"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Final Show Of The Greatest Country On Earth
Submitted by felix.ireton on Tue, 2017-05-23 00:00
History is full of failed dominant superpowers, from the Roman Empire to the Ottoman Empire. Many no longer exist. Their declines were almost invariably due to excessive spending, unsustainable debt, military overreach, and a society that abandoned the core values which made it wealthy and powerful to begin with. Every successive superpower always believes that they will never suffer the same fate. And every time they’re wrong.
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