(March 21, 2020 at 8:35 am)WinterHold Wrote: America will fall and it became obvious after the election of Trump and the failure in impeaching him last year. The culture in the country is falling drastically and an American is not the American of yesterday.
It's becoming a third world nations, that's what you get when you give the keys of your house to Oligarchs.
Yes, Trump makes it obvious. He's aesthetically horrible, which makes the decline more obvious. I'd put the turning point back with Reagan, however. He's the one who started the bipartisan effort to dismantle the New Deal and switch the economy over to pure Wall Street amorality. It's commonplace among us lefties to point out that many of Nixon's policies were more left-wing than Obama's were. The so-called progressives, Hillary and Elizabeth Warren, started out as Republicans and didn't really change their policies. They just waited for everybody else to move right.
But I think this is becoming obvious everywhere, and recent events will put paid to Americans' reputation as supermen. For example, the Iraqi parliament voted to expel US troops, but the troops refused to go, making this a Nazi-level occupation. The US is still bombing ineffectually within the country. Meanwhile China is sending humanitarian aid.
Next door in Iran people are dying in droves because the US won't lift sanctions on medical supplies. This is just evil.
China is willing to play the long game, relies on economic aid more than military, and isn't crumbling internally. Not to say it's a fair and friendly government, but I think it's going to own the rest of the century.
