We dug ourselves a huge hole, and it's easy to get discouraged.

Remember this, though, when our enemies started plotting the downfall of our societies, our countries looked invincible.

Our enemies designed their plans and put them in motion...*MORE* 👇
...knowing they would never see the end result.

That's how we have to approach this.

It looks hopeless sometimes, but our job is not to reconquer everything in a couple of decades.

Our job is to stabilize our downfall, and then start to lay a foundation...*MORE*👇
for future generations to build upon, until we once again have reclaimed all that is rightfully ours.

It's not fun by any means. Other eras were much more fun to live in. I'd much rather have lived in an age of invention, exploration, and expansion.

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But it is of vital importance to all our future generations that we do this, and do it correctly.

"“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”"
-- Greek proverb

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Some of us have no hope of ever again seeing the societies we once knew and the countries that we deserve as a people.

But all of our children and grandchildren do deserve it, and it's for them that we have to stay hopeful no matter how bad it gets, and keep plugging away.
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