The Director of the Middlebury Institute for the study of separation, secession, and self-determination, Kirkpatrick Sale talks about his article "The Decline of the American Empire" which is about the book "Why America Failed" by Morris Berman.In an interview with Press TV's U.S. Desk on Tuesday, Sale said that for years now, "we've been hearing from people who say that 'well, yes this country is in a mess but here is what, you didn't fix it' and of course none of the things that are trotted out for people to fix, ever get fixed."
He continued, "And here comes along a book from a guy who says that it can't be fixed. People have to understand that this country, this empire that we run, is broken, and it is too large, too corrupt, to ever be fixed, so don't think about campaign finance reform, don't think about doing away with corporate personhood."
Sale went on to add that the important thing to realize, and this is where all of wisdom has to start is "that the country is broken and can't be fixed and we have to do something quite different and that's where a number of us have come around to secession and we argue that you have to break up this country into much smaller section."