Is Everything Suddenly Going to Hell?

Is everything going to hell? 

Maybe, maybe not. 

There are lots of reasons to feel bad about everything: The domestic political situation, the domestic – and global – economic picture, foreign affairs and national security, culture. And they’re good reasons, and you should be worried.

But. 

It’s also the case that a lot more people are suddenly noticing how bad things have gotten. You see it on things like immigration, where now “sanctuary cities” are suddenly in favor of building the wall, now that people are actually immigrating to them. You see it in the parental pushback on school closures and trans craziness. You see it in the growing realization that the Biden Administration – and, really, the entire Western governing class – is clueless and inept on foreign policy and national security, and pretty much everything else. And you see it in a growing impatience with the gentry class fixations on race, gender, and climate change while ordinary people struggle to make ends meet.

A few years ago most of our society was sleepwalking toward disaster. Now more and more people are awake and noticing. - READ MORE