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Speculating on Corruption- Avoid all Black Holes

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Dec 01, 2022
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Today’s United States is more corrupt than in any time in its history. Note I didn’t say ‘most threatened’. Twice in the nineteenth century the very survival of the US was under greater threat- the War of 1812 and the Civil War. The last half of the 19th century would be my pick for the previous peak of corruption. But it is the most corrupt today becau…

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