Das amerikanische Imperium ist in seinen letzten Akt getreten
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5668693-america-decline-trump-exposed/
Das amerikanische Imperium ist in seinen letzten Akt getreten
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5668693-america-decline-trump-exposed/
39 Kommentare
The rich are stealing everything. Gutting the corpse they created.
Any Trump voter will tell you, it’s all good as long as Trump comes out ahead.
A lot of this article is just Trump apologist nonsense
>What MAGA voters received instead wasn’t renewal, but a grim revelation. The failure was never just Trump. He was the messenger. The problem is that America no longer has the political, economic or cultural capacity to deliver restoration at all.
>Trump didn’t save America. He didn’t destroy it either. He revealed it. And what he revealed is a nation exhausted, indebted, aging, and divided — still powerful, still wealthy, but no longer confident in its future.
This nation has survived a civil war, two world wars, a massive depression, desegregation and many other challenges that would’ve sunk other nations.
We’ll survive Trump as well.
Edit: Yes, I understand we have systemic problems that extend beyond Trump. He is a symptom, not the cause. My point is I choose to be hopeful rather than pessimistic. After 250 years and all the trials we’ve faced as a nation we presevered. The U.S. has never been perfect, never will be, but if I’m making a bet on our future success I’m going to look at the last 250 years as an indicator to bet on the U.S. rather than against it.
Thanks to Media outlets like the hill and FoxNews
To quote someone responding to a similarly fatalistic article, “I didn’t hear no bell.”
This was fucking hilarious. “I mean if TRUMP can’t fix everything, the only logical conclusion is that it’s all doomed!” What if we tried, I don’t know, someone who wasn’t a corrupt ass-clown who no longer remembers which foreign government has the fucking Epstein negatives?
I don’t think so in a way Trump did America a favor it pointed out our weakness and were we must make changes for the future security of the democracy
This guy also writes for NYPost and whatever “the American Conservative” is.
New law. Once an American business leader has achieved 1 billion, any further gains go right into the treasury. Musk and Zuck and Gates and Bezos make 19th century tycoons like Rockefeller look like paupers. Money is the root of evil
Garbage doomer article. I chose strength and hope for America’s future.
Fixed the headline:
American Boomers have entered their final act
This is fact. America has been going down hill for years but Trump is accelerating the downfall.
It’s a shame. As a kid growing up I could never imagine this. I also see the propaganda I was fed in the 80s and 90s, while our country was destroyed by wealthy interests. We are in the fall of Rome phase, I’m glad I won’t live long enough to see it collapse entirely
At this point now that it’s clear people like Republicans can do all of this insanity without any real fight from people who voted against them, part of me almost welcomes a complete collapse. Maybe something decent can be built from the ashes.
It isn’t failing or falling but being torn down by the wealthy class to make sure they get theirs now.
As long as Citizens United stands you will have politicians that represent large corporate interests first.
Campaigning in the United States is beyond expensive. The easiest way to get financing is to sell your soul to large corporations.
That’s a good thing. Countries should not be empires. American imperialism has only worsened the condition for all Americans.
And it is the unlucky, average child who is born into who will suffer most.
the author is mighty easy on trump here.
It doesn’t surprise me that an institutional Reagan Republican fails to recognize that correctives are possible.
Raise taxes on billionaires.
Reinstitute the wealth tax.
Re-ban stock buy backs.
Eliminate the income cap on Social Security and Medicare payroll contributions.
Institute universal healthcare, which will save money.
Institute universal childcare to make it easier for families to maintain dual incomes and to boost future economic growth from a better educated workforce.
Cap the percentage of university payroll that can be spent on non-instructional activities (sports, admin, Club Ed facilities).
Audit all private contracts and begin a process of reabsorbing public functions that can be performed better by public servants.
Attack monopolies, including banning PE firms from owning more than a small percentage of any given industry. No more market rollups or institutional chokepoints that allow PE investors to siphon wealth from people who actually work and create.
Basically, undo Reaganomics. We’ve run that experiment for 45 years. It is an obvious colossal failure.
We are part of a global financial ecosystem.
America isn’t going to be the only casualty.
The smart economists (probably now silenced) of Russia, China and other enemies wanted to help severely weaken America by pushing Trump-they didn’t want to destroy it. They are probably getting a little uncomfortable thinking about the eventual prospects.
This country is begging for a New New Deal. A true progressive populist that with large Congressional majorities will take a wrecking ball to the modern day Robber Barons who are exploiting the labor of the masses for their tax breaks, private rockets, and super yachts.
The first person to articulate that vision and welcome the hatred of the powerful will win.
Bernie Sanders was close, he just came a tad early, and while he can convey that message it will take someone with Obama’s or Mamdani’s (ineligible to be President) penchant for oratory to move masses.
The parasite has killed the host.
I wonder where the billionaires will relocate to?
I don’t always read the articles – often come more for the comments/commentary.
But actually read this article and it is just trash. Trump apologist trash.
“He didn’t create this Mrs but hasn’t made it better.. His mistake was to govern within the broken and failing system he inherited.”
Seriously, what the fuck is this journalist smoking? Remind me not to trust the Hill again…
That was bleak.
We’re going from “leader of the free world” to “chimp with nukes”
Nobody alive remembers the civil war. If we came back from that we can exist forever.
The American Era of global politics lasted from 1945 – 2025.
We’re never going to recover what we lost under Trump in a single year. Our formerly closest allies no long trust us. „The West“ as a concept no longer exists; killed by a bunch of white racists who prattle on about Western values without having any.
This article is bollocks. America is in structural decline – sure. But the notion that this macro-trend is somehow bigger than good governance or Trump’s best efforts is just apologist bullshit. He’s a wrecking ball for all that made America great. The GOP builds nothing – just destroys. Destroys Congress, destroys legal precedent, destroys democracy, destroys citizenship, destroys science, destroys free speech, destroys legal due process. With a different party in power everything is improvable.
This headline brought to you from the year 2017.
Late stage capitalism at its finest.
LOL. Trump apologist masquerading as genuine critique. He identifies tons of problems Trump contributed and then STILL says “it wasn’t Trump” these opinion writers should genuinely be ashamed at the low quality bs they put out.
The article goes a bit too easy on Trump.
“Trump didn’t save America. He didn’t destroy it either. He revealed it. And what he revealed is a nation exhausted, indebted, aging, and divided — still powerful, still wealthy, but no longer confident in its future.”
Maybe giving billionaires and centimillionaires huge tax cuts they don’t need while cutting services, benefits, and aid to struggling working people wasn’t a great idea.
The corruption is endless with the right, they let so much bullshit happen and the entire country is going to go down because of their incompetence.
the writer is right, but still an idiot. sounds like he supported every single failure that led us to this decline and now throws his hands up oblivious to how badly the conservatives fucked this nation, it’s institutions, it’s capacity to pass legislation, it’s soft power, everything.
I keep reflecting on the same thing.
What does it say about the state of our country that there generally isn’t a lot of enthusiasm to celebrate the 250th anniversary?
I’ve seen more enthusiasm for Disney worlds “45th” anniversary than our countries major milestone.
We don’t want to celebrate what we are. We lack pride because we should, our country in present state is an embarrassment of what we proclaimed to be. We are divided, crass, authoritarian loud mouths that are saber rattling when we could have been a well intended and respectable representation of the collective will of the people.
The debt, the unwillingness to highly index towards free and abundant energy sources like wind, solar and thermal, the social divisiveness. Those are the blockers for us to even start forward progress again.
We need socialism. Boomers and gen xers enjoyed and benefited from an America that had major socialist characteristics so when they think back on those days they mistakenly think it was capitalism that made it great. America was most successful when it had socialist characteristics and everyone began to suffer once it created the monster it is today.
Not if we don’t want it to. The empire bit can crumble, but the core principle’s can actually be put into practice.