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If you're astonished, then you haven't read any history of the US.
It's so much steeped in blood and so wildly capitalist
that it's more astonishing that it was able to not collapse
and keep a good image during the 20th century.
It's saving grace is having the largest deposits of coal by far,
but with solar power on the rise that's not cutting it anymore.