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“The USA will stand forever!”
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I would love to agree with you, but I don’t. Here is why:

My paternal grandfather was born in Russia and left right after the Revolution. During the mid-50s, he, a brother and several Russian cousins and friends would get together to eat, play cards, drink some vodka and talk. On one of those occasions my then-late-teens father was there. One of the old guys mentioned how worried he was about the USSR defeating us, and my father said, “what are you worried about, America is the richest and most powerful country ever, America is forever.”

At that point my grandfather gave my father a withering look and said, “Listen to me, sonnyboy, nothing is forever. When I was 11 years old there was a celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. Understand that Russia was the largest country on Earth, with 11 time zones. My grandfather’s grandfather’s grandfather couldn’t have remembered a time before the czars. The Czar WAS forever…and 5 years later he was overthrown, and a year after that he and his whole family were murdered. NOTHING is forever.”

The same applies to the US. I love this country like few others, knowing very well how my grandparents on both sides were granted refuge here and, had they not been, they and their families would have been murdered. I am intensely aware that now there is now place of refuge that is even remotely like the US was a century ago - there is no place else to go. But as much as I love this country and want it to survive and prosper for centuries after I am gone, I am also a realistic student of history. The simple fact is that the PAC Americana is over, and we’ll be lucky to survive as an intact, reasonably unified nation. If our financial profligacy doesn’t do us in, our imperial overstretch and foreign policy arrogance will.

America has crumbled from within, and from the top down. The elites have destroyed the family in order to divide and conquer men and women. Having decoupled sex from the family and procreation, the elites have schemed to replace the lost population with swarms of illegal immigrants, many of whom think that rigged elections and authoritarian government is normal. The masses have grown tired of the Bushes and their wars of imperialism. They understand they got nothing from invading Iraq other than higher taxes and higher gas prices, and Afghanistan was a complete debacle without a rational explanation. Yet, people have become too complacent to do anything about a rigged election and a doddering fool of a Chinese puppet in the White House.

There are places to go if one wants to leave the U.S., but they are well guarded secrets lest too many others wish to follow those who have already left. Many Americans choose to live abroad, and in recent years, record numbers have renounced their U.S. citizenship, even though it requires more paper work and a hefty filing fee. That is required to escape U.S. tax laws, which due to the supremacy of U.S. banking, cannot be ignored by American expats. An end to Pax Americana would actually benefit some who wish to leave, and it would be welcomed.