"We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies.""Like a patient whose medicine proves worse than the disease, Livy lamented that the Romans knew that they had become corrupt and lawless.
So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C.-17 A.D.) of the long decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended the Roman Republic.
But the very contemplation of the hard medicine needed for restoration -- and the furious reaction that would meet the remedy -- made it impossible to save the patient.
America is nearing such an impasse.
- We know that no state can long exist after opening its borders to over 7 million illegal aliens, requiring neither background checks nor legality...
- Instead, we could just stop suicidal catch-and-release, deport lawbreakers, privilege the legal over the illegal immigrant, demand would-be refugees apply for asylum first in their native countries, finish the border wall, and pressure Mexico to stop undermining the territorial integrity of its northern neighbor.
- But then we shrug, "We can't do that" -- paralyzed in fear of being smeared as "xenophobic," "nativist," or "racist."..
The same is true of the $35 trillion debt, now costing more than $1 trillion a year in interest payments -- and growing...
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