By Dennis Prager
Tuesday, March 08, 2016
I cannot imagine any thinking person who does not believe
the world is getting worse.
The number of slaughtered and the number of refugees from
slaughter is immense and growing.
The Islamic State now controls territories from
Afghanistan to West Africa. Libya is in the process of being added to that
list. And other sadistic Islamist movements hold additional territory.
According to Pew Research, approximately 10 percent of world Muslims support
the Islamic State and terror against civilians. That’s more than 100 million
people.
The Iranian regime has just increased the reward it will
give to anyone who murders Indian novelist Salman Rushdie. It is increasing its
repression at home and now has more than $100 billion in additional cash to
spend on terror, while it regularly calls for the annihilation of Israel. Iran
just received from Russia the most powerful anti-aircraft weapons that exist
outside the United States, making a successful air attack on Iran almost
impossible.
Europe is allowing in another million migrants from the Middle
East, few of whom share Europe’s primary moral values. One consequence is that
European women are being sexually attacked in increasing numbers. Another is
that European countries are making criticism of Muslims or Islam — no matter
how rational the critique — a crime punishable by jail or fines, or both.
The only thing stopping regular mass murder of Europeans
and Americans is increased European and American police work. And no one
believes that this will suffice to prevent future attacks.
Russia is led by a KGB man who seeks to replace American
influence with Russian influence wherever possible. And he is allowed to do so
by the American president and the Democratic party. While Russia continues to
attempt, in Charles Krauthammer’s words, “to fracture and subordinate” Ukraine,
the United States under Obama refuses to send Ukraine weapons.
The United States is led by a president whose primary foe
seems to be the prime minister of Israel, even though the prime minister’s
country happens to be the freest, most moral, and most pro-American country in
the Middle East.
The commander of the U.S. Pacific Command recently told
Congress “that China is clearly militarizing the South China Sea” in order to
gain “hegemony in East Asia.”
Cuba now has American recognition and as a direct result
has felt free to increase its subjugation of the Cuban people. In January, the Cuban
regime arrested 1,414 political dissidents, the second-most ever recorded. It
will be rewarded by a visit from President Obama.
In the United States, most universities are being taken
over by a fascistic expression of leftism. Student thugs take over
administration offices with impunity and shout down speakers with whom they
differ, and many faculty members support them. In the name of “diversity” and
“tolerance,” American universities, once a jewel of free thought and
intellectual inquiry, have become places where Americans who cherish liberty
and cherish America increasingly fear to send their children.
America’s youth from high school onward are indoctrinated
in contempt for America and its founding ideals. If shown any of the iconic
paintings of the Founders (such as those that depict the signing of the
Declaration of Independence or the deliberations at the Constitutional
Convention), most young Americans now see only racist, sexist, rich,
slave-owning white males — rather than great people creating a great nation.
As its universities make clear, the West is committing
suicide. At UCLA, one doesn’t have to read a single play by Shakespeare in
order to receive a degree in English.
But one is fully indoctrinated regarding “white privilege,” “systemic racism,”
“income inequality,” “homophobia,” “hate speech,” “climate change,” and
whatever else radicals care about.
A Republican presidential debate opens with a comment by
the leading Republican candidate about the size of his penis. And the audience cheers.
The American president, a black man elected in the hope
that he would unify the races, has overseen the greatest rift between the races
since the 1960s. His repeated references to “Ferguson” reinforce the lie that a
white policeman killed an innocent black teenager for no reason other than the
young man’s race, and that is only one example of his habit of stoking division
and rage. One result is a rhetorical (and increasingly lethal) war on police
that has led many officers to pull back from proactively policing largely black
areas.
The Democratic presidential race is between a socialist
who has contempt for capitalism, the only economic system that has ever lifted
large swathes of humanity out of poverty, and a woman who is so corrupt that
she should be serving time in prison, not campaigning for president.
Meanwhile, the Republican race is led by a man who has
mocked a POW as a loser; who repeats the libel that George W. Bush knew there
were no WMD in Iraq; who calls for the killing of terrorists’ families; and,
who, as noted, proudly talks to America about the size of his sexual organ.
Many generations have believed that the world was getting
worse. But since 1776, there was a great nation that one could rely on to stem
the decay. Now that great nation, under the influence of its own elites, men
and women of the Left, is itself in decay.
So, who can save the world now?
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