Comment by netbioserror
7 days ago
The entirety of this scheme, in its soft and hard power forms, was financed by the parasitic impoverishment of the US populace. Everything the commenters on this site complain about: Runaway inflation, unaffordable housing, extreme financialization, excessive military budget, enrichment of the top, unaffordable healthcare, unjustifiable wars, all of it has partial or total roots in the money printing, artificially low interest rates, colossal trade deficits, and military adventurism that underpin the global US dollar reserve scheme.
I think it apt to boil it down to a binary choice: Either we give up our global empire and allow the multipolar paradigm to emerge for the chance at domestic prosperity, or we grip the iron to the bitter end and force the entire country to become the dystopic open-air homeless cities of the west coast.
Why is it a binary choice? This is just reductive. The idea that we couldn't maintain American hegemony and return more of the benefits of it to the middle/lower classes seems silly.
This is about tearing down a system / world order that a lot of people are angry about, with little thought to how to replace it and make it work for the citizens. The global economy has changed, manufacturing capabilities in the west will never be competitive again for a wide variety of products, and those jobs are not ones that regular Americans want anyway. Just like they don't want the farming jobs that illegal immigrants are doing.
This vision to essentially return America to a idealized view of 1900 is in for a rude awakening.
A wild claim, and then zero explanation as to how it would work, plus the same old tired talking points. If you're trying to convince the populace NOT to democratically give up the global empire, this is a poor attempt.
"The dystopic open-air homeless cities of the west coast"? Hyperbolic much?
My on-the-ground experience visiting Portland, Seattle, and LA in just the last few years showed me all I needed to know. I'm not being hyperbolic. Compared to the rest of the country, it's not even a contest.