Opinion

The title of this piece is a question I always hear (and ask). What the fuck is happening to this country?

From listeners, neighbors, friends, family, and even those whom I despise on the opposite end of the political spectrum, it’s obvious to anyone paying attention that this country is a complete mess. The natural follow-up question is, how did we get here?

It’s not hard to answer.

It simply took 248 years for our government to bloat itself to what we are witnessing today. That’s all. Nothing more, nothing less.

Our founders understood this, and Benjamin Franklin wondered aloud when Elizabeth Willing Powell asked, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin famously responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.” They knew what we are experiencing today was inevitable. That government naturally evolves to seek unbridled growth and total power over the people. What no one knew was how long it would take to lose it, and here we are today, in our lifetimes, living through what may very well be the end of our constitutional form of Republic unless we decide to “keep it” and “keeping it” my friends, is not a foregone conclusion.

To understand this requires a glance back to the work of Lord Alexander Tytler, a Scottish historian who lived between 1747 and 1813. Tytler wrote what has been referred to over the centuries as the “Tytler Cycle,” outlining the eight stages of a democracy or a democratic republic such as ours. His words were prophetic indeed. He believed that every society began in bondage and progressed through the stages below:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage.

He professed that our form of government’s average life is 200 years.

While the Roman Republic survived nearly 500 years before its collapse, we’ve outlived his theory by 48 years. Washington, under Democrat leadership, is pushing us through stage seven en route to its goal of total control, or as Tytler put it, bondage. We are closer than at any time in our history to our eventual disintegration.

This is the “fundamental transformation” of America referred to by Marxist Barack Obama.

There isn’t enough space here on AmmoLand News to take a deep dive into the entire Democrat [Uniparty/Deep State] plan for destruction, but you already know the basics. Out-of-control spending and debt, increasing inflationary pressures and policies, weaponized government agencies, jailing of political opponents, the intentional invasion of our nation by illegal foreign actors by the millions across our porous borders, the destruction of Christianity, the rise of woke cancel culture, the nearly complete capture of our cultural and educational institutions, the destruction and rewriting of our history, the intentional breakdown of law and order, total control of virtually all media, and finally, the destruction of free speech and the total disarmament of the civilian population.

There’s an old saying, “you can never refuse to accept the situation.” We’re there. This is happening to the America you know and love and it’s in your lifetime. Ignoring it is no longer an option. This evil must be confronted head-on and it must be permanently crushed.

I ask you tonight that when you lay down and try to leave this day behind you, you ask yourself this question: What is it about their agenda that requires my disarmament? Hint: An armed population is standing in the way of number eight, dependence back into bondage. AmmoLand News readers are smart enough to have this already figured out, but an even more important question looms.

See the column title and keep this in mind: What the fuck is happening to America isn’t the question. The real question is, what the fuck are you going to do about it?

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About Mark Walters

Mark Walters is the host of two nationally syndicated radio broadcasts, Armed American Radio and Armed American Radio’s Daily Defense, with Mark Walters. He is the Second Amendment Foundations 2015 Gun Rights Defender of the Year award recipient and co-author of two books, Lessons from Armed America with Kathy Jackson (Whitefeather Press).