Will the United States Become a Third World Nation?

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...

11. Lack of Medical Care
12. Superstition over Knowledge and Ethics
13. Ignoring of Founding Documents
14. Banning of Religious Faith
15. Emotion Instead of Reason
16. Lack of Potable Water
17. Lack of Waste Water Treatment
18. Failure to Manage Natural Resources
19. Military spending out of control.
20. National Debt exceeds ability to repay.
21. More people on Government checks than private industry.
22. Borders no longer exist.
23. Elected officials favor foreigners.
24. Stupidity and Popularity matter more than accomplishments.
25. Primal savagery and anger are rewarded.

I’d love to see reasons why we are NOT a turd-world country.

American cities have been in relative decline for many decades. Chicago’s population peaked in 1950. A surge in black migrants increased the crime rate, driving white residents out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Chicago
Census Pop. Note %±
1840 4,470 —
1850 29,963 570.3%
1860 112,172 274.4%
1870 298,977 166.5%
1880 503,185 68.3%
1890 1,099,850 118.6%
1900 1,698,575 54.4%
1910 2,185,283 28.7%
1920 2,701,705 23.6%
1930 3,376,438 25.0%
1940 3,396,808 0.6%
1950 3,620,962 6.6%
1960 3,550,404 −1.9%
1970 3,366,957 −5.2%
1980 3,005,072 −10.7%
1990 2,783,911 −7.4%
2000 2,896,016 4.0%
2010 2,695,598 −6.9%
2020 2,746,388 1.9%

In most countries, including European ones, law enforcement is run by by the national government. National leaders are usually political lifers, live in these cities, and set criminal justice policies to ensure their own personal safety.

That’s not true of American cities, where judges, prosecutors, mayors and police chiefs are often locally elected. When white voters flee creeping increases in the black population of a given city, they are fleeing crime, not a change in pigmentation. They are running towards jurisdictions like Will County, next to Cook (which Chicago is a part of), where they can elect prosecutors and judges who will put carjackers in prison for decades, as opposed to Chicago’s revolving door justice.

https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/cook-county-man-said-hed-be-out-by-sunday-after-armed-carjacking-will-now-serve-22-years-in-will-county

But because of home/local rule rather than national governance, American cities aren’t fossilized the way cities in most countries tend to be. As Detroit stagnated, Dearborn grew on its outskirts. As Chicago’s population peaked, then fell by 1/4, neighboring Will County saw its resident count skyrocket.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_County,_Illinois#Demographics
Historical population
Census Pop. Note %±
1840 10,167 —
1850 16,703 64.3%
1860 29,321 75.5%
1870 43,013 46.7%
1880 53,422 24.2%
1890 62,007 16.1%
1900 74,764 20.6%
1910 84,371 12.8%
1920 92,911 10.1%
1930 110,732 19.2%
1940 114,210 3.1%
1950 134,336 17.6%
1960 191,617 42.6%
1970 249,498 30.2%
1980 324,460 30.0%
1990 357,313 10.1%
2000 502,266 40.6%
2010 677,560 34.9%
2020 696,355 2.8%

Just how crime-prone are blacks? As much as over 10x more criminal than whites. This White House polemic is illustrative, and not necessarily in the way Democrats intend:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2022/05/09/expanding-economic-opportunity-for-formerly-incarcerated-persons/#:~:text=All%20told%2C%20as%20of%202010,rate%20from%201970%20to%202007.
[All told, as of 2010, nearly 1 in 3 Black men have felony convictions. These astronomical figures are largely due to the nearly four-fold increase in the incarceration rate from 1970 to 2007.]

And these are merely the ones with felony convictions. What about the felons who pled down to misdemeanors? What about the felons who got off on technicalities? And the ones who were never caught or charged for lack of evidence?

If Russia is a gas station with nukes....

We are a Marxist hell hole collasping from racism, but we have nukes. We are no longer a Christian nation. We are no longer a Nation where everyone is equal. Christians, whites, hetrosexuals are second/third class citizens. Meanwhile the black community, homosexuals and now Hamas have taken over our colleges and institutions.

The only thing that can save America is fundamental change. We need to do two things immediately - shut down the college Marxist propoganda machine, and nuke our own cities.

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