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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
And no, I'm under no illusion this one move will fix everything. The problem with the US goes way beyond Trump. He is just a symptom of a long-term decline. Still, it is a necessary - if not sufficient - step.
https://www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/why-the-us-collapsed/
Main points:
1 – Impunity at the top had devastating consequences.
2 – The presidency became more like a monarchy.
3 – White supremacy was central to the fall of the US.
4 – For decades, the US had been a country plagued with violence, especially gun violence.
5 – The rise of the security state.
6 – The increasing political focus on upping anti-immigrant sentiment
7 – Wealth disparities in the US grew to extreme levels
https://www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/why-the-us-collapsed/
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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/
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WHAT IF Americans had found a way to organise peaceful mass protests and general strikes better and sooner?
· What if more rational heads in the Republican Party had stood up to stop the increasingly authoritarian Trump regime?
· What if the Democratic Party hadn’t folded its cards nationally so soon?
· What if leaders from both parties had joined together and made survival of the country’s democracy their top priority?
https://www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/why-the-us-collapsed/
