Of course it is collapsing. The thing that puzzles a lot of analysts is how they’ve been able to kick the can down the road so much farther than many thought possible.
FWIW, I believe either trump will be the last president of the US or it will utterly collapse under the one that follows him.
I don’t know what would happen if, after four (or eight) years of trump we would every allow it to go back to the deep state without a total hot revolution. I’m just not seeing it.
When a society become confused about basic reality such as the binary nature of sex, it is a sign of serious decay.
Makes AOC’s 12 year plan look like a positive alternative. Let’s get it over with
They are running out of other peoples money.
I’m 74. I’ve been seeing similar “studies” since I was 21...someone is always chasing that angle...a “gloom & doomer” (democrat).
BS; we just need a bigger glass, and more wine.
Yes.
We do not have the will to enforce immigration laws.
We do not have the will to resist Islam.
Once they put “Forever” on the postage stamps, I knew we were doomed.
Most organizations that legitimately get off the ground suffer from an arc, by providing a product or service to market that competitively satisfies a demand, and after a time of success and bloat, seek to maximize profits against newer competitors by lowering costs, and eventually fail to advance, adapt, and innovate to their own decline. That is because as they grow, the sum totality of any organizations purpose is for each individual to justify their own purposes and not necessarily those of the organization, although you would they they are mutual.
Developed civilizations usually suffer from those in charge and those in the ever increasing bureaucracy justifying their own existences much more than focusing on the success (and even survival) of their society.
Honestly, The Roman Empire replaced their labor and their military with foreigners. Nowadays it could happen way faster with all the faster and comparatively less expensive travel in today’s world.
The late Dr. Francis Schaeffer’s “How Should We Then Live?” clearly chronicled our demise. And that book was published in 1976.
Yeah and Rome had a much longer run. So did England!
Yep - but only because God has decreed it will degenerate until Jesus returns to set things right...Good will be down for the 10 count and Jesus will stop that count before Evil is declared the winner....it will get that close.
Ever wonder why the Bible never mentioned the United States in scripture? But china, Russia, middle eastern country etc, are, except the USA? We were meant only to rule as a superpower to help Israel for 242 years. In my opinion God is finished with us!! There is so much chaos around the world that it is prime for the antichrist to come and take his place as the Bible mentions! I believe we are in the latter days...don’t know if there will be a per-rapture or post-rapture... if we stay as here on this earth during the tribulation hold onto your bootstraps because we haven’t seen nothing yet ! The wrath of God will be horrific and terrible!! Come quickly Lord Jesus!!
I’m eighty and my parents and grandparents heard the droning of the end of America up to WWII and afterwards.
Then, it started again in the mid to late 50’s.
Go back to a lot of the early posts on FR, and the end was there then and now.
The challenges have been there before we became a country and after we became a country.
All civilizations begin their fall when they decide there is no morality higher than man’s ambitions.
Normalcy Bias is high among people of a certain age. All is well!
The values inherited from Christianity and Judaism no longer have any influence on what happens in “Western Civilization.” Agnostic materialism has replaced those values.
The USA will not collapse any time in the foreseeable future. Most of Europe is in full collapse mode, as national boundaries are erased, all vestiges of Christianity/Judaism are suppressed, and the way is paved for *slam to become the dominant world view.
France, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Greece, the UK are on the brink of disaster, and they don’t know it.
The values inherited from Christianity and Judaism no longer have any influence on what happens in “Western Civilization.” Agnostic materialism has replaced those values.
The USA will not collapse any time in the foreseeable future. Most of Europe is in full collapse mode, as national boundaries are erased, all vestiges of Christianity/Judaism are suppressed, and the way is paved for *slam to become the dominant world view.
France, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Greece, the UK are on the brink of disaster, and they don’t know it.
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
-Ariel Durant