In 1945, the US was the only industrialized large country left undestroyed - the UK, England, France, Germany, Netherlands, Japan were destroyed and China, India, S Korea, SE Asia etc. were still desperately poor agricultural countries
The US had no competition in the late 40s or the 50s -- the USSR did have it's rapid industrialization, but that was still from a practically zero base.
From the late 50s through the 60s and 70s, Western Europe blossomed -- the miracle thanks to the Marshall plan. Ditto for Japan from the 60s to the 80s
Korea blossomed along with Taiwan and Singapore and Hong Kong from the 70s to the 90s (and now is a first world nation)
But American dominance was crushed by the populous nations of JApan, Germany and then CHina and India industrializing and moving away from socialism
This would have happened no matter what -- the 1950s are not coming back.
Bull crap. We built those factories for those dung burning hooch dwellers and gave them the keys. Asia was never an industrial power house and except for Japan Asia completely missed the industrial revolution of the 19th century. The Free Traitor™ glowBULLists gave away the store for nothing. That is what happened. Blossomed my ass.
I second your points. And I would argue that, materially, we are better off than that time as well, if one is looking at it from a strictly materialist perspective.
However, our populace has become completely dispirited. A large portion of that material wellbeing is propped up by welfare. Culturally and morally we are in the pits. If there is not a shift back towards traditional American ingenuity and know-how, there is going to be a continued downward projection. See how quickly our working and middle classes are being picked off one by one as drugs and promiscuity replace decent blue collar jobs and a sense of responsibilty. There is simply no place in society for a large number of millenials who don’t have what it takes to be upper level managers, designers, lawyers, etc.
And I believe that is part of the plan of the elites who are currently in power. De-industrialization of the US and contraction of the average American lifestyle in the name of “fairness”.