U.S. Closer to being a Failed State than you think

[Speck Tater]

There’s only one common factor in the failure of great nations: Mismanagement. The USA is heading down a well traveled road to its own Armageddon. Rome, China, Russia, the British Empire and others have all been there before.

The Caligula-like state of the US as a corporate entity is hardly a secret. Caligula made his horse a god, the US media has made dis-informative demagogues gods. Any factually inaccurate piece of information has a fairly good chance of becoming accepted as gospel truth in this environment.

The political environment is utterly incapable of governance without melodrama. The GOP doesn’t listen, and the Democrats apparently don’t learn. The ultra-constipated movement of legislation regularly brings actual government to an actual standstill, it just carries on by inertia until someone condescends to pass an appropriation. Economically the nation’s a disaster area, and the only notable growth in employment is for press release writers who don’t particularly care what they write or why they write it.

More: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/296444

[Auggie]

1. More like a failed democracy

Heading towards feudalism thanks to corporate ownership of almost everything

[Subdivisions]

2. Bullshit. Everything is fine and dandy. Why all the scare-mongering? n/t

[indepat]

5. Pubs have long assured us deficits don't matter - unless a dem is in the WH, then deficits

are center stage. :P

[KansDem]

3. I wonder when the looting starts...

I mean, the looting from the masses, not the upper 1-percenters. They've already begun...

[Greyhound]

4. Kleptofascism rulez!

:kick: & R

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. Always with the Rome comparisons.

I don't get how people can be so removed from reality, yet have such a repetitious lack of imagination.

[Desertrose]

7. Makes me wonder, too...

...how people can be so removed from reality, have such a repetitious lack of imagination and yet they still keep trying to convince others that it's not them.

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. It is astonishing what people manage to not see

when their paycheck depends on not seeing it.

[villager]

10. "I don't get how people can be so removed from reality..." Indeed, HFPS....

Indeed....

[RKP5637]

9. Everything is really OK, it's just you and your perspective...

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: