It’s very obvious that amerikkka is circling the drain now, but clearly this didn’t just happen in a vacuum. It must’ve started crumbling at some point… but when?

Some people might say it started after 9/11, others might say it goes back to the Raegan administration. A few might even say it started after losing the Vietnam War, or when they went off the gold standard. Or maybe even earlier…

What do you think? three-heads-thinking

  • Wheaties [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 months ago

    The big glaring difference is that the US don’t have a US to hand things off too. From a certain perspective, China has done what we did to the Brits; studied what worked and what didn’t, implementing accordingly. They effectively have a Keynesian-style New Deal economy, only without the liberal backslide into Gilded Age conditions.

    But we’re not going to hand things off to China. Er, well, we did, happily. With dollar-signs in our eyes and a KA-ching! noise and everything. But we’re not going to accept the consequences of that. Maybe instead of accepting the laughable title of “#2 most powerful country in the world” like the Brits did, we’ll just be doomed to a forever-Cold War. Completely dependent on the economy across the Pond Pacific, but stubbornly refusing to acknowledge it.