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The Guardrails Are Gone: How Institutional Power’s Decline Will Be the Death of US All

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Niall Ferguson cautioned that empires unravel from within when the institutions meant to sustain them weaken under the strain of their own inefficacy, eroding public trust as they cease to fulfill their intended purpose. The American empire has not yet disintegrated, but its foundations have been critically undermined. Once destabilization reaches a tipping point, the… Continue reading The Guardrails Are Gone: How Institutional Power’s Decline Will Be the Death of US All

We are a wretched blight.

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Bread and Circus Mueller's testimony having ended without a knockout, the judges are now calling the fight. The little caesars - Pizza Pizza! - responding to the hoi polloi in their districts have already thumbed their vote. What's changed? So we've given the opposing voice, the one chanting live amid louder screams of die or… Continue reading We are a wretched blight.