Decline Is A Choice. We Just Voted For It.

Rome wasn’t built in a day, and it wasn’t dismantled in one either. The Spanish Empire didn’t implode overnight. Argentina, once among the richest nations on earth, squandered its standing in a slow, sad slide. These once-dominant powers died by a thousand cuts, each one made by small, stupid people acting under the pretense of “progress.” They chose their own destruction.

America’s founders wished no such fate on the country they conceived in love, faith, prudence, and a hard-won taste for ordered freedom. They built in guardrails, checks and balances, enumerated powers, and a written Constitution, because they knew this inheritance couldn’t survive on sentiment alone. It would take pointed, persistent, determined effort.

We were handed the keys to a republic, but only “if you can keep it.”

Demise was always a choice. And right now it’s looking like we’re choosing to feed those keys into the meat grinder and torch this republic. Wearing a kiffyah, holding a flamethrower, and vlogging it all on social media.

It’s been one week. How much of the republic can freshly emboldened Democrats disfigure in so short a time? Turns out, plenty.

Just yesterday in Maryland, progressive activist Taylor Frazier McCollum (who seems to only be physically active with her EBT card in grocery stores) said “oh, hell no” to a $5 billion data center slated for a mall that has sat abandoned for 24 years. She gathered 25,000 signatures to stop the project, and in the process, devoured thousands of jobs and millions in revenue. 

Good stuff, liberals. 

Screw reduce, reuse, and recycle. Protect those vacant lots! Just remember: when you ask the city council to fix your child’s crumbling school building, with the $53.5 million in local taxes the developer projected it would create, don’t be surprised when they tell you they don’t have the cash to do it. 

For their next trick, Democrats will destroy the banking system.

Elizabeth Warren, who in a past life was an actual Harvard professor but has since lobotomized her lobes, now proposes we cap credit card rates at 10%! It’s genius, minus the part where lenders simply stop issuing cards to anyone with a default risk above 10%. That could cut off credit for over 100 million Americans, especially the ones who need it most. 

Good stuff, liberals.

And crime? Democrats seem determined to have more of it. New York’s socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, just approved a 200-bed, all-male homeless shelter near the Science and Medicine Middle School in Canarsie, a predominantly black neighborhood in Brooklyn. Now black mothers are rallying, protesting, and pleading, teary-eyed and terrified for their daughters, who walk home alone while mom is at work. Fabulous. So to tally it up: Mamdani’s record on the homeless is letting a record number of them freeze to death, and parking a men’s shelter beside a middle school.

His allies are just as bad. Mamdani’s fellow New York Democrats-elect are already calling to abolish ICE, which means a Biden-style open border and zero safeguards to enforce the law. That idiotic, reckless posture is what delivered hundreds of thousands of fentanyl deaths, tens of thousands of trafficked or lost children, 10,000 crossings a day, and a growing roster of angel moms and dads whose children were raped or murdered by people who had no right to cross into our homeland.

Meanwhile, D.C.’s socialist leaders have confronted a transit system where 64% of bus riders don’t pay fares, and they’ve arrived at an incredibly sound, sensible, and smart solution: charge the other 36% even more.

Addicts > Adolescents. Criminals > Citizens. Thieves > Taxpayers.

Good stuff, liberals. 

Leftist voters turned out in droves to enact moratoriums, price caps, and their “free everything” coupons. Now the rest of America will feel it: the schoolchild in the crumbling classroom, the cardholder who just got declined, the daughter walking home past the new shelter, and the commuter who pays the fare so everyone else can hop the gate.

And as a D.C. resident, I can tell you they hop it like it’s hot.

This is how republics die: by a thousand cuts, each one made by small, stupid people, each defended as empathy. A republic can survive its enemies. It cannot survive an indefinite policy of catering to everyone but the people who pay for it.

But Democracy, our beautiful democracy, is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. So there you have it, Americans. If you voted for this, if you bought this broken, irredeemable product, you deserve to get it good and hard.