I am lately struggling to find reason to believe that a collapse of America in the next 10 years is not inevitable. And to justify my motivations for not wanting it to happen.
Well, I've said that the collapse of America is not only ongoing but is manifest now. There was an op-ed piece published recently and linked here (~ a month ago, linked below in this post), I think it had its own thread, by a guy who was living in a country that was experiencing collapse over a period of time and he explained that it wasn't something that happens suddenly, it happens gradually but inexorably. People don't recognize it (most), some do. Life goes on, people do "normal" things while abnormal things continue to happen, very troubling things, repeatedly. We are very arguably there already. Tell me that we haven't had myriad happenings in America the last two decades that are not more than alarming but unprecedentedly ominous and troublesome, and more so, on an accelerated basis the last handful of years.
If it were just political, I wouldn't be as concerned, but we have an existential crisis continuing to develop (how can you not think that year after year of obvious worsening signs of the global warming crisis aren't absolutely obvious? Worst year on record for hurricanes this year.) that the Republican Party refuses to acknowledge even exists! ~1/2 the electorate willing to excuse the actions of the worst POTUS in American history. If it weren't for this incredibly mismanaged pandemic we'd likely have been stuck with this living disaster for 4 more years.
Here's the thread here on that op-ed piece:
https://www.anchoragepress.com/columnists/i-lived-through-collapse-america-is-already-there/article_5310929e-01d7-11eb-85e5-0335b2293693.html As a nation you don’t seem to mourn your dead, but their families do. Their communities do. Jesus, also, weeps. But for most people it’s just another...
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