The United States of America is doomed
TOM KNIGHTON
That looks like a rather hyperbolic headline. It is not, I’m afraid. It is my most heartfelt belief that, as things currently are, our nation is doomed.
The greatest nation in the history of the world is currently destined for the dustbin of history.
Why?
Because there are people who are too vested in ruling to care about what this nation actually means.
From The Federalist:
Back in 2016, former eBay and Hewlett-Packard CEO (and, of course, failed California gubernatorial candidate) Meg Whitman gave a stirring interview to The New York Times about democracy.
Democracies, Whitman said, have rarely lasted longer than a few hundred years, with the implication being that for America, which will celebrate its 250th anniversary in 2026, the clock is ticking. Whitman said anybody who thought American democracy would last forever was being naïve.
Of course, at the time, Whitman was talking about Donald Trump, the “demagogue” that elites from both major political parties said would drag America away from a constitutional republic and toward dictatorship — the bogeyman that even enlightened Republicans like Whitman refused to support.
They were wrong: Despite his flaws, Trump was never a threat to democracy. He did not cancel elections like some claimed he would do. He did not crack down on civil liberties. When he did go too far, America’s institutions — especially the courts — checked those abuses. California filed more than 100 lawsuits against the Trump administration. That’s the way American government is supposed to work.
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But Whitman was right: American democracy is under attack. All Western democracies are under attack. And we shouldn’t assume they’ll survive. But Trump is not the threat. The elites themselves are the threat. They are the demagogues. And their hypocrisy and hierarchy are undermining the very institutions they purport to support.
The Democrat Party’s blatantly political prosecutions of Trump and Trump associates — done while fretting about Trump using the DOJ to target his political opponents if he wins this year — are the most obvious and chilling examples. They crossed a Rubicon from which we may never recover. But other examples abound.
One was on display last week at the U.S. Supreme Court, as multiple justices made excuses for the federal government’s effort to remove dissenting viewpoints from the digital town square. It was chilling to listen to the court’s three Democrats — women who, just a few generations ago, would not have been allowed to vote, much less sit on that bench — talk about how the law should be interpreted to protect the government when it tries to silence its critics. I wonder what dissidents like Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King Jr. would think of that.
Here’s the thing, I don’t think either of those three justices would have said any such thing if Trump were in the White House right now.
Then, they’d want to prevent the government from having any power they could possibly justify blocking it from getting. They wouldn’t have dreamed of interpreting a law that would give more power to the Trump administration.
But they’re Democrats, first and foremost. They don’t care about the Constitution. They care about making sure their team wins, and so they’ll do whatever they can to make it win.
The only saving grace is that there are only three of them. They don’t have the juice to make that happen.
Yet all around, we see people doing their damnedest to destroy this nation.
For example, let’s talk about the border a bit. Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants are crossing the border. States like Texas got major brownie points for putting them on a bus and dropping them off in sanctuary cities, putting the burden on them.
In fairness, what else could they do? The federal government isn’t interested in securing those borders, though, and I fear that Texas has just made it easier for the progressive side.
Why?
Because as some have pointed out, the census doesn’t count citizens. It counts people. It doesn’t actually care if they’re here legally or not, which means illegal immigrants in places like New York and California may well make those states even more powerful in Congress. It may give them more pull in who is elected president.
Which is also likely why Biden isn’t doing a damned thing about the border.
See, what we’re seeing right now are progressives in the Democratic Party tripping over themselves to increase their own power at the expense of preserving the Constitution, as each has sworn to do.
That’s why they want to disarm us through gun control—if we have the means to resist, we might.
That’s why they want to demonize us as extremists, as terrorists, as racists—if they can marginalize us enough, many may start voting otherwise just to avoid the label.
That’s why they want to use public education as indoctrination centers—then they don’t have to worry about another generation opposing them because those kids won’t grow up knowing that opposition is an option.
Over and over again, their every move is dedicated to burning this nation down into a pile of ashes.
If there’s any good news it’s that it’s not quite too late to do something about it. Elections still have consequences. We have time to adjust course before the 2030 census. We still can fight to preserve our right to keep and bear arms. We can take action to keep DEI, CRT, and gender politics out of our classrooms. We still have time.
It just means we have to step up and make it happen before it’s too late. It means taking the gloves off and getting nasty if that’s what it takes to beat them so we can preserve our rights.
Yet we must also take care to actually preserve them, not run over them in slightly different ways. That temptation is likely there, easy to justify because of their abuses, and many are giving into exactly those temptations, but we must resist lest we become the evil we seek to diminish.
https://tomknighton.substack.com/p/the-united-states-of-america-is-doomed
