Some thoughts on the coming collapse of the United States of America: Trigger warning or whatever.

Via Skynet

I recently found myself on a long plane ride with too much time to think.   This is what happened.

Good Government requires Good People.

It seems like this would be obvious, and yet it escapes most of us.  PJ O’Rourke pointed out in his 1997 book  “Eat the Rich” that Sweden had  prospered in the past by having both good government and good people:  “The government must be good, and not decide that what Sweden really needs to do is invade Denmark.  The people must be good too, and not decide to support that government in return for wedges of looted Jarlsberg.”

Good government and good people led Sweden to years of peace and prosperity.

Unfortunately, as O’Rourke goes on to point out, “history is not full of good governments, or good people either.”   And America is a lot less full of good government and good people than it used to be.

 “A State cannot be constituted from any chance body of persons, or in any chance period of time. Most of the states which have admitted persons of another stock, either at the time of their foundation or later, have been troubled by sedition.” — Aristotle, Politics 

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