By Timothy D. Naegele[1]

Eight years ago, an article was published here that set out dire warnings about the direction that the United States and other countries were taking.  Last year, the subject was revisited again.[2]  Since then, things have gotten decisively worse.

We have a demented and brain-addled criminal occupying our White House.  He should be in prison for the rest of his life, along with other members of the Biden Family Crime Syndicate and their co-conspirators—including Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray and Jack Smith.

Yet, waiting in the wings to replace him are Willie Brown's former ho Kamala Harris; Nancy Pelosi's relative Gavin Newsom from far-Left California; and perish the thought, the racist and anti-Semite Barack Obama's angry wife, Michelle.  For many Americans, the opposing slate of Republican candidates is equally odious.

Censorship and the suppression of free speech are rampant at Elon Musk's Twitter (or "X" as it is called today) and elsewhere, which rivals what Vladimir Putin did decades ago in Russia.[3]  Our Department of Injustice and FBI have been weaponized against those who would challenge or even question the insidious Biden regime's criminal conduct.

The eco-Nazis have foisted electric vehicles on us, even though most Americans don't want them.  Man-made "global warming" is a hoax.  Our planet has gone through warming and cooling cycles for millions of years, which will continue after all of us are long gone.  But pollution is a real issue, with respect to which little to nothing is being done.  India and China continue to pollute; and massive gyres of marine debris accumulate in our oceans.

Illegal aliens have crossed our borders, with almost nothing done to impede them.  With them have come cartel members and human traffickers, and deadly drugs like Fentanyl that can kill instantly.  Also, such illegal aliens displace America's homeless who seek shelter; and take jobs away from those who have worked hard to establish an economic foothold here.

We are engaged in a tragic war in Ukraine, where the unspeakable atrocities rival anything that has ever been done by human beings to each other.  There are grave concerns that the warfare will spread beyond Ukraine; and that China will move on Taiwan or elsewhere in the world.

And just when we thought that China's Covid pandemic was confined to the past, it may be rearing its ugly head again and coming back.  Americans and others globally have been buffeted by this tragedy; and businesses and jobs are gone throughout the country, which will never return.

Our cities are cesspools of homelessness and lawlessness, where the perpetrators of crimes don't even get slaps on their wrists anymore.  Tragically, many believe this is merely part of America's decline like that of ancient Rome, which is irreversible once the "rot" sets in.  Tragically, our freedoms and politics may be following the same trajectory.

Our churches, schools, groups such as the Scouts, and our history are under constant attack too, with their opponents determined to destroy them.  Indeed, the thugs, slugs, hoods and mongrels of "Black Lives Matter," Antifa and other far-Left groups have burned our cities and killed innocent Americans including our police; and they have destroyed black and other businesses.  Yet, they have not been punished.  Thugs like George Floyd are lionized.

We have family members pitted against each other, who disagree over the direction of our nation, or the education in our schools at all levels.  And because of economic hard times for so many, once-beloved animals are neglected or abandoned altogether—or euthanized by veterinarians who become willing accomplices of the drug companies that push their products.[4]

Is the United States on an irreversible downward spiral, whereby anyone such as Donald Trump who might avert it is destroyed politically and legally, or actually killed like Abraham Lincoln before him?  And will artificial intelligence (or AI) destroy us?  Where is God in the midst of so much unfathomable chaos?  Have we been abandoned, and left to our own devices, like during the Dark Ages . . . or before?

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© 2023, Timothy D. Naegele

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[1]  Timothy D. Naegele was counsel to the United States Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and chief of staff to Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient and former U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass).  See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6  and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/accomplishments/   He has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as two law degrees from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, and from Georgetown University.  He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon, where he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commendation_Medal#Joint_Service).  Mr. Naegele is an Independent politically; and he is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, and Who's Who in Finance and Business. He has written extensively over the years (see, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/ and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/articles/), and studied photography with Ansel Adams.  He can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com

[2]  See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/01/global-chaos-and-helter-skelter/ ("Global Chaos And Helter Skelter") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2022/04/12/global-chaos-and-helter-skelter-revisited/ ("Global Chaos And Helter Skelter—Revisited")

[3]  See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2023/08/09/trump-and-maga-supporters-are-not-welcome-at-twitter-x/ ("Trump And MAGA Supporters Are Not Welcome At Twitter/X")

[4]  See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2023/07/27/some-dogs-are-nicer-and-more-loving-than-human-beings/ ("Some Dogs Are Nicer And More Loving Than Human Being")