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elocs

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1. As a nation we have become entrenched in tribalism with "us" against "them" with no middle ground.
Wed May 9, 2018, 05:44 PM
May 2018

We are good and noble and righteous and pure while they are evil, immoral, uncaring, and stupid--not even worthy of being called human beings. They believe the same things about us.
There's no hope of middle ground or dialogue--just an endless war between us and them.
Given the feelings of one side towards the other, if the U.S. were not a world power an armed civil war would be expected with atrocities committed by both sides. This is ultimately not going to end well and history has proven that time and again.
I wonder, if in the midst of it were there Romans who recognized that their empire was in its decline leading to its eventual fall?

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