Is America showing signs of decline that may make it impossible to make America great again?
Michael Prowse (Harvard Business Law Review, 1992)
"Strange as it may seem, a nation once celebrated for its irrepressible optimism now appears to be obsessed by decline. America’s list of complaints seems endless: Real wages are falling. Productivity growth is down. Companies aren’t competitive in global markets. White-collar jobs are no longer secure. The nation’s infrastructure is collapsing. The federal deficit is soaring. The health system is deteriorating. The cities are unsafe. The schools are failing. The gap between rich and poor is widening.
1. The real issue isn’t decline so much as increased equality among advanced industrial nations.
During the postwar era (and, indeed, for much of this century), U.S. companies dominated the world economy. However advantageous to Americans, eventually that situation was bound to end. Concerns about decline are a symptom of the growing equality among industrialized nations rather than a reflection of any fundamental problem with the U.S. economy itself.
2. The real issue isn’t decline so much as increased social inequality at home.
3. The real challenge facing American society is not reversing economic decline; it is addressing the social implications of the new economy.
The end of U.S. economic dominance and the rise of social inequality pose a unique challenge: how to reinvent in a radically new economic environment America’s double commitment to economic opportunity and social equality. Ironically, too great a preoccupation with decline may keep American society from getting on with the job.
The Equality of Nations
The version of declinism most familiar to managers can be found in the by-now voluminous literature on “competitiveness.” What different authors mean by the term varies, but the basic approach is the same. First, declinists compare U.S. economic performance with that of the nation’s chief rivals (usually Japan and Germany) and find it wanting. Second, they urge the United States to become more like its competitors—primarily by copying Japanese and European mechanisms for business-government collaboration."
My Summary- America is just needs to be more like socialist countries to feel better about losing the leadership of the world economically.
American Family Association Journal 2011
"Absolutely monogamous cultures were the strongest. In the records of history, indeed, there is no example of a society displaying great energy for any appreciable period unless it has been absolutely monogamous. Moreover, there is no case in which an absolutely monogamous society has failed to display great energy.
The placing of a compulsory check upon the sexual impulses, that is, a limitation of sexual opportunity, produces thought, reflection, and energy.
On the negative side, however, was what happened when a people began to transgress its own moral codes – when sexual opportunity began to be extended in both pre-marital and extra-marital sexual freedom. Across the board, Unwin found, such cultures began to decay."
In his 1956 work, The American Sex Revolution, Pitirim A. Sorokin, who founded the sociology department at Harvard University, examined this phenomenon as well. He explained: “Since a disorderly sexual life tends to undermine the physical and mental health, the morality, and the creativity of its devotees, it has a similar effect upon a society that is composed largely of profligates. And the greater the number of profligates, and the more debauched their behavior, the graver are the consequences for the whole society. And if sexual anarchists compose any considerable proportion of its membership, they eventually destroy the society itself.”
My summary-Sexual immorality destroys nations.
2021 The Heritage Foundation
"Decades of statistics have shown that, on average, married couples have better physical health, more financial stability, and greater social mobility than unmarried people. Children of those couples are more likely to experience higher academic performance, emotional maturity, and financial stability than children who don’t have both parents in the home.
The social and economic costs of family breakdown are paid by everyone.
Studies show divorce and unwed childbearing cost taxpayers over $110 billion each year. But the real victims are children. Children raised in single-parent homes are statistically more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol, exhibit poor social behaviors, and commit violent crimes. They’re also more likely to drop out of school. And when it comes to fighting poverty, there is no better weapon than marriage. In fact, marriage reduces the probability of child poverty by 80%.
My Summary-Marriage benefits society greatly, and too little can destroy tomorrow fabric of society.
Cultural Marxism, Socialism
The current leadership in the Democrat party has been very open with their perspective on moving America more towards socialism. Leading candidate Bernie Sanders there's no bones about it and is consistently made headway within the party..
Just in the last few years Democrats are now unashamed and out of the closet when it comes to remaking America, "fundamentally changing America."
Is America's decline irreversible? Unless we Quickly return to Family values, monogamous marriage, and biblical values, yes.
See Link Below
https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/heritage-explains/why-the-declining-marriage-rate-affects-everyone
https://afajournal.org/past-issues/2011/june/the-decay-of-greatness/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/hbr.org/amp/1992/07/is-america-in-decline
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