasing job and residential mobility, family-unit instability, and package delivery services are altering an extended national trend toward urbanization. The public needs visionary 21st Century leadership, not constant political infighting. We must expose and purge the incompetent and corrupt in November - and look beyond the career political class to achieve representative government of, by and for the people.

Phil Osifer