Dispatches from a Dying Empire

Dispatches from a Dying Empire

Have a plan, and a backup plan

Don't wait for the violence to break out

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Jan 09, 2024
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If you think there is some sort of magic keeping the USA in the same place it has been since World War II, you’d be incorrect. If you think the USA is a great country, you’d be mistaken. America has never been great, but it has had glimmers here and there. If you’re confident that the American government is stable and democracy cannot fail, you’d be foolhardy. It can fail, and the data suggests there is a strong possibility.

People who study civil wars as a profession are concerned the United States is on the cusp of a civil war, or perhaps already in one. This has happened already, and it will happen again. Because human nature.

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The US democracy has been downgraded three times since 2016.

What happens when you get downgraded from a democracy three times? Your country becomes an anocracy. What’s that? It is a country somewhere between democracy and di…

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