Sind die USA auf dem Weg, ein gescheiterter Zustand zu werden?

Children die of asthma and starvation and routinely get killed in school in a country with 11 aircraft carriers worth about 10 billion dollars apiece. 

Depends on what happens during the midterm election….

The minute Trump took office — maybe even before.

Can I say Fascism yet? Deploying National Guard to deal with protests seems like Fascism to me.

On the path? The path has been paved and the speed limit removed.

Yes — it’s not just about Trump or the GOP. They’re catalysts, not the root cause. What we’re seeing is a population that largely voted based on a single issue: their bank accounts. And in doing so, handed over a full mandate with no real checks and balances.

This is the moment when democracy begins to unravel — not with a dramatic collapse, but with a quiet shift driven by short-term self-interest and a disregard for broader consequences. A vote may seem like a small act, but it’s deeply consequential. It should be thoughtful, informed, and deliberate.

Now it’s too late to change what’s already been set in motion. Everything’s up in the air. All we can do is wait and see how the next four years unfold — and hope the midterms offer a course correction.

If you’re serious about changing things, don’t just focus on the presidential level. Real, lasting impact often starts locally. Get involved. Organize. Pay attention to your state and local politics — because that’s where momentum builds, and where democracy can still be defended.

This all came to me as I walked through the quiet, charming streets of Springfield, Illinois — right in front of the home where Abraham Lincoln began his political career. A reminder that even in uncertain times, leadership and civic responsibility begin with ordinary people, in ordinary places.

The official White House term, for public media purposes, is „shithole country.“

Oh, we’re a failed state right now. I sincerely hope we’ll let the red states secede. Then we can treat with them under international law and force them to give concessions, such as conforming to democratic norms, protecting civil rights, putting up their own troops to do their part in border security, etc.

At the same time we (blue states– I’m in a red state which I wish would defect) could create a brain drain and incentivize people to move to the blue states: relax immigration rules and give amnesty, provide a path to citizenship, offer education and try to attract the intellectual elites, such as students and faculty at Auburn, student loan forgiveness, etc.

This country is irretrievably divided. We need to start over. The blue states would control commerce and the military. A new blue country would be the North American hegemon and be able to control the pace of events.

This is a powerful, sobering piece—and it’s absolutely right about the trajectory we’re on. But we can’t just pin this collapse on the extremists who openly dismantle institutions while waving flags and slogans. We also need to reckon with the centrists—the so-called pragmatists in the Democratic Party—who enabled this descent by prioritizing „normalcy“ and institutional decorum over moral clarity and structural reform.

While Trump and his movement lit the match, centrist Democrats spent years refusing to even acknowledge there was a fire. Faced with escalating authoritarian rhetoric, violent white nationalism, and blatant attacks on democracy, they offered milquetoast appeals to bipartisanship. When bold action was needed to shore up democratic norms—expanding the courts, ending the filibuster, passing voting rights protections—they chose not to “rock the boat.” They clung to outdated ideals of compromise with a party that had already abandoned democracy.

They told us the system would self-correct. That norms would hold. That things would go back to the way they were. But the reality is: institutions don’t save themselves. They must be defended—and when necessary, reimagined. Instead, centrist leadership often served as a brake on meaningful change, more concerned with appeasing donors, preserving elite consensus, and maintaining market confidence than defending the people most vulnerable to authoritarian rule.

They failed to hold the GOP accountable after the insurrection. They rejected court reform and structural democracy protections. They scolded protest movements for being “divisive.” And they kept insisting on civility in the face of rising fascism—as though moderation were a shield against collapse.

This isn’t just about Trump or his enablers. It’s also about those who, through timidity and self-preservation, refused to confront the threat until it was too late. The centrists helped normalize the abnormal and legitimize the illegitimate. Their failure to act decisively when it still mattered is part of why we are where we are.

History won’t just judge those who grabbed the torch—it will also judge those who politely stood by and watched it burn.

EDIT: I should add that we also can’t ignore the role of the mainstream press in this collapse either. For years, major news outlets normalized Trump and the far right in the name of “balance,” treating existential threats to democracy as just another angle in the partisan horse race. They platformed lies, framed fascism as populism, and obsessed over tone while ignoring substance. Even now, with institutions under siege, they cling to both-sidesism and false equivalency—afraid to call authoritarianism by its name until it’s too late. Journalism is supposed to speak truth to power, not launder it for ratings. In this failure, they were not neutral observers. They were active participants.

I think it’s more of a pre-war world I state currently with the corruption, political environment, quacks, scams, industrialists, monopoly/oligarchies, lack of rule of law, etc. It does not have to stay this way but will take work but I will say the majority of people don’t want this. Trump won one of the smallest victories ever. His opponents are larger but somewhat divided and he controls the government and enforcement levers currently.

It is a failed state. It’s not becoming. It’s there. Massive skyrocketing debt, authoritarian leader, military police and secret police, corruption running rampant, oligarchs in control of media and government services. If that was any country is Asia or Africa we’d be calling it a failed state and America would be invading them for their oil.

Guy who has spent the last 20 years every day waking up, drinking until he passes out, later waking up and drinking until he passes out again might be on the path to becoming an alcoholic.

It was failed the moment W. Bush was allowed to steal the election.

Obama was an opportunity to reverse course but he doubled down on some of the worst aspects of Bush and didn’t jail the bankers.

You can thank Obama for Trump being able to grab people off the streets and send them to El Salvador without a trial

Canada’s news magazine noticed in 2010. Here’s the [article](https://macleans.ca/news/world/third-world-america/).

It’s *failing.* It hasn’t *failed.* This administration is moving at breakneck speed. Everything is half-assed. They are not charismatic enough to pull off what they envision.

If they were, they wouldn’t have needed Donald Trump to begin with. Think about all of the things he’s failed at, even with being a nepo baby.

We can still rein it in.