As sort of a general comment on the situation, its informative to consider that when American foreign policy spends centuries on gunboat diplomacy and inequalit

As sort of a general comment on the situation, its informative to consider that when American foreign policy spends centuries on gunboat diplomacy and inequality and immobility in the 3rd world, the citizen response is rah rah USA USA. But when the same policy is applied to the USA itself, suddenly lots of hand wringing about maybe massive income inequality isn't the most moral and ethical system or maybe caste based zero mobility isn't the fairest way to treat people. Well whats good for the goose is good for the gander or whatever trite saying. Its also useful to consider that the 3rd world has been kept the way it is for centuries, so claims that it could never be implemented in the USA or would never be stable/permanent state of affairs is pretty comical level unrealistic. Finally WRT apocalypse claims, you have to realize that over a long term and from far away, Central and South America look pretty messed up, especially compared to "us" where "us" is the former western civilization, rapidly intentionally self destructing. Yet, their people none the less do a lot of smiling, their reproductive success is higher than ours, their lifespan isn't that much shorter... Americas future looks a lot more like Venezuela than Venezuela's future looks like America, and that's not really all that bad. The future is going to suck, and yes it will be entirely our fault, but its hardly the end of the world. Look, you make your national political, economic, trade, immigration, frankly "all" policies to turn the USA into Brazil, don't act all surprised when USA starts looking like Brazil with Brazil reduced income, Brazil reduced public services, Brazil housing affordability, Brazil rape and murder rate, Brazil economic mobility. Brazil's got problems, but don't forget as USA dies and turns into Brazil, that Brazil's got plenty of good parts too. The powers that be want it this way and you're not stopping it but you can try to get ahead of the curve. So assuming the USA turns into Brazil what do you do today, so your kids do better in the Brazil-like USA of 2070 than some imaginary dead USA that will never exist in 2070? A cross cultural lesson is nobody ever got ahead in the world by endlessly ruminating on how unfair some awful disaster is unfolding. You can work on thriving in a Brazil-like USA of 2070 or you can feel really really bad about it, now let me know which is more likely to turn out well in the long run.