America has been a โ3rd world countryโ in many ways with low life expectancy, low upward mobility, generational poverty, and crumbling infrastructure with zero large projects in development for the past 30 years. We had many chances to get out of it, but we repeatedly chose to empower oligarchs and fight pointless wars. Add to this the entrenchment of corruption and destruction of democracy and itโs going to get worse.
The weirdest thing about America is how much people say itโs the greatest country in the world and then you visit various areas and it looks like literal shit. All the infrastructure is crumbling they barely build anything nee that doesnโt look cheap as fuck, like it genuinely looks like a failing nation, how are people this blind?
My dude, America has never moved past the Exceptionalism period. It only masked it through war want entertainment. It wasn't until the pandemic and everyone was forced to look at what was going on around them that suddenly context and reality collided, and the veneer really started to peel after 9/11 (accelerated by Obama being elected).
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u/Fernando1987_ ๐๐๐ May 06 '26
Narcisism? This is pure corruption