Reaching?
America reached that level 4 years ago when Joe Biden took office.

'Is America Reaching a Suicidal Level of Complacency?'

<https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/08/is_america_reaching_a_suicidal_level_of_complacency.html>

'The worst president in modern history has passed the baton to an even
worse candidate, Kamala Harris. Harris is calling for government control
of all commerce -- though she calls her plan “price controls” rather
than communism. Her running mate, Tim Walz, is considerably less
nuanced. He endorses communism as “people sharing with each other.”

Kamala Harris has failed at every job she has held. She was the top law
enforcement officer in San Francisco. It’s now a cesspool of crime, drug
abuse, and homelessness. Then she took her San Fransisco policies
statewide as the California Attorney General. Now one of the most
naturally blessed states in the country is experiencing a mass exodus of
its most productive people.

As the Vice President, Harris was appointed by Joe Biden to be the
border czar. Under her supervision, enough illegal aliens entered the
country to populate Los Angeles three times over. Yet in this year’s
election, Kamala Harris will undoubtedly get over 70 million votes. How
is it that someone as unaccomplished as Harris is even competitive?

About one third of voters are concerned that we’re losing our
self-governed republic, and vote for the candidates least likely to
undermine our Constitution -- Republicans.

Another third of voting age citizens don’t bother to vote. They’re the
complacent, who either don’t care about our future, or have given up.
The remaining third of adult citizens votes for the party openly
undermining the Constitution -- Democrats.

Only a tiny portion of that third are true radicals who think our
Constitution is obsolete, and wish our federated republic to be replaced
with a system of centralized control. Most Democrat voters are those who
vote their feelings. The non-voters and the “feelings” voters comprise
the complacent gullible segment of Americans.'

'The MSM propaganda machinery is determined to sell the socialist
narrative to the gullible. It does so by playing to their feelings.
Socialism is described as “neighborliness.” Government seizure and
redistribution is simply “spreading the wealth around.” The government
picking commercial winners and losers is “saving the planet.” The
propagandists hope the gullible find blind acceptance of the narrative
less troublesome than observation and analysis.

The narrative asks us to sacrifice our freedom because

Carbon dioxide is killing us -- even though it’s essential for life
Speech is violence -- but actual violence requires context
Killing the unborn is a fundamental right -- but defending ourselves is
not, and
All races are equal -- but some are incapable of achievement without
government intervention.
The narrative is designed to make the gullible “feel good” about
sacrificing their rights for centralized control.

Shortly before his death, I watched a Charles Krauthammer interview on
Fox News in which he shared his accumulated wisdom (unfortunately I
can’t find the link). He said that he didn’t think our civilization
would end because of a meteor impact, or an extinction level pandemic.
He suspected that mankind would die quietly as we stop caring enough to
survive. We would give up on producing food, maintaining the
infrastructure, and enforcing standards of civilized behavior.
Krauthammer predicted that civilization would stop facing life’s
challenges, and wither away from complacency. One need only take a tour
through Kamala’s home state of California to see the beginning of that
decline.

How did that happen?

During the 20th century, the government undertook a massive change of
mission. It transitioned from being our protector, to being our
provider. Our founder’s vision (as codified in the Constitution) was
that the federal government exists to protect our inalienable rights,
secure us from threats, and maintain civil order. But it has morphed
into a leviathan that protects us from

Loss of income with bailouts and unemployment compensation,
Economic downturns with stimulus,
Ethnic disparities with quotas, and
Personal offense with censorship.
The gullible naively expect tomorrow to be just like today -- if not
better -- due to the government’s benevolent oversight. The party of
FDR, LBJ, and Kamala Harris offers us a world free of consequences, in
exchange for our freedom. A disturbing number of voters will accept that
deal.

But a world without consequences is a world without accountability --
failure costs nothing. But when failure is free, it is also abundant.
That abundance applies equally to us, and to the government
functionaries which the gullible trust as their caregivers, even though
it has become obvious that such trust is misplaced. Those entrusted with
our welfare, are totally unconcerned with our wellbeing. Do the TSA
agents at the airport seem at all concerned about our travel experience?
That indifference infects our entire government.

The Department of Homeland Security has lost track of 320,000 illegal
immigrant children released into the country. Yet there hasn’t been a
mass mobilization of law enforcement to find them. Our federal
bureaucrats are apparently indifferent that those children may now be
slaves or sex workers. Ahh… complacency is such a peaceful state of
mind.

Just one month after an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, a Secret
Service agent guarding him left her post without permission to breast
feed. Yet she’s still on the job because she lives in a consequence-free
world, in which there is no consequences for prioritizing her
convenience over the life of her protectee.

Our military is the best trained and funded in the world. Yet it lost a
20-year war to an 80,000-man, poorly trained, and equipped army. Despite
such an epic failure, nobody in leadership has been fired, disciplined,
or even suffered loss of advancement. It’s easy focusing on social
engineering when there are no consequences for military failure.

NASA sent two astronauts on a one-week mission. They’ve now been
marooned in orbit for months. Yet there hasn’t been any agency “full
court press” such as was done for the Apollo 13 accident. The complacent
NASA leadership is saying: maybe we’ll get the astronauts back later
this month, or maybe next year -- depending on schedules.

Freedom from consequences has made those maintaining our government
complacent, and the safety net it promised is rotting -- even as the
net’s load is increasing.

We are approaching a suicidal level of complacency because

Corporations are too big to fail,
Oaths of office aren’t binding promises,
Professional expertise has been replaced by intersectionality,
Failure has become victimhood, and
Government incompetence is justification for government growth.
Eventually the net will fail and an unprepared people will be met with
the consequence of avoiding the realities of life for years. It will be
because the party of Obama, Biden, Harris, and Walz assured us that they
could deliver a utopian world free of consequences. Most Harris’ voter
will be those who chose to live as naïve children, not realizing that
they are entrusting their welfare to other indifferent children.

The contrasts between Trump/Vance and Harris/Walz gives us a clear
choice in November. Will we choose to be coddled like children --
blissfully unaware that the consequence of today’s “feel good” is
tomorrow’s downfall? Or will we choose to be self-reliant adults --
securing the future, by accepting accountability today? I pray the
disaster that has been the Biden administration has moved a few people
out of the “gullible” column.