The Sorensen Monologues

Government or Foreign Invader?

I’m hardly the first person to make the point that another country could not do more damage to the US than what is being done from within, but it did occur to me a long time ago that this was the case. If you were an evil dictator trying to destroy and take over the US, you could hardly to a better job than eliminating scientists and medical researchers, healthcare infrastructure, highly qualified military officers, basic corporate and environmental regulations, and economic data statisticians — to name a few. You’d hobble the government financially by plundering it. And you’d eventually put troops in the streets to intimidate the public and quash civil unrest.

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