How America will collapse (by 2025)

[lilyannerose]

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I appreciate your interpretation that I'm being perhaps a little fatalistic

I get the sense that you don't appreciate it at all, but you have to admit that your assessment is rather linear.

Can we erase the board here?

Actually, I do appreciate it. I am interested in what you think. I'm sorry if my "tone" was such that you felt that I was being sarcastic, I assure you that I'm not. I happen to be someone who is right about some things and wrong about others, like everyone else. When I'm right I'm not above making noise about it and when I'm wrong, hell, everyone knows I'm wrong so admit it, blush a little, and move on to the next topic. There's no shame in being human.

however, after watching Americans sit back through one crisis after another with outrage lasting no longer than the next news cycle, I seem to have lost confidence that change will transpire.

That's a blanket statement. I assure you that once something has outraged me, it never ceases to do so.

You are right it was a blanket statement, but it also expresses how I feel and although general it is a sincere expression.

Who do you feel will step up and start to initiate actions that will lead to the majority of the country following in order to change things?

You can't expect me to say who would start a revolution when the need for a full-scale revolution has not arisen. Now, if action were absolutely necessary, there is only the hope that a group would emerge.

We are definitely on the same page.

History shows us that things do not always turn out the way one expects. You can never predict the rise or fall of a country until it is upon you. As I mentioned before, the United States has boosted its economy during a war before. In fact, it was World War II and the Great Depression had just occurred. Crops were fucking ravaged, the economy tanked and Americans persevered. You just never know what will happen.

You speak the truth, it took years but America did recover. What America also had at that point was a unifying event, WWII, as in every war, of course there were those who did not agree with the war, but overall the War did serve to bring Americans together. Unfortunately, at this time we also have a couple of wars occurring, however, they are not serving the need for national unity.