Thursday, October 27, 2022

An Update on America's Brezhnev Years

Longtime readers of this blog know that I have long theorized that the American empire has entered its Brezhnev Era. I've written about this here and elsewhere, and this week on my Substack I posted a new update on my theory. Essentially the lack of alarm most Americans have about democracy's peril reflects the fact that most Americans have lost faith in the nation's animating ideology, much like Soviet citizens did in the USSR's waning years. 

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