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As a result, he accelerated America's decline by:
-- dismissing popular needs;
-- waging permanent imperial wars;
-- tolerating a secret, unaccountable global torture prison gulag;
-- running the most secretive, intrusive, repressive government in our history, spurning rule of law principles and democratic values for unchallengeable power and super-wealth; and
-- supporting endemic corruption, incestuous government-business ties, and flaunting the notion of government of, by and for the people.
Johnson explained that imperial ambitions "undercut our domestic democracy and in the end produce a military dictatorship or its civilian equivalent."
"The founders of our nation understood this well and tried to create a form of government - a republic - that would prevent this from occurring. But the combination of huge standing armies, almost continuous wars, military Keynesianism, and ruinous military expenses have destroyed our republican structure in favor of an imperial presidency. We are on the cusp of losing our democracy for the sake of keeping our empire. Once a nation is started down that path, the dynamics that apply to all empires come into play - isolation, overstretch, the uniting of forces opposed to imperialism, and bankruptcy."
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