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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug5353, post: 2145299, member: 73555&quot;]I wrote my rant for CT-er&#039;s under 30, whose formative childhoods were spent in the most prosperous, liberal, and accommodating society in the history of mankind.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The following is not a new thought, but perhaps unexpressed to the majority:&nbsp; democracy works wonderfully until the citizens discover they can vote themselves money out of the public till...</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Prepping&quot; will not save you from some very pernicious trends.</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, for the curious, if you want to know where the inspiration for the various &quot;Planet of the Apes&quot; films came from, go into Wikipedia and read the article for &quot;By the Waters of Babylon,&quot; a 1937 story by Stephen Vincent Benet in which (among many other adventures), a post-apocalyptic young man enters a burned-out bank, finds coins scattered across the floor, and does not know what they are.</p><p><br /></p><p>My final post in this thread.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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