America's Great Adversary

Sometimes our most dangerous enemies are wearing our uniforms. In the case of America over the last 100 years, I would modify that to most of the time. Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Nixon, Bush II, Obama, taking them as both men and as symbols of the elites of their times, did more harm than even our most powerful international foes could manage. America has been spoiled by the absence of serious threats since 1783. Such security has been a rare privilege in national histories, perhaps shared with ancient Rome and certain periods of Chinese history--all of which examples succumbed to the same decadence we see around us, ever-increasing self-destruction and self-indulgence. The Americans, Romans and Chinese all indulged in unnecessary wars. And their elites detached themselves ever more complacently from reality, a detachment which in our case takes the form of the religion of cultural Marxism.