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The Hostile Takeover of America

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They were losers and didn't know how to get organized enough to fight back.

By the time they ever began to think about it, it would be too late. He would be in control of the mechanisms of power, the largest military in the world, the best security state ever devised. Now he could manipulate and control them and bend them to his will.

The hostile take-over of America was a fait accompli and he had done what no one could have ever imagined. He had won. He was the biggest king of the world's biggest hill.

And he had proven that he is the best and can do anything he sets his mind to.

Is this to be the final fate of this once great nation? This nation that had been the beacon of democracy for the entire modern world. Will we simply sit on the sidelines and complain? Is he right about us after all? Have we turned into a nation of losers? Is this how the American Dream ends-with just a whimper from a defeated people?

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