Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the old movie “The Truman Show.” Not so much about the fictional enactment of a television director’s vision of utopia, but about the movie’s big question: “How’s it going to end?”
In the movie, Truman Burbank is a man raised from birth as the unknowing star of a reality TV show. His entire world existed in a gigantic dome shaped sound stage, so that the viewing audience could vicariously share his life. But as Truman matured, he began to long for adventure outside the limits of his little village, signaling that the program’s conclusion was approaching. The fans began to ask: “How’s it going to end?”
That’s the movie’s point. Except for our afterlife, nothing lasts forever: nothing living; nothing built; not even dreams. So, what will cause the credits to roll on the most free and prosperous civilization ever conceptualized by mankind? How’s America going to end?
Will the United States end in a sudden flash of energy from a galactic collision? Maybe our current republic will end when we move out into space and create something better. Or will America’s finale be something darker – something horrific we could have prevented, but didn’t?
Will America end when the economy collapses under the weight of its national debt? Will the dollar lose all value, wiping out personal savings, and starving industry of capital? Will businesses and factories be shuttered, leaving America as agrarian tribes bartering for survival?
Will America end when the law becomes irrelevant? When the police no longer enforce laws, and judges no longer ensure fairness, will American cities devolve into savage contests of survival of the fittest, or lynch mob justice?
Will America end when the deep state completes its enslavement of the population? Will government sanctioned looting and control of personal behavior wipe out any incentive to accomplish? Will the engine of commerce gradually spin down, leaving Americans in the dark muttering: “Who is John Galt?”
Fans of “The Truman Show” knew that the ending was near when Truman began testing the boundaries of his world. Are there signs that America is approaching its finale?
- The national debt currently stands at $37,000,000,000,000. A freight train loaded with 37 trillion neatly stacked dollar bills would stretch from Los Angeles to New York, and back to Denver again.
- Lady Justice is no longer blindfolded. Judges are picking political sides and substituting activism for fairness – even to the point of invalidating elections.
- Law enforcement officers have been demonized and face assault and even imprisonment … for simply doing their jobs.
- Violence, including assassination, has become an acceptable form of political expression for a significant portion of the population. Businesses have been burned, and business leaders murdered, with the perpetrators lauded as heroes.
- Every government regulatory job costs 138 private sector jobs, and we have hundreds of thousands of government employees administering regulations. Our government is regulating how we worship, what we can say, what consumer goods we can buy, and even the air we exhale.
- Some seek to preserve America, while others insist there is nothing worth preserving.
Will America end because the natural forces of decay were inevitable? Or will it end because we didn’t care enough to protect it when we could?
Our elected leadership can’t serve us when the deep state and the judiciary have the will and the power to “resist.” The election of federal officials isn’t a long-term solution to our systemic decay. It is merely doing the same thing over and over, while hoping for a different result. However, Article V of the Constitution empowers our states to take a different path to corrective action, by amending the rules under which the United States government operates, to reestablish the accountability which has been lost.
Author Bio: John Green is a retired engineer and political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho. He spent his career designing complex defense systems, developing high performance organizations, and doing corporate strategic planning. He is a contributor to American Thinker, The American Spectator, and the American Free News Network. He can be reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.
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