When do u think the US was at it's peak 🌎

@Dainbramadge except for the Jim Crowe stuff and lack of civil rights for minorities and women and the threat of being drafted if you're a military aged male, and being shipped off to fight in the Korean conflict.

@Jayciedubb The 70s were a solid time.

@beermeplease What. ☺

@JoyfulSilence ..idk, your proposition seems a lot like communism to me. I think it's pretty much the way Marx described it, or the way Lenin sold it to the Russians, who, btw, are at war with their neighbor, Ukraine

@Jayciedubb

With a free market economy.

Just imagine if the US government and economic structures were applied to the whole world. Adding a new federal layer on top. To give it a name, call it the New UN.

The top layer is the New UN. It has a world president or prime minister, then a world congress, assembly, or parliament, and world courts. Yet unlike the current UN it has supreme authority over all member nations, yet only for specifics enumerated powers. All other powers are left to the member nations. Which in this case would be like US states. That is, the relationship of the UN to the nations is like the relationship between the US and the US states.

Then each nation has its own structure. It should be republican (little r), with checks and balances, federalism, rule if law, rights, etc. But the New UN laws always are supreme. Etc.

Or maybe at the top a looser confederation, like the EU has in Europe. Yet still the New UN should have some teeth to it.

Within this New UN there are no militaries, in the traditional sense. The world is one big "nation." There are no wars. Only civil unrest and rebellion. So all military forces are police forces, really. Yes they can have military equipment and training, but they are a tool of law enforcement, to fight crime, put down violence, restore order, etc.

But all would have to consent to membership. If nations want to opt out, they can. Yet then maybe the New UN would then need its own military, just in case. It could also help with maintaining order within the New UN member states.

This New UN likely would have to exclude a lot of current nations: those with dictators, communism, theocracy, oppression. To join they would have to be like and have governments and economies like the US or Europe, Japan, etc. And freedoms, etc.

So no Irans, Russias, Chinas, North Koreas, Saudi Arabias, etc. Heck, maybe we would have to expel places like Texas, too, LOL.

@JoyfulSilence being that the US economy is at the top of the spectrum, a merger like the one you describe will likely result in the quality of life going down and taxes going up.

There are also long going rivalries to consider. It would be difficult to get the whole world to believe in the same version of freedom.

@Gibbon The 1950s era was good.

@jackrabbit10 I'm talking economy wise 🙄

@Zonuss ok. don't seem to bother me any, just depends on were you live I suppose,,,