from WorldNetDaily,
The United States has been an empire in decline since the 1970s....In looking at the situation, however, it is clear that there are a number of contributing factors that are more important than others. Among them include:
1. The abandonment of constitutional money...2. The expansion of the voting franchise
3. Global military aspirations
4. Transformation of the labor force
5. Mass immigration
The expansion of the voting franchise has exacerbated the problems created by the switch to a monetary system more susceptible to manipulation. The reason the Founding Fathers created a system of strictly limited democracy was because they knew its historical flaws and wished to prevent the larger part of the masses from having a voice in their governance. The expansion of the franchise to include many parties historically denied the vote has had the inevitable, and expected, effect of permitting society's non-productive members voting themselves the right to obtain wealth transferred from society's productive members.
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Immigration and the entry of middle-class women into the labor force are closely related to each other and to the redistribution issue, because as American women elect to work and cease to replace themselves by having at least 2.1 children each, the pyramid scheme of wealth redistribution requires an ever-increasing number of immigrants to delay collapse.
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The fact that these factors can be identified does not mean that they can be reversed...
Rather than lamenting the national mistakes of the past, Americans who value freedom, liberty and prosperity would do well to look to the possibilities of the post-American future.
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Of course, number 5 on the above list is the reason America won't recover in the future.
Nations can survive any number of calamities (even simultaneously) but no nation survives undisputed invasions and demographic transformations.
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