Direction of the USA

The USA is different and I would say overall not as great as I hoped. I feel the same about Europe as well, I have spent a lot of time in Europe and it is not great.

The level of corruption and incompetence in our government is alarming to me. The country is not united at all. While the standard of living is still quite high- it has come at great cost. Both parents work, there is little time for recreation and “family” has changed.

I don’t believe that society has fully adapted to both parents working and social media. I am getting older - but I am well aware that there were were plenty of problems 25 years ago as well.

 

I could not be happier with the direction of the country.

Investing in AMERICAN manufacturing.

Prioritizing the AMERICAN worker

Prioritizing the AMERICAN citizen

Prioritizing the AMERICAN economy

Prioritizing AMERICAN needs and not the needs of war-torn foreign countries.

Lifting up the AMERICAN economy to never before seen heights

Restoring power to the AMERICAN voter, and not unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats in DC

AMERICA FIRST

 

The internet has ruined everything.

 

There has never been a better time to be alive. The opportunities are endless.

we just came off a 4 year experiment proving our country can run 4 years without a president.

we also discovered the sheer power of the American economy rules the world, not these clowns we call politicians.

 

We are moving towards facism, but it can be stopped, we have to all come together or the USA that we all grew up with and love will dissappear like every other empire before has.

DD

 

Outside of a politically stable and ethical system, which I believe is foundational, there are many issues we aren’t dealing with well. In some cases, we are even self-sabotaging in ways that will hurt us.

Pushing talent away instead of attracting the best.

Increasing spending on the military instead of reducing it.

Slowing down investment in renewable energy, which is critical infrastructure for technological advancements (AI and beyond) and for maintaining a high standard of living.

Destroying the best public health and resarch institution in the world, the CDC/NIH/etcs , along with our public/private infrastructure that produced world-leading health science and its application. Cutting funds for cancer research, a problem that will affect all of us, is especially harmful to advacing our health care. Reform, not destroy.

Allowing the cost of living to spiral- health care, college, housing, insurance, and child care costs are growing much faster than income, with no solutions. Massive across-the-board tariffs now risk increasing costs on everything.

Spending far too much to round up nonviolent immigrants instead of laser-focusing on violent criminals. That money could be redirected to address the problems above or pay down the debt.

Removing information, hiding data, and striking out anything related to climate change, ensuring a failure to plan for and adapt to what is likely the number one cost driver in the coming years, is shooting ourselves in the foot.

All of these issues are happening while the national debt continues to rise, driven yet again by recent tax relief that mainly benefits top earners and increased spending policies projected to add another $3.4 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years.

 

Great questions. I think it's key to remember that post WWII Bretton woods was maybe the single longest period of large-power peace and prosperity the free world has ever seen. We are really just coming back to historical norms. Just like boom-bust cycles in emerging markets like Argentina, there are such supercycles even for superpowers. And that's not to say US inveitably must dissolve or become Nazi Germany, but the idea we will easily revert back to that peace and propserity overall is a real historical outlier and should not be the base case

 

We have a President that is constantly trying to divide the people of this country. I’ve never seen that before. Hopefully, the good people of this country will send a message that is loud and clear that this is not acceptable.

 

Look at the MAGA infested crowd at the ryders cup embarrassing the country by screaming cuss words and throwing beers at players.

This is what Trump has enabled in America. Low iq individuals

 

Born in 1960.

I grew up with the Vietnam War, political assassinations (JFK, RFK, MLK), Watergate, Nixon resigning, Hippies, Beatles, Civil Rights marches, etc.

The decade before me in the 1950s had the Joseph McCarthy hearings, the Red Scare, segregation, adding “under God” into the US Pledge of Allegiance, adding "in God we trust" to the US money, backyard failout shelters, Reagan's "Morning in America", etc.

Today feels more like the 1950s than the 1960s.

 

The direction is down

 

if anything the internet is what has been ruined by algorithms, enshittification, corporate greed

You cant name a platform thats better than what it once was

 

I had the meta quest vr and I was in those social chat rooms, there was no fighting just agreeing. They all agree they've never seen corruption like this.

 

This sadly extends across most the globe. Europe is having a really hard time as well. The areas I have recently been that haven’t been as impacted border countries that have been. Even the UK is drifting towards most extreme politics.

 

I think the cold war was still ongoing, violent crime was still increasing and gang violence was penetrating out of alpha city centers to flyovers and the suburbs. economic growth, technology and telecommunications were rapidly expanding. making more opportunities for larger groups. the latter has reached its upper limit, but there's always some kind of positive self-correction after jobs and capital are freed up from old oeople, and recessions allow for cheaper opportunities or economic efficiency. white America seems hellbent on undoing the New Deal and consciously preempting positive outcomes for or integration with blacks and migrant hispanics, so that's gonna suck.

 

I still think it's the late roaring 1920s , before a total meltdown

 

Globally there seems to be roughly 3 reoccurring problems I see (in highly develop nations, at least).

1. Globalized capitalism is becoming pretty stream lined and efficient, money is being extracted from the many to the few with less and less room for the normal person to survive as every day passes.

2. Birthrates and native populations are aging out and declining, our economies are built around growth. This makes mass immigration necessary to deal with the doomsday inverse population tree's. Which then leads to social/cultural/economic turmoil.

3. The internet/social media/technology is disrupting cultural (and flat out human) norms to an extreme degree creating a vast array of societal issues.


All 3 of those are pretty connected as well. It's quite a pickle.


That being said, the US is still a pretty odd cookie that has pretty damn upsetting problems and trends that most other developed nations haven't plunged into so deeply... yet

The obesity, the violence, the addiction, the extreme wacko individualism that turns its back on family, community and country is especially if not uniquely f*cked here. If the western world were a country and the US a city within it, this would be Vegas... or Sodom.

All our family is here, it's all we've ever known, economically it's easily by far the best option for us, I know uprooting our life here would be extremely hard and would set back my family significantly from an economic and materialistic standpoint, but I can't shake the feeling that staying here is dooming many future generations to avoidable misery and hardship... I don't think I can accept that.

 

Hopefully not toward Demotrash