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1. ck2 · 1789656764 · focus · HN ↗

   What's the best estimate for US to recover from non-stop levels of stupid?

   It's at least a decade but now I'm starting to think two decades

   And the problem is since people have short memories there's going to be a Trump 2.0 doing a full speedrun back to destroying democracy as hard and as fast as possible, fueled by Heritage Foudation

   So we may be recovering every decade at this point

   I mean Bush plowed the economy into the ground plus stop-loss endless war and yet here we are again

   1. noir_lord · 1789658878 · focus · HN ↗

      The US is always going to be a large powerful and influential country, Geography and natural resources and a high education base ensure that.

      What it won't be is as influential as it was for a long time, if ever.

      The damage isn't a "Next President" problem, it's already a generational problem.

      The international rules/trade based order was predicated on both sides agreeing that those were the rules, when one side unilaterally decides to tear it up and then demand the same advantages they had before they tore it up, the other has to respond, We can't ignore it and hope the problem goes away.

      They chose to open Pandora's box on this one, the rest of us are just figuring out what that looks like going forwards.

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