No, our country is still here, and it is still great. People from that time will not recognize the country because we have grown, have become better in some ways and worse in others. Yes, times have changed, and it is a new war, fighting a domestic enemy that doesn’t want America to be great. The people who fought those battles before us would not want us to waste their efforts and sacrifices, but to keep making America better.
America only dies if we let it. I am sure there were those who feared for America in those times too, and maybe it is that fear that drove them to take up the fight on behalf of our country and its future. I take up the fight because I refuse to let the miserable bastards win.
I’m not advocating surrender; I just refuse to pretend it is the same country (unless we restore it), and I refuse to pretend our domestic enemies are Americans of a different political persuasion. They hated this country enough to destroy it; they know what they have created has nothing “American” about it. It is high time we matched the rhetoric of the left; don’t underestimate their hate.
In prior times, when people feared for this country, they interned the west coast Japanese (part of Alaska had been taken by the Japanese, and they held it for much of the war). We can’t even defeat the Muslims in Jersey City, and yet leave our troops with targets painted on their backs to be killed by Muslims halfway around the world.