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It's basically a function of entropy. Every open system, whether social or physical succumbs to entropy eventually; it's an inviolable law of nature. Smaller communities with strong social bonds through common culture, ethnicity, and religion are less susceptible to entropic forces of atomization, ethnic/religious conflict, class warfare etc that are common to empires like the U.S.

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