The Late, Great, American Republic: A Report from Mid-Century -- 2050

[scarletwoman]

http://www.crisispapers.org/Editorials/mid-century.htm

Who could have imagined, at the turn of this century, how quickly and completely the American republic would collapse? Historically, the decline and fall of great empires normally takes place over decades, and in the case of Rome, over several centuries. The disintegration of the United States took place in just a few brief years.

At the close of the twentieth century, the United States was at peace and enjoying one of the most sustained and productive periods of prosperity in its history – a prosperity that favourably affected all segments of society. President Clinton, though mercilessly harassed by his political opponents, was highly esteemed by heads of state and ordinary citizens throughout the world. The United States, despite its manifest faults, was widely admired and envied by free peoples everywhere.

It was, to put it simply, a great time to be an American.

And then, suddenly, it all fell apart.

The American economy collapsed and the American leadership, unlike the Roosevelt administration during the great depression of the 1930s, lacked the insight and will, and the federal treasury lacked the funds, to effect a rescue. The admirable American system of constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties, of a free and diverse press, of free enterprise and economic opportunity, and of popularly elected government was, by the close of the first decade, replaced by a despotic oligarchy in total control of the permanently ruling Republican party. Finally, the United States, through a unilateral abrogation of its treaty obligations and a series of aggressive wars, was transformed from the “leader of the free world” into a rogue state. As we all know, the community of nations responded to the new threat of American economic imperialism by forming the alliances that are today the dominant world powers: the Eurasian Union and Islamia.

Distrusted and isolated from the global community, the United States withdrew into itself to become the pitiful and impoverished third-world despotism that it is today.

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--- This is a fascinating and chilling read, I highly recommend it.

sw

[bpilgrim]

1. that's a distinct possibility...

and is pretty much how i see it playing out if we don't being righting some of these wrongs, starting with a paper trail at the polls.

good read, thanks :hi:

peace

[scarletwoman]

2. Thanks, BP!

I appreciate your feedback, as always! :loveya:

sw

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. I wish I could say

that this is too far-fetched ever to become a reality.

But sadly, I can't.

[tom_paine]

4. An excellent article

Undoubtedly, some of the details are wrong, but the road map largely is following the neon arrow of Bushevik policy (Imperial policy), should these shadows remain unaltered by the future.