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Exactly. Chalmers Johnson and Chris Hedges concur. America: the Farewall Tour - https://www.worldcat.org/title/america-the-farewell-tour/oclc/1057379785 https:
by campfireveteran 7y ago
Exactly. Chalmers Johnson and Chris Hedges concur.
America: the Farewall Tour - https://www.worldcat.org/title/america-the-farewell-tour/oclc/1057379785 https://www.worldcat.org/title/america-the-farewell-tour/ocl...
DECLINE of EMPIRES: The Signs of Decay - https://youtu.be/Q2CCs-x9q9U https://youtu.be/Q2CCs-x9q9U
Today, in Paradise, the power was out for most of the day... like Mogadishu or Baghdad. America, like a slowly-boiled frog, has become a third-world country:
- no universal healthcare
- grotesque inequality: lower average pay, unlivable wages, more billionaires, millions of homeless.
- wealth transfer from the poor to the rich through tariffs, fines, fees and other taxes
- crumbling infrastructure - tens of thousands of structurally-deficient bridges and crossings
- apathetic, uncaring police letting crime go unpunished and misery flourish
Americans don't know how bad they have it... it's great for the very rich, but it's horrible for most people including the aspirational rich who will never be so and yet vote/work against their own interests and be cowardly traitors against We The People.
- Gibbon1 7y agoThere is a line my dad's scruffy friends say when discussing the decline of the US. "Two ways... Gradually and then suddenly"