Doug Casey on the Collapse of American Cities

Local, state, and the federal government are responsible for the collapse of the cities. From Doug Casey at internationalman.com:

International Man: American cities have visibly deteriorated across all metrics in recent years.

For an increasing number of people, the value proposition of living in cities no longer makes sense.

What is your take?

Doug Casey: I presume everybody’s heard the mnemonic, “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.”

Unfortunately, American civilization has reached the stage where it’s getting soft, weak, and degraded.

I place the State—government—at the root of this collapse. It’s implemented welfare, which not only allows but encourages people to consume without producing. So-called “democracy” has created class warfare, wherein everyone tries to gain control of the government to gain wealth and power. It’s created an unstable society, inventories of people that have been correctly called “useless mouths.” They’re incapable of anything beyond consuming and voting.

Governmental policies have turned the cities into cesspools.

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