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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/
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/
