The Collapse of America
There are many articles out there talking about how the U.S. is headed for collapse:
https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/editorial/american-inhumanity-accomplices-collapse-chose-cruelty-conscience-ignore-cost/
A vast swath of Americans have not simply become numb to cruelty — they have come to endorse it, actively or passively. Fueled by Trump’s ascendant movement, they see torment not as a consequence to be mourned, but as a strategy to be celebrated.
This is not a misunderstanding of policies or a disagreement over priorities. This is a deliberate embrace of hate, dressed in the language of patriotism and enforced through a theocratic, White Nationalist worldview.
It is no coincidence that those who cheer America’s sharp rightward turn are often the same people who once championed “law and order,” who claimed to revere the Constitution and the institutions it built.
Now, as Trump gleefully dismantles those very pillars by shredding democratic norms, weaponizing the executive branch, and openly mocking the rule of law — they applaud. What was once described as the silent majority has become the gleeful minority, loud in their triumph and utterly blind to the ruin it will inevitably bring.
The tragedy is not that these Americans have been lied to. The tragedy is that they chose to believe the lies, even when the truth was self-evident. They believed a conman who promised a revival of White power and McCarthy-era prosperity, when in reality he offered only division and decline. They voted for him once, then again.
And when democracy failed to validate their delusions, they demanded it be broken further. Their motivation was not national recovery. It was vengeance. They wanted retribution against imagined enemies like immigrants, liberals, journalists, professors, scientists, and even neighbors. They wrapped this in the flag, convinced themselves that cruelty was a virtue, and called it Making America Great Again.
Americans were taught to admire protectors like firefighters, doctors, and astronauts. Figures who rescued, who built, who stood for something greater than themselves. No one raised a child to aspire to be a tyrant. No bedtime story praised the tormentor.
Yet somewhere along the way, a movement emerged that abandoned these shared ideals. Not gradually, not by accident — but openly, even proudly. They did not just vote for a man who dehumanized others. They cheered as he did it. Brutality, once unthinkable, became desirable. The villain was not defeated. He was elected.
The US is Collapsing Like the USSR – So What Comes Next
We are facing the end of 'the West'. Some of our best science shows the US empire is following the collapse-path of the USSR - but this is also the precursor to the emergence of a new life-cycle for civilisation.
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24 MAR 2025 15 MIN READ
NAFEEZ M AHMED
https://ageoftransformation.org/the-us-is-collapsing-like-the-ussr-so-what-comes-next/
Trump’s second term is the beginning of the end of the American empire, including the Western geopolitical order fashioned by US power after the Second World War. But in the ashes of this decline, a liminal space is emerging for a new system.
2025 – the Year of the Fall
In 2016, a futurist and doyen of peace studies who had predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union told me he had used the same framework to pinpoint the coming collapse of the United States. The late Johan Galtung, a renowned Nobel Prize-nominated sociologist, had made his original prediction of US collapse in the year 2000. The process would start, he warned, in 2025.
It’s now 2025, and the fulcrum of American collapse can be found at the seat of the US federal government under a second Trump administration. Nearly a decade ago, Galtung had said that he saw Trump as an accelerant of American collapse at the beginning of his first term. Now under his second term, Galtung’s extraordinary prescience is on display again as we see a second Trump administration tear apart the fabric of the US government, democratic checks and balances, and the rule of law. Galtung had warned that as American power retracts globally, this could end up reflecting internally – even resulting in the potential breakup of the US.
https://ageoftransformation.org/the-us-is-collapsing-like-the-ussr-so-what-comes-next/
Wim Naudé’s argues that the West is experiencing systemic decline in ways similar to the Soviet Union’s collapse. He identifies seven key 'sources of rot' that contributed to the USSR’s failure and are now manifesting in the West:
1. Military-Industrial Complex & Kinetic Diplomacy – Over-reliance on military power, excessive defense spending, and an economy increasingly tied to warfare.
2. Rejection and Capture of Science – Politicisation of scientific research, erosion of trust in expertise, and ideological attacks on institutions.
3. Disincentivising Innovation – Declining entrepreneurial dynamism, regulatory stagnation, and economic policies that favour incumbents over new industries.
4. Technological Conservatism – Resistance to adopting new technologies, clinging to outdated systems, and favoring status quo over disruptive innovation.
5. Informational Bubbles and Sensemaking Crisis – Fragmentation of truth, rise of misinformation, and inability of society to reach consensus on basic facts.
6. Bankers’ Takeover – Financialisation of the economy, prioritisation of speculative gains over productive investment, and increasing inequality.
7. The End of the Hydrocarbon Age – Dependence on fossil fuels despite global shifts toward renewable energy, making the West vulnerable to economic and environmental crises.
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