Now that is a BUILDING. The Asmara Theatre in Asmara, Eritrea, designed by Odoardo Cavagnari and constructed in 1918.

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My view is that the US may be close to over - all the signs are there - and with the perspective of history applied, was obviously never a stable unity to begin with (see: the cannily named War Between the States). The geography will remain; new political forms and entities will arise.

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The culture wars, the urban / rural and North / South splits, the persistent big state / small state problem, the breakdown of a shared reality, the emergence of Trump (notice I put that last) - none of these are signs of a healthy nation, to put it mildly, or one apt to recover.

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If you’re going to run a nation on a constitution, you can’t make that document nearly impossible to change, or expect it to serve for centuries without fundamental alterations. This in itself is so basic and explanatory that one scarcely needs more explanations, really.

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Los Angeles County is more populous than FORTY - that deserves all caps - of the states. Tell me that the Constitution as written in 1787 is adequate to that simple fact. California’s population is 2M greater than that of the 22 smallest states combined, but they get two senators as opposed to 44.

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