Has America as a Country peaked?

Question

If so when and why?
When did America peak and when was it at its lowest?

Answer 1

no it hasn't peaked

Answer 2

No question about it.
IMO, America peaked before the Civil War. During and after that, more and more power was consolidated in Washington and it's been like that ever since.
As to the lowest? That's yet to happen.

Answer 3

technological knowledge is making breakthroughs just about daily in image voltaic / supercapacitor / superconductivity / fusion power / hydrogen storage / battery technologies. that's only a count number of time beforehand a non petroleum power potential reaches fee and power density parity with burning petroleum / coal. the authentic question is - will or not that's the U. S. - that's the market chief going into the middle of the 21'st century, or will or not that's China?

Answer 4

Yes and no.

America can continue to flurish, as long as the liberals stop trying to turn us into a socialist republic.

Answer 5

Not to sound unpatriotic or anything like that, but one must examine this from a historical point of view. There are many parallels which have been drawn between the former Roman Empire and the United States of America. Rome dominated the (known) globe, except for China, of course, for many years. Their fall from grace occurred, when they quit growing. While they focused on expansion, they continued to strengthen internally at the same time. Once expansion ceased, they soon split into two and eventually were defeated by first the Asians and eventually the Europeans.

Now, the U.S. officially quit expanding with the adoption of Hawaii and Alaska as the 49th & 50th states in the Union back around 1950. Sorry, I can't recall the precise year. It was somewhere between 1948 & 1952.

Militarily, the last true American victory was WW2. Sure, there have been battles and wars won by the U.S., but that was the last time the U.S. truly stuck it to somebody. Since then, Desert Storm has really been the only other decisive victory for American-led forces. But then again, the LAPD, the French army, the Canandian army, the Japanese national sumo team or even the South Korean national taekwondo team could have done it. I think Mussolini's Italian WW2 forces were more capable than Sadam's Iraqi Desert Storm forces. (And the Italian military was a joke during WW2. They got stuck in the mud in Africa. They only served Mussolini out of fear for their lives and those of their families.)

Internally, the U.S. still barely manages to grow. It appears that we take one step forward and two steps back. Look at race relations. Lincoln freed the slaves back in the 1860's. By being free, one would think that those people would be entitled to the same rights as all other citizens. The government stated that the bill of rights', " . . . life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness . . ." was directed at white male property owners. Gee, slaves used to be considered property. Women were actually considered property for a large part of human history. Jump forward to the late 20th and early 21st centuries. We've got a black man in LA getting beat down by a "gang" of white cops. We've got a whole inner city full of black men, women and children claiming the president doesn't care about them during this nation's worst natural disaster. We've got a black highly decorated general and former U.S. federal cabinet member, who considered running for president one day, possibly. What happened? He got way, way, way too many death threats! And he only said that he was considering running for president. He didn't officially make any statements that he was a candidate or anything like that.

Women's rights? If we are a nation of equals, then why should this still be a question? Why do we still hear about sexual harassment? Not to be too vulgar . . . why is it I can tell my buddy in the cubicle next to me about an awesome sexual episode from last night with the bimbo in accounts payable, but if the woman in the other cubicle overhears it, she cries sexual harassment? Woemn want to be treated equally, right? Why aren't women paid equally to men? Then again, why does a woman get a job, promotion, raise, etc. just for her gender, while a man has to have a perfect resume, graduate with honors from somewhere like Yale, Harvard, Duke or Stanford, have a letter of recommendation from somebody like Sen. Ted Kennedy, served as an intern under a former president and volunteered in the Peace Corps.?

(OK, so that's slightly exaggerated and sounds like I'm female-hating. Please note that I do not at all hate any women. I am not a sexist or anything like that. I do respect all women for the struggles they have faced, continue to face and have already overcome.)

States vs. Federal - Continuously, we argue whether this nation should let the states have more rights or the federal government. The federal government seems to think that if the states have more rights, than this would be a loosely organized nation that wouldn't ever agree on anything. With that in mind, we'd open ourselves up to all types of attacks from foreigners. Not just militarily, but we would be overcome by foreign investors, corporations, emigrants, etc.

The states argue that if the federal government has too much control, than this would become less of a democracy and more of a socialist republic. As Americans, we thrive on our spirit of democracy, among other things, like Monday Night Football, hot dogs, Ford Mustangs, the South Beach diet, etc. :)

With so many internal problems, we seems to falling further than pressing forward. On the other hand, life has gotten better. We are healthier. We live longer. We work harder, but our overall way of life has gotten better. So have we peaked? Or are we already on the downward spiral?

I believe that we may suffer the same fate as the Romans, if we aren't cautious. With our current administration and future ones, we must be willing to extend the proverbial right hand of diplomacy to nations like China, North Korea, Iran, Iraq and Venezuela. Not being cordial to any of them could spell disaster for us and future generations. We have enjoyed our ride to the top.

So have we peaked? Hmm, that is hard to say. We are larger, stronger and healthier than we've ever been. We may have, though. The former superpowers of France and Great Britain admitted to the world, during WW2, that the U.S. is the dominant force on the globe. Of course, as the dust from the atomic bombs dropped on Japan began to settle, another giant rose from the ashes. The former Soviet Union became the other "force to be reckoned with" on the planet. So if that is when we were hailed, have we reached another milestone greater than that? I don't think so.

Like I mentioned before, our fate is in our own hands in how we deal with the rest of the world, or at least the people who don't like us.

Answer 6

many years ago