It did not have to turn out this way.
I’ve got to tell you about some videos I watched last night.
First, Britain After Rome: The Age of Arthur. They polished off Arthur in a minute or so: I think his name was only included to attract readers. On the whole, though, well worth watching: a history of all the stupid stuff perpetrated by Britain’s rulers after Rome withdrew her legions. Almost instantaneously, Britain’s old, pre-Roman political structures, kingdoms large and small, were back in business.
Although their country was under attack by Irish, Picts, and Anglo-Saxons, the British rulers pursued folly after folly: (1) refusing to defend their borders, (2) fighting among themselves, (3) raising great armies and then packing them off to continental Europe to try to conquer what had once been the Western Roman Empire–and most of the men in those armies never returned and were unavailable for home defense. These self-destructive policies destroyed a realm that could have been successfully defended.
Next, a short analysis by historian Victor Davis Hanson, This Will Be the End of Us. I soon realized it was the same story that I’d just watched, with America and her leaders repeating all the same foolishness which led to the demise of Britain. The same damned story! Every stupid thing they did in Britain in the 6th and 7th centuries, our leaders are doing in America today.
Finally, in a vain attempt to rinse my brain, a Fail Army video: people getting into easily avoidable troubles, painful and expensive troubles visited upon them by their own ridiculously bad decisions. The supply is inexhaustible. And it’s the same damned stupid story! Just on a personal scale.
This year’s elections may indeed be our last chance. But even more important, we need a tidal wave of national repentance. We need God’s protection, we need His guidance–we are getting absolutely nowhere without it.
Britain could have saved herself, but didn’t. The lesson is in neon letters ten feet tall.