it’ll survive, the US is very malleable, but the world order is rapidly shifting so that other world powers and policies that are more hatmful than US policy are ascending or have surpassed the United States that the US cannot halt or change anymore, especially without allies that it’s withdrawn from or attacked.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Sure, the lands not going anywhere but the country is knew is all but gone.
imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
honestly, maybe you didn’t know the country that well.
Domestic rights were being eroded steadily for decades, and the United States makes and has always made some truly awful foreign policy decisions, and it’s not like the US was founded as a paragon of virtue in the first place.
The collapse of the US has rapidly accelerated along its course with trump’s two terms and there’s less chance to redeem themselves with how rapidly he’s tearing everything apart.
It’s a lot harder to change track when you’re screaming down the rails.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Decades? 20 years is decades. 30 years is decades. I dont know america 20-30 years ago?
imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
I was referring much further back in terms of the steady removal and erosion of domestic US civil rights, but if you don’t recognize the united states anymore from 20 years ago, then it sounds like you didn’t know the country that well 20-30 years ago. there are some very strong parallels occurring between then and now - oil wars, civil rights erosion, election interference, a whole recycle, although the pace has increased under trump