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https://lifeissues.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/LIFX_LIF5_08-06-24.mp3New data from Pew Research Center found a stunning forty-seven percent of adults under fifty are unlikely to have children.  This is up a whopping ten points from just five …

Phyllis Schlafly Eagles · October 17 | Fake Numbers in the Biden-Harris Economy The summer revelation that the U.S. economy created 818,000 fewer jobs than initially reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is not just a statistical oversight; it’s a damning indictment of the Biden-Harris administration’s economic mismanagement. This 30 percent overstatement of […]

Kerby Anderson
As we look through the corridors of history, we see the rise and fall of nations. The symptoms of societal decline are well known. Governments spend too much and debase their currency. Leaders get decadent and patriotism declines. Families fracture, and eventually the society falls apart.
A nation in decline fails to protect its citizens. One of the important functions of a society is to protect the weak from those who intend them harm. Not only is crime in the streets, but it becomes difficult and eventually impossible to travel anywhere.
In the ancient world, that surfaced in the form of highway robbery. In a recent commentary, Tucker Carlson explained that the modern version of this is carjacking. “Carjacking is the clearest possible sign that your civilization is falling apart and that’s why you find it in places like Somalia and South Africa, places where force, violence, and clan loyalty have replaced law and order, places where ‘might makes right.’ In the city of Johannesburg, for example, a vehicle is hijacked on average once every hour of the day. Now once that happens, there’s really no coming back from it. Nobody’s going to build anything in the city with endemic carjacking.”
Tucker Carlson then brought the story closer to home. He explained that carjacking has become a permanent feature of life in New Orleans. That’s not surprising since the city probably needs 2,000 police and has under 500 active-duty police.
The crime problem in this city can be found in many other cities in the nation. Two years of “defund the police” have had their toll on the officers on the police force and have kept possible recruits from joining the police force in their city.
There are many signs of societal decline. We should add increased crime and carjacking to the growing list of problems in America.