[PancakeBrah]

Is it the Fall of Rome? Probably. But it has nothing to do with politics or who's President or any policies. Well, it does have to do with policies, but only tangentially. They only reflect the general mind of the acceptable practices allowed by the people. Our fall will be a societal one, blamed on something more simplistic. I am a Patriot, and not wont to doom and gloom, but our trend is downwards. Blaming the Government or the process electing the blamable Government is a lapse of logic. It's the minute shifts in attitude and responsibility accumulating over decades and decades that lead to a fall. It's nothing conspiratorial or sexy. It's the dull erosion of time in success and the subsequent lackadaisical proceedings. Nothing stays the same. We were once on a come up, one that we achieved. And now we are reaping the assumed continued superiority while other entities grow through their come up using the successes we engendered. It's simple science.