Our nation just observed and celebrated another Fourth of July.

In its aftermath, we’re reminded very quickly that insanity sweeps the land, is out of control, and is fundamentally out of step with our national character.

In fact, it’s going way beyond partisan politics and endless election cycle madness.

In all areas critical to sustaining the viability and sovereignty of the U.S., the decline has been accelerating so fast that failure and collapse could take place in a matter of years, not decades.

Why?

Because concurrently we are in a death spiral, and with it are ominous trends demanding reversals — now.

The four areas critical to the survival and viability of the U.S. (and any nation for that matter) are economic, military, political, and moral-cultural.

The most important of these four are the moral and cultural.

Our contemporary enemies are focused on bringing total moral collapse to the culture that shapes and sustains America.

They know it’s our, arguably, weakest spot.

Our nation’s debt-laden economy is a house of cards.

The U.S. had never experienced a trillion-dollar deficit until Obama’s first year in 2009.

Trillion-dollar deficits continued for the remainder of his first term, and then the national deficit jumped to over $3 trillion in 2020 due to the COVID-19 emergence in Trump’s term.

The long-term annual growth rate of the U.S. economy as measured by GDP now averages about 2.1%, while the annual growth of the U.S. national debt has been averaging about 8%.

Those trends will result in the U.S. current debt burden of $32.35 trillion doubling to $64-plus trillion in just nine years, while the GDP will grow from the present $26.48 trillion to about $32 trillion.

This means that today’s already alarming 122% debt-to-GDP ratio would become a calamitous 200% ratio of debt-to-GDP.

A U.S. dollar/debt collapse can be triggered well before that nine-year mark.

Militarily, while the United States is engaged in a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine, the unrestricted “warfare” against the U.S. by China is by far the greater threat.

With the CCP’s statement of intention to invade or take over Taiwan, the odds of a two-front war with China and Russia are increasing weekly and may break out in a matter of months, not years.

Does the U.S. truly possess the ability to win a two-front war?

Politically, the United States is more divided that it has been at any time since the Civil War. Our bankrupt politics reflect this.

Equally destructive, but even more malicious, are the political forces to weaponize our justice system and all agencies of our federal government, denying Americans their First Amendment rights.

The coronavirus pandemic opened the door to an unprecedented violation of Americans’ constitutional rights; those violations accelerated in the ensuing years. They even continue.

The FBI raided people exercising their constitutional rights to object and protest.

The FBI attempted to silence parents pushing back against school boards imposing critical race theory, agendas to normalize homosexuality, gender confusion, and pornography with their children.

The imprudent decision to raid former President Donald Trump’s residence, followed by alleged felony legal indictments over documents, was yet another escalation of political war — revealing globally that America has more in common with banana republics than with its heritage and those Founding identities of a law and order-based constitutional republic.

Can we reverse the spiral?

• Economically, a moral people put the welfare of the next generation ahead of their own generation.
• That means reducing the national debt and the attendant “mortgage” to be borne by future generations.
• It means stewardship, downsizing government, and spending prioritization with a goal to end or privatize unnecessary and only marginally effective programs.

Our military decline is directly tied to moral failure, which leads to bad judgment.

Our political and military leadership decisions to make a hasty and reckless retreat from Afghanistan were demoralizing for our country, but especially so for U.S. military personnel.

It was a betrayal of our allies, which precipitated a loss of trust; it empowered our enemies.

But it didn’t end there.

Top military generals have even opined that white patriotism in the military ranks should be weeded out and critical race theory training and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training imposed.

All of this has created confusion, resentment, and division in the rank-and-file military.

Little wonder there are now record shortfalls in recruiting.

The answer to turning all of this around starts with aligning military leaders and policies with the singular and moral purpose of defending the nation, as well as fighting and winning wars.

The greatest power to heal the nation’s political division is the transcendent moral and spiritual power of God.

Dwight David Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander of U.S. Forces in World War II and our nation’s 34th president, viewed God as indispensable and once said that “Faith is the mightiest force that man has at his command. It impels human beings to greatness in thought and word and deed.”

Eisenhower also said, “Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith.”

America’s present death spiral from deficient judgment, corruption, and abuse of power in economic, military, and political arenas can all be corrected by a moral, spiritual, and cultural awakening.

We need to invite God back into our culture by humbly acknowledging our mistakes and failures, a critical step that ignites the spark of the Divine.

That is the foundational source for healing and correcting the course in economic, military, and political matters — all of which are essential to America’s survival and success.

Let’s not only pray for these virtuous things, let’s act upon them. Now.