[Retief]

I remember stories like this back in the 70’s when the Soviet Union was supposed to dominate the future. They never did bury us. The Soviet Union is no more, and the US is still here.

Then in the 80’s, Japan was supposed to takeover with their longterm corporate planning, go-go stock and real estate prices, and buying up properties in the US, including major league sports team. Then Japan had it's lost decade in the 1990’s, while the US-invented Internet spread through the world.

There's always some chicken-little crying about global warming, US stagnation, the end-of-time and how the Mississippi river is going dry.

Don't believe it. Like Reagan always said, keep the faith. America's best times are ahead of her.

[karnage]

Red Dragon Rising...

[Jimmy Valentine]

"I remember stories like this back in the 70’s when the Soviet Union was supposed to dominate the future."

Me too. I remember Strobe Talbott writing about our inevitable decline in TIME (the weasel).

I also remember Jimmy Carter's speech accusing Americans of a "Malaise".

It's funny how our malaise went away when The Big Boss Man whipped Carter's sad behind in the 1980 election.