The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

Even non-democratic allies no longer trust America. Barack Obama has alienated our most important and longest standing Arab allies, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Both the anti-Muslim Brotherhood and the anti-Iran Arab states have lost respect for him.

Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.

The bigger the government, the greater the corruption

Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don't know what they would do.

American is deteriorating because it is becoming like other countries

The left and Democrats are relying on the decline the American character that left-wing policies have produced.