Doomed to failure.

Even if America disintegrates. Dies as a nation. Fades away. Like the ancient Roman Empire. That's all right. We can chalk it up as a failed experiment. Really, it'll give historians and writers such as me plenty to write about. Pondering the question, why did America fail? The simple answer, I suppose, is that we never got it right. That's the problem. Throughout all of history, we've never had a perfect government. They have all failed. They rise. They fall. I suppose America was doomed to failure. Because we started out wrong. We Americans lied to ourselves right from the beginning. We pretended we were something that we were not. A civilized society. In which all human beings were created equal. Imagine such a proclamation. In a society built on slave labor economy. A society in which women were deemed highly inferior to men. And not only that, where money was all powerful. The rule of the rich. And to hell with the common good. Yes, historians will conclude that it was all a sham. Right from the beginning. Doomed to failure. --Jim Broede