re: How close do you feel we are to a full societal collapse as a nation?

Wake up people

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I think authoritarianism is a big risk but I think massive, Argentinian style inflation is what will sink the empire. Particularly if the dollar stops becoming the World's reserve currency.

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I guess it depends on what you mean by societal collapse. I'm picturing dogs and cats living together mass hysteria, while I don't consider the end of American hegemony or even hyper-inflation to, by themselves, be 'societal 'collapse.'

Things will definitely suck a lot more, we might be planting turnip gardens, but society has endured those things before.

Those conditions could absolutely trigger a collapse though.

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Kind of. I think that both parties are racing towards their extreme poles so quickly that in another decade or so, the majority of Americans won’t “identify” with either major party

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we just had perhaps the most moderate republican president in the history of our country and both sides are racing towards the poles?


The same ones “hoping that we buck the trend” are the same ones screaming about any politician willing to do so.

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we just had perhaps the most moderate republican president in the history of our country and both sides are racing towards the poles? The same ones “hoping that we buck the trend” are the same ones screaming about any politician willing to do so.

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This isn’t the PT, so I’ll just say that I find the statements made in this post to be… interesting

We don’t have to get into the weeds, but Trump was, by every measure, a democrat 20 years ago. It’s just that the left has moved so far left that his moderate policies are viewed as extreme right wing by the progressive left.

It's what happens when you vote for a fricking idiot of a president.

It’s not that serious.
Until the lights go out and people don’t have food. I don’t think that’s gonna happen unless an asteroid or solar flare decide to show up.

That may be true but 20 years ago you didn't hàve Republicàns seriously advocating the dissolution of NATO either. Both parties have extreme factions wielding disproportionate influence and it does the country a disservice. The poliboard types have been allowed to redefine the GOP into something else entirely and what used to be mainstream Republicanism is now called RINO.

And yes, wrong board for this topic but the board it should be on has been taken over by window lickers.

Rice and beans are cheap to stockpile and high velocity lead has outpaced inflation as an investment so it doesn’t hurt to be prepared

Thank you!