The lockstep calls for a fucking war with Russia across the political spectrum, including by probably 99% of the US left, has convinced me that change for the better is impossible in this country and will be for the forseeable future. People still got World Cop mindset and refuse to let it go. Memories like fucking goldfish, like the last 70 years of US interventionism just don't count or some shit. This country needs to be humbled.
Made a whole damn account just to vent because it seems like this is the only place to do it without people saying you lick Putin's boots.
I want to counter this. America has already begun to collapse, and has been for decades. There are wide swaths of the country where the government is essentially non-existent outside of road maintenance, and even that is falling by the wayside. The postal system takes days to do what it used to take hours to deliver. The hospitals are falling apart. The US's ability to project power globally is in free fall, and this is why Russia chose now to strike against Ukraine. This is why the mercenary attempt in Venezuela failed, this is why the coup attempt in Bolivia failed. Once you stop waiting for "the collapse" and realize it's already an ongoing process a lot of things become clearer. There is already an increased in SA Fascist Nationalism in the Anglosphere, and has been for a long while.
I agree with this, but I am hedging to see what actually occurs during the next major financial crisis, which is likely due either this year or next year. I mean, 'the collapse' is happening, but there are still levers the U.S. can pull if they were not ideologically inclined against it. What is intriguing is the use of MMT by the Biden admin, but it is once again not being used to retrain and invest in the labor capital required to sustainablly run the interior of the country. If something actually changes there, 'the collapse' might turn into stabilization, which again changes the dynamic with SA.
I think the time for MMT is rapidly passing by anyway, as the world experiences dedollarization and the collapse of the petrodollar doing MMT becomes substantially more difficult when the USD is not the reserve currency. We certainly live in interesting times.
Yeah, agreed, the right time to do things was a decade ago, but like with the U.S.'s tariffs on China they are consistently a day late and a dollar short with their plans and solutions. History is always moving, but I think the failure of America to contain COVID provided a test case for countries looking to test the limits of the chain. After all, if what the 'experts' said about America's ability to contain a pandemic were wrong, what else is a bluff?
Not that I really want to see this country succeed, but it would be nice to see things get less bleak for the working class in the U.S.