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19. We are an authoritarian state, not totalitarian, not a dictatorship, a "managed democracy".

Which is a euphemism for a propaganda state, as opposed to a democratic state which governs based on the wishes of a well-informed and engaged electorate.

Poorly led, and poorly governed, it's been all downhill in terms of ou\r global stature ever since WWII, with the exception of the Kennedy-Johnson years when a few positive things were done in the midst of another big, stupid war.

Some of our "leaders" think that we are still insecure, that being the sole superpower and largest economy in the world etc. also apparently still leaves us the most insecure state in the world too, or something. But the reality is that trying to make sense of all this War on Terror bullshit is a waste of time, BECAUSE it is bullshit, and it does not make sense.

Empire destroys, it destroyed the USSR and it's destroying us right now.