You know how when you’re pushing against something heavy and unyielding—a heavy door, say, or maybe a car stuck in a ditch—and all of a sudden, the thing you were pushing against abruptly yields? What happens?
Why, you fall forward, of course.
Especially if you’ve been pushing for a good long while: You were so hell-bent on pushing at the thing—the car stuck in the ditch, the heavy door that wouldn’t budge—that when it finally does move, you over-balance. You fall forward. You might even trip up. You might ever fall on your face—and painfully, at that.
This is what’s happening to the United States: After the long struggle of the Cold War, America is falling forward.
And this falling forward is turning into an epic tragedy.
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Especially if you’ve been pushing for a good long while: You were so hell-bent on pushing at the thing—the car stuck in the ditch, the heavy door that wouldn’t budge—that when it finally does move, you over-balance. You fall forward. You might even trip up. You might ever fall on your face—and painfully, at that.
This is what’s happening to the United States: After the long struggle of the Cold War, America is falling forward.
And this falling forward is turning into an epic tragedy.
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