This country will repeat the exact same cycle which other countries went through. Greece, Russia, China, etc all had thriving economies once. Then people found out they could get free stuff by voting in the socialists.
After experiencing ravages of socialism for several decades, some woke up and turned back to capitalism. China for example now has one million new millionaires and middle class is 50 times bigger than during their communist abyss.
So, I expect US to become increasingly socialist (= big gov’t), suffer economic abyss, then turn back. But not until 2040 at the earliest, more likely after 2050.
“After experiencing ravages of socialism for several decades, some woke up and turned back to capitalism. China for example now has one million new millionaires and middle class is 50 times bigger than during their communist abyss.”
The problem with that is that they’ve largely kept the authoritarian apparatus where individual freedoms are not present. China has only “abandoned communism” in name to more efficiently control its citizens. They’re not giving any freedom - just a whitewash to the nomenklatura and over the attempt at real freedom in 1989.
“But not until 2040 at the earliest, more likely after 2050.”
Since I’m 75, it’s all downhill until I die!
No way i’ll make it to 2040 or 50!!
well at least we can say it took 400 years for idiots here to think socialism is so damn awesome. other places have done the cycles dozens of times (France, ahem) and we’re going to do it once since 1620 and Miles Standish said screw communtarianism, we have to reward people for their work, and it only took a year to throw it out then - of course it was a literal matter of that or all of them starving to death.