[dforest]

There is no saving America. It is toast.

[Ciaphas Cain]

I just turned fifty. I spent most of my life this far believing that America could be saved, could become that bright shining city upon the hill again.

Damn it, I fought for that vision. And got a lot of hell for it.

Now I wonder, what was the point of it all.

That is still a remarkable vision that Reagan gave us. But the nation is too corrupted, too rotted, than for it to be anything but a fast-receding memory.

We are hellbent on driving toward a calamity the likes of which the Founders could not imagine.

Maybe it's for the best. Maybe we need to fall, and learn a hard lesson. Maybe this is what is needed for us to vanquish the cowardly, the corrupt, the "progressive" from our midst for all time.

This is going to end, one way or another. It's just a question of whose corpses will litter the path.

[joesbucks]

I thought you had previously declared that.