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In reply to the discussion: RANT: Did you hear that faint creak? It was America's problems passing the tipping point. [View all]Odin2005
(53,521 posts)61. We have been kicking the can down the road for over 30 years
Imagine if you hardly ever maintained your house for 30 years. It would be in pretty bad shape and close to collapse.
America is a crack junkie using it's money for more drugs rather than keeping up those house for those 30 years. We are a crack junkie about to hit rock bottom.
a modern nation state is a high-preformance machine that needs regular maintenance, without maintenance the social units it is constructed of break off and revert to a lower level of organization.
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RANT: Did you hear that faint creak? It was America's problems passing the tipping point. [View all]
Poll_Blind
Jun 2012
OP
Technically, it almost always probably was. But there was a time you could...
Poll_Blind
Jun 2012
#5
If we aren't exceptional why do we get to use up so much more resources per capita than others?
dkf
Jun 2012
#11
It maybe can be fixed after some period of time, but it's what's going to...
Poll_Blind
Jun 2012
#12
Which is why President Obama said we're entering into an era of social Darwinism.
Zalatix
Jun 2012
#48
I feel it's like a run-away train. Alexander Cockburn wrote an article "So Who's the FAscist Here?"
rhett o rick
Jun 2012
#6
"How can we get a corrupt Congress to reform itself?" I don't think it can. I think we've...
Poll_Blind
Jun 2012
#33
I have been hearing that creak ever since the 2002passage of the Authorization to Use Military Force
patrice
Jun 2012
#18
Of course progressives arent the problem but the centrists would tell you different.
rhett o rick
Jun 2012
#39
This is a hard thread to read but so damn important I carefully read every post
riderinthestorm
Jun 2012
#56