{"id":2442680,"date":"2019-04-08T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/gloom-and-doom-on-the-horizon\/"},"modified":"2019-04-09T08:33:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T14:33:23","slug":"gloom-and-doom-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/gloom-and-doom-on-the-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloom and doom on the horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Glenn Beaton\u2019s latest column, <a id=\"N0x2378030N0x238b840:N0x2378030N0x25728f0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/glenn-k-beaton-barbarians-are-well-past-the-gate\/\">\u201cBarbarians are well past the gate\u201d<\/a> (Commentary, April 7, Aspen Times), concludes with some gloomy speculation about \u201canother long Dark Age\u201d \u2014 gloomy because it is so plausible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">During the Trojan War, as recounted by Homer, the warrior Hector was all that impeded the destruction of Troy by the Mycenaean Greeks thronged beyond the city walls. When Hector eventually succumbed to the wrath of Achilles, not only was Troy soon plundered and burned to the ground, but their Mycenaean conquerors, culturally exhausted from their long siege, were subsequently plunged into the Greek Dark Age, which lasted for 500 years until \u201cthe Ionian miracle\u201d in the eighth century BCE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">For Hector, Troy and the Greeks substitute Donald Trump, the United States and the America-hating hordes gathered beneath the banner of the Democrat party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">When Trump eventually succumbs \u2014 as Brexiteers are now doing to The Remainers \u2014 it will mark the final stage in the decline of the West. Turn out the lights. The greatest experiment in human liberty ever conceived will go the way of the British Empire that engendered it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">From the ancient Bernie Sanders to millennial Young Turks such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the new barbarians had best consider what they are seeking. When America goes down, it all goes down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Chad Klinger<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Basalt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/gloom-and-doom-on-the-horizon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Beaton\u2019s latest column, \u201cBarbarians are well past the gate\u201d (Commentary, April 7, Aspen Times), concludes with some gloomy speculation about \u201canother long Dark Age\u201d \u2014 gloomy because it is so plausible. During the Trojan War, as recounted by Homer, the warrior Hector was all that impeded the destruction of Troy by the Mycenaean Greeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 10:11:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}