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The Fifty-Year Deficit: Is the American Empire Actually in Decline?
Dana and Anthony ask the big, uncomfortable one this week: is America in long-term decline?
No cable news shouting. No doom-scrolling. Just an honest audit of the last 50 years across four pillars:
Education: Reading and math scores back at 1990s levels, despite spending over $15,000 per student a year. Administrative bloat and shrinking attention spans.
Culture: Collapsing social trust, disappearing local communities, and outrage algorithms replacing anything we used to share.
Politics: Primaries, gerrymandering, the death of local news, and zero accountability. How DC got stuck.
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