Donald Trump and the Future of Western Civilization
American Thinker,
by
Steve McCann
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
9/28/2022 9:42:07 AM
The panoply of heads of state leaders at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II highlighted the dire reality that there are at present no resolute statesmanlike leaders capable of reversing the accelerating decline throughout the whole of the Western world, thereby averting the very real possibility of a global conflict with an allied Communist China and Russia.
The West, in particular the United States, is currently populated with patronizing, oblivious, and callous leaders more concerned about themselves and globalism than the people and the future of their respective countries. Nor do they acknowledge that Western Civilization, because of its roots in Christianity, has increased freedom, wealth,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MDConservative 9/28/2022 10:11:54 AM (No. 1289983)
"Western civilization" has a Western civilization problem. It is classically liberal, it has obligated itself to include other civilizations to learn and grow, as well as to assuage guilt over colonizations and exploitations of centuries past. It has accepted its wrongs to the exclusion of other historic wrongs wrought by others. Mao, Pol Pot, and Ataturk are hardly mentioned in the roll call of genocide...Hitler is the gold standard of global evil. Now, Western civilization has largely ceded political leadership to women...from Nancy Pelosi in the US to Liz Truss (Britain), Giorgia Miloni (Italy), Magdalena Andersson (Sweden), Ursula von der Leyen (EU) and down the line. Power and leadership in the West are moving to a far different model than the traditional.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bpl40 9/28/2022 10:17:31 AM (No. 1289992)
Ask yourselves. How many people do you know who will admit to supporting the views expressed here (a) At work (b) At a cocktail party or neighborhood barbecue (c) At Thanksgiving. That should tell you exactly the depth and dimensions of the hole we are in.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Highlander 9/28/2022 10:31:14 AM (No. 1290009)
As happened with Old Testament Israel on to the 1st Century A.D., even a nation with the full blessings and protective benevolence of its God, slowly degraded through the centuries, in spite of sporadic reforms by righteous kings, to its total demise in 70 A.D., via the destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman general, Titus. I post this only to point out that left to our own devices, sans God, our society is doomed to go the way of all the other civilizations, as Israel, that flourished, declined, and perished, as their succeeding generations failed to keep the traditions and strengths of their forebears. Trump did what he could, but the national spiritual infection is irreversible. As good as De Santis is, he cannot stop the slide without having an army of like-minded support behind him. Too many swamp creatures.
Ultimately, only God will save His people, and in that, I rest.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Wretched Man 9/28/2022 10:58:04 AM (No. 1290055)
Amen, Highlander!
1 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.”
4 He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.
5 Then He will speak to them in His wrath, and terrify them in His fury, saying,
6 “As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.”
7 I will tell of the decree: The LORD said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you.
8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
10 Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish in the way, for His wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.
The LORD is speaking --------- Listen!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Newtsche 9/28/2022 12:55:15 PM (No. 1290147)
Old enough to remember Western Civ in high school? Such a quaint notion.
Imagine that being part of a curriculum today. Imagine teaching we live in a society with a basis in history and a force for good for all people lucky enough to be part of it. Turns out the city on the hill is shining because it sits on a volcano.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 9/28/2022 2:02:46 PM (No. 1290211)
A lot of good ideas, and I agree with Trump's VERY important speech in Poland. I paid attention at the time, and thought it was a truly historic speech, and yet the Enemedia largely ignored it, as did the foolish Euroweenies, outside of the former Eastern Block states.
But I think the author goes entirely off the rails about the Ukraine invasion. IME, from a decade of doing business in Ukraine, and becoming friends with one family and with many other individual scientists and engineers in the country, Ukraine and Ukrainians were well on their way to becoming another Poland - meaning a ex-communist country which strongly values freedom and wants independence and all of the things that the West used to stand for. They were fighting huge Moscow influence in their affairs, and massive corruption, again, driven and funded by Moscow.
Putin, harking back to what he has written that he views as the glory days of the USSR, wants to keep Ukraine, with a huge area of some of the most fertile farmland in Europe, and much design and manufacturing capability in aircraft, missiles and other high technology, plus a substantial shipbuilding infrastructure, as a vassal state and control those human and physical resources. He wants to reassemble the Humpty-Dumpty of the USSR.
Giving brave Ukrainians the tools to resist this tyranny is the right thing to do. If they won't fight, they are enslaved. No US blood is being shed, other than a few volunteers (I know a couple personally),. We send only US war materiel to let them fight their fight in their homeland. And close looks show that while western military aide is absolutely crucial, much of the 'heavy iron' that the Ukrainians are using has come from captured Russian tanks, armored fighting vehicles, air defense systems, artillery and ammunition. In those classes of equipment, captures are far larger than western supplies.
Trump has the vision to save the West. Most of our "leaders" have been corrupted by the WEF globalists and WANT Europe and USA to be corrupted, collapsed and controllable. I am with Trump.
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