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ashling

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Sun Mar 5, 2017, 10:40 AM Mar 2017

America Is in Warp-Speed DeclineIt's Way Bigger Than Trump


http://www.alternet.org/world/making-america-mediocre-warpspeed-decline


The first signs of decline are physical. Citizens don’t grow as tall. They don’t live as long. They start killing each other in large numbers.

Sounds like the post-mortem for a society that disappeared long ago, a conclusion that archaeologists deliver after sifting through bone fragments and pottery shards. Why, the puzzled scholars ask, did such a vibrant society, which produced beautiful art and remarkable scientific advances, fall apart so rapidly and leave so little behind in the unforgiving rainforest?

This time, however, the diagnosis is being provided in real time. And the society in decline is the most powerful country in the world.
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America Is in Warp-Speed DeclineIt's Way Bigger Than Trump (Original Post) ashling Mar 2017 OP
No, its because he's driving and likes to drive in the mud. You don't let a child drive. caroldansen Mar 2017 #1
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