The ‘Great Forgetting’: What to Do When Your Country Has an Induced Alzheimer’s
An attendee holds a "Keep America Great" sign as President Donald Trump speaks to the crowd during a campaign rally at Freedom Hall in Johnson City, Tenn., on Oct. 1, 2018. Sean Rayford/Getty Images
The ideological upheaval in the United States between traditional liberalism and progressivism and progressive strength is causing the “Great Forgetting”—the loss of the country’s ability to meet the challenges it once possessed. The most important of these waning abilities is how to confront and defeat great power enemies.
How Did Your Country Get Alzheimer’s Disease?
Like an Alzheimer’s patient in gradual decline, the United States is gradually becoming enfeebled and infantilized, losing its knowledge, memory, coherence, ability, desire, and willingness to meet challenges. This is partly due to the aging of the baby boomers (1946–1964) and Generation X (1965–1980), who possessed the direct experience of the fight against the Soviet Union and its allies in the Cold War.
Bradley A. Thayer
Author
Bradley A. Thayer is a founding member of the Committee on Present Danger China and the coauthor with Lianchao Han of “Understanding the China Threat” and the coauthor with James Fanell of “Embracing Communist China: America’s Greatest Strategic Failure.”
