How City Hall Corruption Leads to a Failed State
How City Hall Corruption Leads to a Failed State Dick Platkin. CityWatc LA, September 10, 2020 Share PLANNING WATCH -Failed states don’t just happen. Countries don’t suddenly careen out-of-control because a foolish leader pursues irresponsible policies. Failure accumulates slowly, as thousands of bad decisions merge together. The late Professor Chalmers Johnson, a highly regarded UC Berkeley and UC San Diego historian, predicted that the United States would implode by the mid-21 st century because of imperial over-reach. He argued that the blowback from multiplying foreign wars would eventually cause the country to rot from within, making life untenable. Since Chalmers’ predictions of U.S. collapse did not include climate change , they now seem optimistic. This, sadly, is the si