[QUOTE=gravy boat;334606The US Constitution and the men and women of our military - past and present, dead and living - who would die to protect it and every one of us and our rights to argue with complete strangers online are what separate us. And what makes us great still.GB[/QUOTE]
America ascended based on internecine warfare in Europe and our unexploited frontier.
OUr open door policy in the prior centuries flooded our shores with immigrants who had seemingly unlimited land to tame and exploit.
Not any more.
Unless America reinvents itself its descent will continue, while China and other countries ascend.
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basking in the benign indifference of the universe
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