#5 It wasn't until his deathbed that George Wallace admitted he was wrong about race in America.

It wasn't until his deathbed that Lee Atwater admitted he was wrong about using race-baiting ads for his (Republican) candidates.

It wasn't until his deathbed that Dempsey Barron admitted he was wrong about blocking the ERA vote in the Florida Senate, preventing it from becoming part of our US Constitution.

I am so tired of these political opportunists coming clean ... after doing all the damage to America as they could.

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In 1808, the United States banned the international slave trade.

Not because slavery was wrong. Because the money was already here. The enslaved population - roughly one million people - was already on American soil, and the men who owned them had done the math.

They didn't need the ships anymore.

They had something better.

They had women.

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In 1808, when the international slave trade was banned, plantation owners turned to forced reproduction to sustain their labor supply. The womb became a line item. A capital asset.

Today, the administration is screaming about sperm counts, banning abortion without exceptions for rape, shaming childless women, and deporting millions of Black and brown workers. The logic is identical. The beneficiaries are the same. This is not a coincidence.

#154 How can that be, onepigironheadedbrainaut?

The Green New Deal isn't law.

So how is it supposed to be "a corporate donation of Trillions of dollars to corporations"?

#5 'Tis a template these days, Coriolanus.

Good call.

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The 21st century began with America standing alone atop the world.

The United States possessed the world's strongest economy, military, universities, reserve currency, scientific institutions, technological ecosystem, alliance network and cultural influence.

No rival came close.

The United States accounted for nearly a third of global economic output after the Cold War. American universities dominated scientific research. Silicon Valley defined the digital age. NATO represented the greatest military alliance in human history. The dollar ruled global commerce. America's word mattered.

Today, all of that is under strain - not because China became strong, but because America became stupid.

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Donald Trump didn't invent American decline, but he has accelerated it with a fury and recklessness that will echo across the century.

There have been many presidents in American history who made mistakes. There have been weak presidents. There have been corrupt presidents. There have been presidents overwhelmed by events.

But there has never been an American president who has waged such sustained warfare against the sources of American strength itself.

Donald Trump is the author of American self-harm.

He's the vandal of American power.

While America convulses in madness, instability, corruption and grievance, the leadership of Communist China waits with patience and discipline as the balance of power tilts eastward.

The Chinese understand something that too many Americans refuse to see: empires rarely collapse because they're conquered from abroad.

They collapse because they rot from within.

That's what is happening to the United States of America.

#63 Speaks says, "And I see george soros nowhere on your list. So what's with the republican obsession over him?"

He's a Jew, but not their kind of Jew, apparently.

#5 My Trump Calculator is due any day now. :-)

BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly telling staffers he wishes he could just declare bankruptcy in Iran and let it be other people's problem like he has done in every other crisis of his life.