1942 VERSUS 2023

My father, born in 1901, was too young to be in WWI and too old to be in WWII. Living on the Atlantic coast during WWII he was involved in coastal watch efforts, but as far as I know that was the extent of his participation. In the late 40s and early 50s I don’t recall my father talking much about the war, with the exception of one comment that I retained. That was his observation that we didn’t out fight the enemy in WWII as much as we out produced them. In retrospect this was almost an understatement.

The war materials production effort in the U.S. during WWII was literally incredible. In addition to a large manufacturing base that was totally re-purposed for the war effort, we enjoyed the fact that the enemy could not get to us because of the two oceans that separated us from the two theaters of war. We bombed the enemy’s production facilities into oblivion but ours remained untouched. Our enemies were never able to establish bases from which they could attack us.

The difference between the situation in the U.S. in 1942 and the U.S. in 2023 is night and day. In 1942 our economy was slowly recovering from the depression of the 30s, but our industrial base was sound, we were not dependent on others to any real extent, and our citizens were patriotic. Today we are on the verge of either a government default on its debts or a currency collapse due to runaway inflation; a large percentage of our industrial base has been moved to other countries, mostly because of stupid tax laws; we are dangerously dependent on others including those that should be considered enemies; and our citizenry have been turned against the country to an extent that may in fact be fatal. To make the situation much worse, modern weapons can reach us from anywhere in the world, so we're a lot more vulnerable to attack on our soil.

The point of all this is that the U.S. is in no condition to fight any wars or even fund and support others in wars that we have no direct interest, and certainly would not be the untouchable powerhouse that it was in WWII. The stupidity and greed of too many Americans that has permitted the political Left to destroy our country from within may be irreversible, but identifying and correcting the problems that have brought us to this state of affairs is our only hope. Continuing to concentrate the National focus on the Woke insanity, the Green Energy stupidity, the fiscal debacle of the Welfare State, maintaining a world wide military presence when we can't afford it, trying to export democracy which doesn’t even work at home and a myriad of other distractions will guarantee an early and complete collapse of the U.S. nation.

Many in the chattering classes like to refer to the United States as an ‘experiment in democracy’. Although the founders never envisioned the Republic they created as a democracy, the more democratic it has become the faster it has headed toward complete failure. The ‘experiment’ has been run, and the unvarnished reality is that it has failed. Democracy is basically allowing the inmates to run the asylum, and is just not a workable concept.