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The Simple and Obvious Answer to All Our Problems

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Much has been written about the decline of America in recent years. Between political and ideological polarization, our crumbling infrastructure, our climbing national debt, our inability to get anything accomplished in general, and on and on. Various remedies have been proposed from all corners, but in a country of 340 million people and almost as many agendas, none of these solutions seems especially plausible. If you’d have asked me a few weeks ago for my own thoughts on the matter I’d have confessed to being at a total loss, but in a moment of pure epiphany just the other day, it occurred to me that the cure for what ails this nation has been right under our noses this whole time: we all just need to fake our own deaths and start over.

Much has been written about the decline of America in recent years. Between political and ideological polarization, our crumbling infrastructure, our climbing national debt, our inability to get anything accomplished in general, and on and on. Various remedies have been proposed from all corners, but in a country of 340 million people and almost as many agendas, none of these solutions seems especially plausible. If you’d have asked me a few weeks ago for my own thoughts on the matter I’d have confessed to being at a total loss, but in a moment of pure epiphany just the other day, it…

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