Reply #289: Much like Great Britain at the eve of her long, slow march into...

[LanternWaste]

Much like Great Britain at the eve of her long, slow march into mediocrity and second-rate status during the twentieth century, Americans will take great pride in something that no longer exists.

England too did her level best to induce the people of the Isles to invest heart, soul and money in the British Empire, to convince the Islanders that the sun wasn't setting, but was merely behind a few clouds ready to come out again as soon as the current negative financial cycles wanes.

In the end, the process of America as the omnipotent nation, benevolently guiding the "heathens" on the path to economic liberation and self-determination will be no more real than Britain's military hold on India and the Levant-- an illusion grasped by those who pretend not to know that their time is done, an Empire is ending and somewhere another one is beginning.

So we'll buy American because it helps up maintain that illusion for a few more years...