The United States Of America: "We're #1"
Alan: What does an empire-in-decline look like?
Contentious?
Violent?
So cowardly that citizens kill their fellows "on suspicion" and pass laws to legalize "stand your ground" murder?
Are empires-in-decline driven by fear rather than aspiration?
Are empires-in-decline so hostile to compromise that The Body Politic agrees on nothing?
Do empires-in-decline exhibit collapsed Social Contracts?
Do they dismiss The General Welfare on behalf of plutocrats and kakistocrats?
Is individualism lauded at the expense of community?
Does paranoid self-protectiveness prevail?
Xenophobia?
Battened hatches?
Circled wagons?
Guns everywhere... (and geometrically more on the way).
The Silver Lining:
In the long run, the collapse of empire may not be a bad thing.
Former empires are often quite livable places.
Italy. Spain. Holland. Portugal. Germany. England. Greece.
And collapse of The American Empire would put an end to the bloodiest of them all.
"You Have NO Choice," A New Frame For George Carlin's Classic Shtick "The American Dream"
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