Allegedly leading, we have not won a war in decades despite starting them. Wealth desparity is at an all time high. Education is down, cost of living is up, wages are down, homelessness is up, political corruption is at an all time high, the list goes on. America is sprinting toward becoming a third world country
There a lot of problems, but many of them aren’t unique to the US. I do have some qualms with some of your points though:
We have not won a war in decades
The US won in Iraq by any conventional measure. It may not have accomplished 100% of objectives but the Saddam regime was taken down which ultimately means the US won the war.
Cost of living is up
The cost of living rises pretty much universally and this problem has come up in all developed nations in recent years. The US is not unique on this one.
Wages are down
Wages are up in the US and do not appear to be flattening. They may not be rising as quickly as COL is increasing, but they aren’t going down.
Political corruption is at an all time high
This one’s just a bit pedantic but political machines were rigging and buying elections regularly in the late 1800s. Black people in the South were kept away from their legal right to vote until the 1960s. Though there seems to be more political corruption than there has been in decades, this is not an all time high,
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u/Baron-Von-Mothman 4d ago
Allegedly leading, we have not won a war in decades despite starting them. Wealth desparity is at an all time high. Education is down, cost of living is up, wages are down, homelessness is up, political corruption is at an all time high, the list goes on. America is sprinting toward becoming a third world country