Have we gone backwards as a nation?

Joe you are tragically perceptive. Sloth, ignorance, apathy, self-gratification, greed, illiteracy have replaced the courage, sacrifice and effort of the founders and builders of our wonderful country. We owe so much to so many freedom-fighters and patriots, but gratitude is not in the lexicon of narcissism. The stature of statesmanship has evolved into political pandering for self gain and contempt for our history and the voters who send them to our capitols to do our bidding at great cost to us taxpayers. Our last defensive victory was WWII. Since then, our military is used as pawns in the machinations of global ambition. Vacuous celebrities are idolized for their inane, illegal and inhumane behaviors, while our military is tossed aside with their injuries and deaths from protecting these steroid/drug/alcohol-abusing derelicts who are given millions of dollars. Millions of Americans and millions of illegal alien parasites don't even know and wouldn't care that their future is of much shorter duration than what you predict. Depopulation through bioterrorist, nuclear or financial attack fills the need for fewer occupants considered inferior by the elites with the money and the power. China holds enough of our debt to completely vaporize our country if called, as proven by a single subtle threat to divest of some of our dollars that just recently caused worldwide near-panic at the same time our subprime mortgage disaster was finally being recognized by the industry. Thousands more jobs gone for America. Millions of American jobs gone overseas or to illegal labor here that taxpayers subsidize for American employers. A president who is working to destroy our national sovereignty by melding us with two countries of widely differing philosophies, language, coinage and culture without consulting us, even ridiculing publicly those who know what he's doing in stealth (until now) while meeting for the third time with leaders of Canada and Mexico for a North American Union. Because our congress is doing nothing to counter and stop this, they must be considered accomplices. More fools they, because most of them have no significant wealth, so are nothing more than useful idiots to the globalists. The Clintons and the Bushes, all with suspect histories, are doing the last steps for the globalists, but they will be tossed aside, also. One pair is white trash from Arkansas; the other one is a grandson of a Nazi collaberator who clawed his way to some wealth by never missing any means for a dollar. 'The Rise and Fall of Rome' provides a disturbing similarity to what astute observers of our society see is our end as the glorious United States of America.