Jeffrey Alexander Martin

One day Hare challenged Tortoise to a race. Tortoise agreed. Hare was much faster than Tortoise and easily won. "Ha!" said Hare, "You are so slow you could never beat me." Tortoise thought for a moment and said, "Maybe. Or, maybe I will get faster. Or, maybe you will get slower." Hare rolled his eyes. "I think," Tortoise continued, "we should make it an annual event." Hare agreed. The next year Hare won. The next year Hare won again. The next year Hare was winning, but when Tortoise got to the end Hare wasn’t there. Hare had a heart attack, and died alongside the trail. Tortoise won that year. Tortoise, racing by himself, won again the next year, and for many years thereafter. Moral of the story: Persistence wins. Find more at  JeffThinks.com  or  JeffreyAlexanderMartin.com

It's pretty clear at this point that the US is in decline and losing. But who is the US losing to? It's the classic question of why empires fall. In the case of the US, I know quite a few of the reasons. The US is suffering from a death by 1,000 cuts, from enemies both foreign and domestic. Obviously Soviet infiltration during the Cold War was highly damaging to the US. The Cold War officially started in 1947 under Truman as President, but really it had been going on for awhile. Hollywood famously had the blacklist in the 1940s where Marxists and communists weren't supposed to be involved in films. Yet, even during that time some of the most successful films were written by communists. During WW2 US propaganda promoted the Soviet Union communists as good for fighting the fascist and socialist Germans, and even before that the Marxists were able to start getting a strong foothold in the US. Marxism, communism, and socialism are different terms for the same basic philosophy t...