Posted on 07/02/2020 5:46:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For generations, the United States has been viewed by much of the world as an infallible beacon of strength and power, thanks to its economic, military and social prowess.
These days, the country is far from dominant.
Instead, America is exhibiting all of the key indicators that political experts use to characterise a failing state – the kind of nation on the brink you might’ve found in the post-Soviet era or in war-torn regions of Africa and the Middle East.
The notion that the world’s oldest functioning democracy could ever fail was, until recently, “unthinkable to all but the most radical critics”, says George Rennie, an expert on US politics and international relations at the University of Melbourne.
But based on the most common metrics available to political scientists, there are clear signs that the superpower is in trouble, he said.
“The US is increasingly performing poorly on key predictors of state failure – ethnic and class conflict, democratic and institutional backsliding, and other socio-economic indicators including healthcare and inequality,” Mr Rennie wrote in an article for The Conversation.
“It is in crisis – convulsed by riots and protest, driven by a virus that has galloped away from those charged with overseeing it, and heading into a presidential election led by a man that has possibly divided the nation like no other before him.”
If you head to Google and type in “America is failing”, you’ll receive a plethora of analysis pieces dating back to the birth of the search engine.
“We’ve been here before,” says Dr Gorana Grgic from the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
worst Murdoch news website in Australia. here’s the writer:
PIC: About Shannon Molloy
I have experience in general news, property, entertainment and business reporting spanning print, digital and publishing. I’ve also worked in public relations and communications, in both the consumer and not-for-profit spaces, and had a brief stint as a political adviser.
These days, I’m a senior reporter for news.com.au, Australia’s number one news website...
https://www.shannonmolloy.com/about/
In the 1930s America was a failing state. And then we changed. I prefer to see America going through a winter season, to be renewed in the spring. With a Trump and the populist nationalist victory in November America will be on its way to a renewal and return to traditional American values. If Trump loses, we all lose, and America heads down the same path that Argentina took in the 1920s or Venezuela took. And the world will descend into tyranny.
nothing in MSM, so posting in case further confirmation can be found:
VIDEO: 1 Jul: RAIR Foundation USA: Exclusive: Canadians March To U.S. Embassy Chanting ‘We Love Trump’ on Canada Day (Must Watch)
posted by Amy Mek
Today on Canada Day, over 1,500 Canadians gathered in Ottawa on Parliament Hill to express their love of country and opposition to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s rule. The patriotic crowd waiving Canadian and Veteran flags marched from Parliament Hill to the U.S. Embassy. The crowd roared with chants of “Trudeau has got to go” and “I love Trump”.
https://rairfoundation.com/canadians-march-to-u-s-embassy-chanting-we-love-trump-on-canada-day-must-watch/
VIDEO: 2 Jul: Vladtepesblog: 1500 people yelling “I LOVE TRUMP” at the US Embassy in Ottawa on July 1, CBC outright LIE about it
The CBC did have someone on site but not close enough to the event or identifiable in any way so that people could represent themselves to the CBC and LITERALLY LIED about what this protest was about...
They claimed this was anti-lockdown. This was anti-Trudeau, anti Trudeau’s illegal fiat gun grab and about having the FBI investigate Trudeau under the terms of the new Canada Mexico US deal that requires no corruption for no tariffs.
Tweet: CBC LITERALLY LIED AND SAID THE RALLY WAS ABOUT THE VIRUS. You can’t make this up!! Disgusting trash!! pic.twitter.com/aE7BMayGoL
— Blue Apple (@Worried_Canuck) July 1, 2020
Watch the video posted above which is a composite of about 4 clips from July 1 at Parliament Hill and the US Embassy in Ottawa, and compare it to the narrative the CBC put out there!...
https://vladtepesblog.com/2020/07/02/1500-people-yelling-i-love-trump-at-the-us-embassy-in-ottawa-on-july-1-cbc-outright-lie-about-it/
I wonder,
When were we not divided?
Do these people think everyone was on the side of independence when fighting the red coats?
Was everyone on the same sheet of music with slavery in the 1860s?
Were all our Founding Fathers in agreement?
Did we all agree on religion even in the 1600s?
This is all such crap. The idea that we once were some harmonious and happy people where everyone was in agreement and now we are divided now. Hahahaha
This is how civil and in agreement we were in the past: https://boundarystones.weta.org/2013/01/09/congressional-beating-sam-houston-and-william-stanbery If we weren’t beating each other with sticks, maybe we were shooting at each other in a dual or in a war... We have NEVER been a peaceful people nor in agreement.
Leftists tearing apart the country to gain power and kill.
Stopped reading here.
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I agree.
It’s a dead give-away of a closet (or overt) leftist.
It’s not Trump that is dividing the country. It is the media that divides the country in the name of Trump.
The comments go back and forth, but there are quite a few that say the Dems are at least as guilty of the "decline" as anyone (and, of course, they are quickly swarmed and attacked by the Left's seminar posters)...
“...and heading into a presidential election led by a man that has possibly divided the nation like no other before him.”
No, by one who like a resolving solution REVEALED the divisions pre-existing.
I would argue this a whole different way:
Yes, there are forces committed to tearing down the American Republic. They are all from the Left. And they are worse then just the political Left, as these forces subscribe to a Neo-Marxist, race-ranked political theory as bad as what the Nazis believed.
They have infected the minds of millions of young people that the United States is inherently unjust from its founding and needs to be broken down utterly and rebuilt according to strict Neo-Marxist Race theory.
The world has seen this before. It was last used by the Khmer Rouge under ruthless tyrant Pol Pot in 1975.
But there are forces that oppose this ruthless and single-minded but incoherent theory of hate and rage.
These forces are STRONG and they are made up of millions of proud Americans who are not going gently into that good night.
What’s the answer and who will rally those people? Well, the very same man they say divided us. But the division was started by the American Communists masquerading as democrats. Trump’s just here to help us fix it.
I do see that we’re in big trouble. But the key predictor of our state’s failure is the profound infiltration of Marxists into virtually every institution.
“Socio-economic indicators including healthcare and inequality”? That sort of drivel is what is coming out of the mouths of those very same Marxists.
Completely fails to acknowledge that it is the Democrats that are tearing the country apart. I am so F’ing sick of hearing about Trump as the divider. Like telling the majority of the population that they are racist merely for the color of their skin, or lying and claiming the country we love is evil and racist is not divisive.
If the Democrats could rule over us with an iron fist we would be so united—and the trains to the re-education camps would run on time!
Did the global elite write similar articles when the previous guy was in charge of America ? America was more divided then minus the rioting and violence. A tiny minority of violent rioters given a free hand to riot - unprecedented until now - along with a lying news media does not mean America is more divided. America is actually more unified against this s*** but you wouldn’t know from watching tv. You will know when the Trump tsunami hits in November.
If only the world’s poorest billions would stop trying to illegally enter this “failing nation.” Who desperately rushes to enter a “failing” nation?
the obamian seeds were planted long ago.
Mismanagement is a process too.
Seeing America is the worlds largest business, it needs a businessman running it, not embittered community organizers.
Every time I think of that, I'm shaking my head at the sheer audacity of such a statement.
Logically, it is the very definition of racist.
These people have no logic.
I am a DEMOCRATIST......I SHUN EVERY DEMOCRAT!
“says Dr Gorana Grgic from the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney”
some will remember Australia’s Romney-like former Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull (ex Goldman Sachs Asia), who made the last-minute deal with Obama to take failed asylum seekers held at offshore detention centres, in order to embarrass Trump if he won. don’t think Trump ended up taking too many of them.
anyway, the so-called US Studies Centre at work Uni of Sydney is rife with TDS individuals:
2018: Australian Financial Review: Think tank close to Turnbulls receives $12m government grant
by Aaron Patrick
The United States Studies Centre, a foreign policy think tank with close links to the Turnbull and Murdoch families, has been given $12 million by the federal government.
The think tank, Based at Sydney University, was established by the American Australian Association to promote the US alliance, train students, develop policy and provide an intellectual counterweight to American critics in Australian universities...
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s wife, Lucy Turnbull, is the United States Studies Centre’s “patron”...
Their son-in-law, James Brown, was the think tank’s research director from 2015 until a few months ago...
Mr Brown, a former army captain, remains a non-resident fellow of the think tank...
Conservatives, including former Labor leader Mark Latham and Sydney Institute director Gerard Henderson, have accused it of political bias for failing to predict the election of US President Donald Trump...
https://www.afr.com/politics/think-tank-close-to-turnbulls-receives-12m-government-grant-20180723-h1317e
speaking of Romney...his old firm!
26 Jun: BBC: Virgin Australia to fly again with new US owner Bain Capital
Virgin Australia has been bought by US private equity group Bain Capital after falling into administration due to coronavirus travel restrictions...
Other than Sir Richard, Virgin Australia is currently owned by a number of shareholders including Singapore Airlines, the UAE government and ***China’s HNA airline.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53188897
University of Sydney: Centre in China
http://sydneyuniversity.cn/
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