Taking care of the house

Whether we are talking a humble cottage, or the greatest of mansions, when they are first built, every thing seems like it will last forever. Time wears on a house. the paint fades and peels, the shingles weather and crack. Things need to be done to fix the problems.
I started out in the land lord business buying neglected properties and fixing them back up. One thing I learned early on was it must have a good foundation. If the foundation is solid, it takes more of the problems to bring down a house. Even with a good foundation though, neglect and mismanagement can still spell disaster., and also, time eventually takes it's toll. the best stone will eventually crack, water, wind and cold are forces that are impossible to completely stop.
The same is true of nations. Our nation has the best of foundations. Our Constitution is possibly the best one GOD has given to any people. Some how though we have gotten off the foundation, and that happened a long time ago. Some people like to point the finger at Lincoln and the Civil War as the cause, but Lincoln did not start the war, he wasn't yet in office when the first states seceded. And he was only one man. He might have had the worst of ideas and intentions, but with out the consent of Congress, he never would have accomplished any thing. Yes, he ignored the Constitution in some ways, but the Court put it right when he did, if not immediately, at least it was corrected.
Today our congress, courts and the states all ignore the Constitution except when they want to pin blame on some other entity. They regularly "gift" money to those who have not earned it to buy votes, using the treasury to bribe the many. Largess is not only given to the huddled masses, the mega doners get kick backs in forms we cannot imagine.
If our nation were a house, it would have a fence built around it a no trespassing sign, and a demolition crew en route.
Lots of folks think we are gonna be great again, after all, President Trump ran on that slogan. The truth is, we are well past the point of no return. The people who won't work won't help make America great again, and every dollar the government spends will be to make things better for them, not us. President Trump can only do so much. We his supporters can only do so much. The congress we have, even though supposedly republican, is fighting tooth and nail to stop America from becoming great again as well.
Great societies rise, then they flounder and eventually fall. We won't cease to exist completely, but our day of glory is fading to dusk. There are some who want to fight another civil war. That would be a no win war, and the jackals of the world would pick us clean after it is over. Fighting another war is not going to solve the problems that we have created. We would need to eliminate almost half the population to accomplish that. The left would do it in a minute, but that is not what Conservatives are made of. When Barry Soetoro won, we did not go out and riot, we went to work and hoped our job would be there on Monday. The Occupy Crowd? All leftards who wanted more hand outs taken from our pay checks and given to them.
The other situation is that globalism is the dominant threat we now face. Remember that Bible? One world government. The face on that today is George Soros, but he is not the only one. There are multiple shadows that drool at the thought of America going to war against our selves again. You can be certain that they will jump at the chance to aid their puppets here if a civil war did break out. Heck, they might find a way to instigate one.
Just like an old house that has fallen into disrepair, the other neighbors want to knock us down so they can build something shiny and new that will last like shoes from China. Our nation is filled with rot. Fixing that rot one board at a time wears a man out. We'd still rather be the one fixing it than to have the neighbor bulldoze it. There comes a time though when you have to think of yourself instead of the rotten house. Thanks to Kenny at Knuckledraggin for the link.