Now it is time to venture beyond law and government, exploring the society they are meant to serve. Society is the foundation; without it, no amount of tinkering in the lofty heights of law and government will prevent the collapse that many people sense is approaching.

America is dying. Our noble experiment in liberty – the experiment that has bestowed untold wealth, happiness, and progress on Americans as well as the rest of the world – is crumbling before our eyes. While many Americans refuse to admit or even entertain this notion, growing numbers of us see it as irrefutable. Everywhere we look we find disturbing reminders. The death of the nuclear family, the building block of society. A culture spliced away from historical experience and wisdom, embracing the twisted and artificial notions espoused by the entertainment industry. Abortion and gay marriage now sanctified as inviolate, beyond the rightful ability of citizens to address as they wish. The suffocating stench of political correctness in all walks of life. The merciless mockery of prudence, piety, humility, chastity, or any other hint of virtue. Children forced to learn to hate their country, in schools financed by our tax dollars. The denigration of America’s founding principles and virtually every facet of American life before the 1960s. Our extinct rights to hire, fire, buy, sell, rent, or even associate with each other on our own terms. A recent president who long expressed his hostility toward America and the Constitution, yet who taught at an elite law school and managed to attain and hold office for two terms. A Supreme Court that claims unilateral power to change the Constitution, disregarding the amendment provisions thereof and elevating itself above the law of the land. A paralyzed Congress that cannot bring itself to consider slowing the obscene rate of spending, let alone make real cuts. Confiscatory taxation that punishes thrift and success to reward profligacy and failure, allowing one half of the population to live off the toil of the other. A renegade Federal Reserve, run by private bankers who manipulate the money supply to benefit themselves and their friends. Illegal aliens who squat in our midst while demanding public support, and the craven politicians and judges who help them at the expense of their own fellow citizens. A stagnant economy trapped under the crushing weight of unpayable debts, mind-numbing regulations, and petulant lawsuits. Serial undeclared and illegal wars across the globe that leave thousands of innocent victims in their wake. Civilian police departments that operate as paramilitary units and treat citizens as enemy combatants. And the slow but sure disappearance of the middle class, dissolved into a toxic stew of politically-connected haves and toiling have-nots.

These are no mere wrinkles to be ironed out by more elections, laws, or scripted discussions by hired intellectuals. These are symptoms of deep rot, a society that has lost its compass and forgotten what it means to live freely and responsibly. For those of us who understand this, it is difficult to express the anger we feel. This book attempts to do so. I will explore a variety of ways that America has drifted from its legal, philosophical, and spiritual moorings, for our only hope of returning to that shining city on a hill is to come to grips with how far from it we have strayed.

To the extent my views are denounced as extreme, intolerant, or the like, such denunciations reveal more about the people who make them and their vested interest in preserving the status quo, which sits at the edge of ruin. The status quo is hostile to the ideals that built America and made her great. Indeed, the status quo is intolerable, and we must destroy it before it destroys us. Donald Trump’s presidency and the intensifying war with the entrenched establishment are a refreshing change of pace, but this is unlikely to solve our serious problems. What ultimately happens depends on each and every one of us in our daily lives. We must become crusaders against everything that is sick and twisted about modern American life, and we must also salvage society from the ruin that steadily consumes it.