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Moral Compass

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2. Wish it was that simple
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 06:57 PM
Jul 2017

An edifice the size of the U.S. government doesn't just collapse and pieces of it reform into separate independent provinces.

There's a lot of people with a lot of guns, but aside from a few militias there's no organization out there to fill the vacuum.

We'll stay together but I'm afraid that it will be as a totalitarian autocracy with the families like the Trumps, the Kochs, the Gates, the Buffets, the Waltons becoming our aristocracy.

The Constitution will continue to be given lip service, but not really obeyed in any real sense.

I see a more extreme version of today emerging. It can all be traced back to a collapse of civic virtue in the rich and the death of shame.

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