Could we fall too?

Question

Throughout history,every great empire has fallen.The Roman Empire,Napoleon's Empire,The British Empire,all of these were the most powerfull.Could the same thing happen to the United States?

Answer 1

Not only could it, but it could well happen if we continue on our present course, which would be a disaster for the world, because the United States is the world's last best hope. The thing I fault President Bush for the most is that by his moronic idiotic incompetent leadership (not only in Iraq but elsewhere), he has made it virtually impossible for the Republican party to win the Presidency or provide a credible counterweight to the socialist element of the Democratic Party.

Answer 2

Yes. The last downsizing waves in the US in the near future may be followed very shortly by an economic brick wall, with tyranny soon to follow. We are no longer the world leader in Mathematics, Science, Technology, Morality and Democracy.

The US is morally bankrupt, and whatever moral authority the US once had was tossed away under the Bush Crime Family. The US has become just another nation that denies much of its people freedom, disappears people by rendition to other countries, and holds and tortures people without giving them access to the legal system!

The Shining Lamp on the Mountain has gone out. We've become the Great Middle Man, and you know what Geico did to their middle man? So, see the rest of the world as a "geico" which is about ready to call in our markers, and shed it's own Middleman!In fact, it's already begun!

After WWII the Bretton Woods agreement made to US dollar the prime reserve currency of the world, to which most of the others would be either pegged to or accept. The US Government has used this agreement to the hilt to run up both astronomical government foriegn debt and unfunded domestic obligations, and encouraged astronomical private debt; and it has slowly devalued the dollar over decades to make their creditor's holdings far less valuable. The chickens have finally come home to roost. the only thing stopping most of the players that have been forced to play up until now is they'll lose whatever stability the present system still has, as well as what's left of the value of their "investments".

Government bonds, like the many of the private bank's financial fantasy "assets" may soon be downgraded into financial toxic waste that no one will touch, as some Sub-Prime Mortgage CDOs have already been. Then what's left of the US Economy will quickly sour, and we'll may end up with a very severe recession, and possibly the "Greater Depression", and most of the Middle Class -will join the ranks of the Newly Poor
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The rest of the world is already beginning to uncouple both their economic systems and their currencies from the US and the dollar. If no one will take our rapidly deflated money any more then we are in serious troubled ballooning credit balance....

Answer 3

My AP history teacher in highschool wrote out on the board one day all the things that most historians point to when looking at the cause of the Romans downfall... the USA shares about 2/3 of the list.

Answer 4

Michael W: Let me ask you, do you think the other empires mentioned believed that they were tyrannical? Of course they didn't.

You are are living 'inside' a turannical empire and you don't even know it. Ask people outside of the US what they think and you will get a different answer

Answer 5

We're going to get our asses handed to us just like Germany got their @ss handed to them in WWII.

That's what happens when you piss off the entire world long enough.

Prediction: US, Israel, England, a few others vs. practically the rest of the world, primarily Russia, China, a lot of Europe, most of the Middle East, and parts of South America would probably join in on the fun.

It'll be ugly, kids. The American People are the only ones who can prevent it, but we're all asleep and we're allowing psychotic criminals to run our government. If we don't put an end to it, someone else will have to. Which would you prefer?

Answer 6

No, and here is why. The empires you listed were all tyrannical, and the governments they conquered were subject to them. The American Empire exists everywhere that liberal democracy does. Germany, Japan, and South Korea are the bastions of the American Empire. They don't answer to us, but in a world conflict you can be sure they would fight for us. Not because we compel them, but because they rely on us for protection of the greatest gift ever given from one nation to another.. Democracy!

Answer 7

It's already happening.
The American economy is owned by the Chinese and the government is unable to respond quickly to naturals disasters like New Orleans and California.
Getting involved in foreign wars they can't win is a certain sign of impending doom

Answer 8

Is it inevitable. When empires become so large that they can no-longer manage themselves, they implode. In recent history the Soviet Union collapsed. It was younger than the United States.

Answer 9

Depends on what you mean by "fall." American influence is waning in the world right now, mostly because of the Iraq situation. China appears to be catching up to the US as far as commerce and trade.

Liberals say we will fall because the US is misusing its power in foreign affairs; Conservatives say we will fall because our culture is becoming course and that government is involved in too much of its citizens' business.

Answer 10

yes the others fell from internal corruption and The United States is headed down the same path for some of the same reasons.