Yes you could.
The disease is the downfall of the American way; the fall of a nation. The symptoms of this fatal disease are destruction of the family unit, crummy public education, an entitlement class, expanding nanny state, border jumpers, abortion, homosexuality, etc, etc, etc.
We can try to save the patient by treating all the symptoms: overturn Roe -v- Wade, reduce the size of the federal government, lockdown the border with Mexico, strengthen the family unit, etc., but the outcome doesn't look good. Think of this as a root cause exercise.
Now, to get back on track, I have to rethink what the number one 'symptom' or 'root cause' of the downfall is. Perhaps the abandonment of Judeo-Christianity would be the number one 'symptom' or 'root cause', making it easy for all the other symptoms to manifest themselves. A strong Christian nation wouldn't allow abortion (much less partial birth abortion), faggots getting married and raising children, widespread drug use, adultery, worshipping false gods (such as 0bama), etc.
I don’t think you understand the words symptom and cause. They are not interchangeable.
Cause noun
1.
a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
2.
the reason or motive for some human action: The good news was a cause for rejoicing.
3.
good or sufficient reason: to complain without cause; to be dismissed for cause.
4.
Law.
a.
a ground of legal action; the matter over which a person goes to law.
b.
a case for judicial decision.
5.
any subject of discussion or debate.
In this case you talk about the Fall of a Nation. What is the ‘cause’ of that fall. Ref. 1- what is the person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing (in this case the fall of a nation) happens as the result; i.e., the producer of an effect.
My first point was the destruction of the family unit. By destroying the typical family unit, defined by myself in this case as a man and a woman and offspring, into anything else- two men, two women, multiple persons, etc, brings about a specific result.
For example for this a symptom of Destruction of the Family unit would be an increase of single parent families. This in turn causes a symptom of latch door children (those who grow up primarily unsupervised) which in turn causes related gang activity, ect. ect. ect.
1) The destruction of the Family unit. -ïƒ leads to…
2) Liberalization of the educational system. -ïƒ leads to…
3) Removal of God from 'Society'. (hense morality)
4) Creation of entitlement generations.
5) Growth of Government.
symp•tom noun
1.
any phenomenon or circumstance accompanying something and serving as evidence of it.
2.
a sign or indication of something.
3.
Pathology . a phenomenon that arises from and accompanies a particular disease or disorder and serves as an indication of it.
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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin symptÅma < Greek sýmptÅma occurrence, that which falls together with something, equivalent to sym- sym- + ptÅ- (variant stem of pÃptein to fall) + -ma noun suffix of result
Surely you have heard of Cause and Effect?
Overlooking your obvious flaws in Christian Philosophy, I would state that destruction of the Judeo-Christian Foundation is the goal of the left, rather than a root cause (see definition), in order to replace it with a Socialist World Government.
In order to do that the left must first destroy the basis for that Foundation- the Family Unit. Education, and the rest come further down the road, once paths have started.
