> Can you imagine the rage, if the US actually saw real decline. Christ You mean if the decline wasn't focused on poor people in unfashionable areas, and it hi

> Can you imagine the rage, if the US actually saw real decline. Christ You mean if the decline wasn't focused on poor people in unfashionable areas, and it hit the elites, too? Parts of the US have actually seen real decline, and that's why we have Trump. This wouldn't have happened if we hadn't had policy set by technocrats chasing easily-quantified statistics, and lecturing everyone about how they really ought to feel better because the GDP number go up.