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Has The US Lost Its First-World Status? Everything is dirty. Nothing works. But everything’s also more expensive
Brownstone Institute ^ | 11/10/2023 | Daniel Nuccio

Posted on 11/10/2023 5:32:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 11/10/2023 5:32:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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Everything is dirty. Nothing works. Everything’s more expensive. No privacy.

AND a massive police state will throw you in prison for years without charges and without trial if you raise your voice. A massive police state that that sends thirty-man pre-dawn FBI raids to your house if you counter the Deep State orthodoxy or the Liberal Religion.

2 posted on 11/10/2023 5:38:52 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: SeekAndFind

All that matters is that we have diversity.

It would be terrible to be surrounded by like minded white people…


3 posted on 11/10/2023 5:38:55 PM PST by EEGator
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To: SeekAndFind

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4 posted on 11/10/2023 5:40:34 PM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: EEGator
All that matters is that we have diversity.

Yes, but we also have more and more abortion, up to and including at nine months. That's far more important than peace, prosperity, and security. /sarc
5 posted on 11/10/2023 5:44:30 PM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: SeekAndFind

Import the third world, become the third world.

It reminds me of Chile or Colombia now.


6 posted on 11/10/2023 5:45:32 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: EEGator

diversity is the biggest scam ever perpetrate on the American people.


7 posted on 11/10/2023 5:46:31 PM PST by imabadboy99
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

All according to plan

See Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama


8 posted on 11/10/2023 5:49:14 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

You won’t see this in the well-off suburban towns where the affluent professionals live. Beggars and homeless are escorted off the premises, and the downtown streets are lined with expensive shops and restaurants.


9 posted on 11/10/2023 5:53:10 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: SeekAndFind

The premise of this article is valid but this kid has no idea what America was at her zenith. I mean, he looks back nostalgically at video rental and comic book stores? Pathetic. He was born halfway down the slippery slope already and doesn’t even know it.


10 posted on 11/10/2023 5:53:59 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative)
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To: EEGator

You think leftists who did this aren’t white?


11 posted on 11/10/2023 5:55:24 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Dan in Wichita

And weed. As long as I can get blunted and swig some 40’s with my homies, who cares about abortion, nomsayin’?!?
Luv me sum ho’s…


12 posted on 11/10/2023 5:55:29 PM PST by EEGator
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To: SeekAndFind

Look at Japan for first world cities, arguably also Eastern Europe or even the large country to the east of that. Skip Ukraine and Gaza, though, some of their cities look almost as bad as Baltimore.

Look to South Africa for our future. For starters, they have electricity for about 12 hours per day, and literally publish blackout schedules (they call it load shedding). So it’s probably a good idea to stock up on battery power supplies while the dollar is strong enough to keep them reasonably priced (they’re all made in China, of course). Solar doesn’t hurt either, but regardless, you’ll need batteries. Also invest in private security companies, as they as the police in South Africa are virtually impossible.


13 posted on 11/10/2023 5:56:10 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: hinckley buzzard

For me the heyday was comic books and Saturday morning cartoons and shows like “Gilligan’s Island” and “The Brady Bunch.” Was that really so different?

And when I see how many stores and malls that were around 30 years ago have closed down it gets to me too.


15 posted on 11/10/2023 5:58:39 PM PST by x (Formerly Twitter.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Nothing like that in my corner of the free state of Florida. Political operatives like this writer trying to make everybody feel miserable is so tiresome. We refuse to be manipulated and used. Sorry.


16 posted on 11/10/2023 5:58:56 PM PST by lodi90
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To: hinckley buzzard; All

Yes.

I’ve seen the same pattern in three countries up close: Canada, UK, USA.

There is something about the Anglo-Sphere where they had it all, more than any other countries, and their elites deliberately threw it away to import the Third World, as well as empower the most demented, immoral perverts to set the norms for the society.

I think there is a question there - why did the Anglo-Sphere climb so high, but fall so fast ?


17 posted on 11/10/2023 5:59:04 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: SeekAndFind

I used to say that Ted Kennedy’s crowning achievement in life was that he was the only Kennedy brother who nobody thought was worth killing. Now you look back at his legislation changing the source countries for migration to this country, and maybe wonder what you would do if you had a time machine and could only make one round trip.


18 posted on 11/10/2023 6:03:11 PM PST by Bernard ("No matter where you go, there you are." (Buckaroo Banzai))
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To: EEGator

I’m not anti-Christ. Unlike you.


19 posted on 11/10/2023 6:03:23 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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I predict that in 20 years, the tap water won't be drinkable in America.

Why? Because the municipal workers who knew how to treat water were replaced by diversity hires who don't. And they don't want to learn and they don't want to get their Beyonce-nails dirty. But they sure like that city worker paycheck.

Complex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis

20 posted on 11/10/2023 6:04:47 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins..)
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