A Great Empire, Like a Great Cake

The ‘First American’ and Founding Father, Ben Franklin said: “A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.” America sure likes it cake, even if that cake is a not so great GMO-corn-syrup ladened sugary concoction of gloop, but is America so easily diminishing at the edges? Double Down talks to Abby Martin, creator and presenter of The Empire Files to find out. They examine Hillary Clinton’s imperial record — from Honduras to Libya — and find that, if Ben Franklin were the ‘First American,’  she could be the last as the empire diminishes rapidly.