I’m under the impression that any quote “collapsing empire / nation / dynasty … whatever the people of that empire tend to say that about their ancestors that stood for what they quote believe in. However unlike most of the past nation experiments, none have stood for the individual freedom as much as the one we have now of the United States, and yes through our own country’s history there has been many a dark and very oppressive part of it that has evolved over time in to in many ways still the most free country in the world. And now more than ever freedom and individual sovereignty is possible to a much higher degree than ever before, and will likely become even more so in ways we may not even fathom.