politics

The United States is a collapsing empire. It took the western Roman Empire 700 hundred years to collapse. How long will it take us?

the first democracy was Athens. 
it collapsed in 300 years. 

would you like to know how?

they over spent.

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I will never understand why history repeats itself. we know what we’re doing and yet we seem powerless to stop it.

Same thing happened to Rome. Towards the end they debased their currency, reducing the gold and silver content in coins, then eventually just removing it entirely (sounds familiar). 

They were also plagued by corruption where the wealthy pilfered public coffers thru bribery (lobbying). 

We’re so fucked.