{"id":61591,"date":"2022-01-22T07:43:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T12:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61591"},"modified":"2022-01-22T07:43:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T12:43:46","slug":"is-america-heading-for-a-systems-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61591","title":{"rendered":"Is America Heading for a Systems Collapse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"featured_image\">\n<div class=\"featured_img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/01\/19\/OPED-HANSON-GET-1200x800.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/01\/19\/OPED-HANSON-GET-700x420.jpg\" alt=\"A woman walks a dog near the ruins of an ancient Roman aqueduct, in a park in a suburb of Rome, on July 28, 2017. (Andreas Solaro\/AFP via Getty Images)\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"featured_caption\">A woman walks a dog near the ruins of an ancient Roman aqueduct, in a park in a suburb of Rome, on July 28, 2017. (Andreas Solaro\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"pricat_name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/is-america-heading-for-a-systems-collapse_4224199.html?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=ZeroHedge\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Is America Heading for a Systems Collapse?<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"author_date_tools\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>In modern times, as in ancient Rome, several nations have suffered a \u201csystems collapse.\u201d The term describes the sudden inability of once-prosperous populations to continue with what had ensured the good life as they knew it.<\/p>\n<p>Abruptly, the population cannot buy, or even find, once plentiful necessities. They feel their streets are unsafe. Laws go unenforced or are enforced inequitably. Every day things stop working. The government turns from reliable to capricious if not hostile.<\/p>\n<p>Consider contemporary Venezuela. By 2010, the once well-off oil-exporting country was mired in a self-created mess. Food became scarce, crime ubiquitous.<\/p>\n<p>Radical socialism, nationalization, corruption, jailing opponents, and the destruction of constitutional norms were the culprits.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2009 and 2016, a once relatively stable Greece nearly became a Third World country. So did Great Britain in its socialist days of the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden\u2019s young presidency may already be leading the United States into a similar meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>Hard Left \u201cwoke\u201d ideology has all but obliterated the idea of a border. Millions of impoverished foreigners are entering the United States illegally\u2014and during a pandemic without either COVID-19 tests or vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p>The health bureaucracies have lost credibility as official communiques on masks, herd and acquired immunity, vaccinations, and comorbidities apparently change and adjust to perceived political realities.<\/p>\n<p>After decades of improving race relations, America is regressing into a pre-modern tribal society.<\/p>\n<p>Crime soars. Inflation roars. Meritocracy is libeled and so we are governed more by ideology and tribe.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman walks a dog near the ruins of an ancient Roman aqueduct, in a park in a suburb of Rome, on July 28, 2017. (Andreas Solaro\/AFP via Getty Images) Is America Heading for a Systems Collapse? In modern times, as in ancient Rome, several nations have suffered a \u201csystems collapse.\u201d The term describes the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2346,395,426,17898,16350,827,32525],"class_list":["post-61591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-crime","tag-health","tag-inflation","tag-systems-collapse","tag-the-epoch-times","tag-united-states","tag-victor-davis-hanson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61592,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61591\/revisions\/61592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}