Is The American Empire Nearing Its End?

[Cyrano]

Every other empire in the history of the world fell. Why not ours? But what a run we've had. It's been an interesting 200 plus years. While importing indentured servants and slaves, we managed to murder an indigenous population and steal a continent.

Yeah, the good guys fought a Civil War to end slavery, (among other reasons), but the bad guys are back with a vengeance and it looks like we're just now learning who really did win the Civil War.

We had a golden age of corruption and robber barons, but their greed finally pushed us off a cliff into a depression and it took almost 20 years to put it all back together again. And in the meantime (and only because we were attacked at Pearl Harbor) we managed to save the world from fascism, barbarism, and then create a middle class of Americans. It truly was our most honorable era and was brought about by, as Tom Brokaw phrased it, "The Greatest Generation."

But robber barons, and thugs who seek world domination, never stay buried. They tore us apart during Vietnam and now, they're busy shredding the middle class and the Constitution.

Given the damage that's been done over the past four years, and will continue through the next four years, I believe that our empire is on it's last legs. The best we can hope for is that we won't use the remnants of our (military/nuclear) power to destroy the rest of planet earth.

And to think that just four short years ago we were still a beacon to most of the world. Today we are almost universally despised.

Yeah, we'll still be around four years from now, but like Greece, Rome, Great Britain and others, we will no longer be running the world. Nor should we be.