In the early ‘70s, rather at the peak of America’s global power and dominance, I saw a nation on course toward its slow but certain end that could not be reversed. Both in logic and in experience, such a nation could not survive very long.
No society could endure when self-interest was at the center of their reason for being.īut post-1776 America is history’s only nation created to promote selfishness (morphed from self-interest), albeit in the name of “freedom” and “individualism,” that multiplied in the post-World War II affluence and deregulated consumerism. could not survive as a nation: As an entity and as an idea, the American nation, originally created by the enlightenment, and dedicated to the proposition of individual freedom, had neither the external unity nor the internal discipline that is required of all surviving democratic nations. A rather eager sociologist fresh out of UCLA at the time, trying to form his intellectual perspective on American society, I came to the shocking realization that the U.S. It just so happens that I declared a similar warning in a book entitled ” The Dead End” 44 years ago (1977). has never been so hopelessly fatalistic with its inability to solve its national crisis With the half of America’s population, mostly white, entrenched in their political fixation, the U.S. Many other worried observers of American politics and society have been tolling the bells of warning for the American republic: That its vaunted “democracy” is close to being replaced by an entirely new political system, strongly resembling fascism, spelling the end of America as we know it. Schmidt did not hesitate: He said, “15 seconds to midnight.”ĭemocrat from California Adam Schiff was more urgent and said democracy in America was already at “midnight.” One night last week, Steve Schmidt, the former campaign manager for John McCain, was asked by MSNBC’s Brian Williams how close he thought America’s democracy was to its midnight end. What if we witnessed the fall of Rome or other great events of history, up close and in person? To our astonishment, we are about to witness one: The End of the Great American Republic, in which we, its ordinary citizens, are both witnesses and players in the unfolding of this historic drama.
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