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Rome fell. Will the modern-day West follow suit?
The Economist ^
| May 25th 2023
Posted on 11/09/2023 6:06:05 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:07:57 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: MinorityRepublican
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:08:14 PM PST
by
Da Coyote
To: Secret Agent Man
IT IS FALLING NOW.That part is obvious. We are in decline now. But we haven't collapsed yet.
To: MinorityRepublican
Yep, just follow the money.
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:10:25 PM PST
by
C210N
(Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
To: MinorityRepublican
It's drip... drip... .... .... drip.... ... !!!!FLOOD!!!!!
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:12:36 PM PST
by
C210N
(Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
To: C210N
Rome took “Hundreds of Years”
The USA / The West are not taking “Hundreds of Years.” It’s more like “A Couple of Decades.”
Everything is a lot faster in the modern world.
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:19:10 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
To: MinorityRepublican
We’ve been in the process since the 70s but it’s accelerating now.
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:19:40 PM PST
by
ealgeone
To: MinorityRepublican
The Visigoths were at least Christian.
The usual barbarities were observed.
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:23:59 PM PST
by
heartwood
(Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Everything is a lot faster in the modern world.I would say that the U.S. is a generation behind France, England, Sweden and Germany. They allowed in a lot of Muslim immigrants but we didn't do that.
To: Secret Agent Man
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:24:35 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: ealgeone
To: MinorityRepublican
Yes is the answer.
the question is:
On how long of a time frame ?
I have had the privilege of working with many people from almost every country in the world, and yes they are the best and the brightest.
One day I was talking to a guy named Konst I think, and he mentioned a writer named Dimitry Orlov, and was shocked that I had read his work.
A few years later he begged me to vote Hillary because he was not a citizen and couldn’t vote, but that is another story.
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:35:08 PM PST
by
algore
To: ProtectOurFreedom
It’s been sharply downhill going back to at least the Act of 1871.
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:35:10 PM PST
by
C210N
(Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
To: MinorityRepublican
How about the rest of the article?
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:35:19 PM PST
by
steve86
(Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Really, the warp drive acceleration since 2020 /covid is the bulk of it.
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:36:57 PM PST
by
steve86
(Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
To: algore
On how long of a time frame?Good question. We still have the states. They may have to rebel. Or the Feds will have to turn totalitarian.
To: MinorityRepublican
Jesus said a divided house cannot stand. We will balkanize down to the county level after the economic collapse. Then all hell will break loose. Book it.
To: MinorityRepublican
” the Feds will have to turn totalitarian.”
There are MOUNTAINS of proof and evidence that is exactly what they are doing.
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:46:16 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
To: MinorityRepublican
You have to ask? We are 33 trillion in debt on which we now pay a trillion+ annually in interest only payment, and we are increasing that heavily on a per day basis. That doesn't even include the unfunded liabilities which are well in excess of 100 trillion approaching 200 trillion, if it already doesn't exceed 200 trillion. We have a heavily compromised president who stole the election that installed him as the usurper in Chief. We have an illiterate populace, many, even those legitimately born here, who seem to think the Constitution is irrelevant and that the Natural Born Citizen has been settled by the omission to enforce that requirement.
The decline has been ongoing for a couple of decades now. We are on out last legs & I honestly do not see salvation unless the Lord himself intervenes. Can patriots revive her after she falls? Perhaps.
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