There's not going to be a return to "great powers", that's some nonsense spouted by people who think geopolitics is a game of Civilization or something. Global capitalism is too big to not have a core, and after 1989 the age of the nation-state is pretty much over. It's just corporations that transcend borders, nation states cannot be said to have any meaningful "national interest" apart from that of global capital or ideological resistance to it. If America is no longer a sufficient host for global capitalism's police wing, it will find another master, or some hegemony everyone submits to, or the matter will quickly devolve into a general world war (we're heading in that direction, but I don't know for sure if it's really going to come to that because no one wants to fight a nuke war, not even the maniacs in Congress).
You think muricans secretly with the USSR still existed?
My mom is unironically one of the only old people I can talk politics with and it’s because she was raised in Trinidad outside of the nonsensical bullshit and alienated culture of America.
Even then it’s taken whittling away to get her just barely questioning of most of the DNC and capitalism, and that’s because she recognizes that American culture is inherently toxic and rejects classism against fellow workers and homeless people.
It's gone past alienation. Americans live in this information bubble that has beaten them down so thoroughly that it's a wonder we have any semblance of sanity left in this country. I don't see the same sort of shit in Britain or Europe. Dunno about Latin America, I've read it's super shit over there in the same way it is here but I don't know how you can get this thoroughly brainfucked without a massive PR apparatus working overtime, the likes of which only seems to exist here.
I’d say Americans are insane already, just look at their positions on settled science, like climate change, evolution, the shape of the Earth, etc.
Americans are fucking completely insane
They’re just the type of insanity that ensures they fit into this insane society and culture perfectly
What a torrent of blood it will be when the veil is dropped and the mask comes off
At this point even the Religious Right has given up the ghost on evolution, and climate denialism is largely tied to the very unpopular Green economic plans (which should be opposed, because they're fucking awful and won't actually solve any ecological crisis). If anything Americans are TOO deferential to "science" while being robbed of a genuine understanding of what science is, what facts are. This makes it easy to spread pseudo-scientific horseshit that Americans uncritically believe, like "war is good for economy therefore we should keep bombing brown people", and the whole milieu of bullshit economic theory that gets peddled in the mainstream. Trusting the experts is what turned America into the backwards shithole that it is, because the experts didn't have our best interests at heart and lied profusely and often to the people. Boomers just have the old "expert" programming that is out of date, and rather than try to actually include old people in society, the olds who didn't get the careers that were promised to them were left to rot, basically unemployable and trying desperately to scrape together whatever they could from welfare, disability, and what few job programs existed specifically to get old people employed in very rare circumstances.
Of course that whole system got its start because America's foiundation was rotten enough for some sick fucks to build a system of scientism. Decent leaders would have seen the monstrosity they were creating with their campaign and limited the damage, but by 1970 the US just abandoned all pretenses and went full class war.
What great analysis.
Looks like a salty burger rolled on in
Nah, it’s just that your a euro salty about loosing your colonial empire.
I’m a Brooklynite that was born in Brooklyn tard
Lmao
Burger here, too. I wouldn't be able to say what I do without having lived here and seen the rot. I think a lot of people not from here don't get how the tendency in Americans towards self-deprecation is taken to extremes, deliberately and often.
People look at how Bernie is being suppressed and wonder how such a ham-fisted, obvious strategy works, but believe me, it works, it works all too well on olds and people caught up in their circlejerk communities who have been so pozzed that social interaction becomes unbearable. People are so spooked that they respond to this bullying readily.