America is likely to suffer a similar fate: that of a former colonial superpower unable to admit its current situation to improve its own situation productively

America is likely to suffer a similar fate: that of a former colonial superpower unable to admit its current situation to improve its own situation productively. Brexit was but one signal of this wasteful, collective cognitive dissonance. Corruption, income inequality, pettiness, and infighting are what will drag them down when there is a lack of hope with a mission for the future. Just look at the current PM, a neoliberal vulture capitalist, and the current POTUS: also a Clinton neoliberal dotard, with a likely race between a dotard for the rich and a rich, racist, populist idiot dotard pretending to be for the working person, both of which offer nothing constructive in the face of existential threats of climate change. Meanwhile, China is basking in a "1960's US"-like expansionist, pancolonial, triumphalism, but I fear it will reach a similar conclusion as other superpowers in roughly 1-3 generations. The long-tail of most, if not all, civilizations is peaking and decline. Most civilizations do not survive in a successful state beyond 10 generations or 250 years. The danger is in those who once had power or privilege and losing it, for they rarely take it well. Rejuvenation is had by being honest*, finding hope, and working towards something difficult and useful, sometimes it's a common foe be it human enemy or natural calamity. * Unthinking, absurd dishonesty, polarization, arbitrary ostracism/civil death, and fungible redefinition of simple words are other signals of civil implosion.