Apparently you don't understand that when all the industry gets shipped overseas, because the rentiers can make more money that way, it is a sure road to national decline.

The wheels are falling of the planes, because profit trumps quality.

The military has been hollowed out after a couple decades of forever wars. Though the Raytheon stockholders are living high.

Ukraine is going belly up, but no one can negotiate, because the political class has been pedaling BS for so long, they simply cannot comprehend anything else.

When was the last time you heard of a politician referred to as a statesman?

From my point of view, I understood what would happen, way back when the country had a choice between Carter saying to put on a sweater and Reagan saying to put it on the credit card. So the country has been like the family taking vacations on the home loans, the expensive cars are leased and the checks are chasing each other around the various accounts.

It is going to crash.

That's why I've spent my life trying to figure out why, not just chasing the rainbow ponies.

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-western-mind-906dc73cffe2