“Signs of an imminent US collapse are everywhere”

Today “signs of an imminent collapse” of the United States are perceived “everywhere”, but those signs are not coming from without, but rather “it is being destroyed from within”, according to an opinion piece published in The Washington Times .

For the writer and columnist Don Feder, author of the text, those signs would be five: the open door policy for uncontrolled immigration; impunity for criminals; the elites who flout the values ​​on which the nation was founded; problems with demographics and the growing number of homeless people, many of whom suffer from mental illness and drug addiction, RT quoted.

The Biden Administration’s open borders policy is “a great success,” with more than two million undocumented migrants arriving in the country so far this year, he writes.

For its part, crime is growing and has adopted ‘innovative’ methods such as looting during so-called ‘flashmobs’, Feder recalls, citing as an example the recent assault and destruction of a store in Los Angeles, California.

“Decline of American Civilization”

“In some cities, the police have relinquished their duty to enforce the law, because they know that shortly afterwards the kind prosecutors will release those arrested again,” he criticizes. Meanwhile, some universities are demanding that the name of Thomas Jefferson, one of the founding fathers of the United States, be removed from their faculties or institutes. These requests “make sense”, because “we no longer believe in the rights” that forged the country’s independence, he laments.

There is also the “growing drug problem,” particularly with fentanyl which “has become the leading cause of death among Americans ages 18 to 45.” In addition, healthy societies have growing populations, but the current fertility rate in the United States is “the lowest ever recorded,” the columnist notes.

But if there is something that for Feder clearly symbolizes “the decline of our civilization” it is what we call “homeless people, their encampments that ‘adorn’ our urban landscape and what emerges from it”. The author recalls that in recent days several crimes committed by beggars, some of whom are “convicted sex offenders”, have been recorded in New York. In this sense, he considers that some areas of that city are similar to Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.

“We have lost the survival instinct”

“In 2020, there were more than half a million homeless people. It is estimated that a quarter of them have a serious mental illness, while a third abuse substances (drugs),” values ​​the author of the article. “That we tolerate their presence, living like them, is proof that we have lost even the semblance of survival instinct. Our greatest fear is not being compassionate enough,” he criticizes.

Don Feder points out that “a great civilization cannot be conquered by external forces until it destroys itself from within, and in the United States those internal forces are working tirelessly.”