Is America Degenerating?

[IBlvNTmWrk]

A very interesting read...

Leading Experts Issue a Warning That Vitality of Nation Is Waning

America faces 20 perils which may block its road to permanent supremacy! Such is the warning of the most eminent scientists in the country...

Here are some of the items for those who may not want to read the article.

• Increase in divorces
• Large number of defectives in school
• Increasing idiocy and insanity
• Enormous number of drug and alcohol victims
• America leads all nations in murders
• Extraordinary increase in sedentary work
• Hearty eating without exercise
• Increasing obesity
• Noticeable low resistance to disease
• Increase in suicides

Also of interest is that the article is from 1916.

 

[OrangeWayOfLife]

Leads all nations in murders, care to back that up?

Edit: Didn't see that last sentence. Wouldn't ya know, 100 years later and here we are.

Sure does sound a lot like people we have around now......Bart.........global warming

 

[knucklehead_vol]

Leads all nations in murders, care to back that up?

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[Rasputin_Vol]

:zeitung_lesen:

 

[IBlvNTmWrk]

Leads all nations in murders, care to back that up?

Edit: Didn't see that last sentence. Wouldn't ya know, 100 years later and here we are.

Sure does sound a lot like people we have around now......Bart.........global warming

Egg zachary. I was actually quite surprised at how many on the list of 20 still apply.

 

[Grand Vol]

[*]Increasing idiocy and insanity

That culminated in 2008 and again in 2012.

 

[IBlvNTmWrk]

That culminated in 2008 and again in 2012.

haha... well played.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

That culminated in 2008 and again in 2012.

you sir nailed it spot on. :hi:

 

[ClearwaterVol]

That culminated in 2008 and again in 2012.

2000 and 2004 weren't banner years either.

 

[davethevol]

As long as there are progressives, then it will head down the wrong path.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWXZ-whusxY[/youtube]

 

[Burhead]

Every "superpower" fades eventually. The British Empire failed, the French, the Soviets, one day America will to fade into being a 2nd rate power it is just a question of when and who replaces us.

 

[Toujours Pret]

2000 and 2004 weren't banner years either.

Don't believe we've screwed the pooch back to back as badly as we have in our history.

 

[hog88]

Every "superpower" fades eventually. The British Empire failed, the French, the Soviets, one day America will to fade into being a 2nd rate power it is just a question of when and who replaces us.

Sad but true.

 

[IBlvNTmWrk]

Sad but true.

The 18th-century historian Edward Gibbon listed 8 reasons why empires fail:

1. Decline in Morals and Values
2. Public Health
3. Political Corruption
4. Unemployment
5. Inflation
6. Urban decay
7. Inferior Technology
8. Military Spending

One could certainly argue that most of these apply today.

 

[hog88]

The 18th-century historian Edward Gibbon listed 8 reasons why empires fail:

1. Decline in Morals and Values
2. Public Health
3. Political Corruption
4. Unemployment
5. Inflation
6. Urban decay
7. Inferior Technology
8. Military Spending

One could certainly argue that most of these apply today.

We are not to far off the path the Romans took.

 

[Septic]

The 18th-century historian Edward Gibbon listed 8 reasons why empires fail:

1. Decline in Morals and Values
2. Public Health
3. Political Corruption
4. Unemployment
5. Inflation
6. Urban decay
7. Inferior Technology
8. Military Spending

One could certainly argue that most of these apply today.

One could argue that was also the case in 1865.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Leads all nations in murders, care to back that up?

Edit: Didn't see that last sentence. Wouldn't ya know, 100 years later and here we are.

Sure does sound a lot like people we have around now......Bart.........global warming

Don't forget evangelicals.

 

[Toujours Pret]

We are not to far off the path the Romans took.

Very f'ing close

 

[IBlvNTmWrk]

One could argue that was also the case in 1865.

One could.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Every "superpower" fades eventually. The British Empire failed, the French, the Soviets, one day America will to fade into being a 2nd rate power it is just a question of when and who replaces us.

I'm putting my money on Clintonia.

 

[n_huffhines]

This sounds like a lot of fear-mongering to me.

 

[hog88]

This sounds like a lot of fear-mongering to me.

How so?

 

[lawgator1]

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Don't you have some email communications to defend?

 

[n_huffhines]

How so?

IDK, some of the points aren't even necessarily bad signs for the future....like divorce rate....yeah we don't like a high divorce rater this minute, but it has no bearing on what it will be 20 years from now.

Or "increase in idiocy and insanity"? What does that even mean? Are we more idiotic than when we thought blacks had inferior brains and women shouldn't work?

Low resistance to disease? Clearly. Smallpox wiped out half the neighborhood this winter.