When the dust settles on the devastation of America’s economic might and social fabric, under the onslaught of “green” policies and wokeism, what will be left?
The optimist will say that America has been through a lot in its history, and has survived more or less intact.
The realist will reply that the worst of what America went through in the past occurred when it had no foreign enemies who were strong enough to exploit its weaknesses.
This is no longer true. Russia, despite the intransigence of Ukraine, and China have been playing the long game and are ready to pounce on America when the time is right. In doing so, they will have the aid of Iran and North Korea, two of America’s implacable enemies, and the nuclear arsenals they they are assuredly building.
If the Democrats stay in power — and that seems more likely now than it did a few months ago — the day of reckoning will come within a decade. America’s surrender, in the form of military and economic concessions, will be sugar-coated as the inevitable result of historical processes (shades of Marx), and papered-over with treaties and declarations of friendship.
Americans will be poorer, more divided than ever, but alive — physically, not spiritually. Long-standing traditions and institutions — academic freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, an independent judiciary, a Congress with real power, etc., etc., etc. — will survive in name only. “Benign” bureaucratic governance, under the guidance of leftist elites, will thrive. Historical revisionism, re-education, and thought control will come to the fore. And all will be for the best in this best of all possible worlds.
Thus cometh 1984.