The Destructive Generation—Proving America’s Weakest Link

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

A single generation has broken apart the great chain of American civilizational continuance.

But if this weak-leak generation thinks the evil that they wrought is their last word, they should remember the warning of a great historian: “Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all alike can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required.” – Thucydides 3.84.3