Because of the type of hyperpartisan hysteria fed to angry citizens by FOX, Talk Radio and other propagandist organs, willl 'The decline of the good old USA' resemble a re-enactment of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire or...a re-enactment of...
...the dissolution of 18th-century Poland? ...*krugman NYT
...the dissolution of 18th-century Poland? ...*krugman NYT
you call fill in the rest.A brief history lesson: In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Polish legislature, the Sejm, operated on the unanimity principle: any member could nullify legislation by shouting "I do not allow!" This made the nation largely ungovernable, and neighboring regimes began...