@amerika @Humpleupagus @moira @sim @verita84

> "Guys, I've noticed that people that drink whiskey eventually die!"
> 'But everyone eventually dies.'
> "I choose to ignore this data."

What killed the society was autocrats (Dulles, Bernays, Roosevelt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Rothschild) getting their hands on the levers built by predecessors (other Roosevelt, Wilson, et al). George Bush and Bill Clinton (or whoever you meant when you said "AD 1990") didn't jump out of the woodwork.