"After the great crash of 2008, Americans awoke and saw their country the way anti-Americans have always seen it: spendthrift, decadent, and corrupt. The city on a hill had become a mismanaged empire; the land of self-reliance was buried in debt. Our political class had run up enormous deficits at home and entangled us in never-ending military operations overseas. Our financial elites had been exposed as reckless, self-deluded speculators who had gambled away the country’s economic future and then gone begging for a bailout. And the whole mess had been made possible by middle America’s relentless appetite—for bigger houses, bigger portfolios, bigger government programs, bigger everything, and damn the long-term cost."

(paɪəˈnɪərɪŋ ˈspɪrɪt) a willingness to endure hardship in order to explore new places or try out new the new
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Nothing has changed, either. How crazy. Almost 20 years and nothing