Are things in the US about to get much worse? If so, how? What will specifically get worse?
The easily visible downward spiral is not specific to the USA but there is nothing to worry about.
All through history empires formed, grew, got rich and a small minority accumulated more wealth than the masses. Those masses also got fat and lazy and reluctant to uphold the original foundation principles of the empire while the rich elites cared for nothing but their wealth.
But of course this was what happened in history and as the saying goes history only repeats itself for the incompetent. Certainly, modern US having the best think tanks, uncountable number of universities, the world famous system of checks and balances, and a passable electoral system has the means to avoid this downward spiral.
I am certain that the following principles are already being implemented all over the country and applied to foreign relations:
- The distribution of wealth within the country will be somewhat normalized not by usurping what the wealthy has but by creating more wealth.
- To create more wealth other societies will not be exploited but innovation and trade and productivity will be enhanced.
- It shall be understood that taking other peoples’ stuff only creates enemies and killing those enemies afterwards creates more enemies. This helps the initial spiral we want to avoid.
- The founding fathers were clever people and their words should be heeded. It should be compulsory to read the Declaration of Independence and the constitution frequently.
- It is a very, very bad idea to demonize a certain belief, race or a group of people for any reason because demonization is contagious. You never know who is next.
- Never, ever break your promises as a government and do not even think about doing it in international relations. Never support regimes not accepted by the majority of the country or bribe officials abroad or arm groups against others even if it is good for your purposes. In the long run it will be counterproductive.
Since those measures that I tried to itemize and many more that I could not think of must have been operational by now there must be nothing to worry about. After all any government is capable of seeing something that obvious let alone the leader of the Free World.
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