People complain about the thousand year time span but that's the point. We should look at history over the long haul. If you do, it's staggering how unique, unlikely and fragile is what we have in our country. It took Rome 300 or so years to become authoritarian. AA could give a more precise estimate.
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Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be.
—Paul Auster
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