Demise Of The American Century

I was reflecting this weekend on how good life is, despite all the negativity among coworkers and politicians who believe they deserve but are not willing to earn. When you really think about what we have it’s not too bad, and any failings are my own and no one else’s.

This windfall is the direct result of an era of American exceptionalism that many have referred to as “The American Century,” a subset of the Twentieth Century, but more than that because its exact duration is more than 115 years.

It began emphatically on October 9, 1893, when nearly three-quarters of a million people visited the Chicago Columbian Exposition, the greatest exhibit of technological and societal achievement ever presented in one place, and in so doing shattered the attendance record set the previous decade in Paris and signaling to the world that the United States of America had seized a place ahead of Europe on the world’s stage.

And it terminated with equal fanfare with the inauguration of Barack Obama, a bona-fide Communist, as President of these same United States. The message could not have been more clear – a majority of American voters were either apologetic or even openly hostile to the exceptionalism fought for and enjoyed by preceding generations. Obama went to work immediately, apologizing for our arrogance, bowing to the unelected kings and despots of other countries, and deferring to the will of the United Nations in managing affairs of interest to our nation. Legislatively, Democrats went to work plowing under the risk-reward philosophy of capitalism in favor of a new socialist paradigm which discouraged prosperity by hard work, elevated Marxist fairness rhetoric, and destroyed the American Dream.

The American Century is over. Anything resembling a new rise to prominence for Americans will be something different and less durable. History tells us that to recapture a measure of our former glory will take nothing short of Revolution. I believe the revolution has already begun, and after tomorrow’s vote we will take the next step.