What do you think will be the fate of America?

Question

Our popularity rapidly depleting, our academic standards sliding, American factories shutting down...

Answer 1

Well... it was written by a very brilliant man that a Democracy can last only until the citizens realize that they can vote themselves money from the public coffers.

Now, considering the massive number of government handout programs and entitlements... with even more being proposed every year... *shrug*.

On the other hand, maybe that's what Americans need... to live under a nice, comfortable dictatorship, where the government takes care of your every need...

The folks who think our government is oppressive now would certianly get a much-needed education, that's for sure.

Answer 2

If we do not end up in some kind of Global War, beyond the War on Terror (which is a high probability in my view), then we will, by 2013 (give or take a few years) be engaged in a protracted, probably uncleared Civil War. By 2019 it will all be over, and we (whoever is left) will be cleaning up the mess and achieving some kind of national greatness within the parameters of what is left for us to work with. Roughly every 80 years we go through these cycles. I have detailed some of the current event in the link below:

Answer 3

Look to the present ills of Central and South America as the blueprint for what will happen to the United States. We can't so no to corruption. The Federal government is outsourcing every asset we gained since WWII.

The Founding Fathers of the American government thought of their efforts as a grand experiment that wouldn't last longer than 50 years. The mob would win in the end, they said. Let's give credit for how good those original architects were and for us keeping their flame alive for 200 years longer than they originally anticipated.

Answer 4

Actually this seems to be a cyclic thing and it will adjust itself to a more normal standard.

A lot of what happens in a country like the USA, with a large flow of immigrants, is that our attempt to accommodate the new-comers tends to upset the norm.

If you feel that you have to judge, make your judgment on 30-year blocks and you will have a more accurate rate of advancement or decline.

Don't worry, we'll come out OK in the end.

Answer 5

I think that we are in our last 50 years as a great democracy. The right to entitlemant has become extremely prevalent, and most young people living today have never had it hard and will not fight for this country. They will not do what is required for us to proceed.

Answer 6

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think that we are in our last 50 years as a great democracy. The right to entitlemant has become extremely prevalent, and most young people living today have never had it hard and will not fight for this country. They will not do what is required for us to proceed.
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Why don't you tell that to the young soldiers who are on their 3rd and 4th tour of duty in the middle east and will likely be there many more times! Why don't more young folks these days sign up for the military and help share the burden? Why not let these soldiers out when their enlistment is up instead of making career soldiers out of them, when most just wanted out from day one. How cruel! This is a do it for me nation, and THAT will be the downfall of America!

Answer 7

How Long Do We Have?

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."

"From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years."

"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage"

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Gore: 19; Bush: 29;
Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000;
Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million.
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:Gore:13.2; Bush: 2.1;
Professor Olson adds:
"In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

Answer 8

We are in a desperate power grab to hold our position.
When Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia etc. decide to stop traiding oil with American dollars the U.S economy will collapse overnight. Saddam attempted that in 1999 when the Euro launched. Look where he ended up.
All that is left is our debt. & military.

In order to stay in the game we will shift our power to the New world order of the european union and its new president who will rule the world for 7 years. He will proclaim himself God.

Doesn't anybody believe the bible anymore...
It's all there!

Answer 9

With Bush in power who knows? He may start another war with Iran or ?? this year. He's like a loose cannon. However, I believe that when he's gone we can rebuild our reputation. Other countries still look to us for protection and guidance. I don't think they are going to give up on the US so easily. Now if we elect another dimwit to the Presidency I don't know. Then they may think that all americans are retarded and that they can easily conquer us. LOL

Answer 10

The infrastructure will collapse, allowing a relatively small force to destroy us, just like the Roman Empire.