Strip it back, though, and what’s left is a simple, uncomfortable truth: the American promise is getting harder to believe in. We heard it two years ago. It’s louder now. And it’s a message that...
I'm not the first to point out that the US seems to be going the kind of extreme hypernormalization the USSR went through in the decade or 2 before it collapsed. See the 2016 Adam Curtis film on the subject.
Nor am I the first to say that there's a good chance we'll see the US fall apart in my lifetime. Paul Buchanan, a former Pentagon analyst now based in Aotearoa, has said as much on the A View From Afar podcast. Notably he also said this is much easier to see from outside the country.
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Nor am I the first to say that there's a good chance we'll see the US fall apart in my lifetime. Paul Buchanan, a former Pentagon analyst now based in Aotearoa, has said as much on the A View From Afar podcast. Notably he also said this is much easier to see from outside the country.
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