The Galactic Series was about the Rise of the Galactic Empire. The fall was much longer, much more insidious. It is what is happening now. Ask your neighbors about the fall of the American Empire. It has been going on for some time now. But who knows? Who cares?
No, as we suffer, socialism will gain sway. The conservatives will fire on Fort Sumter again. It will not be a hot war at first. But as things get worse.......
Crash, the day we wake up and our basic services are unfunded. In other words, we cannot pay our garbage men. Laugh if you must, but please do talk about it.
We couldn't pay our garbage men why, because there's a shortage of currency? Last I checked the monetary supply has never been larger. Where is all of it? ; )
What we choose to pay our garbage men, and what they accept are two different things. Do you think the garbage men in Zimbabwe wanted to be paid in Zimbabwe dollars when inflation was triple digits?
Today's Americans are weak, completely pussified. It's been years in the making. There will be no civil war. A few riots easily quelled by the military. You will stand in line for your bread and do as you're told. Even the keyboard warrior will tremble in fear with every knock on his door. The revolution will not come from today's American, their children or grandchildren. It will come in the distant future from an enslaved man who has never known freedom, but dreams of it. He will die fighting for it. Millions will follow and die for it. The cycle will have come full swing. Freedom will once again be won by those who never knew it. We, we the free who have never fought and died for it, we are at the end of the current cycle. The once brave are old and gray, dying off by the thousands every day. They pose no threat. The young are weak and will bow on bent knee with the first crack of the whip. Hard times, they are a coming. Get used to it bitches.