Here We Go Again

[poliphilo]

Once upon a time- not so long ago- there was a thing called the Austro-Hungarian Empire. There was also a thing called the Ottoman Empire.  In their time they seemed like they were going to last forever. Only they didn't. Then there was the USSR...

Super states are inefficient. Power is centralised and ignorant and unresponsive. Their populations resent them. When they go it's all of a sudden- as if the only thing sustaining them were bluff. One day they blot out the sun, the next there's nothing left of them but a cloud of dust.

Once the cracks appear there's nothing to be done to save them. As now, with the EU...

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I wonder sometimes about the long term viability of the USA. They've had one civil war and sometimes it seems they're spoiling for another.

[jenny_evergreen]

The USA has no long term viability. Like every other empire, it will fall. When exactly that happens...*shrug* But it will.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We certainly seem to be witnessing the beginnings of a decline in national prestige and status.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

I too, sadly, seem to detect the handwriting on the wall for my own country. Cause for anxiety: what next?

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Our civil war was never resolved. The Confederacy was beaten into submission on the field of battle but never admitted defeat, never abandoned the cause. The Republican party today represents the interests of the Confederacy and is supported by essentially the same white-trash constituency whipped into a righteous frenzy by the wealthy elite.

The question you're asking, then, is whether the Republicans will succeed in destroying the republic. The events of the past few months assure us that they are certainly trying to destroy this country but I think the jury is still out, thank Goddess. If we can hold on until the demographic time bomb goes off -- ie, when enough old stupid white people have died and are replaced by our rapidly expanding, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural pluralities -- I think we will survive.

Otherwise, we're looking at evangelical Christian fascists, with an ideology driven by hate and fear, with the largest, most advanced nuclear arsenal in the world. That the republic will not survive is the least of it.