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My parents never saw an execution, never sat in a prison camp, never quaked in fear of stoolies. Their complaints about everyday life were much the same as those of any American mired in corporate bureaucracy. All bureaucracies are largely alike.

There were bread lines. It went bankrupt.

Have you wondered why? And why it happened when it did?

At this point, you (and all the rest of us in the USA) will be educated the old-fashioned way: by watching the same thing happen in person. It is very sad but appears to be unavoidable. Soon you will not need to bother opening a book to learn how a country goes bankrupt and begins to be famous only for bread lines and a foggily remembered past full of assorted atrocities.



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