Governor Ronald Reagan, in his 1967 inaugural address, famously remarked, "Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction."
Reagan today might have expanded on his theme by declaring that civilization itself is both fragile and can lost by a generation that recklessly spends its inheritance while neither appreciating nor replenishing it-if not ridiculing those who sacrificed so much to provide it.
Such is the noxious epitaph of the Baby Boomer generation that is now passing after a half-century of preeminence and whose Jacobin agendas have nearly wrecked the nation they inherited.
That same generation went on to save South Korea, build an anti-totalitarian world order, defeat Soviet communism, and pass on to the Baby Boomer generation the strongest economy, military, and political system in history, or, to paraphrase the poet Horace, "Monuments more lasting than bronze." Or so we, the inheritors, thought.
It relies on the espionage abilities of its students and visitors -and apparently exempt spy balloons-to ensure the People's Liberation Army's technological parity with the U.S. But the greatest baleful legacy of this fading generation is the weaponization of the government against its own perceived American citizen enemies.
In sum, our departing weak-link generation leaves us this final Parthian shot- that when a toxic ideology so alienates the people who are rising up to prevent its continuance, then the desperate architects of such disasters can dismantle the rule of law to destroy its critics.
A single generation has broken apart the great chain of American civilizational continuance.
https://amgreatness.com/2024/06/03/the-destructive-generation-proving-americas-weakest-link/
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