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Shaun Wilkinson's avatar

Without getting into whether I agree or not and all of the arguments and counter arguments, I believe that if we were in the distant future and analyzing the rise and fall of the American Empire, it would resemble more of an incoherent state going through a leadership crisis and growing in spite of that than it would a stable system. It’d be like life spans were short or the heads of state were succumbing to a sustained plague with the rate of turn around. American democracy has implemented a guaranteed coup every 4-8 years.

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SCOTT MCVICKER's avatar

Close your eyes and listen to a cadence not unlike Jeff Goldblum

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