And the world took notice. People around the world began to accept the idea that America could work anywhere. Now, the American experience was unique. Look at it for what it was. The history of America wasn't thousands of years old, and I don't care who "discovered" America, be it Columbus, Eric the Red, the MORMONS, it doesn't matter! When the Pilgrims set their mark on Plymouth Rock America was a clean slate. It all started THEN! Before long the conquistadors came from the south, the French, the Germans, the Chinese, all looking to contribute to the great experiment.
Other countries began to apply the American formula to their own situation. Karl Marx wrote his Das Kapital, but he was a man who never worked a day in his life and really knew nothing about the workers. His uncle was an industrialist and Marx never darkened the door of one of his factories to see one product hit the loading dock. He was like a fat man writing a book on proper diet. The Russians and Chinese don't like to admit it, but they had to apply American capitalism in order to make it work!
America will not fall, it will dissolve, and reform. You will see the states assert their individual rights and then lines will be redrawn according to cultures, and regions, more logical than the artificial state boundaries we have today. One of these regions will be Texas. This is not the first time Texas has tried to enforce the American constitution as it truly is. We did it in 1836, 1861, and now. Like the American Dream, the Texas reinforcement of that dream will grow "legs" and Texas again will raise its head among the nations, and some folks can beat that dead horse all they want, but he still ain't gonna eat no hay!
Don't mourn for America. It did its job, fulfilled it's purpose. An experiment has results. The theorem is either proven, or discarded. The result of the American experiment was simple. The government contributes nothing, the PEOPLE do! Government is but a voice of the people. When the voice of the people is ignored, or perverted, you get the tail wagging the dog every time!
"Accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone, and you'd better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone, because times they ARE a changing!" You won't see a great collapse. You will see political extinction. You will just see the system realign, and begin to work again, just as it did before Lincoln "saved" the Union. The Confederates were right, they just went about it the wrong way. What would have happened if the south had NOT seceded, and not given Lincoln his war with over 600,000 dead, but instead just nullified his every move, turning his administration into a one hit wonder that made no difference at all? Slavery would have ended anyway. The Model T would still have been invented anyway, and Bill Gates would still be the richest man in the world.
Political landscapes change constantly. America is the people, not the government. America is an idea, a dream, not a huge bureaucracy bent on self perpetuation to the exclusion of all the citizens who pay its every growing bills, while it ignores them, and tries to impose its warped idea of "democracy" upon the world! An idea that would have gotten the plutocracy all tarred and feathered in 1776! THAT'S the America that was waiting for the immigrants on Ellis Island. THAT'S the dream that pushed the settlers to Texas, and Utah, and California, not this perversion of liberal bastardization that is presented to the world today. God REST America!
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