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As a historian, I sometimes am seduced by the \u201clong view\u201d of events in the life of our nation. Every people, every society, every civilization since the dawn of time has experienced crises. And so has the United States. Natural disasters, sure. Errors, national sins, corruption? We have not been immune. We have muddled through; and frequently we have triumphed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are many ways we are different than the myriad civilizations that have preceded us, societies that have risen and fallen. But there is one similarity we cannot escape. America will fall, as those civilizations have fallen. Whether it will be in hazy, distant future; whether it will be a revolution-evolution to a better system we cannot envision, or a slow disintegration from within or by invasions\u2026 the wheel of history grinds with determination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another path is whether we are in the midst, now, of the passing of the United States, the \u201cextinction of freedom\u201d about which Ronald Reagan warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the days of Noah (Jesus said, recorded in Luke 17:27), they were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when\u2026 the flood came and destroyed them all. <\/em>In other words, we can be in a crisis and not realize it… or its severity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because we eat and drink and go to jobs and wake up every morning, we are tempted to think all is normal, that our problems will resolve themselves. However, America is at an unprecedented inflection-point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n