Eh? You dug up a five-day-old thread for that? Bob wished me well in precisely the way Burger King employees wish me a nice day: because "bugger off!" isn't in the company handbook.
I'm not trying to score points for cruelty's sake. I've been reading diatribes about the "end" of America for decades, and I think they're dangerous because they're melodramatic and wrong. It's important that we understand the actual challenges we face. The way empires fade in the modern world is to stay right where they are and wane in power and influence to the number three or four slot.
Ozymandias has left the building.
And for all your intelligence and knowledge of Shelley, a little courtesy will go much farther than the line of argument and attack you are taking. That is my point.
I do not wish to argue theories of democratic or national recurrence with you. The Muqadimmah has also left the building.