Declining American Culture and Economy Go Hand in Hand

The American people are beginning to rouse from their slumbers and recognize that during the past few decades, something in their nation’s system of commerce has gone terribly awry

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Chris Adamo

Wyoming cattleman J. Randall “Randy” Stevenson, a vocal advocate of American agriculture and American enterprise, warns that this nation is “increasingly outsourcing its sovereignty while importing its dependency.” In these few words, he encapsulates the real challenges facing America, which ultimately eclipse any threat from abroad, whether that of militant Islam or the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4033 efforts to establish hegemony over the world economy.

Stevenson has amassed plenty of knowledge on the subject, having witnessed first hand the orchestrated efforts of multinational http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4127.

Invariably, it is the American cattle growers, who once proudly shouldered the burden of feeding America, that are being systematically shut out of the system, to the ultimate benefit of the multinational corporations that hold no interest in, or loyalty to America and its agricultural strength. In a manner entirely reflective of the rest of the corporate world, foreign competitors worm their way into a segment of the market, often enjoying special treatment that, were it rendered upon American businesses, would be classified as outrageously “protectionist.”But as with the proverbial frog in the gradually warming pot of water, no single event appears calamitous enough by itself to cause sufficient alarm and the resulting demands for a fix. Yet over time, the American people are beginning to rouse from their slumbers and recognize that during the past few decades, something in their nation’s system of commerce has gone terribly awry.

Large scale marketing campaigns increasingly promote the concept of a non-American culture to replace the traditional core of our fading country. Though not nearly so blatant as the inflammatory recent Absolut Vodka ad which touts a “reconquista” of the American Southwest, they are nonetheless intended to erode and eventually eradicate the concept of national allegiance on any level.

The possibility is remote that the might and majesty of America will unravel in a single D-Day type confrontation with a superior foreign enemy. Instead, it is occurring as the result of the relentless deterioration of everything cultural and social that made the nation great. And if the nation’s culture crumbles, its economic prowess will not long endure.

Americans are becoming aware of looming calamity on several fronts, but few seem ready or willing to connect the dots and recognize the bigger picture. Content to remain mired in partisan battles between two increasingly indistinguishable political parties, they rally to one camp or another while remaining willfully ignorant of the fundamental problems that must be addressed if America is to be resuscitated from its current condition. Yet the potential for grave misfortune remains, and only increases with time.

As a microcosm of the pattern observed by Randy Stevenson, recent events in his own state exemplify the obstacles that must be overcome if America is ever to be unfettered from a political system that views its citizens merely as an expendable resource to be exploited for the profit of “the system.”

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2008-04-19