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Originally Posted by Derwood
2 - Look at any "super power" type of country/civilization and you will see that historically, they don't last forever. Pan seems puzzled that this country is starting to fall apart, but seems oblivious to the historical precedent of other super powers (Rome, the USSR, etc.)
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I am not oblivious to history. In fact, I am a great student of it. I just don't believe our country has to end. We just have not had anyone stand up to business and work to change the system starting from the top and working down. The past few administrations (including this one) have been nothing more than barrack room emperors and catering to the rich with their policies, while destroying all others through over taxation, inflation and devaluation of currency.
In case you don't know what a barrack room emperor is or want to argue I don't let me quash that. They were emperors of Rome that rose to power through their armies and thus created allegiances to the extreme wealthy. They also increased inflation and devalued the Roman monies. One could argue, and I am one of these people, that the way partisanship is heightened those could in essence be considered "armies".
Our decline actually has a lot of internal similarities as the Roman Empires did.
But just because a civilization dies or changes doesn't mean it has to kill off it's poor and middle classes, have losses of freedoms and have violence ensue. All of which, seems to be what this and past administrations for the last 40 years have been leading us to. (There were one or 2 decent administrations that tried to accomplish positive changes but they were hampered by a Congress of another party or internal corruption that they could not control.
The USA is a great country as opposed to the USSR and others who have recently fallen. There is just no reason to continue this decline UNLESS there are those pulling strings from within who have power wanting it to fall.
Hopefully, those people are found out and we can find good people who can put us back together again.
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
the important thing to remember is that all of the 'deregulation' did nothing more than free up the corporations from their promises to benefit the working population while maintaining all the breaks they got in kind. The working population got nothing but more restrictions. This happens no matter what party is in power. The working population gets shafted because all of the supposed benefits from legislation do nothing more than consign them to worker status. No incentive is given anymore to a person to create and run their own business. They simply can't compete anymore because the corporate protectionism was never removed.
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Extremely true. And it comes from both parties while we the people have a media that tries to keep us focused elsewhere.