The US is obviously on the decline and in some ways it has already collapsed, but I'm talking about the timeline for the end of the collapse, not the beginning. It's tempting to believe itll happen in my lifetime, but i fear that might just be cope on my part. I hope I'll be alive to witness the death of the thing I hate most in the world, but it feels a bit like millenarianism to confidently state "hell yeah, the final collapse is gonna happen during my lifetime," so I'm hesitant to hold out hope for it. Every time I've hoped for anything, it hasn't happened.
Do you think the US can resist balkanization and/or another form of the collapse of state power for 20 more years? 50? 100? What do you think will be the straw that breaks the camel's back, and why? How do you think power will reorganize in the aftermath? Sound off in the comments below, and don't forget to like and subscribe.
What specific features of the US need to stop being true for it to qualify as a collapse? If you're looking for a sudden shift in towards local governments having more power than the federal one, that already happened and is happening. Withdrawal from international warfare is already happening. We already had a month of natural disasters with no significant federal response.
If you're just waiting for the name to change, I don't think that will ever happen. We'll keep voting for a new president every four years long after the president has lost all practical political power. And whenever some movement has the power to act on a national level again, they'll get their leader or a patsy elected as president.