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Why it is how it is

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posted on Mar, 22 2010 @ 03:20 PM
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The United States of America is going down. For the last century we have bled our nation dry in order to aid countries both for our benefit and in the name of democratic monopolization. Yet as we give and take from the world, internally everything has been seized and taken away so that soon there will be nothing left, there will be no country left.

This nation fights wars, invades countries, and generally tends to make a mess of things in the name of capitalism, profit, and prosperity for everyone, so long as it fills the wallet. We cannot be expected to survive this way forever. As tyranny grips nations abroad, naturally we intend to destroy such tyranny, yet at the same time tyranny has taken root within our own country, living and thriving in broad daylight, hiding under the banner of the “amended constitution”. There is nothing that we can do, our system of living will always lead to this, will always compel us to aid, and at the same time ignore our own blemishes, and until eventually they become one in the same.

We are a broken country that needs refreshment, needs to leave the world alone and regain our own health, needs to fix our own problems, and needs to stop worrying about global power, money, and national influence. But how can that happen? It can’t. Not now that we have tasted the fruit of outsourced labor, international trade, exploitation of natural resources abroad. When we strip the land of another nation, it is not our problem; it is swept under the rug known as the media. How hard is it to change when our consumerism is so easily tolerated by a world that cannot push us into submission?

We cannot change, we will not go quietly, and this country will go down in flames before we have to give up this lifestyle that we have gained. Yet the world acts like it is the individual fault of every member of this country. Let me tell you this here now. Most people just want to be left alone to pursue their own wishes. We do not want to make hard decisions, we do not want to exploit other nations, but guess what, it happens. Somewhere down the line, someone has to make the hard choices, someone has to take action, and someone has to take the blame. Otherwise this lifestyle could not exist, it could not sustain itself.

What do you expect? What empire on earth has ever peacefully fluttered out? The United Kingdom cannot judge us for hanging onto this crazy ideal, for they do the same to this day. They know what it is like, what globalization feels like, and they know how hard the fall is. That empire is all but gone, and yes, it went down in flames, flames that are still burning to this day. How could one assume that ours will not do the same in due time? There is no alternative, there is no escape. The American empire is doomed, just the same as every empire that came before it was also doomed from the beginning.

We ride the wave, for there is nothing else that can be done.



posted on Mar, 22 2010 @ 03:47 PM
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Why does everyone think that the United States in 'going down' or heading towards an national apocalypse? It's truly mind boggling?



posted on Mar, 22 2010 @ 06:20 PM
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Well let's see. 10 years ago all was well. If the United States disapeared tomorrow the entire world would be f*****. If we fall so do the rest of the civilized world. The US is very clever and maybe TPTB have an outline that will push this country way out front. We are the hub of the world and will continue to be, untill I say otherwise !!



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