Ep 99 | The Seven Sad Signs of American Decline That Cannot be Denied

The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Blaze Podcast Network

Religion, Philosophy, Judaism, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Although you might not have noticed it yet, wherever in the world you live, your life is being impacted as America yields international hegemony to China. How is America declining? One: K-12 Education; two: communication; three: war on financial independence; four: war on traditional family; five: making skin color the universal explanation; six: deficit spending; seven: War on Judeo-Christian faiths. Since 1964, American rankings in high school science and math have dropped from the very top to lower than 40th out of 70 nations. But our per student spending has continually climbed; how can this be? We examine two different women, each representative of the two different nations occupying North America. Why obscenity has crept into the language and is used so much more today than in 1960. How clash of culture kills communication, which in turn, undermines the economy. This show is the antidote and here are the weapons Enjoy. Remember that whatever storms swirl turbulently around the foundations of your life, you must focus on your 5Fs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.6	This is Rabbi Daniel Lapin, on demand, on the Blaze Radio Network.
0:55.8	Welcome to a new episode of the Rabbi Daniel Lapin's show.
1:02.5	Thank you for being part of the show, and thank you for helping to promote the show.
1:08.8	And this is a show that is not for the clowns, creeps, crooks, and cranks of society.
1:18.9	This is not a show for tennis balls who float down the gutter of life.
1:26.7	No, this is a show for the happy warriors. Now, who are the
1:35.7	happy warriors? Well, I can't do better than to go back to the originator of the phrase, the English poet William Wordsworth, who starts his
1:48.1	poem by saying, who is the happy warrior? Who is he that every man in arms should wish to be?
1:55.6	It is the generous spirit, and he carries on talking about that. And finally, the closing of the poem is,
2:04.5	and he finds comfort in himself and in his cause. And while the mortal mist is gathering,
2:11.6	draws his breath in confidence of heaven's applause, this is the happy warrior. this is he, that every man in arms should wish
2:21.3	to be. And that just resonates with me because that really is who I try to be and how Susan and I try to make our children grow to be.
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