baghdad_bush
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Thu Jul-17-08 01:05 PM
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Is the US is doomed if we elect another Republican President? |
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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.*
The essential causes of Rome's (United States?) decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars. (might we also add the national debt of $455,000 per household to this quote?)*
* Will Durant
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Thu Jul-17-08 01:12 PM
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5. The Wiemar Republic didn't collapse in one day. |
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And Rome didn't become a dictatorship overnight.
Democracies don't explode all by themselves - they die by a billion small cuts over decades.
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Thu Jul-17-08 01:16 PM
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7. Might be doomed regardless |
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unless somebody does something quickly!
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Thu Jul-17-08 01:19 PM
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Thu Jul-17-08 01:23 PM
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That is if the last one hasn't already done us in.
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Thu Jul-17-08 01:25 PM
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12. omg....yes. It would be terrifying. |
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Thu Jul-17-08 01:29 PM
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13. Yes but not for those weird right wing reasons listed. |
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More due to privatization of essential services.
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Thu Jul-17-08 01:29 PM
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The supreme court will be gone for decades.
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