[nmrm]

> The US seems to have been in a cultural decline for much of the last 100 years.

Can you explain what, exactly, you mean by this? Looking back 100 years, I can't help but see an enormous amount of improvement in culture, at least in terms of the tangible impact of culture on the lives of people living in the USA.

[anigbrowl]

I he think the regards the creation of a federal income tax as the beginning of the end of the American experiment, going by comments in some other threads.