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-- neoliberal austerity;
-- class warfare, including against unionism;
-- systemic corruption;
-- increasing repression;
-- sham elections; and
-- democracy in name only, the best money can buy, made America no longer a model for other nations, the engine of world growth, a fit to live in, or able to prevent its inevitable decline, fall, and replacement by China and perhaps other nations one day.
It's a sad testimony to a two centuries old experiment that failed because absolute power corrupted too many with it wanting more.
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