I mean, the rate at which people are dying and becoming disabled due to covid can't be sustainable, can it? This country was running on fumes to begin with. Surely a country with an infamously terrible healthcare system, an economy that runs everything with as little margin for error as possible, and a government that has lost its ability to respond to any major disaster that can't be shot at cannot withstand this kind of catastrophe? What do you think things are going to look like five years from now?

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I think the country is going to shamble along as a zombie for maybe a couple more decades, again, maybe. I think we'll see a lot of boaters become proletariat and it'll make them snap leading to upticks in right-wing violence. Will we ever go full blown civil war? Nah, americans are too soft to fight here at home, all we know how to do is pick on the global south and we still get our asses kicked.

    • learn3code [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      This, the country can probably hobble along for a surprisingly long time. Culturally I think the US is going to ossify, and politicians and media personalities will put a disproportionate amount of effort into worshiping manufactured "American Traditions" in a futile attempt to maintain appearances. Lol I guess I'm just describing fascism...

        • toxnoxroxbox [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I don't think there's a useful distinction. Capitalism always has been just as brutal as whatever we are calling fascism these days. If you know history, the word capitalism evokes the same reaction as the word fascism.

      • JosipBRUHTito [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Culturally I think the US is going to ossify

        We're already just remaking every movie from the 90s and 80s, back when we were winning

        • Sushi_Desires
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          3 years ago

          Big Bird was cancelled for being communist too

        • learn3code [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Unironically I think I lifted it from a post-apocalyptic show (The 100?). There was a mountain bunker faction that abided by all these Americana trappings for no real reason except for normalcy. Like there was some special worn out suit w/ lapel pin that the "president" wore in the bunker equivalent of the oval office.

    • northshores1620 [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      I disagree with this from an economic standpoint- at a certain level of abuse, economic riots will begin. No people are too soft for those when the abuse is to the required level.