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Alienated America by Timothy P. Carney FTP: This Causes Societal Decline
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Alienated America by Timothy P. Carney FTP: This Causes Societal Decline

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Apr 10, 2025
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This is a recurring theme throughout Alienated America and throughout my American Decline series.

From page 135:

In short, white-working-class woe in America is the fruit of collapse of civil society; and in America, among the non-wealthy at least, civil society mostly means “church.”

Across the books I’ve read for this series, a cycle exists. It roughly resembles:

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