The Tourch is Burning Out
on May 31, 2017 at 2:28 pm
Remember the snowflakes of Occupy Wall Street who were melting down over the 1%? Going undercover as a journalist to investigate OWS in New York provided me a great deal of insight into Rome’s final days when the music died. Rome was so distracted by cultural garbage that the people failed to notice that their rights and liberties were being dismantled.
Look at today’s America: looting, shooting, arson, throwing rocks at cops, rioting, protesting and “safe places” on college campuses to suppress the free speech of anyone with whom the petunias and academic staff disagree, more and more people, especially the young, demanding socialism and communism… Think Bernie Sanders.
At OWS, protesters throbbed around with signs demanding free, Free Everything: guaranteed incomes; more welfare; free mass transient; free vacations; free health care; free college; free recreation; free housing; free internet, free bicycles…
“But who pays for it?” I asked indelicately.
They stared at me like I had two heads. “The rich, of course.”
What destroyed Rome, and has likewise destroyed other nations and empires, was moral and social decadence, weariness, suspicion, laziness, preoccupation with self, corruption, hedonism, materialism, rejection of truth and common sense…
Historian Jim Nelson Black listed symptoms that indicate a modern dying society: an over-centralized government; heavy taxation; top-heavy bureaucracies; liberal policies controlled by sentiment rather than sound judgment; general increase in lawlessness; loss of economic discipline and self-restraint; excessive government regulations; dying religion; erosion of quality and relevancy of education; immorality; decline in the value of human life…
I witnessed these symptoms on OWS. We witness them in society at large.
Author/historian David Kupelian said it best: “Our world includes entire nations that resemble insane asylums with the most deluded and dangerous people in positions of authority. In the case of major utopian systems… millions are brainwashed into not only embracing impossibly irrational, degrading and destructive beliefs (such as socialism), but also believing that they are required to force everyone else on earth to adopt their beliefs—or else be subjugated and slaughtered.”
COMING SOON. Watch for it via a major media blitz in September. Crushing The Collective, by Charles W. Sasser, who writes, “It may be too late to save a free United States of America, as it was too late to save Rome or any of the other empires that collapsed. . . The torch is burning out in America.”
I am reminded of a little ditty at the top of the homepage of FrontPage Mag, an arm of the David Horowitz Freedom Center:
“Inside every Progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out!”
David Horowitz should know too. He was once one of them. Live well and keep alert.
chuck sasser
Realistic thought doesn’t enter the equation. I’ve tried several times to show that if you take every cent from the richest 500 people in America, it wouldn’t cover the deficit for one year, and by taking the money, you also put companies out of business, killed jobs, and basically crashed the economy by taxing the “rich”. Rich is a matter of perspective, and even a $30k annual income is seen by much of America to be wealthy.
You are so right, David. But you cannot use logic against sentiment and “compassion.” chuck sasser
great article Chuck, i remember asking an OWS guy that said everything should be free, who’ll pay for it? he replied, no body, everything should be free! then i said, dumb ass, i’ll believe it when you get a crew together to build you a free house with free materials. Ha ha
Steve! You have too much common sense–which is in short supply these days. Thank you. chuck sasser
Boy, that Chuck is always stirring the pot…. And what a pot it is. Keep stirring, my friend. Maybe someday, someone will listen.
Morning, Jim. Thank you, old friend. It may simply be too late for Rome. Again. chuck sasser
Ayn Rand: “We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”
Hey, Jim. I certainly cannot say it any better than Ayn Rand. Be well, my friend. chuck sasser
I agree that it is very depressing when we look at the insanity of the fringe on the left. But Truimp’s election proves that many of us support our freedoms and want to maintain them. Imagine how many others would have voted for him had they not been put off by his personality or by the misdirection of the media. And that misdirection is still going strong. In fact the main battle we are fighting is the battle for minds. That’s why your voice is so important–and so appreciated. I believe that most Americans–given the right information–will staunchly support our freedoms.
In the primaries I was definitely not for Trump. And during and shortly after the Republican Convention I was still lukewarm. Then, he started making some very substantive speeches on various issues; about one per week. Yes, inside my head was an echo chamber. With me, he totally resonated.
You know, I was also following that same path–but the more I see of the guy the more I appreciate him.’
chuck sasser
Carol, I do hope you’re right–but I’m becoming more and more cynical as I witness the drive toward “give me more free stuff” from so many people.
Godbless. chuck sasser
Right on, Chuck! Keep writing. Keep praying. God has a solution. II Chronicles 7:14.
Sally, I do think you’re right. The hand of God has to be in this, we’ve become so arrogant and corrupt.
God bless. chuck sasser