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The last time America experienced such political infighting was right before the Great Patriotic War of Rebellion in 1860. Neither political faction is working with nor listening to each other. The great urban populations have been trained to rely upon Government services and without them all would fall into chaos re Katrina, LA riots 1992. The great majority of the Population of America has been bought off with the surban lifestyle of the SUV in every garage and a big screen TV with the Super Bowl turned on. America has lost the will to endure any hardships and has become a culture of instant gratification where world problems are supposed to be resolved within the hour format of the hour long TV Drama.

No the opening chapter of the Fall of America has allready been written with the fall of the WTC. The US government has fallen into ineptitude where all levels of Government have failed in the War against Iraq, from the Administrations faulty intelligence and unrealistic appraisal of the situation, to the lack of Military prepardiness for handling the victory to the Inteligence Agencys aquiesence to political pressure to come up with the right story.

Further Americas abilty to influence world events has diminished when it can't dissuade 3rd rate nations such as Iran and N Korea from destabilizing world peace with threats of war.

Finally comes Karina and shows up the Federal ans States governments inability to deal with civil emergencies.

No folks it isn't going to be civil unrest tht undoes America it is going to be the passivity of the SUV culture not believing that there are consequences for that passivity, the failure of the government to be able act decisivily due to the internal bickering of the political parties and the inabilty of the government ot act decisivily due to Bureaucartic proceedure and culture.

On a further note it will be a FINANCIAL CRISIS that brings America down, where an act of say a Dirty Bomb explodes in a large city. The people will cry out that the American Government CAN NOT protect us, people will stop spending, and there will be a rush on the Bank to get whatever assets they can get. This will dry up the life blood lubrication of the financial system known as cash flow. The economy will grind to a halt, jobs will be lost, bills will go unpaid, houses forclosed on an unprecedented scale which will overwhelm both public and private instutions. The government allready inept at handling crisis will lose cohesion and it will become the land where lawlessness reigns.