Well there really isn’t any good news at the moment. At least not in the short term. Americans now have two equally unpalatable presidential candidates to choose from (both unprincipled, secular-progressive, socially liberal, big government autocrats), a Supreme Court poised to lurch to the Left, a disappearing middle class, and a growing number of godless citizens.
Yes, I’m afraid I have to agree with Dennis Prager; this is a very Dark Time in America. Prager sees clearly what today’s exultant Trump supporters – at least those who claim to be conservative – fail to grasp: “every distinctive value on which America was founded is in jeopardy.”
The country’s very foundation is rapidly eroding. We desperately need to shore it up but we lack the collective will, and now – we certainly lack the leadership.
Prager points out several specific troubling developments ~
• According to a Pew Research Center study, more and more young Americans do not believe in freedom of speech for what they deem hate speech. Forty percent of respondents ages 18 to 34 agreed that offensive statements should be outlawed.
• According to a series of Harvard University polls, about 47 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 believe that food, shelter and health care “are a right that government should provide to those unable to afford them.” That means that nearly half our young believe they have a legitimate claim on the labor and earnings of others for life’s basic necessities.
• More than half of 18- to 29-year-old Americans do not support capitalism, the source of the prosperity they enjoy, and the only economic system that has ever lifted mass numbers of people out of poverty.
• When young Americans see pictures of the Founding Fathers, they do not see the great men that most Americans have seen throughout American history; they see white males who were affluent (now derisively labeled “privileged”) and owned slaves.
• The view that male and female are distinctive identities — one of the few unquestioned foundational views of every society in history — is being obliterated. Simply saying that one believes (all things being equal) a child does best starting out life with a married father and mother will ensure they’ll be considered a “hater.”
• The ideas that America should be a melting pot, or that all Americans should identify as American, are now unutterable in educated company. In fact, many college campuses do not have an American flag on their campus because some students regard it as offensive and representational of imperialism and capitalism.
Most of these trends are clearly the unfortunate results of deliberate mis-education (clearly, history class has been eliminated altogether) ~
Universities (outside the natural sciences and mathematics), are intellectual frauds. In terms of ability to think clearly, they actually make most students dumber than before they entered college. As Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens wrote recently, “American academia is, by and large, idiotic.”
Prager concludes with this ~
And now there’s Clinton and Trump. Nothing more clearly exemplifies the dark time in which we are living than this political version of Sophie’s choice.
I will not end on a happy note because there isn’t one; but neither will I despair.
Nor will I. Because (by the way, I was fibbing in the intro) – there actually is some good news: God is in control. And He wins in the end 
