{"id":1724287,"date":"2022-11-04T07:19:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T11:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1724287"},"modified":"2022-11-04T07:19:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T11:19:41","slug":"will-america-fall-with-a-bang-or-a-whimper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-america-fall-with-a-bang-or-a-whimper\/","title":{"rendered":"Will America Fall With A Bang Or A Whimper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwill-america-fall-with-a-bang-or-a-whimper%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1724287&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>There are three hurdles for a reader to clear in order to enjoy Kurt Schlichter\u2019s new book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Well-Be-Back-Fall-America\/dp\/1684513308\">We\u2019ll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America<\/a>.\u201d First, he must ignore the cover. Yes, one can\u2019t judge a book by its cover, but a picture of an angry middle-aged guy pointing at the viewer, presumably ready to open a can of whoop ass on him, might provoke some eye-rolling among people that fancy themselves intellectuals. Fortunately, the reader can take off the book sleeve and this problem is solved.<\/p>\n<p>Second, he must make it past the generic \u201cangry conservative\u201d title. \u201cWe\u2019ll Be Back\u201d doesn\u2019t really say anything. Rather, like the cover, it just gives the wrong impression of the book, which is not a partisan rant. It\u2019s a thoughtful analysis of today\u2019s political situation.<\/p>\n<p>Third, the reader must simply accept Schlichter\u2019s penchant to crack a joke in every other sentence of this book. Altogether, this is a serious book, but it\u2019s told in a humorous way. For anyone with a background in history or politics, the jokes are actually quite funny. For example, when discussing the decline of religious practice in the West, he remarks, \u201cThe churches themselves, outside of places like Poland, where they believe in something beyond soccer, are broken.\u201d Of course, every so often the jokes don\u2019t always land: \u201cIt\u2019s like the Beatles when Yoko showed up. It is unsustainable.\u201d OK, Boomer.<\/p>\n<p>With these Disclaimers, \u201cWe\u2019ll Be Back\u201d is an otherwise excellent book that speaks to the current moment. Schlichter\u2019s subject matter affects everyone, not just political junkies and doomsday preppers. He is a savvy commentator and entertaining writer who is able to make complex ideas palatable and imaginable. His predictions aren\u2019t the abstruse reflections of a professor insulated from reality, but an actual veteran who has lived in the world, experienced life, and interacted with many different people. As such, his predictions of what will befall the U.S. merit attention, and his arguments are surprisingly sound, if sometimes grim.<\/p>\n<p> Post Pax Americana <\/p>\n<p>Of course, before Schlichter can discuss the future, he must discuss the past. He sets up two reference points with which to view today\u2019s current decline, the Roman Empire and the U.S. in the early 1990s. In his view, American power peaked soon after the fall of the Soviet Union, as it was settling various conflicts around the world as its sole superpower, establishing a kind of Pax Americana. Such was the also case of first-century Rome, the ancient world\u2019s cosmopolitan superpower.<\/p>\n<p>Although entertaining on its own, Schlichter\u2019s crash course in classical history has a deeper point that applies to today. Like Rome, America will fall, but this fall won\u2019t be anything sudden or even perceptible to most people. He explains that America\u2019s fall will probably \u201cbe a transformational change. \u2026 The old ways can simply stop meeting the needs of the present, and something different replaces them.\u201d For the past three decades, Schlichter charts the mounting corruption of the American government, the departure from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio host and writer Kurt Schlichter&#8217;s latest book, &#8216;We\u2019ll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America,&#8217; games out many scenarios that could lead to the country&#8217;s collapse with illuminating and even amusing results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":551,"featured_media":1724291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1724291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}