We won’t. We are decadent, degenerate, soft and effete. America is not a role model. It leads as President Obama famously opined, “from behind.”
If I was a Russian, I would say, do I want to emulate you? Of course not! The two countries are admittedly on opposite sides again but this time it is America that is in decline.
A Nazi German might feel the same way, but, we should not encourage them to emulate Nazism.
As an American, I sure don’t want to emulate Russia and the Soviet Union.
You know, you guys can go too far in your expressions of revulsion for the United States, having a terrible president who agrees with you about how disgusting we are, is temporary, it did not erase everything that we are and always have been.
Maybe it is the Texan, and the veteran, and the Reagan conservatism in me, but I am not ready to switch over to Russia.