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Only a radical turnaround of the order of Kucinich AND a democratic supermajority in congress can stem the flow of lifeblood from the republic. The arteries cut are military power, soft power and economic power.
Military power first and foremost aligns all the world's interests behind it, that its moral authority is sooooo strong, that when victory is won, no insurgency remains. Also, military power is best kept in potential, and not used... as the whole world is getting a case study on how to beat the american military... let USA win, and then shoot the soldiers one by one in guerilla war... just another lesson from Uncle Ho that the bushaviks never done learned.
Soft power is cooperative. Even my local cinema in scotland is screening fewer and fewer films from the US. Being american has become "uncool" and that is the bane of soft power. The political manipulation of all american interests towards GOP militarism has sewed long terms seeds of distrust, that many people and nations are looking to long term disengagement with america... a total loss of soft power... and the real end of superpower status.
The artery of economic power has also been lost, as if we remove the top 1% from the GDP distribution, america is not the most wealthy per capita. If 1 person earns 10 billion and 999 people earn 1000, the average income is 10 million each... Its an abuse of statistics that economists are prone to do under the presumption that the wealth of a few does indeed redistribute and thus affect the national wealth, but that presumption is bunk. The REAL american is a poor person without medical treatment or any but the most basic economic human rights.... its a sad state of affairs. The good news is that the rest of the world has assimilated all that is worth having from the US, so if indeed the economy tanks badly, the merits of private capitalism will survive the demise of the nation that made it a global phenomena... but with good news like that, who needs bad.
Superpower is a state of mind. Every individual here is a superpower.
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