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>>mwseib+(OP)
Are we headed for a system wide collapse (in the US, but perhaps elsewhere?).

The current environment is one of crisis mounting on top of crisis, each with increasing urgency and each never getting solved.

Just to count them

- issues of executive power concentration (pre trump even..), now alongside corruption and ignoring rule of law

- US overextended and largely illegitimately engaged militarily across the world

- mass surveillance without consent

- covid & associated economic devastation

- racial justice

- unending sense of riots, damage etc..

A friend of mine lived in East Germany when the Wall came down. I recall there was one event after another that eventually culminated in the collapse of East Germany and communism.

Is the US experiencing something similar? Not just in terms of government effectiveness but even legitimacy?

>>softwa+qb
No, it’s just the media narrative you’re seeing. Not reality.

>>eanzen+Ec
Which parts are the media narrative?

The “imperial presidency” is part of an ongoing trend of increasing executive power for decades. High unemployment from Covid is objectively true. Ineffectiveness combating Covid at a Federal level is hard to debate...