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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow much longer with the "United States" continue to exist as a sovereign entity?
Everywhere we look these days, things are falling apart in the "United" States. The government itself is being dismantled from within and we seem to be witnessing the establishment of a permanent "royalty", an aristocracy based on wealth and power that increasingly ignores the will of "the people". The push is on to keep the masses ignorant and subservient.
Which government services will fail first? Which departments will be shuttered next? Which state or states will be the first to secede? Which major corporations will be the first to pull out of America entirely? What will happen when the flood of climate refugees overwhelms what's left of the U.S. social services?
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Who knows what tomorrow will bring.
One thing I can guarantee. The American empire will fall, as so many others have throughout history. It is the natural order of things.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...I think it is quite possible the USA may--repeat, may--implode over the next generation or so. Nobody predicted the end of the Soviet Union, and it may well be similar here. I do know that people who laugh at the possibility are whistling in the graveyard. My guess? We slowly slide towards a Polish or Hungarian style one-party state, at least de facto, with a corrupt media and federal judiciary greasing the wheels.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)I recommend you spend a week disconnected from the news and especially DU.
The sky is not falling.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)and volunteer for the Democrats.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Hopefully, the political pendulum will swing the other way, because the Hoodlums went too far.