Are we entering another “Dark Ages” in history?

A “new normal” of fading empires, religious fanaticism, economic stagnation and a retreat by civilized cultures into a few fortified enclaves? 

The USA retreating into a centralization of power in a self-perpetuating political class may be a significant accelerator of this happening.  Once a tyrant or tyrant class conquers you, they say now we must all come together.  We will soon all be equal…in misery…or…we can proclaim and reclaim our personal freedom: it’s all there in the United States Constitution.

History is NOT “written.”  We make it.  Choose.  Wisely.