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Demeter

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16. I think it's also the last gasp of Empire--a temper tantrum, if you will

Sat Jul 12, 2014, 07:17 PM

Jul 2014

Because the US will be a global pariah...they will lose all their markets for anything. The rest of the world will probably get along a whole lot better without the cowboys and the 1% will be the only immigrants: seeking a safe harbor, and closing the borders behind them.

The US will HAVE to bring back manufacturing then!

I could end up living in the biggest, baddest, most impotent criminal state of the world...what the hell would I be doing here? Cleaning houses? Fomenting revolution? Living a peaceful retirement?

I just cannot see how this will play out, nor where I and mine fit in.

There's only one solution I can see: À la lanterne! Purge the 1% and join the rest of the world in sanity and co-operation.

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