Do you think the USA will make it?

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As long as the media and elections are corrupt, things will not get better. Where we are right now,

1. Inflation
2. Open Border
3. Pervert teachers talking to children about sex.
4. White people / Republicans are the devil.

There have never been any party this evil and crooked in charge of this country. To say everything will be better is nothing more that a guess.
 

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Also worth mentioning that every generation has had the same viewpoint on the future of humanity throughout history. Go look at some of the interviews from kids in the 60s. The hard times were going through now are not unique. We just have a heavy leaning negative bias toward news and current events.
 

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I get what you're saying, one of the many things that drives me insane is the election bullshit and how evidence keeps piling up and it seems not one person in power is questioning anything. Also how the EPA/ATF/FBI and so on get to do whatever the hell they want with no one questioning them. That's what makes me worry about this country and if will make it.

Couldn't agree more. The lack of accountability at the Fed level (pick any agency you want) absolutely drives me nuts.
 

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I thought it was appalling when President Trump said the media is the enemy of the people.

That was/is the problem with Trump. His comment would have been perfect if he said: "The current media is the enemy of the people". Sometimes he misses the mark in his communications which is unfortunate.

The idea of the free/unbiased media (a Founding principle), itself, obviously is not and in fact is part of what keeps us free as a nation.
 

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Just came across this, I think it rightly fits here.

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Men, like nations, think they're eternal. What man in his 20s or 30s doesn't believe, at least subconsciously, that he'll live forever? In the springtime of youth, an endless summer beckons. As you pass 70, it's harder to hide from reality.

Nations also have seasons: Imagine a Roman of the 2nd century contemplating an empire that stretched from Britain to the Near East, thinking: This will endure forever. Forever was about 500 years, give or take. France was pivotal in the 17th and 18th centuries; now the land of Charles Martel is on its way to becoming part of the Muslim ummah.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the sun never set on the British empire; now Albion exists in a perpetual twilight. Its 95-year-old sovereign is a fitting symbol for a nation in terminal decline.

In the 1980s, Japan seemed poised to buy the world. Business schools taught Japanese management techniques. Today, its birth rate is so low and its population aging so rapidly that an industry has sprung up to remove the remains of elderly Japanese who die alone.

I was born in 1949, almost at the midpoint of the 20th century, the American century. America's prestige and influence were never greater. Thanks to the Greatest Generation, we won a World War fought throughout most of Europe, Asia and the Pacific. We reduced Germany to rubble and put the rising sun to bed. It set the stage for almost half a century of unprecedented prosperity. We stopped the spread of communism in Europe and Asia and fought international terrorism. We rebuilt our enemies and lavished foreign aid on much of the world. We built skyscrapers and rockets to the moon. We conquered Polio and now COVID. We explored the mysteries of the Universe and the wonders of DNA, the blueprint of life. But where is the glory that once was Rome? America has moved from a relatively free economy to socialism, which has worked so well NOWHERE in the world. We've gone from a republican government guided by a constitution to a regime of revolving elites. We have less freedom with each passing year. Like a signpost to the coming reign of terror, the cancel culture is everywhere. We've traded the American Revolution for the Cultural Revolution.

The pathetic creature in the White House is an empty vessel filled by his handlers. At the G-7 Summit, "Dr. Jill" had to lead him like a child. In 1961, when we were young and vigorous, our leader was too. Now a feeble nation is technically led by the oldest man to ever serve in the presidency. We can't defend our borders, our history (including monuments to past greatness) or our streets. Our cities have become anarchist playgrounds. We are a nation of dependents, mendicants, and misplaced charity. Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.

The president of the United States can't even quote the beginning of the Declaration of Independence ("You know, The Thing") correctly. Ivy League graduates routinely fail history tests that 5th graders could pass a generation ago. Crime rates soar and we blame the 2nd Amendment and slash police budgets. Our culture is certifiably insane. Men who think they're women. People who fight racism by seeking to convince members of one race that they're inherently evil, and others that they are perpetual victims. A psychiatrist lecturing at Yale said she fantasizes about "unloading a revolver into the head of any white person". We slaughter the unborn in the name of freedom, while our birth rate dips lower year by year. Our national debt is so high that we can no longer even pretend that we will repay it one day. It's a $30-trillion monument to our improvidence and refusal to confront reality. Our "entertainment" is sadistic, nihilistic and as enduring as a candy bar wrapper thrown in the trash. Our music is noise that spans the spectrum from annoying to repulsive.

Patriotism is called insurrection, treason celebrated, and perversion sanctified. A man in blue gets less respect than a man in a dress. We're asking soldiers to fight for a nation our leaders no longer believe in. How meekly most of us submitted to Fauci-ism (the regime of face masks, lock downs and hand sanitizers) shows the impending death of the American spirit.

How do nations slip from greatness to obscurity? Fighting endless wars, they can't or won't win. Massive debt far beyond their ability to repay. Refusing to guard their borders, allowing the nation to be inundated by an alien horde. Surrendering control of their cities to mob rule. Allowing indoctrination of the young. Moving from a republican form of government to an oligarchy. Losing national identity. Indulging indolence. Abandoning faith and family, the bulwarks of social order.

In America, every one of these symptoms is pronounced, indicating an advanced stage of the disease. Even if the cause seems hopeless, do we not have an obligation to those who sacrificed so much to give us what we had?

I'm surrounded by ghosts urging me on: the Union soldiers who held Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, the battered bastards of Bastogne, those who served in the cold hell of Korea, the guys who went to the jungles of Southeast Asia and came home to be reviled or neglected. This is the nation that took in my immigrant grandparents, whose uniform my father and most of my uncles wore in the Second World War. I don't want to imagine a world without America, even though it becomes increasingly likely. During Britain's darkest hour, when its professional army was trapped at Dunkirk and a German invasion seemed imminent, Churchill reminded his countrymen,
"Nations that go down fighting rise again, and those that surrender tamely are finished." The same might be said of causes. If we let America slip through our fingers, if we lose without a fight, what will posterity say of us? While the prognosis is far from good, only God knows if America's day in the sun is over.

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Al Gore needs to trash the internet he created and get us back to a less connected time.

Then again... what would I do all day without SVTP?
 

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The nation as a whole will continue a slide toward the European model. Bigger government, more bureaucracy, fewer “traditional-American” freedoms.

The point at which the country is no longer recognizable will likely depend on where you live and how you view governments role in daily life.

I have (hopefully) 40-50 years left, at the end of that time I believe America will still exist, but it will feel significantly different than it does now. The same way that today probably feels different than it did to our grandparents.
 

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Al Gore needs to trash the internet he created and get us back to a less connected time.

Then again... what would I do all day without SVTP?

I’d still be cranking it out to clothing store bra ads, early 2000s SI swimsuit issues/Victoria’s Secret magazines.
 

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I think the generation before us witnessed the greatest America will ever be. Sad to say but I believe it.
 

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Love nothing more than to be wrong. We've done nothing be lessen in all aspects. Today's men are no John Wayne, he they she said types. Liberalism is a disease that is killing us, Democrats have a stronghold etc etc. Yeah....not as great as we were.
 

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I think people need to disconnect a little bit. Twitter and FB are great in some ways but terrible in others.
Social media just amplifies the craziness and gives voices to idiots who shouldn't be taken seriously.
Add in the media stoking the flames of any story for coverage it makes the situation(s) way worse than it seems.

Both political sides believe that both side is ruining America and everything is turned political-for gain.


I think the USA will make it. Will there be changes as it goes along? Sure. But I don't see any way at least in the next 50 years where we aren't the top dog.
 

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I think people need to disconnect a little bit. Twitter and FB are great in some ways but terrible in others.
Social media just amplifies the craziness and gives voices to idiots who shouldn't be taken seriously.
Add in the media stoking the flames of any story for coverage it makes the situation(s) way worse than it seems.

Both political sides believe that both side is ruining America and everything is turned political-for gain.


I think the USA will make it. Will there be changes as it goes along? Sure. But I don't see any way at least in the next 50 years where we aren't the top dog.

I got rid of all of my social media except this forum and a Viper forum. Couldn't be happier. What a joy suck the others were.
 

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My take

Financially, we are unrecoverable from the position we are in right now... We can't even pay the interest on the debt we have, yet we are still spending like a drunken whore on holiday in Beverly Hills.... It's only a matter of time before the chickens come home to roost. We just keep kicking the can down the road from administration to administration. The last one actually had positive changes we were making, and for the past year and a half this guy has done his best to butt$%^& all of that.
 

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