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> When you look at the infighting within the US that is front page news every day...the decline is in full swing. I don’t see how there’s any other option eith
by fuckyouandyours 6y ago
> When you look at the infighting within the US that is front page news every day...the decline is in full swing.
I don’t see how there’s any other option either. At this point there a multiple “factions” who’s end vision of society is actively hostile to certain other factions.
- mcphage 6y ago> At this point there a multiple “factions” who’s end vision of society is actively hostile to certain other factions. Some time ago there was even an active shooting war between US factions, and yet the country still was ascendant afterwards.
- fuckyouandyours 6y agoSure, when the nation was still pretty young and the world was much different with many great powers, there was a civil war. Do you really think the US could maintain dominance if half the nation went to war with itself again, in more modern times? Not that I think any future conflict would be remotely similar.
- mcphage 6y ago> Do you really think the US could maintain dominance if half the nation went to war with itself again, in more modern times? No, not really. But... I don’t really have any way of knowing. I just have to remind myself that, as ugly as it has gotten, it used to be a whole lot worse, and we survived and thrived, and so maybe we can do it again.