America as both an ideal and an entity has been for too long the dog to which the world's ticks have attached themselves. This goes double for America's own citizens, and at least triple for it's current crop of "leaders."
They have enjoyed the meal and the ride but they have bled their life source dry in the process. Now those same parasites think it is "kick-the-dog" time? They'll turn to and then on one another soon enough. It will not be pretty.
I am evermore convinced that someone hit civilization's rewind button and it we have spun back to Hobbe's Leviathan:
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of Warre, where every man is Enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withall. In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious Building; no Instruments of moving, and removing such things as require much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."
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