Slippery Slopes Have 2 Sides
23rd December 2025
The American experiment has not failed. It was hijacked by the progressive movement more than a century ago.
Over the past 100 years, the federal government has usurped roles never intended for it: family formation, moral instruction, income distribution, education, overregulation, even meaning itself, aided and abetted by the media/entertainment/advertising-industrial complex.
As the state grew more behemoth, church and community institutions were hollowed out; which was the cause and which the effect may be arguable, but the correlation is indisputable.
The “little platoons” that once formed Americans into responsible citizens have been crowded out by self-perpetuating bureaucracies fueled by massive, unsustainable debt.
The challenge of our time is to return the government to its constitutional limits, enabling families, churches, and community organizations to once again fulfill their historical responsibilities.