How Will YOU Save America?

 

Where did it all start going wrong?

You look at what’s happened to our beloved country and despair of ever seeing America recover from the rot and decay that infests its once-proud institutions. You wonder if we’ll ever achieve the same prominence on the world stage. You mourn the loss of real civilizational progress that marked the United States and made us a world superpower.

You’d like to enjoy the decline, but even joy has been stripped from you. The future’s so blight you’re kind of dismayed.

Here’s the set-up, bub.

You’ve just stolen my time machine*, and now have the opportunity to go back in time and change the outcome of one historical event in the past in order to SAVE AMERICA in the present and the future.

Where/When do you go, what event do you change, and how does this fix everything?

Or, to put it another way, what’s the key moment in history that set us on this dread course, and how would a different outcome change things?


*Sorry, it’s still not working properly, so it’s only a one-time, one-way trip.
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  1. kedavis Coolidge
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    We have loony time travellers, too. Elon Musk. Does that sound like a real name?

    And then there is his child’s name, X Æ A-12 Musk.

    Yes, crazy name, and he didn’t even make it gender specific.

    Does anyone know how that is suppose to be pronounced?

    “Junior”

    I thought it looked more like “Mini-Me.” :-)

    Let me check my Trans-temporal Thesaurus.

    Written by Dr. Streetmentioner?

    I’m not familiar. Dr. what??

    Fictional character from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who wrote an amazingly long and complicated book about proper time-travel grammar.

     

    Latin can handle this. Past imperfect future tense. The Romans must have known something we don’t.

    Well, they were much closer to the Ancient Aliens than we are.

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  2. Joseph Stanko Coolidge
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    We have loony time travellers, too. Elon Musk. Does that sound like a real name?

    And then there is his child’s name, X Æ A-12 Musk.

    Yes, crazy name, and he didn’t even make it gender specific.

    Does anyone know how that is suppose to be pronounced?

    “Junior”

    I thought it looked more like “Mini-Me.” :-)

    Let me check my Trans-temporal Thesaurus.

    Written by Dr. Streetmentioner?

    I’m not familiar. Dr. what??

    No, Dr. Who. 

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