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jesus george....thats a pretty bleak view of americas future.

i dont think the gap in our wealth is our biggest problem. upward mobility has always been rather mercurial, just like the economy. of course the europeans are going to stay in their ivory tower, being supremely arrogant, until some kind of catastrophic event pulls them directly into things.

you might be right about the social unrest, this cultural revolution that we have been going through since the 60s is really beginning to damage our social structure and we are losing cohesion as a nation.