I wonder what 'American' means, too, when I read what poses as 'mainstream media' and know so many are dominated by whatever slop TV dishes up . . . not to mention widespread affiliations with the culture of death.
We are seeing two elements that refuse to assimilate with what has traditionally been 'the American way' making up the fastest growing portion of 'America' - always 'USA' to me. Also, at least one of them would have us un-redeemed by Christ and accept a 'prophet' who, to me, at best, I would call a Judeao-Christian heretic - other terms come to mind . . . hmmm. Though, oddly, all his atrributive chicaneries and his assaults on the 'Judeao' as well as the 'Christian' have helped veil his very heinousness.
All that has little to do with race and probably not with demographics. It has more to do with 'melting into the pot'. All that, too, may just be part of our collapse into decadence giving way to ways often as wrong as the decadence.
It could be we are feeling God's arm of justice rising to thrash and throttle the world. You are right, PTR, in that we had better steel ourselves to not falling on swords as everyone around us seems to be doing.
Of a note with this, I recently read a 2004 report from the American Academy of Actuaries,
http://www.actuary.org/pdf/medicare/financial_march04.pdf ">which see. It pertained to Medicare and to Social Security. Without much 'bias', I could read between the lines in its financial and economic recital of perils a tough bit of 'euthanasia'. Put limits to Medicare payout per person, and hand out the cyanide pills when the limits are met.
How much of that peril can be attributed to low-wage (hence, low-contributing, yet while potentially normally-high benefitting) members of either or both the 'unmelted' cited above?
I remain your obedient servant, but God's first,
Pristinus Sapienter
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