Dictator interviews are dictator interviews.
They are largely propaganda missions seeking sympathy and support.
It seems to have worked as after seeing the inane grocery thread yesterday-I couldn’t stop myself fr clicking the X in the upper right hand corner.
The incredibly sad thing is the complete lack of self awareness regarding our standard of living which is unparalleled.
Our standard of living dropped and our middle class shrunk. Compared to others world wide, we no longer are the leader we once were.
That is true for our GDP, industry, high tech, life expectancy, standard of living when compared to others.
The US after WWII was 1/3 of the global economy, today it’s 1/5. China is the world’s largest manufacturing base by a long shot...
We are not #1 in life expectancy, not even #2, or #3... We are at place 11 on the world stage!
For years people have been ringing the alarm bell that we are an empire in decline, that the policy decisions are non-growth oriented, socially destructive.
The fruits of these destructive social and economic policies have come to bear, we have squandered our wealth and much of our leadership role.
Post WWII we were not only in a global leadership position, we were extremely blessed (not destroyed, resource rich, lots of industry...). We wasted much of that away.
We are in decline, only a bit slower than our Euro allies.
“The incredibly sad thing is the complete lack of self awareness regarding our standard of living which is unparalleled.”
That needs to said over and over.
All we hear is bitching about some part of it that isn’t perfect.
From the left and the right.
America rules, other countries drool.
You are both under the delusion that you are still in the US. However, this is not the US anymore, because the US was a nation of laws. This nation we are living in has turned law on its head. It is now a lawless nation being run by criminals & tyrants who are fleecing this nation & making it a communist shithole.
Perhaps you both hate Trump, so you don't care, but when they come for you, you will realize that you were delusional. They will be coming for you.
I question if you both are true patriots, because no patriot I know recognizes this nation as the nation you seem to remember, because they know it's not the nation they were born into.
The truth is, this nation is officially a shithole that is no better than any of the third world banana republics that exist.