Dr. Benjamin Carson has been a busy man ever since he spoke at the National
Prayer Breakfast. Although many of us knew him before, the national platform at the
breakfast exposed him and his message to many more people and has catapulted this
neurosurgeon into numerous media and speaking opportunities.

Some of his critics argue that a medical doctor should not be speaking on
economic and political issues. He has a quick retort: “It’s not brain surgery.” He believes
that resolving many of the nation’s problems require careful analysis along with common
sense. His proposed solutions for the tax system and health care resonate with the
American people.

At the Conservative Political Action Conference, he proposed a thought
experiment. Right now we are what he calls a “pinnacle nation.” England was that in a
previous century. Rome was that in the first century.

He says we should imagine what it would take to bring down a pinnacle country
like the United States. He says you could set out to destroy the nation in four simple
steps. First, create division among the people. Second, encourage a culture of ridicule
for basic morality. Third, undermine the nation’s financial stability through excessive
government debt. Finally, weaken the military.

He then observed: “coincidentally, those are the very things happening right
now.” He also adds that much of this just didn’t start in the last 4-5 years. The question
he poses is whether we can stop it or “must we inexorably follow the same kind of path
that other pinnacle nations have followed before their destruction?”

That is a good question. Anyone who has studied the rise and fall of nations
knows that most of these nations and empires fell from within. Moral rot and bad policies
preceded the collapse of the nation.

The message from Dr. Benjamin Carson is popular because the American people
know something is wrong and applaud a courageous brain surgeon for saying so