There isn't much doubt that America and it's economic system is threatened by the trends we're seeing. We need to determine if these trends are naturally evolutionary ones aimed at the betterment of America, or if they represent the not so secret agenda of shadowy, if not malicious, proponents.

Many years ago one of my favorite authors (Emmet Fox) said, "Life is consciousness, "Life is a creative mind game, and its quality is determined by the quality of thought,It doesn't require much creativity to do nothing, and have nothing, but the more creative the thought, the greater the productive effect on all aspects of life.

The thinking of individual Americans benefits each, and when millions think in the same vein it not only benefits the masses but establishes a national psyche. That larger creative psyche, in turn, supports and encourages individuals to even more creative thoughts and productivity. But this beneficial cycle of consciousness in America is under attack.

 America, to me, is two things: a spiritual idea and its down-to-earth counterpart. The true and real America is Ideal, and idealistically it is beautifully perfect and close to heaven on earth as nations go.There's nothing wrong with America as an ideal, and as a "Utopia" it has survived much longer than most.. But, America expresses as the United States of America...and it is populated by humans who err, who miscalculate, who test extremes, and who can be burdened with too much self-interest. We must realize that these two Americas, one spiritual and the other material are linked by and through mind, but are not identical or synonymous.

Persistent efforts are being made to re-shape collective thinking in ways that I believe are undermining the system that has kept America's economic engine running. If America's economic engine falters, America is troubled spiritually.It is just as true that if America, as a spiritual ideal, comes under attack, America's economic system sputters.  

Let's begin looking at some of the troublesome issues that pose long-term threats to the survivability of America--and its economic system as we've known it. I would hope that by identifying these trends readers will be more aware and more able to objectively analyze--and reject--ideological schemes--regardless of their source--that would de-Americanize America.

I just read that, according to Census stats, the net worth of American households, headed by persons 65 years of age or older, is 47 times that of households headed by those who are 35 and younger.

This raises questions...many of them.Are younger Americans motivated by the same career goals and work ethic that motivated their parents and grandparents? Are things--including gainful employment, affluence, lifestyle, mortgages, and dollars--as important to younger Americans as they were to older Americans?

Humans seem to develop more sensible values as they age, but if the net worth of those 35 and under doesn't improve dramatically, they won't be buying stocks or bonds or investing in America over the next fifty years.This could spell doom for the Gross Domestic Product, for Wall Street, and the viability of representative Government.

History, tradition, logic, values, capitalism, individualism, and the very idea of America are under attack by those whose rallying cry is "Social Justice," a term similar to the algebraic x that can mean anything.But hidden beneath the Social Warrior rhetoric Social Justice is the same old coercive "Equality" fakery, the same old anti-Capitalism, anti-private ownership, anti-freedom malarkey that we've heard all our lives.After failing everywhere it's been tried, it is now being swallowed by gullible ideologues right here at home.It's an ideal system for those who want to be treated like mindless, unimaginative,soulless cogs on a wheel. It's just what the doctor ordered for those who believe the best thing they can do with their life is to sacrifice selfhood, individuality, creativity and the freedom to create your own prosperity with your own mind.If fulfillment is found by subordinating one's life, judgement, and welfare to the superior will of the only god that matters--the state-- one should quickly join the ranks of the Social Warriors who believe that anyone who prefers self-determination, self-reliance, and self-reward is The Enemy.

A new anti-American consciousness is working overtime to poison all the mind/soul roots of Americanism.It is incapable of seeing "America, The Beautiful."It's hard to imagine America being the birthplace of a foreign consciousness that denigrates America's past.It's as if these critics have but one eye, and can only see and judge America by its sexist and racist evils.According to these newbies, there's nothing honorable about America's history or heroes, it's victories and accomplishments, its flag, or its record of correcting its errors.  These forces loathe national pride and the spirit of excellence that, until recently, motivated Americans. One has to wonder if this is a passing fad--like the Hippie and Beat Generations, or if it's a growing trend aimed at turning America upside-down and inside-out.

Civilization was, and is, made possible by cognition--logic and reason-- that establishes priorities which value such things as family, sexual roles, religion, learning, security, law, justice, government, and politics.It isn't just society, but civilization itself that seems to be slated for destruction.If this is the aim, then Wall Street will find little profit to be made in an uncivilized world.

Not only are the values of Western Civilization under attack in America, but so are logic and reason.It seems trendy to prize non-logic and to adopt the hair-brained proposal without due diligence.It seems bent on having us believe that Alice's world wasn't right until she fell down the rabbit hole. but I can't see myself being converted to the proposition that logic and reason are mad twins in deranged minds.

There seems to be a concerted effort to de-link Americans from a past that is portrayed as pure evil, to deprive them of roots, values, and judgment, and to prepare them for some ism they see as vastly superior to civilization with all it's faults, failings, and hypocrisies.The problem is that isms are governed by humans just as kingdoms and democracies are.

Capitalism, the economic backbone of America, is increasingly being portrayed as a corrupt and failed evil.Righteous self-interest is increasingly linked with greed's ugliness, and the profit motive is repudiated as a relic of slimy materialism.

But the concept of America is not only threatened by foreign anti-Americanism.It seems to me that Super-Americanism is doing it's part to destroy America. Prayer is perhaps rightly deemed as taboo, but militarism worms its way into every sporting event as if a global show of force is needed to remind earthlings that resistance is futile. I deplore the news script that government gives the MSM for dissemination. Not far behind is the incessant drumming by the FDA and Big Pharma commerce that health is a matter of pills and injections. I deplore government-funded--and manipulated--markets. The fact that Congress considers some businesses too big to fail is destructive of good business. Congress letting the Fed destroy the dollar and a nation of savers to pamper big banks is a crime.And Congress ought never to have joined the effort to remake humanity by force of punitive legislation.  I am deeply concerned about the legislated immortality of corporations.Governments grant immortality to corporations, while lusting for it themselves.It can only result, over time, in the concentration of wealth in super-wealthy corporations and super-wealthy governments which are so attractive to each other that Fascism becomes their marriage bed.

If America, the world's Golden Goose, is allowed to become just another caged chicken, Wall Street has much to fear and much to lose.