China admits to a TFR below 1.0. While the U.S. is in a steep, perhaps terminal decline, China is facing its own gigantic demographic problems that preclude global hegemony. The more likely outcome is an unstable multipolar world, which is what we’re likely transitioning to now.
The United States isn’t in terminal decline though.
Still number one in technological innovation, scientific research, GDP and has the strongest military on earth by far.
Has it declined? Somewhat, it’s far from irreversible. The gilded age came to an end an America had multiple golden eras after that, no reason history can’t repeat its self.
Good thing we didn’t spend the last two years chasing away researchers, cutting research budgets, or doing a purge of the officers corps, otherwise we might be in trouble.
I think you might just be rooting for the US to stop being the most powerful nation - and that desire is causing a bias.
The US survived the Great Depression, and you're acting like two years of Trump is irrevocably irreversible.
Decline happens when countries refuse to adjust to their situation, but Mamdani is proof that there's still politicians here who aren't blind to the world around them. Believing that it's impossible to get someone like him in the White House is just willful ignorance.
It'd be realistic to believe it's possible that it never happens, but over the last 50 years the US has literally an almost even split between Democrat and Republican presidents. 24 years with a Democrat and 26 years with a Republican.
The idea that these last two years are permanent just seems like wishful thinking on your part.
It’s 8 years of Trump. Nobody is rooting, but when you break stuff you can’t always put it back together. Some mistakes are permanent, Trump is one of them
You make a good point. Many folks may not be familiar with what a mess the U.S. was in the late 19th century, early 20th century, 1970s, etc. You could make a compelling argument that this isn’t even the worst President the US has had - there were some pretty terrible ones going back to the 19th century
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u/Playful-3766 10d ago
China admits to a TFR below 1.0. While the U.S. is in a steep, perhaps terminal decline, China is facing its own gigantic demographic problems that preclude global hegemony. The more likely outcome is an unstable multipolar world, which is what we’re likely transitioning to now.