@fuckyoutubepolicy staff You’re completely right and I agree. But I still stand by statement. A country that has increasing political polarization and reoccurring financial crises, resulting in artificial pumping of currency isn’t in as much of a healthy position as you might think. Standard of living will eventually be affected by the inevitable inflation which will occur gradually over the next few years (also to point out americas living standards are no different to any current developed nation - I would even challenge that it’s worse in some aspects). As for geopolitical influence and future economic outlook, not even 20 years China will likely overtake.
@fuckyoutubepolicy staff dude when you make a claim, don't make up data and follow what you hear....China has huge corporate debt but not huge government debt....the United States and Japan have huge government debt....USA has immense debt but the only reason it did not collapse completely is due to the dollar but even that won't last long...the world is slowly shifting away and America no longer has a competitive edge like before....there are many countries that are technically capable now and have strong armies and can manufacture many products...the US can't fight china and Russia and Iran and turkey....game over
@fuckyoutubepolicy staff Fertility rate at 1.64, mass debt, both student loan and government, fyi, China's debt-to-gdp ratio is around just 70%, Japan is steep in debt though. Then there's the lowering life expectancy, high suicide rate; 30,000 veterans have killed themselves since the war on terror began, far higher than the death rate in both wars. Yeah, America is still here, just like Greece, Egypt, and Great Britain, and just like them, it's in a declining state.
If you were born or raised in the United States, please listen. Travel abroad, experience the world through your own eyes and not the media or the internet but your own perspective. You will finally create your own opinion on what the United States is and not what they tell you.
@@Blacksheepcomics I didn't even need to visit them to know their governments are even worse. This may be a collapsing empire, but I'm staying here, in my fortress, and I will die in this region, either of old age, or in battle. Euroc777s will never understand.
Nice try, but they are all brainwashed my friend, the self proclamation of USA stating that they are the greatest country in the world is so deep in peoples minds its futile trying to show them a different path, America will self destruct from the inside, they will end up in a civil war!! I will get my pop corn ready for that
this completely misses the point of why Americans feel we are on the decline: apart from foreign policy and domestic political division, living/housing/food costs keep increasing while wages stagnate and there is less and less of a safety net for the average worker.
Our country is at WAR... TOTAL undeclared ideological WAR. Why do you think the government hands out free educational visas to a bunch of foreigners back in the 60s?
Food and energy have actually declined in price when adjusted for inflation over time. This year is a major exception but historically it has been the case. Housing has increased but that's largely a consequence in people buying larger and larger sized homes and plots. The price per sqft hasn't sharply risen its more that the size of properties have doubled on average and thus the cost has doubled as well.
@@afid7184 by their own people, I assume you mean their owners. The people they work for and who heaps $$$ (in millions) on them to help them get re-elected.
@@samreh6156 Duh, all first=past-the vote system becomes a two party state at the end. Where I live in the UK, it is the Torries vs. the Labours. So I guess not but the people still vote and corporations don't really need to bribe Governments thanks to the existence of tax havens.
All empires eventually stagnate, have divided internal struggles, then decline, then new ones rise up then decline again etc. It's just the way it is 😌
These guys are clueless. Today it was published that .1% of the population owns more than the entire middle class. Violence is rising dramatically. The country is on life support.
Not really. We're going through a periodic cultural and economic shift, but the core of American geopolitical strength is as solid as ever. The US has the greatest geographic advantages in world history, and that basis of power hasn't changed. We're having a societal hiccup right now, but eventually that too shall pass.
@@Seastallion That geographic strength is the only reason we are even still here. Think about it could another culture really survive when a significant portion of its population doesn't believe there's a difference between a boy and a girl or who thinks one can just "identify" the way one likes and it suddenly becomes reality? Or that even objective reality itself is a by product of "white privelege". Or that Math is racism? The amount of gross stupidity engulfing this nation is like nothing in history. A local predator would have overrun us long before this.
The US is following the roadmap of the fall of rome, high debasement of currency, internal social issues, and large military failures and overspending on said military
@@bwhit6541 well one singular failure in the end, USA had plenty of victories as well, and USA has a lot of internal conflict. Not exact but very similar. History doesn't repeat but it rhymes the same tunes.
@@austinfield9502 victories in what regards? Rome were a military beast that turned the Mediterranean Sea into their own lake. They were an entity that lasted 1500 hundred years, they had military legions older than the USA as nation. I believe America is mirroring more like the Soviet Union.
Citizens going after each other (Left/right divide, critical race theory etc) is a symptom of decline in its last stages, the country is weak internally and externally
Also in foreign politics: the USA have lost appeal. Now many people in the world realize how Mexicans, Afro Americans, Asians and many more are abused and how the real standard of life is : debts, overworking, cheap salary, no healthcare, social exclusion, racism. This awareness no longer makes you want to identify with America.
@@appletree6741 The US refused to tackle domestic issues such as race and wealth inequality and let the problems fester over decades and now it’s too late to stop it. At this point the only way for things to change is civil war. The country must be baptized through blood and fire. Civil war is inevitable.
Even as an american, I would love to at least see our military decline. Aside from the millions of wasted lives and trillions of dollars, our government seeming to think it knows what's best for other countries is really disgusting and anti-democratic imo.
stopping antidemocratic goverments through military might is only half the Battle then you have to fight the war to change popular instincts and habits.. the us failed in afghanistan to build democratic values.. but in Iraq theres seems to be more democracy now and human rights with for instance: with the semi-indipendant iraqian kurdistan...
Or using the military against the civilian population of the united states the one outstanding virtue of the military was its cultural values and now that's being destroyed to better serve the civilian hierarchy.
@@DrErnst Occident gotta stop trying to push its model into places where its not like the US. The US is a country made by Europeans, and its normal that Europe and North America have the same system. But It doesnt work in another places with another issues.
It's interesting that about a century ago Britain seems to have been relieved to give up the role of being the world's predominant power, it was just too much bother for them and too expensive. By contrast the United States doesn't want to give up that role, nor does it recognise that it's happening.
@@Dave_Sisson right ✅. It will take time when it will be done it will be all over for US. But it will be at a huge cost of devastation around the world.
Inflation is not transitory. period. this is what happens when people installed a toilet in the WH...everything is going in the wrong direction. High tax & socialism will destroy everything!!
@@_inthefold How about that funny small empire in the Philippines Guam and Liberia? and eh USA did mostly economic based empire than UK big empire this may be bias as i am an Korean American but eh.
If you were middle class in America you would have known the answer to this question over a 20 years ago. Yes. The disparity between the wealthy and everyone else is unreal and still growing. Government is ineffective at solving the problem, most people won't face the problem because that requires base understanding of policy. Most people my age (36) can't afford a home if there are even any for sale. Everyone is swimming in debt. We are capitalism run amok with a military budget easily twice what it should be. Meanwhile our social services are terrible compared to every other wealthy country.
The level of ineffectiveness of our government is insane. We have been trying to build a high speed train from LA to Vegas for 20 years and have spent millions and laid no track. What other 1st world country operates at this level of disfunction.
America was never a democracy because the vote of one citizens never really counted. It is about swing states and so on. Not about pure vote numbers. So it is not democratic. And you need to be rich to be the president and you need the massive help of companies for your election campaign. That is legal corruption and massiv lobbying. So none of all these Presidents is corrupt.
The biggest problem is the industry. Most of the industry moved away from US, because the rich could make money from China. Only 300000 working in Wall Street, but the US have over 300000000 people at all. Workers are not satisfied with this situation, big companies made a lot of money in global finance. But workers and farmers are losing their jobs. Which caused the unsatisfactory of the society, that is the biggest problem. In China, there is a said “every empires end by its own”
During times of bad economy, blame a foreign power. In this case - China. This type of thinking is actually insane, as we have a great chance of recovering IF WE FOCUS ON DOING BETTER DOMESTICALLY. But no, let's us fund the MIC more and blame others. My history teacher once said, "when you point at someone, three fingers point back at you". We need to ignore all this fear-mongering and focus on our infrastructure, our education, and our own people.
They don’t want to due to ignorance and gas-lightning. Also the countless blood that is on this country hands, this so called empire will surely be going down. Can’t beat karma
It was American industry and capitalism that made China what it is.....and continues to do so. The Capitalists that sold out American industry over the past 40 years have always had the single goal of increasing their own personal wealth. The decline of US industry and it's middle class is a direct result of the greed of it's capitalist leaders. The military-industrial complex, which is but one branch of capitalist expansion has had an outsize influence on the decline of the USA. Endless war has been very very profitable for the few, while death and destruction of innocent lives (including the primarily middle-class enlistees) was just collateral in their pursuit of wealth for the few.
"At the end of a dynasty there often appears some show of power giving the impression that the dynasty's senility has been made to disappear. It lights up brilliantly just before it is extinguished, like a candle which leaps up brilliantly just before it is put out." - Ibn Khaldun
nteresting how 2% inflation has been a concern when central banks and the Fed begin to hike interest rates. I consider the rising interest rate to be a very serious issue since it will undoubtedly cause more investors to withdraw their money from the stock market. This may have worked when I was only using a few thousand dollars to invest, but it is more challenging to decide to withdraw more than $365,000 from my account at this point. Despite the severe bear market, I am aware of certain investors that continue to earn that amount. I wish I could accomplish that.
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America has always fought among itself... now more so than ever... it's a scary time we live in... with this turmoil, America is WEAK... and it's only getting worse
mais les pays européens ont toujours combattu entre eux , ils ont fini par s'unir et dans un même temps nous assistons à un remplacement de la civilisation ce qui fait que nous allons disparaître and there is nothing we can do about it because we don't make children any lange!
Americans have long deluded themselves as having the best country on the planet. I grew up in the U.S. but realized this after moving out and trying life elsewhere. America has made me what I am but it's definitely on the decline and not just because of its own faults but the emergence of China and other regions. I also feel sorry for American workers, whose rights and benefits have eroded away since the 1980s.
Rome fell. But it didn't rise again. Same about Greece, Persia, india, European colonial powers and everyone else. Except china. They fall, and they rise again. Over and over again
@@RealCherry8085 I need to read more about the concept of nation state, but I like to frame America as a Neo-Empire if you will, using a position of leadership and a combination of soft and hard power to push for its own interests; while also taking into consideration the core groups wants and pushing against adversaries. This allows for the US to push its own interests and control others, to a degree. Note: I haven’t put a lot of contemplation into this concept, so take it with a grain of salt.
@@RealCherry8085 America is definitely an empire. It just did away with the messy annexations, colonies and dominion and left the states with the same names and flags but the one American economic system.
America is being destroyed from within by a cabal eager to establish an authoritarian Marxist system headed by oligarchs. These cabal unfortunately is working with sworn enemies of America.The allure of communism is so strong within the so called liberal establishment that is so thirsty for power and total control the population
History has proven many times no empires ever remained forever & the factors behind it have always originated from internal factors rather than the external no matter how mighty the military or economic standings. The world & nature just has its own ways of doing things & no one can control these.
*US was never been a great empire.* Neither they have its characteristics besides they're very rich and *lucky* [they got massive boost from each world war because those wars were centered on Europe and Asia, also Native American was easy target for sake of colonialism due to how isolated America was].
You arent wrong but the timescale can be swift or take centuries. You can also have a decline like in the British empire where the main consequences were not for the average Britain but for the rest of the world. This seems more likely for the U.S. It main economic and security advantages are rooted in the western hemisphere so the average U.S citizen will probably be fine though maybe less wealthy. Places like South Korea, Eastern Europe, and other places that rely on the U.S to prevent conflict will suffer more.
Lol. Journalism has never been more alive. Collaboration between journalists from different countries and fact check platforms. Amazing. You must be another said Murican watching the boat sink, together with the orange man aka former president.
The perception here on Brazil, specially on financial world where i work, is that yes, USA is on decline since 2007, slowly but steadily from 2007 to 2019, despite the financial boom (after 2014), mostly from buy backs from easy credit, not real investment. Than way faster than predicted because the pandemic, and now specially because the global energy prices, bad infrastructure (i never thought i would say that btw), and low global recovery, not to mention social and political problems on some states like California. The general view here is that USA cannot do anything more to change its course, and the future is on Asia. on 2007 Brazil exports where 17,4% to USA, our greatest partner, today USA represents less than 12% and China is the greatest with 33% almost the double that America had on its peak with us, not to mention that BRICS was formed and initially ignored by most americans. Now when an American delegation comes here noone cares too much, but when it is chinese they have a red carpet all around, and lines waiting for them, and the americans are surprised with that and why the whole Latin America now is leaning to China, and BRICS have a toon of political weight here.
That's a very interesting point, has no idea they were so big in Brazil, I have been aware of BRICS, that's why India is neutral in its stance about Russia's invasion of Ukraine
@@Legendary070 i check Brazil exports to for last year, it is 39% now, to USA 11%, the gap is getting bigger. Another thing Is that Brazil is ignoring the Russia swift ban and is using CIPS a chinese competidor, to trade with Russia.
The US empire is over. The sole reason is because China and Russia no longer weak countries. China and Russia came together decades ago to build their countries stronger. I don't know if the US was sleeping all this time or maybe they just didn't care, but because China and Russia are no longer weak countries, the US cannot just do whatever it wants to do anymore. Liberal democracy is over. Russia and China have rejected liberal Democracy because they said it's unsustainable, that living standards will decline, etc. It's true, living standards in America is declining.
@@bhuvaneshs.k638 Both Iraq wars were victories. Saddam was soundly defeated in the first war and both Saddam and the Insurgency were defeated in the second. Idk where you got the idea that Iraq was a defeat. The government that the US set up is still there and is relatively successful.
Thing I notice with USA decline stems from a problem, finding a short term solution which leads to problem with another problem. Culturally, America does not think of the future anymore only in the now. While the USA spent 20 years adventuring in Afghanistan through the mountain regions, the people were taxed heavily and starving. Just like not a person not being home unattended, there are people who depend on you to provide, a bunch of problems prop up.
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Democracy is in decline because of corruption by lobbyists, special interests and influences by the super rich. China understands that corruption can undermine any system so they had a anti-corruption campaign. I saw no similar campaign in USA to make the government independent of lobbyists, special interests and the super rich. Democracy needs reform but the last constitutional amendment was decades ago. Decline is unavoidable.
you nailed it !!! money, power politics and back door lobbying.. democracy never existed in this country never will!!! america is done and over !! next; civil war!!!
In China, the government controls the power of the super rich. In America, the super rich controls the power of the government. This explains why the super rich in America pays very little taxes.
@@Tombstone_Active that is your opinion. However my opinion is that the US government is more corrupt than the Chinese government because the US government make wars, can't solve the homeless problem, can't build high speed rail, can't stop white police officers from killing black Americans, allow health care cost to escalate, cut taxes for the rich, and the two political parties can't get along.
America is not in a decline. America is in a total collapse. America's "Age of Decadence" ended last year. It lasted from the 50s until 2020. By the 2000s and 2010s, the decadence had deteriorated into total degeneracy. What's the next stage of collapse now that we've made it here? Hyperinflation. What after hyperinflation? Starvation and Mad Max.
I think you’re right. America has already hit its peak and now bottoming out. The mid-20th century is when she was at her most high and prosperous. After that era, the decline started.we’re heading towards some dark years. That’s where we are going. Ppl are disillusioned to believe some utopian age is nigh. It’s not. Not at this time!!!
🤣🤣👍🏻 but frankly, China is the new power to replace the crumbling US. The US looks so desperate right now. Their constant cold war against China is only making China stronger
@@blardymunggas6884 China has a dying economy, declining population, and skewed demographics. China will never get a chance, because there will be no future great power
America's fall began in mid to late 90s when manufacturing jobs left the country for Mexico then to China. Ross Perot vehemently voiced his concerns that it'll be gravely disastrous for the future of the US . Unfortunately, his opinions fell on deaf ears. I read all about this when I was in HS in the late 2000s.
I am much older than you. America started to decline WAY earlier than the 1990's. Our decline started 100 years ago when the Federal government got bigger and bigger and we no longer followed the constitution. Our decline started with Teddy Roosevelt. It was just we were so far ahead of the rest of the world it took nearly a century for the rest of the world to catch up. I would say the pivotal point happened in the 1990's under Clinton. Once we were in the Clinton administration, that was the point of no return. Anyone that thinks our best years are not behind us is just delusional. We do not lead in even a single industry. We trail in everything today. Our educational system is a joke. Our math scores (by far the most important subject) are abysmal. Name the industry and we trail. For the first time in over 140 years, we are no longer the richest country, China surpassed us last year. The country is just too divided, and the left has destroyed us. We forgot the things that made us a great country. Individual freedom, and not the collective. Individual achievement and not government subsidiaries. Were we perfect years ago? No of course not. I'm black, but I still say we were a great country. Government intervention, in the economy, educational, regulations, destroyed us, and we are just too far gone to turn it around. .
He wasn’t part of the establishment. The government didn’t want him much like they threw Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders to the side like two old sandwiches. But there will be a day the establishment will be thrown to the side. Mark my words! These bigwigs will eat cake, even if it takes natural disasters to bring them to their knees.
Jobs are leaving the USA because of greed. The United Auto workers wants a 42% increase in pay, pension etc or they will walk. Corporation have made billions but salaries of CEOs and other executives are obscene. Greed everywhere! And you wonder why manufacturing is overseas!
When the US' status as a developed nation came into question, this question became obsolete. The question is how long it has been in decline and how far it has fallen.
No one is doubting it's a developed nation. It is still the first economical power and has a super high GDP per capita. The real question was if American will stop being as important, which is indeed likely. Russia stopped being a superpower, but is still powerful enough to be a a threat to some countries, the same thing may happen to America. China and the EU might replace the US as world leaders, which will not mean US be completely irrelevant, just that it will no longer dictate world policy.
@@MichaelDavis-mk4me Hmmm.... My replies to you seen to have been deleted. Basically, there are plenty of people who think that the USA has already declined to the point of no longer being a developed nation and a quick Google search will give you hits about the UN saying that poverty in Alabama is akin to what one sees in the 3rd world and unlike anything they had seen in any supposedly developed country. Then we have childhood poverty, infant mortality, mass incarceration, where the US distinguishes itself by failing its citizens. The educational system has obviously failed as we can see from all the people believing wild conspiracy theories and trickle down economics whilst electing climate change deniers and taking unapproved medications rather than get vaccinated. Infrastructure... Well, it is falling apart. Corruption... With campaign contributions and lobbying, the US is very much akin to a 3rd world nation when it comes to this. Then we have the inability to hold elections and the flawed system of democracy that has now failed in fairly obvious ways (also tied to widespread voter ignorance). Even those who wish to inform themselves have a hard time as media bias is significant in the USA. As for power... The USA, much like the Soviet Union and North Korea, prioritizes its military over the well-being of its citizens. Oh yes, there are plenty of reasons to consider the US having fallen out of the 'top tier' even though the total wealth and the military might is still at the top. Do Google it and you will quickly find articles on the ways in which the US does not meet the criteria for a 'developed nation'.
Not forgetting the fact that the national debt has ballooned to the point of where it may not actually be able to pay it back. In reality was bankrupt in 1971 in the aftermath of the vietnam war.
I am pro-American. We have shared culture and history with the Americans. But from an Asian perspective, I do believe that America is in decline. US is not a reliable ally anymore. They change their foreign policies constantly. Their influence in the world stage is declining. Anyways, I still have high hopes for the US.
It's been in decline for over 30 years. Asking such a question now is like asking the undertaker as he hammers the last nail the coffin "You're sure the person's dead?"
When your friends (UK defence minister) tells you that you are no longer superman (super power) then you better believe and prepare for the the consequences.
Obviously Britannica and Romana were notable that we still talk about, study, and reference them today. Americana will be the same. Less was known about the atrocities of the other empires on a global scale though. United States is all about social media but more importantly free speech, and glass houses and if that is the legacy we leave behind I don't think that's half so bad. Even if the spirit of that is exemplified by the people more so than the government or any of our institutions.
@@generalripper7528 The problem with that for the United States is that standard of the living is measured by the median or mean. And our wealth inequality is at exponential levels. The middle class has been neglected since we left the gold standard and supply side economics, reagonomics, and modern monetary theory kicked in.
@@tekkersmo3816 the problem is that cost of living is at the point of median wage, even exceeding it in some areas making it a point that there are many people that is well below the poverty line and there are companies wanting to abolish the minimum wage so that they can pay workers less, in reality it's just not something that works out in the future as it just brings home exploiting opportunities that you see overseas but in an economy that will not be so forgiving.
Decline of American Imperialism would be such a blessing for majority of the world. Imagine how many lives could be saved in certain countries without American interference.
Some others will be lost due to imperialism from other countries filling voids after USA decline. Human race is too bloodthirtsy to share anything and prosper together.
Another country will start taking lives and it will may be far worse than USA Humans always have fight over resources Humans were in more wars before USA, actually it was much worse than now what ever you like it or not USA brought more peace than war to the world And world without USA power could be a world with much more chase and wars
@@jeremysam3773 that’s just your assumption. You cannot definitively say the USA has brought more peace to the world without knowing the alternative. Besides, despite every war in history America remains the only country to drop nuclear bombs to achieve its foreign objective. Your optimism about America could seem very worrisome in the eyes of those that have suffered as a result of American imperialism.
America was never meant to be as powerful as it has been. It was mere coincidence, a confluence of random events that just happened at the right time. Lucky streaks inevitably end, it's time to go back to being just another average country in the world.
Yes USA has been declining in the past 40 plus years. Signs? Real wages are falling. Productivity growth is down. Companies aren’t competitive in global markets. White-collar jobs are gone. The nation’s infrastructure is collapsing. The federal deficit is soaring. The health system is deteriorating ( tested by Covid 19). The cities are unsafe. The schools are failing. The gap between rich and poor is widening. The social fabric is broken (The nation is divided) The steady decline in American student aptitude (ranked 29 in maths & 26 in physics in the world ) America is falling behind in technological advances. Academic standards are lowering. Increased lawlessness. Crippling national debt. Energy dependency. Continued US intervention in other countries internal affairs made the USA the most hated country on earth (hence lost hegemony ) Just look at Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Afganistan, Venezuela, DRC, etc... ( USA is actually a threat to global peace and security) and its no longer seen as a model. Massive lack of trust in the US media ( almost all of the US media and Hollywood are propaganda tool for the owners ( the billionaires ) They report "real Fake News " Including The economist and millions of people around the world are going away from the mainstream media ( Specially from CNN, BBC, CNBC, FOX, Aljezeera, The Guardian, NYT, WashingtonPost, and if you ask me which one is the worst definitely CNN ( the real fake news networks) You have no idea how much i hate them, they literally fabricated news and report it) Bottom line, the fact that you're talking about USA's decline, is a sign itself because you wouldn't raise this issue unless people are talking about it and if people keep talking about it, they're seeing the signs no matter what you do and even this video doesn't talk about the real issue to match the title " is America in decline? " it's all garbage and the message you want to send to your audience is that "No America isn't declining it simply has problems and it has problems in the past and solved it, so it will solve it this time too" and that's propaganda and misinformation.
l'Amérique restera encore longtemps le premier pays du monde, si vous avez besoin de vous rénover c'est que vous venez juste de finir votre construction, cela vaut pour tous les pays du monde, mais ce qui fait votre force comparé à la chine et à la Russie c'est que vous vous permettez d'être un pays libre et ce sera toujours un avantage qui continuera de faire de vous le phare du monde!
The US is horrible right now but guess what, there isn't a candidate to take the reins. Europe is.. just there, always relevant but not popping. China is a dump with skyscrapers and a million factories. Middle East? Nah. India? Please.. Anywhere in Africa? Say no more. Oddly enough most people would feel more assured with a region leading the show, but looking around it's not there.
Well, if you feel ready for the Adult-Talk, for the Mature Discussion about what should change, try 'America Compared' by 'Second Thought', as well as his various other Videos.
Im a millinial who served for 10 yrs a proud of the red white blue. Now as time goes by im becoming less patriot and less proud. Our society is stagnation.
@@no_name4796 If America doesn't want to collapse, they would need to start war against china. This isn't just America fading away as a superpower, this is China dominating the rare earth mineral supply and ultimately doing away with america. Do you honestly think China would put up with competition from the US any further? They have a strategic economic advantage and would wish us away once they reach our level of military power. The longer we wait, the more likely China will win the war against the US.
The classical role of government is to tax away economic rents and use it to lower the cost of production. This is done through subsidies for such things as public infrastructure, education, and health care, not raising the prices through monopolistic privatization. The problem with economics as it is understood in America, is that there is no distinction between wealth production and wealth extraction. Production of goods and services speaks for itself, but monopolies and the banks (FIRE, finance, insurance, and real estate) extract what is called economic rent. The free market Adam Smith talked about is free FROM economic rent, not free FOR economic rent. American democracy is entirely theatrical with the majority will having no effect on policy. If the US was a democracy, we would have a decent minimum wage, public health care, free education, parental leave, and gun control, to name a few, all by popular demand.
si vous pensez que vous devez tous devenir des indiens, alors vous avez , à la maison, de quoi vous former! perso, je pense que le seul salut c'est la recherche jusqu'à ce qu'un asteroîde mette fin à notre épopée!
Well, if you feel ready for the Adult-Talk, for the Mature Discussion about what should change, try 'America Compared' by 'Second Thought', as well as his various other Videos.
There is no hegemony throughout history that remains forever and ever ... Perhaps we must ask ourselves how the world will be organized during the 21st century, and what will be the role of China and Russia.
America is in decline! Infrastructure obsolete, drug problem, high crime, housing and ghettos. The problem lies with the government and the people themselves. Compared to Asia, moral upbringing is missing, no respect for family, law and society. Emphasis is not on education and family values. The government is wasting money on massive military programs and armaments. Why do we need over 150 military bases overseas? Money should be spent at home. Extremism abounds and is confused with freedom of speech. US may be beyond help.
We are the cause of our own decline. Considering America just became a superpower in the early 20th century, we have declined pretty rapidly compared to Ancient Rome which was a global power for about 1000 years, and even Ancient Egypt which was a global power for 30 centuries. America has failed to lead globally and has often portrayed the opposite of what it preaches internally and domestically. We have failed in educating our populaces, with the average American being happy to possess just a high school diploma. We have failed in STEM, failed to deal with inequities such as discrimination, racism, homelessness, and violence, etc etc. How will we be venerated globally when we caused so much distruction around the world? Is every problem solved by tanks, airplanes, bombs and bullets?
Rome global power? There's India nd China. They were the powers. Not Romans. Their texts will tell u what they thought of Romans. Indians equated the Romans with animals. Who just ate, drank and copulated with no spirituality or principles that makes a human consciously awake.
America is failing because of diversity. Strong countries are unified and not divided. The fall started in 1965 when LBJ signed the 1965 Immigration Act which permitted anyone to come to the USA.
27 T$ national debt, y2020 paid 320B in interest, budget deficit 3T$, a 700B military which runs on debt alone, cur acc outflow 375B. If that's not decline what do you call it ?
The deterioration is not on one aspect but in all, from the financial debt to homelessness. These aspects that anyone can witness are typical signs of severe deterioration as one can see in the decline of the Roman Empire. The problems either domestic or international are not solved in a proper way but by a short term temporary solution. The fiasco in Afghanistan from the unprofessional retreat to the humanity crisis that the usa left behind are clear signs of usa’s decline.
It definitely wasn’t this polarised in the 80’s and 90’s. We’re beyond polarised, more like heading towards Balkanization. It’s what happens when you clutter the country with different cultures, ideas, and couldn’t be more different.
The fantastic thing is that instead of giving economic explanations, the interlocutors give mystical reasons, such as the manifest destiny and the North American exceptionality. I never thought to hear explanations of religious faith on a channel in an economic magazine. Hallelujah.
Judging from the state of its infrastructures, the growing number of homeless people, and the level of its debts, there is no doubt that it is in absolute decline.
@@wyoland7118 world policing has been costly. It needs to make a choice. Either it goes all in controlling the world markets to maintain itself, or it goes back to being isolationist and fixing it's issues. Doing both isn't really a option. That said, its far from permanent decline. The question is how much does it want to gamble on the possible calamity of collapsing china, Europe, and dragging everyone forefully under its umbrella. Both are very possible. The EU could be made to be dismantled. We could collapse china. We could gamble at driving the world into a economic downward spiral. The U.S. has many options, including wrecking opec. People just have no idea what the U.S, would do. But if it wanted to maintain global dominance i have thought out plenty of methods for that. But it would be heavily destructive. Too say "the U.S. is in decline" i agree with, looking at it from the current paradigm. To say " the U.S. is in decline and cant stop it" . Well...thats another completely thing. And has more to do with how much its willing to capitulate others and put the world into a downward spiral including immense death tolls and unrest.
The truth is America has been declining since the 1960s. Every decade gets worse than the last. When I was growing up in the 1970s and early 1980s, the US was number one in most things, the standard of living, industry, technology, etc. I can remember when it loaned money to the rest of the world. It's none of those things now. Third world immigration has destroyed its national identity, culture, history and cohesiveness. Throw in the demographic change and large numbers of Americans moving overseas.
It would be very unwise to believe that the US is in terminal decline. The US has many problems, but here's the thing that may have been lost on younger commenters: the US has ALWAYS had major problems. Think of any time in US history, going back to pre-European colonisation. Was there ever a golden, stress-free time where America didn't face huge problems? Answer: no. Every generation has its problems. OUR problems seem insurmountable to some people, especially younger people who may not have a more seasoned view of the world, but history shows time and again that America has endured through challenges that dwarf our current issues. Do you REALLY believe America is in a worse position now than at Pearl Harbor? Or that life is more stressful now than during the cold war in the '50s, where so many millions of Americans (and Westerners in general) believed they would die in a nuclear fireball? Does that mean America will always endure? No. Nothing lasts forever. But it would unwise to write America off. Context and a sense of history is required. And do keep in mind that much of the "America is doomed" commentary comes from vested interests that seek to undermine America in the world. That's the CCP, Russia and even extreme voices in the US.
The main problem of the US is its bad reputation. The people think Germany, Russia, France, or China are better than America, but that is not true, they have many problems and their citizens face poverty, drugs, demographics problems, like low natality, suicides, abortions, etc.
@@DavidCelestialKnight You do have to wonder about anyone who thinks Russia or China are better than the US. Certainly, Western Europeans think they're doing a lot better than the US, and not without some justification. And it must be said that many aspects of the US are a total mess, and on the verge of breakdown. But, as Leonard Cohen said, America is the cradle of the best and worst. Unlike China or Russia, it has the machinery for change.
The problem the US faces right now as the man at the start said in the video: (internal) politics. Political will. Can politics change ? Is it possible to for example get a new FDR in the current political system ? (FDR was the most re-elected in US history, so probably the politics most people agreed with, at the very least at the time)
Yep. We're talking about severe internal culture battles that can't be compared to foreign attack or threat of one. In fact one can argue Pearl Harbor and the CW galvanized us against a common enemy, which is the exact opposite of what we are today.
@@geosync9742 I would argue that these things did galvanize the US in to (military and political) action, but they didn't necessarily _unite_ Americans. At the time of JFK, there were huge divisions in US society, yet the cold war was in full swing, and playing out across Europe, Indochina, etc. I think we need to understand that the US can be a very divided nation, politically, yet still stand, and even prosper. Example: look at the rise of the US after Vietnam, a hugely contentious and divisive war. After Vietnam the US effectively won the cold war with Russia (for now) and became _the_ world power (for now). Example 2: look at the rise of the US as a world power after the Civil War. The divisions continued, but the vast, overwhelming majority of Americans went about their lives, and the country grew enormously in to the the hegemony it is today. I strongly suspect that most of the "America is doomed" talk comes from a small minority of people: extremists on Twitter, the media in general, "journalists" (which is a polite way of saying "someone who is paid to have an opinion"), and America's opponents and adversaries. America is not in a great place. But is it terminal? Well, it's been in a far, far worse situation and prevailed. The thing about America is that most Americans *want* it to succeed. Just look at the recovery after Covid... that's self-interest at work. Almost everyone wants America to work. But the extreme voices shout loudest...
A daughter doesn’t beat her mom up when she leaves home, nor does the mother demand a huge sums of money from her daughter when her career was failing. Your analogy suggests an overly romanticized understanding (or lack of understanding) in international relationships.
@@jgordon9022 Mum here. We didn't demand a huge sum of money when our career was failing, we asked for some return on our huge investment in daughter, and our career got better, much better. And we didn't get beaten up, we were beaten in daughter's territory by daughter with lots of help from mum's enemies.
Systemic Rivals: America’s Emerging Grand Strategy toward China Under the Joe Biden administration, a new American grand strategy is coming into view. It is focused on the emergence of China as a peer competitor and organized for long-term strategic rivalry with Beijing to shape the rules, institutions, alliances, alignments and values that undergird world order in the 21st century. By G. John Ikenberry 0:18 [Global Asia] "If interested, read on. We read! Agreeing and understanding is for another department."
Idk about that one, America is under control of people who are interested in staying in the global system, for economic reasons. Not to mention that China has problems of its own. So it may be likely that America remains in the system, just less powerful than before and most Americans being uninterested in the system. Only time will tell.
No, it's not gonna be as you think luckily. Because this magazine and this people working on deep state (over thousands of years in control), which is moving its head office from America to China and trying to destroy America from within. These people know its in decline of course. ;) luckily our new world gonna be completely different. Lot's of interesting things awaiting us.
Afghanistan is not reason for it. Mexicans leave US more than enter it for years. You have to ask them why. I am sure that reason is not living cost in US. I suppose that they do not feel that US goes in right direction. They are not alone, most of people in US think the same.
ben oui, bien sûr il est temps de "socialiser un peu l'Amérique", mais il a d'abord fallu la construire! souvenez vous, il y a peu de temps le territoire était vierge!
The US always believed that pressing the AUTOPILOT button will solve all of their problems and make the country prosperous. It’s better if they realise Button is broken. And always remember, US only has a history of 240/250 years. China is a country with over 3000 years. They build civilisation, dynasties over dynasties. Don’t underestimate the power of history.
The Chinese are literally one of the most stagnant and conservative civilizations to ever exist. they were structurally incompetent compared to everyone else for thousands of years. China is a horrible role model because the only reason it existed so long was because of its geography and population density.
Right, China has spent about as much time fractured and violently infighting as it has a unified state. For all those dystopian stories about a looming second American Civil War, China has experienced a like dozen times by now.
How can you ask that question without once mentioning China? Bizarre. Also writing as an American I hope that our policy of "humanitarian" military intervention is finally over. What is humanitarian from one point of view is imperialistic regime change from another.
Dramatically so but so is Western Europe. Western civilizations are collapsing slowly but surely. I never thought I'd see the US decline markedly in a year's time.
@@kashmir65mf36 , let me ask you a question...which would you rather serve, a nation, an oath, and a flag that are all temporal, that ultimately give you nothing, and that has increasingly rebelled against the very Being that these things claim to serve, or would you rather have eternal life, be a part of an eternal government that actually DOES care about you and your eternal fate, that also requires no oaths, or swearing to them, and that has used the Form and Function of a Savior to die for the sins of humankind? The first six things are not only the USA, but ALL nations, as well as political parties, political systems, religions (including all false pseudo-Christian and pseudo-Jewish ideologies, as well as all of the Atheist, LGBT, sexism, and race baiting ideologies that come from people of any skin, hair, or eye colors), and all of the other things of the world. However, the last seven things represent the Eternal Kingdom of YAHWEH EL ELOHIM, which is the Only Source of Hope for humankind. Whom do you serve?
AMERICA IN DECLINE Every other day one reads the above headline or listen to a pontification from one TV pundit or another. Today, I happened to watch the 1970 Hollywood flick Tora Tora Tora. The dialogue from a scene caught me. It reads "many misinformed...believe that America is a nation divided...and that Americans are interested only in enjoying a life of luxury and are spiritually and morally corrupt. But that is a great mistake. If the war becomes inevitable America will be the most formidable foe we ever fought." One hopes that Xi and Putin watched this movie. America is a resilient nation, so hold the requiem.
Three men, all around age 40, all in glasses, all in light blue button up shirts, all sitting in front of bookshelves. Hey Economist, next time go into some run down declining US neighborhoods and ask the people who live there what is going on. They are the real experts.
