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Some of y’all think that the US will easily dominate the next century. Don’t be so sure. China bares little resemblance to it’s Communist name. It is much more like a dictatorship with a market economy. China has 1.4 billion people, many whom are blossiming enterpeneurs and many whom are extremely hard working.

Contrast that to the ever ratching effect of cultural Marxism in the US. The benefits of hard work and enterprise are stymied by Marxists who classify them as greedy. Instead of holding standards at schools, they have been lowering standards. Kids who aren’t allowed to fail are being setup for huge failures in a global economy.

Some of y’all think that the US will easily dominate the next century.

Not easily, and perhaps not at all. But I think the prospect of US military, economic, and cultural dominance in the 21st century is far more likely than that of China's.

Don’t be so sure. China bares little resemblance to it’s Communist name. It is much more like a dictatorship with a market economy.

And there's a basic problem with that setup. All governments act at times in ways that harm the economy - dictatorships have more reasons to do this, because maintaining power must take priority over economic growth, and dictatorships can't be stopped from doing it by an angry electorate.

China has 1.4 billion people, many whom are blossiming enterpeneurs and many whom are extremely hard working.

The same could be said (with a slightly reduced population, a legal system based on British common law, and a functioning democracy) of India. My money is still on the US.

Easily? Maybe not. There will be ups and downs but the American ideal is very potent.

Americans produce Americans with a flexibility of thought that continues to produce novelty not produced even in other supposidly free countries.

In it’s darkest hours the United States has always come forth with the greatest innovations in spite of the pessimists at home and in spite of her enemies in the world.