[Dead Corpse]

The U.S. is moving quickly towards a centralized state.

We've been there for a while now. What they are doing is simultaneously building that central core higher, while undermining the foundation.

The crash will shake the world when we fall. Every bit as much as the dissolution of Rome.

[laplata]

It will be much greater than the dissolution of Rome.

[citizen]

The U.S. is moving quickly towards a centralized state.

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I'll say it again: There's long been centralized states run by autocratic thugs via the power of police state machinery. The dealdy difference now is the advent of and the progression of the microchip society. Going forward, the thugs won't need armies or even police with guns.

All they now need is an internet-ruled society where what you say, do and buy - or don't say, do and buy - determine what "freedoms" you "enjoy." Have a bad social credit score and puppet magistrates will deem you an undesirable and you get locked out of much of society, to be properly "corrected." Or some may just get disappeared.

The conversion will be messy, with losses and maybe some wins via the courts - but we are already well on the way to a China-like monitored society.

[Blood of Tyrants]

When the crash happens, the ones decrying that it wasn’t their fault the loudest will be the ones at fault.