William Engdahl on the dusk of American exceptionalism

The way Americans view their country has changed. Since 2002, the notion of American exceptionalism has dropped 11 percent. According to a Pew Research Center Poll, only 49 percent of Americans agreed with the statement, "our people are not perfect but our culture is superior to other." F. William Engdahl, journalist and historian, helps us understand what's going on.

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[johnnycmajor]

America wake to fuck up. Do you not see how close we are to a nuclear war?

Ron Paul wins we all win, Dr. Paul loses we all lose. It is as simple as that.

[jczg08alt]

@krjourneyfan78

US goverment giving mexican drug gangs weapons.

US commiting acts of financial war against Europe (via Goldman Sachs)

US campaign of terror against the middle east + drumming up new wars.

US intimidating ASEAN trade block to exclude China.

US provoking Russia with nuclear containment (possibly compromising existing disarmament treaties)

US shoving troops into Australia.

That's just stuff off the top of my head, all of which are happening currently. America is the problem.

[ParrhesiaJoe]

@krjourneyfan78 I disagree. Information.

Six years ago, I was an ass. I THOUGHT I was doing due diligence when someone would mention a non-mainstream story... but the easily accessible information was either a defense of the status quo or a low quality, poorly argued production in support of the alternative view.

I am arrogant. It took a mountain of evidence to wake me up, and that evidence simply wasn't easily accessible just a decade ago.

This is unstoppable now.

We win.

[rollsthepaul]

There are no political solutions for the woes of the USA. Corrupt does not heal corrupt. The system must go but it will fight with all resources to maintain the status quo. Forget about the nonsense of elections.

[krjourneyfan78]

@malahidecobra Yes, many Americans are ignorant and the Occupy Wall Street movement shows that people are waking up! However, the brainwashing gets more and more sophisticated and our news gets more and more filtered and diluted. Unless people actively seek the truth, it is harder and harder to find.

[malahidecobra]

@jczg08alt Yes, but to be more exact: Those who control America are a big problem. The American citizenrys' IGNORANCE of whats being done in their names is a MASSIVE problem..

[malahidecobra]

@krjourneyfan78 Yes, the Elite have been selling us their CRAP MAMMON since forever, but we need to take responsibility back, because it is US who have BOUGHT what their selling!!!

[alpidistra]

When studying the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, we see the same pattern of exponential expansion of aggression and conquest in proportion to the steady decline of the state and it's economic sustainability. America's societal collapse is undoubtedly tied to it's people's inability or unwillingness to curb their government's criminal foreign policy and banking system. The failure to understand that what the country sows overseas, it will inevitably reap at home, is a fatal mistake.