An opinion piece written by a rabbit? https://bigthink.com/the-present/5-reasons-why-america-will-not-fall-like-the-roman-empire/ https://bigthink.com/the-pres

An opinion piece written by a rabbit? https://bigthink.com/the-present/5-reasons-why-america-will-not-fall-like-the-roman-empire/ https://bigthink.com/the-present/5-reasons-why-america-will-... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/opinion/america-falling-apart.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/opinion/america-falling-a... https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/four-signs-america-is-a-failing-state-warning-about-the-future-of-the-us/news-story/5474ea6eba60bd42b97704b3efb79d69 https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/four-s... The contemporary assertion that america is collapsing is well established by the entire political spectrum as well as objective observers internationally. >I realize that to a large extent, “doomerism”, as the kids call it, is just self-expression. We just went through a massive pandemic that killed a million of us, we had an era of riots and coup attempts and random acts of terrorism, crime is high, inflation is eating away at people’s paychecks and savings, and there are rumblings of major war from overseas. That is the collapse... you just proved it's happening. There has been 2 years of racial unrest and so far minor insurrections. >Nor do I want to deny that the country faces real risks. If WW3 starts, that’ll be a calamity. We could also have a civil war in 2024-5 over a disputed presidential election result. It’s even possible that inflation could spiral out of control and turn us into Venezuela. Midterms are this year and we are going into another summer of racial unrest. It's inevitable another black person is killed by police brutality who doesnt get punished because of immunity. If the food shortages happen you're going to have riots which are hungry. BLM is only popular during elections and midterms are this year. >The economy is not collapsing Your first graph shows no peak since 2000? How terrible. Prime age working and there hasnt been a peak since 2000? >Once we control for the Baby Boomer retirement by looking only at the “prime age” population between 25 and 54, Because why? What does the boomer graph look like? Really bad eh? I know you looked and chose not to include. Wage growth tracker also peaked around 2000. 2 decades of failure? >Yes, we had some huge protests and riots in 2020. Yes, crime is way up. We even had a (shambolic, ridiculous, halfhearted) coup attempt. Yes, there’s even a slight danger that a disputed 2024 election could lead to civil war. I do not deny any of these things. Is this post meant to be sarcastic and it doesn't read like it? I assume your 'coup' attempt was Jan 6... the weaponless trespassing for a couple hours? Not a very good coup is it. Or are you referring the multiple insurrection autonomous zones that existed for days to weeks? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Occupied_Protest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Occupied_Protest This roe vs wade thing is because of #metoo. It's only vaguely part of the collapse. Men vs women(and however incels fit in) isn't majorly part of the polarization and collapse.