[who_would_fardels_bear]

...or it could just be that the US is following the same path as all empires have throughout history:

"Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.”

[spacejunkie2001]

which is the essence of the ‘4th Turning’; that everything comes in cycles. I pray and believe we are in the stage of ‘hard times create strong men’.