Procrustes Stretched
"intuition and imagination and intelligence"
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...