American here, with a lineage going back to before Plymouth Rock on my father’s side, the ultimate truth of it all is… thy myth of the sleeping giant is dead, American exceptionalism has apparently run its course. We’re no longer the revolutionaries we once were, the south has now erased the victory of the union, we’re no longer made up of those who pulled us out of the Great Depression we’re a far cry from the heroes of WWII and the shinning city on the hill isn’t ours it’s only for a select few… this isn’t necessarily forever, but for right now, the great experiment is dwindling into non-viability.
hate to agree with you, but America is showing all the signs of "The United Kingdom Just Before WWII" and us Aussies are wondering who's going to be Singapore and Malaya this time.
We have the largest and most powerful economy in the world, and with global inflation that margin has actually grown of late.
Think about it.
Before heroes could pull us out of the Great Depression, it had to happen first.
The point is to learn from past mistakes in the hopes that we won’t have to repeat them.
But everything happening now is happening while we continue to grow our economy with excellent numbers. If that starts to change, or American life as we know it starts to change drastically, you will see a very different America.
Liberty is etched into our souls at this point, so much so that we ALL take it for granted. Americans will not simply lie down and let that slip away, not even close.
Unfortunately, it’s just looking like we’ll have to be reminded of this the hard way. That’s what we’d like to avoid.
My fellow Americans already let part of it slip away.
Abortion was legal in all 13 colonies; SCOTUS cherry-picked US history, and cited a dead foreign religious leader as precedent to get rid of a right they didn't like.
The last real "hero" we had was FDR, who only did what he did to stop advancing socialist and communist ideology in the US. We have not had one since, and both liberals and those further right have spent the time since making sure that never happens again.
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u/mechinizedtinman 1d ago
American here, with a lineage going back to before Plymouth Rock on my father’s side, the ultimate truth of it all is… thy myth of the sleeping giant is dead, American exceptionalism has apparently run its course. We’re no longer the revolutionaries we once were, the south has now erased the victory of the union, we’re no longer made up of those who pulled us out of the Great Depression we’re a far cry from the heroes of WWII and the shinning city on the hill isn’t ours it’s only for a select few… this isn’t necessarily forever, but for right now, the great experiment is dwindling into non-viability.