What is the United States' long-term vision? Where does the U.S. see itself in a few hundred years?

Nothing is free... other people's labor bought 4 degrees for you and you still have the worldview of a 6 year old.

That should trouble you.

It'll take 100 years to clean up the mess that trump is going to leave us.

What's the mess? Can you even articulate your concerns or are you just saying things because you like the feeling of lashing out?

Italy. That's what we'll be. Maybe Spain, if we're lucky.

There is no such thing as free government education. It is actually indoctrination, those in power teach you to think and understand "fact" patterns in a way that allows them to maintain their position of power while making you think you are actually living in a democracy. The least informed people I know are the highly educated because all the things they are certain about are factually false.

As far as your nonsensical philosophical BS about what the US will be in a few hundred years let's understand a few things. The US is the world's oldest current constitutional form of government and we have not even had the current constitution for 250 years. We have defied amazing historical odds when you look at the various governments in other countries that have risen and fallen over the past couple of centuries. Although a lot of the founding principles have been lost there still is significant resemblance to our founding fathers vision. That said it is highly unlikely that 300 years from now the US is anything like it's current form. History tells us that nations just do not last that long. The Roman and Byzantine empires, which the US most closely resemble historical historicly are exceptions, although those both underwent significant structural changes in their history.

My hope would be the US moves back to a limited central government with citizens who are highly skeptical of concentrated government power, which seems to be moving in a good direction! I would also hope that the Christian faith the nation is built on returns, and yes protestant Christian faith was essential to the founding and sustained success of the US. There is zero chance a secular country survives another couple of centuries, take a look at Europe or Portland. Fortunately this also seems to be moving in a good direction. Unfortunately that the arc of history bends towards freedom is a great lie. It will be hard to sustain the current positive path for any length of time but at the moment I'm optimistic.

Be like Cuba, maybe worst

He's got 4 degrees and he still has no idea where governments get their money...

As Orwell said some ideas are stupid only an "intellectual" could believe them.

US career politicians of any stripe favor growing government, not limiting it.

I hope not. Would hate to see you accusing everyone of doping until the day I die.

Well in recent decades the US has been increasingly sliding towards and embracing far right extremism, corruption, anti-democracy, anti-rights, anti-education, and attacking the rule of law and the constitution.

If something doesn't stop that corrupt far right extremist insanity, this is gonna be the century in which America goes from super power to an increasingly unstable and failing nation. By a few hundreds years America certainly wouldn't exist in any form we know it as today.

But that's only if we keep going down the republican path (which of course Trump has jumped us forward by probably a generation).

If good people and the rule of law and the ideal of America prevails, we'll claw back the dream and crush all this extremism, insanity, and corruption, and the US may remain a leader in the world.

Then again, a few hundred years is a long time. Even if we destroy 21st century republicanism and keep America going, there's still the fact that the US, and the entire world, is in a huge financial hole that will eventually lead to an enormous monetary crisis, which will in turn cause huge financial hardship and economic depression for the population, which may result in revolt, and could lead to America falling at some point in the next century and who knows what will rise up from the ashes.

Then there is also climate change which will decimate many areas of America. Maybe the country would keep going but life will get much worse overall for much of the population.

So there's three major threats. 1) The immediate and continued right wing political extremism/corruption that has just been getting worse and worse the past 3 decades and is the most serious problem in the US at present day. 2) The impending fiscal earthquake that has been building since the beginning of this century and which there is seemingly no way out of and will eventually cause massive problems, of which we already are seeing effects but major serious effects are likely still decades away. 3) Climate change if the world doesn't get super serious about it in the near term, of which we are of course already seeing effects and those effects will build to catastrophic proportions over the course of this century.

What's the likelihood we stop all three of those things? Right now it looks like the rest of this century the US is just gonna keep getting pounded worse and worse by all three of these things. So the fall of the US I think honestly is fairly likely in the next century. Even if it doesn't actually collapse, the US is likely to be far weaker, far less free, far more corrupt, are far less economically prosperous in the future. It's bleak, but realisitic. Those in power are too busy squabbling over increasing their own power or short term quarter by quarter or election by election issues to deal with such issues.

Given Trump took back all the money the US was spending on cancer and other disease research because they were using "transgentic" rats, thinking that transgenic
(DNA term) = transexual, I don't think the US will be in as good of shape as it could be.

I know other scientists who have had their projects cancelled because they used the word "gender" in their paper, eventhough their research had nothing to do with gender expression nor trans people, it was about contagious diseases and reported some various statistics about how it affected women and men.

Basically the trump administration has cancelled already funded projects because they use science words he doesn't understand. or because they use contraversial words such as gender.

Not wanting to fund transsexual operas in Columbia with tax money is "far right extremism"?

You people have gotten so far from the middle you think Bill Maher is a right wing extremist.... RFK Jr is a right wing extremist... Tulsi Gabbard...

It's impossible to take you seriously.

Yes. I am certain you will find a way. Your stupid posts defy biology itself. Your dumbness will make you immortal. Congratulations.

We don’t really do long term in this country. I can’t see any likelihood that we’ll stop doing what we do now, where the two parties keep switching in power, and don’t really do anything other than try to undo what the other one did last time.

How about a musical in Princeton? Perhaps a ballet in Harvard?

20-50 years? What makes you think it'll happen that fast? Not saying it won't, but it's not something I expected this century. But I didn't think Europe would federalize in the next 50 years, and now they may be headed in that direction.

Good question. It'll be very interesting considering we continue maintaining the Internet and Social Media from here through Eternity/Infinity.

Our descendents in the far future with greater technology might be looking back at us now, studying their personal family history, pictures, videos, Internet postings which we can instantly document. They are going to have such a better understanding of each of us than we have from basically generations predating Smart Phones, Social Media, Internet.

The 19XXs are the old timers.

The United States is in the process of giving birth to a new world order - Multi-National Corporates whose capital stack is un-regulatable because ownership is thought block-chain. The actual country known as the United States will become increasingly irrelevant (albeit less irrelevant than many other countries). These multi-national corporates will domicile wherever is the most tax and regulatory efficient, and put factories / operations where it is most cost effective. People will eventually have more faith in cryptocurrency than in fiat currencies. The country / state you live in will be important for local matters like local infrastructure, etc. But your alignment with a corporate entity will influence your well being more than your alignment with any country.

Good luck everyone.