I was just thinking about how most people been hearing America is the number 1 country in the world since they were born. I don't know who the media will blame, but some will start stroking fear.
The average person might not care in the beginning, but once media, and politician starts making people fear I feel people are going to start looking for a "strong man" to save them.
They just won't believe that it's happened. We'll have the trappings of empire and play at being the exact same country as the US was in the mid to late 20th century even American global influence wanes.
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Humanity doesn't have a century the way we're going...