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To: skinowski who wrote (489703)	6/4/2012 3:05:55 PM
From: simplicity	9 Recommendations Respond to of 793955

I share your, and Steyn's, pessimism. I believe the biggest contributor to our decline is the ignorance and apathy of the average adult American. Even the bias of the curricula taught in the public schools, and the bias of the mainstream media, could be overcome if the average American were vigilant enough to ferret out the truth (most of us on this board do that on a daily basis). But, as a nation, we are simply allowing ourselves to be led down the road to national demise by a cadre of leftists who have been infiltrating our institutions of higher learning, major media outlets, and the political establishment for decades. When Lincoln was asked, 'At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected?' he responded, 'I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.' Granted, the 'socio-economic' turbulence you fear will be catastrophic unless we awaken the sleeping among us, but I fear even more the close connections that many in this administration have with the likes of the Muslim Brotherhood. The threat of the continued spread of radical Islam makes any vision of economic cataclysm pale in comparison, and, rather than facing that threat head-on, many in this administration prefer appeasement, or, worse, alliance.