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5. Yes, America is broken.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Jan 22, 2026, 09:49 PM

Jan 22

The nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty symbolizes the fragility of power, order, or societal structures. Once broken, "all the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty together again." That's the problem; there's no fix. A broken society can't fix itself.

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