Puzz, I remain hopeful that something better will emerge from the debt ridden, energy starved, police states that we will soon find ourselves living in. After the collapse must come something better I think.
Perhaps a republic with limited government, restrained by a written constitution, sound money and secure energy sources that mean we don't have to go to war for resources. Not much to ask is it? Hang on... isn't that what the USA used to be?
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