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8 – The US generally also lacked the coherency of other nation states
9 – Atomisation of society through social media had a damaging impact
10 – The proliferation of car-based lifestyles
11 – The difficulty of distance
12 – The US shift towards global empire was a bad move
13 – Mass incarceration, slave labour, and similar brutalities
14 – The absence of any real opposition party
15 – Other possible sources of organised opposition were weak or failed
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16 – Religion was hijacked to serve the regime.
17 – Americans’ image of their country’s democracy was too unquestioning
18 – US allies abroad, particularly in Europe, never really tried to help
19 – The regime accelerated the country’s demise by expanding its use of violence.
https://www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/why-the-us-collapsed/