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education and infrastructure, we will fall behind competing nations. Addiction to foreign oil will bleed us out in wars and debt. Failed drug and immigration policies will unbalance cities already collapsing in abandoned neighborhoods. Squatters, marauders, scavengers, freak tribal gangs...The hacks and hyenas won’t care about any of it. Policy and Patriots are just playing pieces in their personal game plans.

  Frightened and disgusted voters will seek a charismatic leader to “make the trains run on-time”.

  This is my worst-case scenario; a fascist (not to be confused with Nazi) takeover of the Government by an alliance of ideologues, enablers and predators. Not that the majority would envision a tyranny, but opportunists -- the sociopaths; the predators, the hyenas -- would seize the moment.

  Then, armed conflict spreading across the country.

  If you don’t learn the lessons of history you will be forced to repeat them.

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  About the author: Jack Nelson lives in the Galapagos Islands since 1967. He owns a SCUBA dive tour operation there. Jack writes about Galapagos issues in Spanish. When in California, he drives a 1962 Chevy Nova hot rod, and writes of his fun and thoughts in the car.

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