American salvage: root causes of the long collapse

I thought I'd published this list a while back! I'm writing this now as a placekeeper to refer back to. I've written many blog posts on some of these 8 root causes. To salvage whatever is left of the American state we will need to address each of them. Our collapse accelerated after the fall of the Soviet Union, but the rural decline component began over a century ago. Automation / Globalization /…