How the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah lived we now Live

If you are a student of old Testament history at all you will see a pattern that repeats itself over and over again. The nation would defeat it's enemies, fear God, live right, become prosperous, then get stupid, chase idols and be defeated back into bondage. Over and Over and Over again. This pattern:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.

When I look at that pattern once more and look at the USA I wonder exactly where we are on this progression. Do we have Faith, Courage, Liberty, Abundance, Complacency, Apathy, Dependence, Are we headed for Bondage?

I know that the rise of irreligious thought is the beginning of the descent into bondage. We certainly have that in spades.

Our country doesn't need a bailout, it needs JESUS.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage.
--Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian