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The us is on a self destructive path right now. I think the US will fall with in the next 100 years. 2 of the signs are viable to me at this moment. They are embracing non traditional marriage, and a government voted for by the people that does not care about the people. They're other signs but I don't know them. One sign that we don't have is a near by country with power grater than ours that just doesn't like us.
Keep in mind these are symptoms not cases. Does anyone else know of any I forgot?
You could say that about many aspects of the Roman society. I doubt that gay marriage was a significant factor in the fall of the Roman Empire, and I doubt that it will be a significant factor in the downfall of the United States.
It has already fallen. It fell under FDR and Kennedy, we are no longer a Constitutional Republic but have fallen into a Social Democracy which is fastly falling towards outright socialism and authoritarianism.
Why are you looking for a external country with the power to overcome us? Historically, Democracies and Republics fall from within, not from external forces.
We are going to fall because we are giving gay's equal rights? :doh
Perhaps you should spend some time learning to read correctly. He said it is a sign indicating possible failure, not a cause of the failure.
Moral decay can be found shortly before the fall of societies. In Democracies, it is more evident as it clearly indicates a trend towards selfishness and self indulgence which will also be reflected in voting.
They also ate grapes. Perhaps it's eating grapes which will lead to our demise?Just look the the roman empire. When they were starting to fall but did not know yet they had gay marriage.
Perhaps you should spend some time learning to read correctly. He said it is a sign indicating possible failure, not a cause of the failure.
Moral decay can be found shortly before the fall of societies. In Democracies, it is more evident as it clearly indicates a trend towards selfishness and self indulgence which will also be reflected in voting.
FDR I could understand but what'd Kennedy do?
Ok...... :roll: Gays being allowed to marry is a sign were gonna fail as a country? I remember some said if blacks were treated as equal it was the same sign.. :roll:
The us is on a self destructive path right now. I think the US will fall with in the next 100 years. 2 of the signs are viable to me at this moment. They are embracing non traditional marriage, and a government voted for by the people that does not care about the people. They're other signs but I don't know them. One sign that we don't have is a near by country with power grater than ours that just doesn't like us.
Keep in mind these are symptoms not cases. Does anyone else know of any I forgot?
Really? Our country is experiencing a huge financial crisis and over-extension of our military. And the reason why our country is on the downslope is because of GAY marriage? Can you point to me exactly how the two are related?
It comes down to two points: first of all, we have long heard that homosexuality is bad...so it must be!
Second, the word "marriage" is the legal property of heterosexuals, so we are actually talking about theft here.
'Marriage' should be banned as a legal term and changed to 'civil union' (for everyone). Its hilarious how some people get all worked up over a word.
No, it is a sign of moral decay, moral decay is a sign that the country is failing. Socialism, failure of traditional marriage, acceptance of greater and greater immoral behavior in society, suppression of individuals rights, etc are all indications that America today is in deep trouble.
Homosexuality as a sexual preference, not individual acts, is an aberration of normal human sexual behavior, the acceptance of aberrant sexual behavior is immoral.
The us is on a self destructive path right now. I think the US will fall with in the next 100 years. 2 of the signs are viable to me at this moment. They are embracing non traditional marriage, and a government voted for by the people that does not care about the people. They're other signs but I don't know them. One sign that we don't have is a near by country with power grater than ours that just doesn't like us.
Keep in mind these are symptoms not cases. Does anyone else know of any I forgot?
The us is on a self destructive path right now. I think the US will fall with in the next 100 years. 2 of the signs are viable to me at this moment. They are embracing non traditional marriage, and a government voted for by the people that does not care about the people. They're other signs but I don't know them. One sign that we don't have is a near by country with power grater than ours that just doesn't like us.
Keep in mind these are symptoms not cases. Does anyone else know of any I forgot?
Hm.
The US is producing less and less, and only maintains its wealth because of the $US being reserve currency, much like Britian used to prosper until after WW2. The service-based economy is basically built on a house of cards (which may well keep stable for a long while... or maybe not). Meanwhile, power is shifting relatively, in terms of economic growth, production and population growth, to emerging economies such as China, India and maybe a few others. Then there are severe signs of imperial overstretch, as maintaining US military presense in many places of the world becomes increasingly unprofitable, and the US have not really won a single war after WW2 (with the possible exception of Iraq 1991).
I think that was the basic line of argumentation of a French guy named Emmanuel Todd who wrote a book about America's downfall in 2002 IIRC, called "Après l'empire" ("After the Empire"). According to his estimations, America would fall within one or two decades and Todd boasted he had similarly predicted the fall of the Soviet empire in the late 1970s already. His general idea was that what "really matters" in hard terms of economy -- production and export -- is mostly based in Asia and Europe, and trade streams would naturally shift away from America to the Euro-asian continent ... unless the Americans are successful rallying up the Russians against Europe. But it's only a matter of time, allegedly, until the "house of cards" of the virtual finance-based American economy would collapse.
No idea what to think of that. I guess I dismissed that book back then in 2003 as a typical ride on the anti-American wave due to the disagreement about Iraq.
The us is on a self destructive path right now. I think the US will fall with in the next 100 years. 2 of the signs are viable to me at this moment. They are embracing non traditional marriage, and a government voted for by the people that does not care about the people. They're other signs but I don't know them. One sign that we don't have is a near by country with power grater than ours that just doesn't like us.
Keep in mind these are symptoms not cases. Does anyone else know of any I forgot?
We are going to fall because we are giving gay's equal rights? :doh
Just look at your lean: socialist in a free country too many of these people and we can collapse like the Soviet Union
Re: GG
Sounds like Russia would be the natural world hegemon in that case.
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