Posted on 06/07/2024 4:04:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Is the United States becoming a Third World nation? This question has long been on the edge of polite conversation, but former President Trump’s conviction in two New York courts has pushed the query to the forefront. The short answer is that while this slide was once unthinkable, it currently seems “unlikely.” Worse, all the trends point to its increasing likelihood.
What generally defines “Third World” includes pervasive poverty, dilapidated infrastructure, lack of sanitation, inadequate modern healthcare, rampant crime, ineffective education, and violent political instability often reflecting ethnic rivalries, not democratic elections. Law reflects the whim of the powerful; not following written precepts. Third world governments also have a penchant for crushing national debt and wild spending. Invariably, a very rich minority governs masses living in squalor.
What separates First World nations like the U.S. from Third World nations like Nigeria is not vast natural resources. Third World Nigeria abounds in natural wealth while First World Japan has little.
The key difference is human capital, a collection of multiple traits, especially brain power and a strong work ethic, and absent these traits, a modern capitalist economy cannot exist. Expats in Third World countries routinely complain “nothing works,” and the corrupt government cannot fix or maintain anything.
Countless outward signs of a typical Third World nation have recently emerged in the United States. Most visible is the physical decline of major cities: filthy streets, unsanitary homeless encampments, open drug dealing and use, unpunished crime, burgeoning slums “off limits” to ordinary people, and a general incivility. Add a growing multi-generational pathologically ridden underclass permanently dependent on government assistance. A Baltimore resident would be shocked by the contrast with his hometown if he visited Helsinki or Athens.
Less visible is the decay of public education manifested in declining test scores, rampant school violence...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It is easier to drag people down to the Third World than build up Third Worlders to the First world.
Seems inevitable.
BTTT
that's the plan
With nukes.....
That ought to give sober people pause.
“Slipping and sliding toward third worldism.” - Bob Grant (30 years ago)
We’re speeding right past 3rd World and plunging headlong into the 4th. World, or Reich. A lot of bit of both.
When the counting supposedly stopped, and then magically at 3am Biden got a big ballet dump and took the lead in the battleground states, we became a banana republic. The lawfare against Trump, with black robed biased tyrants, in liberal enclaves, ensuring the left’s political rival is convicted of made up crimes, we slip further and further into third world status. The slide began with Obama’s intelligence agencies letting Hillary off the hook on obvious crimes (illegal email server/destroying phones with hammers-obstructing the investigation) and went after Trump based on Hillary’s Russian collusion op.
It already is.
1. Corrupt Courts.
2. Corrupt Elections.
3. Corrupt Government.
4. Useless education system.
5. High taxes.
6. Secret Police.
7. Jailing of political opponents.
8. Crumbling infrastructure.
9. High crime.
10. High inflation.
I could go on, but we meet the hallmarks of a turd-world nation.
What (s)he said.
deteriorated infrastructure
because Ukraine needs more money
*** What generally defines “Third World” includes pervasive poverty, dilapidated infrastructure, lack of sanitation, inadequate modern healthcare, rampant crime, ineffective education, and violent political instability often reflecting ethnic rivalries, not democratic elections. Law reflects the whim of the powerful; not following written precepts.***
Several cities are just like Third World countries. San Francisco, Oakland, and NYC come to mind.
Denial is the fist stage of grief. We ask these questions after it’s already happened. We’re following the arc of places like South Africa. Things are manageable now but the societal and institutional safeguards that saw us through really tough times are eroded or gone. Guard yourselves and the ones you love.
We can get out if it, but that requires pulling together and we as a nation are not doing that. There are factions at work encouraging We the People to pull apart.
IMHO
become? to quote a wise man...”whachotalkinboutwillis?” we are there and it ain’t green acres.
As for the characteristics of third world, I have worked in a lot of those places and the US fits the mold more and more every day. The scene is more wide spread and deeper all the time. Consider, something like 138 out of 620 hotels in NY are now converted to house illegals. That is pretty third world but also upscale third world and paid for by deficit spending.
Yeah, the US is shifting to third world and I doubt it can be stopped. The balance has tipped.
Just look at any urban area in a city with a population of over say, 250,000.
we already have.
Good article explaining the reason the USA is heading in that direction.
BUMP
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