America Has Welcomed the Trojan Horse

And we’re going to pay the price.

MaryAnn Diorio | November 8, 2026

I am an American.  An 80-year-old American.  Daughter and granddaughter of Italian immigrants.

My paternal grandmother was a wise but illiterate woman.  She helped me understand that knowledge and wisdom are two different things. 

My mother and my paternal grandparents came to America in search of freedom and opportunity.  In their eagerness to assimilate, they found both.  In only two generations, my family went from illiteracy to the doctorate.  My father was the first college graduate in our family.  I am the first Ph.D. 

I tell you all of this not to boast in myself, but to boast in God.  Yes, I believe in God, and in Jesus Christ, His Only Begotten Son, and in the Holy Spirit.

Belief in God used to be the consensus in America, but it no longer is.  And that is the crux of the issue: America has turned away from God and His Word.

For nearly a century, I have observed American culture firsthand, and I have concluded that America is in decline because America has rejected God.  Plain and simple.  Those who want to see will see.  Those who do not want to see will not. 

Although America’s decline can be traced back to the Enlightenment of the 1800s, America seriously began her decline in the 1960s, when she removed God from our schools.  A few years before then, things were different.  In the 1950s, my first-grade public schoolteacher kept a Bible on her desk.  Every morning, the class stood respectfully as she read from the Bible.  Then we prayed.  Afterward, we pledged allegiance to the American........

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