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The Day America Lost Its Innocence: JFK, Political Violence, and the Fracturing of the American Mind

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PART I On the morning of November 22, 1963 , America still believed in its own inevitability. It believed in progress not as aspiration but as destiny. The country stood less than two decades removed from victory in World War II , commanding nearly half of global industrial output, presiding over a dollar-backed financial order, and expanding suburbia at a pace that made the future seem permanent and safe. The American Dream was not abstract; it was tangible - brick houses, manicured lawns, two-car garages, college educations funded by the GI Bill, and a confidence that tomorrow would be richer than today. At the symbolic center of that confidence stood John Fitzgerald Kennedy . Young, articulate, Catholic yet capable of transcending sectarian suspicion, Kennedy embodied generational renewal. His presidency carried aesthetic weight. He and Jacqueline projected grace; the White House felt revitalized, culturally sophisticated. Television - still relatively new - amplified his presence. ...
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Cycles of Power: Ray Dalio, Ron Paul, and the Structural Decline of the American Order

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PART I - The Architecture of Rise and Decline History does not collapse in a day. It exhales first. Civilizations do not fall like buildings struck by lightning; they erode like shorelines - grain by grain, invisible until the tide has already receded too far. In recent years, two voices - different in tone, temperament, and tradition - have converged around a similar warning. One comes from the disciplined geometry of macroeconomic investing. The other from the moral absolutism of libertarian constitutionalism. One speaks in cycles and probabilities. The other in principles and conscience. Yet both circle the same unsettling proposition: The American order is no longer ascending. Ray Dalio frames it as structural mechanics - a recurring pattern observable across empires from the Dutch to the British, from Rome to Ming China. Ron Paul frames it as moral decay - the abandonment of sound money, constitutional restraint, and non-intervention. One speaks of debt cycles and reserve curr...
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