As bad as starting the year off with a terrorist incident, there are far worse things yet to face. Our ability to overcome the challenges that existed to varying degrees ever since our country was founded has declined sharply. Even conservatives aren’t up to the task. Watching how the Speaker of the House was selected reveals that we are too often paralyzed by the “perfect is the enemy of good” mindset.

This mindset means we are unable to face reality and address our challenges directly, a primary one of which is China. This must change if we are to survive and prosper.

An Economist article asks, “Is Western Culture Stopping Kids from Growing Up?” but stops short of asking the right questions. If our children can’t learn what it means to grow up, then how can they effectively and logically evaluate the world around them? This single question may be the most relevant to our nation’s future for the next 100 years. Kidults will be the predominant human lifeform in America for the foreseeable future. As they grow older but not wiser, China will try to exploit this once-in-a-lifetime weakness to counter their own self-inflicted wounds.

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America’s weakness is centralization and a new American oligarchy that is much less patriotic than it is........

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