Dennis Prager poses that question in a National Review Online column, after stating as a given that the world is getting worse.
America’s youth from high school onward are indoctrinated in contempt for America and its founding ideals. If shown any of the iconic paintings of the Founders (such as those that depict the signing of the Declaration of Independence or the deliberations at the Constitutional Convention), most young Americans now see only racist, sexist, rich, slave-owning white males — rather than great people creating a great nation.
As its universities make clear, the West is committing suicide. At UCLA, one doesn’t have to read a single play by Shakespeare in order to receive a degree in English. But one is fully indoctrinated regarding “white privilege,” “systemic racism,” “income inequality,” “homophobia,” “hate speech,” “climate change,” and whatever else radicals care about. …
… The American president, a black man elected in the hope that he would unify the races, has overseen the greatest rift between the races since the 1960s. His repeated references to “Ferguson” reinforce the lie that a white policeman killed an innocent black teenager for no reason other than the young man’s race, and that is only one example of his habit of stoking division and rage. One result is a rhetorical (and increasingly lethal) war on police that has led many officers to pull back from proactively policing largely black areas.
The Democratic presidential race is between a socialist who has contempt for capitalism, the only economic system that has ever lifted large swathes of humanity out of poverty, and a woman who is so corrupt that she should be serving time in prison, not campaigning for president.
Meanwhile, the Republican race is led by a man who has mocked a POW as a loser; who repeats the libel that George W. Bush knew there were no WMD in Iraq; who calls for the killing of terrorists’ families; and, who, as noted, proudly talks to America about the size of his sexual organ. Many generations have believed that the world was getting worse. But since 1776, there was a great nation that one could rely on to stem the decay. Now that great nation, under the influence of its own elites, men and women of the Left, is itself in decay.
So, who can save the world now?