This new year, Americans need to think differently about their personal goals, because the country that makes their aspirations possible is in a late stage of a planned and controlled demolition.

There are two primary impediments to people fully recognizing and doing what is necessary to save their country.

First, there is the normalcy bias, which is the tendency to assume the future will be an extension of the past. Second, there is a tendency to avoid discomfort and pain and live in denial of very real problems.

What’s difficult for many to understand is that America is being destroyed from within by elites in and out of government.

So, for those whose normalcy bias is strong or others with a tendency to live in denial, let us review the 16 components of internal demolition currently taking place in the United States:

1.) The Biden administration’s open-border policy has unlocked the floodgates of a replacement migration, which displaces existing American citizens from access to jobs, housing, healthcare facilities, and schools.

Massive in-migration, it may be argued, also changes demographics, voting patterns, and electoral outcomes.

2.) The foundational rights of America such as life, liberty, individual responsibility, and property — already weakened by decades of government (read: public-school) and media indoctrination — are now facing frontal assault and subversion from cultural Marxism and the rewriting of the American past and removal of historic monuments.

A statue of William Penn in Philadelphia was almost the next victim of this nonsensical but ominously disturbing process.

Make no mistake, a country without borders and without respect for its heritage is no longer a country.

Our list continues, and does so quite tellingly:

3.) The marginalization of religion and morality that has undermined the nuclear family has also contributed to the atomization and disassociated behavior among younger generations of Americans.

Thus, that segment of society stands ill-equipped for present challenges and successful family formation.

4.) The removal of religion and belief in God from American schools and cultural institutions, and replacement with secular progressive creeds — notably cultural Marxism— has brought about a society characterized by people of weaker individual character and a society characterized by division and frayed social and political fabric.

5.) The ongoing sexual revolution, which has gone beyond same-sex attraction to embrace the normalization of transgenderism, has brought about mass confusion, high suicide rates, and the undermining of many women’s sports.

Each of these is a consequence of disassociating with natural God-given identity.

6.) The ever-expansion of class warfare at all levels of society, which is the main thrust and contribution of cultural Marxism, undermines the ability of government to function and brings us ever closer to political and economic collapse.

7.) Massive corruption of elites inside and outside the government, compromised by graft, bribery, and insider trading, brings attendant dysfunction, misallocation of resources, and undermines government’s primary responsibility to protect and serve the welfare of the people.

8.) Perceived inadequate protections for voting and polling places in the U.S. demoralizes the public. It also undermines the moral stature and legitimacy of what was the shining example of government of, by, and for the people in the Constitutional Republic of the United States.

9.) The systematic attack on the police and law enforcement by well-funded cultural Marxist elites who embrace Critical Race Theory (CRT) is bringing about urban chaos and incivility nationally.

10.) The two-tiered judicial system that has arisen in America, which makes lawfare a preferred weapon of choice, provides government-funded courts and prosecutors with unlimited government resources to bankrupt private citizens who become political targets.

11.) The internal demoralization and weakening of the American military by way of diminishing traditional meritocracy and increasing mandated training and protocols of CRT and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) have directly contributed to current crisis-level recruiting shortfalls in all three major military services.

12.) The transformation of the profit-based free market system through DEI’s cousin ESG — Environmental, Social, and Governance — is a combination of socialism through the back door and mandated environmental and social governance, which together will reduce economic growth and the opportunities that growth creates.

13.) The global elite-driven transformation of the U.S. energy sector through the creation and sustenance of global warming and climate change narrative propaganda promotes more expensive and less reliable so-called sustainable solar and wind power, while undermining the more reliable and less expensive hydrocarbon energy based on petroleum and natural gas.

14.) The current trends of the global elite-driven consolidation and control of the U.S. agricultural industry, fertilizer, and food production supply chains — if unchecked — will bring on food shortages and potential mass starvation.

15.) The reckless increase in U.S. national debt escalates risks and makes America unsustainable. In 2003, the U.S. national debt stood at $3.9 trillion, which was at that time 36% of U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Today, the U.S. national debt is over $34 trillion, which is 123% of U.S. GDP — an increase of 772% in just 20 years.

16.) Are America’s best days behind her?

The factual recitations heretofore enumerated are not only shocking, they suggest that is sadly the case indeed.

In fact, with growing numbers of people becoming disillusioned with continuous lies and deceit emanating from authority figures, there is a great awakening among truth-seekers.

A note of encouragement: Spiritual revivals are seemingly happening across America.

Indeed, the American people have a “secret weapon,” and we greatly outnumber the global elitists in the vanguard of orchestrating America’s demise.

That tool for fighting in our ongoing culture wars is repentance, as well as our faith and reliance upon God. For He will deliver us.

Though we may have to walk through the valley of the shadow of death, since God is just, we know the wicked cannot prevail.

Psalm 94:15 reminds us that “the Lord will not cast off His people, nor will He forsake His inheritance.”

Take heart, organize, and discover the joy of service to humankind right here at home in the United States of America.