Interesting. I wrote this a couple years ago on a different forum:
"Post American Era
« on: May 08, 2023, 08:57:09 pm »
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Decline of the American Empire
Quite obviously the global community has entered post-American Era.
With the fall of the Soviet Empire beginning with the Solidarity movement in Gdansk in 1980, the dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and culminating with the dissolution of the Soviet Union itself in 1992, the fundamental utility of America as a bloc ended as well. But as is our nature, Americans have chosen to remain cloistered in our American-centric bubble as if we are the only nation and people that matter and everyone else's value is based on their relative position in our universe.
Once regarded as the guardians of the free world, now we have become a bloated, dumbed-down caricature of our former selves. Americans are portrayed globally largely by the cartoon like ignorance of the always-angry Guns & God crowd, waving their flags, thanking 'the troops' and always harping about a Constitution they never read and would not understand. They see any challenge to their clown-like sense of entitlement as an infringement on their "rights" - which they view as having been bestowed upon them by God via the sacred founders of America - and as it has been told to them by their equally as ignorant and intoxicated forbearers.
America has devolved into a nation that wages war simply for the sake of doing so and is mired in delusional nationalism and faux-'patriotism'. We view the world as an 'us or them' arrangement where we must dominate rather than cooperate or coexist. Like it or not, we are the most widely despised nation on Earth. Even our allies have become weary of our self centeredness.
So here we are. Every urban center across the nation has become a free-fire zone. But rather than address the real problem, we vilify the out-gunned law enforcement personnel in the manner that a dying patient would blame a doctor for causing the chronic illness that bedevils them. If anyone is bold enough to point out the real cause of the deep societal maladies with which we are afflicted, they are 'cancelled' because truth does not jibe with the prevailing narrative. The First Amendment, enshrining the most sacred virtues upon which our republic was founded, has been discarded utterly.
We are on the cusp of a great humbling. And although it will be a humiliating experience for many and even a life-wrecking experience for some, it will be what is ultimately best for the world."
I wrote that during the depths of the Biden depravity.