I'm sure someone has studied why all those empires eventually failed. Is there a common thread? What is it? If we knew, we could avoid it.
When you're at the top of the heap everyone wants in on the action. The problem is that the ones wanting in on the action weren't capable of building that empire themselves, otherwise they would have. The empire can't sustain itself after it's taken in all of the neighbors wanting a free ride and collapses. It's what happened to Rome, the British Empire, and it's what's happening to America. The ones running America today aren't the same type of people that made it great. We've got a government more concerned about redistributing wealth based upon someone's skin tone than allowing industry to create jobs. The same government is more concerned about using the military as a springbox for advancing homosexual rights than winning wars. Winning wars is far down the list of priorities for our military right now.
Basically the leadership of our country has been usurped and we're now being looted.
