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In archaeology, you can peg the beginning of an empire's end when it stops building public architecture, whether it's art or infrastructure (equal to spending on the public). Once the government stops giving back to the populace, it's over.
Separate and complex discussion defining "empire" in archaeology without written records, so I am just referring to a particular geographic center exerting cultural and economic influence on its neighbors.
Stop public spending. People move out. Economy declines. Some other political center rises to prominence.
Obviously there are a ton of other factors affecting this, but it's a broad-brush pattern seen repeated over thousands of years.
Trump, a moron and huckster, continues to employ the old mob tactic of attempting to profit from everything, oblivious to even the simplest things.
He believes he’ll be remembered fondly like Reagan by his cult, but history has proven otherwise. He’ll be remembered as the biggest fool for attempting to accomplish something seemingly insurmountable by listening to today’s trust fund kids.
The only thing he’ll be remembered for is being one of the primary causes of the American Revolution. There’s a reason kings and queens these days position themselves in a Mickey Mouse like position, less heat. Rocking the boat tends to end with your ass in the waters.
But also remember
This can all be reversed just as quickly so don’t forget to vote
Only if we find opposition that actually wants to do that. Best we can do so far is people that want to pretend it's the 90s and that they need compromise and approval from Republicans.
Well, we've had that for quite some time really... the sad thing is, that's not really a winning strategy.
We have g had candidates like that, Bernie and Warren come to mind right away. But the last time they ran, they couldn't even win a primary, let alone the general election.
I agree that actual progressive policies could solve a lot, but much of the country does not seem to agree with that, so here we are.
For better or worse, you need the approval of more than one group of people to win an election.
I'd be curious to read more about this effect (something I don't think I've heard of before). Can you point me resources / examples of this?
I did not mean to imply the cessation of public spending was causal, just indicative. First ran across it studying mesoamerican civilizations, but I think there are academic papers about Eurasian examples as well. Usually the cause is periodic shifts in rainfall patterns, or other environmental factors. This is an ok place to start, but I would have some work to dig up the textbook. https://www.oerproject.com/OER-Materials/OER-Media/HTML-Articles/Origins/Unit5/Cycles-of-Collapse-in-Mesoamerica
Edit: here's a good paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00420980221105418
Basically anything Ancient Americas talks about he will go over this. The terms decline and transition come up quite a bit, id also suggest checking out Dan Davis History though he tends to be a bit more focused.
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