Commentary
The ideological upheaval in the United States between traditional liberalism and progressivism and progressive strength is causing the “Great Forgetting”—the loss of the country’s ability to meet the challenges it once possessed. The most important of these waning abilities is how to confront and defeat great power enemies.
How Did Your Country Get Alzheimer’s Disease?
Like an Alzheimer’s patient in gradual decline, the United States is gradually becoming enfeebled and infantilized, losing its knowledge, memory, coherence, ability, desire, and willingness to meet challenges. This is partly due to the aging of the baby boomers (1946–1964) and Generation X (1965–1980), who possessed the direct experience of the fight against the Soviet Union and its allies in the Cold War.