Watching the Decline/End of America as a Superpower in Realtime ...

Democrats in the 1990s were very different from today.

The Pew Research Center shows how the Democrats have veered to the left.

We’ve fallen so far behind internationally, weak leadership unfortunately, dump Trump.

facts and reason wrote:

Yes, I can explain why the American lifestyle produces more pollution.

One reason is the obesity rate. Texans say, "Everything is bigger in Texas."

If you go to McDonald's, then you are not only paying for the food, you are also paying for the refrigerator, grill, electric lights, etc. America has a higher carbon footprint than other countries.

Another reason is cars. Americans like SUVs and other gas-guzzlers. More wealth means more capacity to buy luxury items.

I've explained it to you, and leftists are hypocrites if they want to take poor people from mud huts and then give them free housing, free food, and free money to "live the American dream". This also would contribute to pollution levels. You cannot have it both ways.

And there we have it - I can live in utopia but nobody else can because it's unsustainable.

You should take a look at the history of the aristocracy during the industrial revolution. They were massively fearful the newly rich industrialists would rise up and take their privileged positions (which they did).

In hindsight they were trying to hold back to sea and would have been better to engage with the new world. Perhaps if they had the French and Russian royals wouldn't have been brutally murdered.

To spell this out for you - western society is the aristocracy in this example

Too busy embroiled in scandal and criminality to deal with serious international issues.

appleswan wrote:

And there we have it - I can live in utopia but nobody else can because it's unsustainable.

You should take a look at the history of the aristocracy during the industrial revolution.

Haha, you think capitalism is only for America? Get out of here you leftist loser.

Look at South Korea and Japan after World War 2 and the Korean War. They were devastated but lifted themselves out of poverty because of capitalism and friendship with America.

There's a reason why both Russia and China opened up their economies instead of staying with pure communism.

You leftists have lost the debate.

facts and reason wrote:

appleswan wrote:

And there we have it - I can live in utopia but nobody else can because it's unsustainable.

You should take a look at the history of the aristocracy during the industrial revolution.

Haha, you think capitalism is only for America? Get out of here you leftist loser.

Look at South Korea and Japan after World War 2 and the Korean War. They were devastated but lifted themselves out of poverty because of capitalism and friendship with America.

There's a reason why both Russia and China opened up their economies instead of staying with pure communism.

You leftists have lost the debate.

Yeah, you've crucially missed the part where I said capitalism allowed a middle class to take the privilege of the aristocracy

In my example America is the aristocracy - immensely powerful but paranoid of someone taking the crown

Trump sleeping behind the wheel.

If he’d spend less time at rallies, that would help.

You are, of course, referring to those southern “heroes”

who fought for the continuation of slavery, right?

USA business in China will drop dramatically. People finally understand that using China as a supply chain is a bad idea for America and bad idea for our public health and national security in the future.

No...

Biden and Co do not understand this. Bad business with China is bad for the Bidens. Watch him fill the airwaves with lies after 45 years of walking arm and arm with them.

Senile Biden still thinks Russia is the problem. Now the world will begin to understand the problem.

America needs to rediscover the founding principles of reason, natural rights, and individual liberty. But we won't, because millions of toxic leftists think they're intellectually elite because they support socialism, so it's back to the dark ages without our asses.

VDH is one of the most qualified to give commentary (He deals with corona the first half, the American Empire the second)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqCudv-JQ2o

The problem is that the leftists are out of touch with reality and live in a World whereby Biden will be tough on the Chinese (even they deep down understand that China is the core issue here). They will believe whatever those who take polls and write for Old Joe will ask them to believe. Losers want to win, at any cost. That's America. Beyond that, we have a generation where darn near all of our male children have no clue what is going on because their truth is Fortnite and Minecraft. Enter AOC. It seems inevitable that capitalism will collapse because it takes a driven entrepreneurial spirit to keep it alive. We have two core groups that lack that fundamental value. Trump is literally the only capable person standing in the way and that is the seed of their hatred for him.

El Keniano wrote:

... has been the most transcendent experience of my life. Absolutely staggering! As a lifelong student of history, I can’t believe I got to witness the collapse of two empires (Soviet and American) in, speaking historically, such a short span. The speed at which the USA ceded ground to China has been lighting fast. And it appears a third empire (the E.U.) might be on shaky ground.

Mind-blowing! ?

Hey El K, without white America you wouldn’t have the internet to post your message nor would you have a computer to post it with. White man builds 100 story steel and concrete sky scrapers. Africans build grass huts held together with cow dung.

I can't argue with the O.Ps headline really, decline is obvious, still a superpower. But not thee superpower anymore.

Infrastructure in America is an absolute joke, 20 years behind Europe on road network and transportation. Suppose that's the price to pay for fighting imaginery wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Trump has only exasperated it, coming out with his fake news lines, immigration policy was the final nail, the country was built by immigrants,Italian, Irish and Polish especially. Hardworking honest people that benefited American society and bought into the dream.

Now the country is spilt down the middle much like the U.K, Imperialism or elitism doesn't work, only creates division. You have a man, that got elected on hate speech, a media that doesn't hold him accountable.

Big problems

The USA is just where Great Britain was in about 1880. Or Rome in about 100ad, or Spain in 1600's or whatever. Still the big shot, but darn foreigners making nuisances of themselves. Countries are like boy bands -there will always be another coming down the pipe. I actually don't think China really wants world domination ( like European countries did did). They just want some respect. From that standpoint we have really nothing to worry about.

1:51 olympic distance tri (non drafting) wrote:

Purchasing power:

Murcia: 21 trillion

China: 27 trillion

That’s power that a military can’t beat... They own America’s paper GDP, especially considering China’s power goes towards its people much more than America.. They have universal healthcare. They crushed covid19. They have less homeless and less incarcerated. It’s an actual society. Oh, they video their citizens like America but they want to make a better society. It’s all so terrible! America would never try to make their society better. They can’t even admit they track their people.

And how did covid19 work out for America

People vote with their feet. If you claim China is better, yet you are in America, you are a hypocrite.