In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down
London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later,
Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive
government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist
basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In
1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on
earth. Seventy years later . . . Let’s not go there."
-- Mark Steyn
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