Me looking at America

@catastrophecarnival I even have to avoid it on here too. The things trump is saying and doing. No one with authority is being held accountable, no one with authority will do anything, anyone trying to do good is now afraid for their lives. We are run by a mob.

@catastrophecarnival I wish I could give it to them

@ViciDraco
Very accurately stated and thank you for that detailed summary of America's truth.

I'm not sure that Americans would actually believe they were in trouble, even if the lights went out completely and left everyone in the dark indefinitely.

When you are told from youth that your country is the best though there is no substantive evidence that it actually is and therefore cannot fail although that concept had never been litmus tested to find out for sure, if one suddenly finds themself in the dark, I believe the tendency would be to sit there quietly and wait for Superman to come along because somebody important once said that he would show up and that he would make things all better again.

But America's reality is that Superman does not exist nor ever has, any more than did the Wizard of Oz exist in a place called Kansas. Who then will turn the lights back on if the superhero everyone was taught to believe was named "America the Great", doesn't show up to save them from themselves?

What does everyone do if Joe Superhero no-shows the party and everyone is left holding nothing that is factually tangible about the country they were taught was the very best in the world, as the rest of the real world looks on with mundane concern as the smoke beings to fill the distant sky over that faraway fantasyland of western culture called "America"?

What governments around the world including Canada to your north are advising their investment portfolio managers to do, is sell all assets that have any American content whatsoever in them and transfer that wealth into more stable countries which have more black in their financial ledgers than red. The United States is currently on the auction block for 'sell' orders around the world of high finance and very quietly but methodically, this is happening without much fanfare. After all, what is there to celebrate?

I don't quite know how all of this is going to go down for the USA when the music stops but I do know that countries around the world have already ensured that they'll have a chair to sit in when that American music does stop playing and those distant lights go out of sight which use to light up our skies at night.

There's a new world order on the horizon and the USA is not holding the tiller this time around. I don't know where America sits on that new ship, but I'd be very surprised if they'll even have a window seat if the truth be known, it's actually that dire.

I'm sure you're acutely aware of all this and I'm sure that I'm not telling you anything that you haven't already contemplated at length. I look forward to hearing your very informative thoughts.

@SandWitch The truth is that it could go a few ways.

There's a chance Trump is ousted early or dies, or just the next election swings away and we can start recovering like we did after his first term. Though I find this least likely of the scenarios I envision. Trump winning a second time makes this a fool me once, fool me twice situation for the world to trust to us. It's not impossible we recover and retain our position, but I just don't see it happening.

This type of period internally to the US is not new though. It is reminiscent of the late 1800s and early 1900s before the US was ever considered a world power. Massive wealth inequality paired with a faulty economy and war profiteering were all big things in the US. We pulled out of that darkness with massive public investment, government sponsored jobs programs, and a willingness to claw wealth back from what we called "robber barons". There's a chance we do that again. Though on the other side of that I think we look more like one of the European nations and no longer as the world superpower. This is something that could take 50 years to play out though. If one of the worse scenarios below don't take place.

Then there's always the chance we go like Rome and buckle under and split up into smaller nations. I see this as less likely given the fact that we have a strong national identity and most people consider themselves the real Americans paired with the power of the state to actually shut down any sort of insurrection before it starts. But there's a chance.

Or we could end up like Russia, a fallen state trying its best to still act like one of the big shots but managing to have most of our endeavors undercut by massive internal corruption and only really surviving geopolitically because we have enough ordinance to trigger the end of the world if we decide to. More likely than the nation splitting up, but possibly even worse for the average citizen.

@SandWitch about the most accurate portrayal of american politics i have ever read :(

@bijouxbroussard
Really? What's accurate with how that post was presented at it's face value?

@SandWitch Go away.

@SandWitch Puritain cultists who came to America before it was a country.

@FoxyQueen
Oh I see, so you're making reference to a social movement that took place 250 years ago, right?

@GeistInTheMachine
Good point!