Of course it's causes are completely beyond their comprehension.
We are in decline because the Progressive Left appears to have won its Hundred Year War on American liberty, constitutional law and free markets.
It’s really no great mystery.
Has TIME Magazine figured out why it is in decline yet?
If they don’t say “diversity” they are lying.
White Privilege
ANY mention whatsoever that there has been a total lack of leadership, or that being a 'Community Oraganizer' in NO WAY prepares you for the Oval Office, or that socialist and communist ideals do not result in a strong country, or that the guy in the white hut is bent on dividing the Country, ensuring it's destruction by selling out to our enemies?
Democrats/Obama/Corrupt MSM/Hollywood
That axis. It’s really that simple.
If Time is against capitalism, why are they charging customers?
Yet these same Fascists impose slave wages on LEGAL immigrants and minorities by flooding the labor market with ILLEGAL immigrants.
Time translation: We have not achieved our Communist Utopia YET....and will be in decline until we become so.
The US is devolving from what it once was, characteristics that made it great. The US is becoming a different nation. Fifty years of importing third world immigrants and white birth rate decline has driven the change.
“Progressive” being a code word to the left for socialism, leftists only see progress in terms of government’s ability to collect and redistribute wealth. They judge the quality of health care by how much the government controls it. When they give you their list of best countries to live in, it’s not how modernized the society is, but the degree to which government is involved in it.
Rising wealth inequality is a normal attribute of a recession and is a good measure as to whether the recession has ended or not.
It has happened in every recession and depression that we have experienced. And it always will happen, it simply is part of a recession.
So, the answer is simple. Pursue policies which result in GDP growth and the disparity goes away. EZPeeZee.
Hard to believe Time could publish this. Not sure it knows what is really going on. This has been happening for almost a century.
Pure capitalism and pure communism both lead to inevitable self destruction if the people are amoral.
Unfortunately, both systems inevitably seem to lead into a consolidation of power. Either through communist personality cults or vast corporate crony monopolies.
And once power is consolidated, those in charge want a dumber population to abuse and control. And dumber leads to immoral until the entire system collapses.
So no, I don’t see a solution with any current existing system. They are all short term solutions and doomed to die and be reborn
Markets have always existed and always will exist.
A free market economy, however, can exist only with strong political protections. Rule of law, enforcement of contracts, etc. The problem of course is that those in charge of the politics have an irresistible incentive to stack the deck in their own favor or that of their friends, which is called crony capitalism.
Crony capitalism is the default setting for human economies. With the amount of cronyism and capitalism varying from one to another.
Neither a true command economy nor a true free market economy has ever existed, or probably ever will exist.
Half a century of Liberal domination of the legal system, education and the media. Pretty simple actually.
There is an author from the 90s who wrote for the NY Slimes or something and wrote the dumbest articles never linking Guiliani's tough on crime policies with less crime. I wish I could remember that fools name.
For a LARGE part (on purpose from the progressives), it is the dumbed way down and totally unserious American public.
Those affected most when the 60s leftists took over running most institutions. Is there any sign from our rebellious young to counter the counter revolution yet?