All governments go through pandemics and wars, dictatorships, famines and natural disasters - and still they manage to keep the lights on. Well, almost all governments. The US is the exception, where they use governance as a bargaining chip for one side or the other to get what they want - which is always to the detriment of the people.
It is no wonder that the US has all of these shutdowns, as the only reason it is "the largest economy in the world" is that they keep on increasing the debt to astronomical levels, knowing that they will never actually have to pay it back. The world will collapse into a blackhole before that happens. Ironically, it could be the blackhole of debt that the US is generating now that causes it.
Still, Americans should really question how their system works, where the governments hold the entire population hostage while they bicker about spending, that is going to happen anyway. It has to happen, because as said, that is how the US maintains its status as a global superpower. Take away the ability to spend for long enough, and well, everything in the US collapses, not just the government. The entire economy is tied to funding through debt and the systematic stripping of value from everywhere possible.
As I have said before, if the rest of the world really wanted to build its strength, it would have to reduce the control of the US. It is very easy to do. Just stop selling goods and services to the US, and increase spending on goods and services in the rest of the world instead. And, ensure that any goods and services that are earning outside of the US, are paying all of their taxes in the country where it is earned.
Simple.
This would fundamentally collapse the US economy. And while it would cause disruption for the rest of the world, it wouldn't be that much disruption for that long in comparison. The rest of the world can ramp up production, innovation, and all kinds of resources both natural and human, to take care of itself. The rest of the world doesn't need the US to look after it - so don't believe the hype.
What the rest of the world should be doing now (and all Americans who actually care about their country over their party), is looking at the current political situation the US and asking, What the Fuck? Are these really the behaviours and actions of a deserving global leader, or that of a third-world nation with a raging civil war?
Yeah, civil war.
It might not be fought with muskets and lines of soldiers marching on the field of battle at dawn, but the times have changed, so war has changed. The US is waging an internal war, a civil war, turning people against people in the streets, and using obvious and simplistic rhetoric to influence people to pick a side, and fight alongside. The battlefields are the social platforms, where soldiers on all sides are attacking, infiltrating, undermining, sabotaging, raping, pillaging....
Society is mortally wounded.
If all the US citizens who claim to love America and claim to fight for it actually did so, what they would do would get rid of the governmental system in wholesale. The system isn't fit to run a pig farm, let alone a country. The government shouldn't shutdown by the choice of politicians, it should be completely defunded by the citizens of the country.
No negotiations. No demands. Shutdown.
The government isn't working for you. Governments all over the world aren't working for their citizens. But that has to be clear to those in America right? Obviously not. Yet, people are conflating their love for their nation with the government. The US isn't its government, it is its people, and those people will be American, even if the government is shutdown and a new governance structure is put into place. It might be a very different kind of America, but is the current system so good it is worth preserving?
It is a clown show.
When the phrase of "bread and circuses" was used to describe governments doing superficial things to appease the people they govern, it wasn't meant as a guide for the government to become the entertainment. But here we are, being entertained by politicians and administrators whose only skill is their ability to one-up their opposition in new levels of absurdity. And then blame the opposition for forcing it.
"Look what you made me do!"
And the masses keep buying in, amplifying the stupidest and simplest of cat calls through the media battlegrounds, as if they are unique and clever. Have we all really become so gullible that blaming the "radical left" or "right-wing extremists" influences us? Are we really so blind that we can't see what is happening here?
Apparently.
I have no love for governments, but I can at least appreciate a government that tries to do what is right for their people. One that looks to improve the lives and wellbeing of people within the country, even if they often fail due to poor resource management skills. But what is happening in the world isn't due poor management skills, it is purely and simply driven by greed of the few. And somehow, those few have been able to convince the many that if we only give them more power, they can finally make our lives better.
Make a wish, and blow out the candle.
Keep living in darkness.
Taraz
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It's impossible for the entire world to unite against the US. The US would anticipate this and prevent it. Let's assume all countries aligned against the US. First, US stock markets, then Asian and European stock markets, would begin to crash. Because the US led the way, a food and fuel crisis would emerge. Massive waves of migration would occur. Poverty would rise. Social unrest would ensue.
On the one hand, China, and on the other, Russia would begin to occupy any territory they wished. A major war would break out in the Middle East. The dollar is heavily used in world trade, and global trade would likely stagnate.
According to my scenario, a major crisis awaits the world. The entire world is in no position to cope with this crisis.
Don't you see that this is happening now anyway? It is just happening slowly, because it is a slow rape of the global resources. However, it will get to the point that nothing can be done. Disruption now gives a chance for actual changes to take place, rather than continual cuts until we all bleed out.
Russia is not an issue, other than them having nukes. China is. Middle East is always on the brink of war - if they want to be leaders of anything, they have to get over themselves.
Global trade would explode.
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Would be interesting to see what happens in the collapse. Community-oriented cultures would probably not be as affected, as they're resilient against capitalism anyway, and usually underdeveloped from the capitalist view. Individualist countries that rely on capitalism to keep working as it is would crash hard, I guess.
About the government part - the more I read about soft authoritarianism and the strategy behind it, the more I feel that people indeed want that. They're tired of democracy, tired of having to be informed to make informed decisions, it's so much work, so much attention to pay. It's so much easier to have someone to tell them what to do and what to think, and then blame them for everything so they don't have to take responsibility. Just be on one side of a spectrum that is a dot, hate the other side, be righteous and hence happy.
The short content from social media isn't helping. Everything is so dumbed down, simplified and intuitive. Headlines. And people happily fall for everything that resembled what they believe, though they have no idea why they believe that. Okay. It's one of these evenings. Better call it a night before I write a 80 page treatise on the absurdly horrifying state of the world.
I have been saying it for year and it affects everything. Now, all illnesses, even those that are self-inflicted, are seen as syndromes and issues outside of control. Obesity from over eating is now positioned as being victimised.
Always someone else's fault.
Intuitive for those who don't have real experience at least :)
While trying to get people on board with peakd shows how much they're used to intuitive things. This platform is not that hard to handle, and yet most people get frustrated very, very quickly. It's a perk of being millenial to have grown up setting up PC, LAN, IP and all the little things that gave me the experience to quickly adapt to everything that is not dumbed down to the level of a 2 year old - because yes, unfortunately, 2 year olds have to be able to use everything as they're shut up with cellphones and such. Oh, I'm still in the same mood. Not good. Gotta paste that smile, it's market day.
To be fair, democracy is exhausting. If the population isn't engaged enough then politicians get away with enacting policy that only helps their donors to the detriment of their constituents.... and in the US, you have to be engaged constantly because policy is literally life and death for the more vulnerable in the population, and Republicans specifically constantly pass laws to make it harder for people to stay engaged (ie, making voting harder, etc).
Absolutely true. One of my arguments for the post-to-be is just that, more hindering to democracy, as well as the economic system absorbing so much energy that real informative behavior is reserved for those who have the money to have time to engage in democracy.
It's so apparent in the US. Voting is on a Tuesday and in wealthy locations it takes only a couple of minutes to vote, but in poorer, more diversity locations, voting can take 8-9 hours and now it's illegal to give out water to people standing in line.
Even in Australia, you see a lot of housing projects voted against by local councils because the only people voting are retirees who are financially motivated to keep their property values as high as possible.
I wish there were the words to describe this... we're not living in a true democracy, we're actually in an energymocracy or timocracy or something.
Actually, we haven't had a shut down in seven years, so it's not like the happen all the time. I mean, I'm not going to point out who was in office seven years ago, but you know.... I think they threaten them more than they actually happen. It's all a game like you said.
And this is the problem. It is a game that should not be allowed to play, yet apparently, the American people are okay with this system.
I don't think most of them know any better. The older generation thinks the two party system is the only way that will work. The middle generations see the flaws, but feel there is no way out, and the younger generation is already being indoctrinated to accept the status quo.
The last time we had shut down was 7 years ago during Trump first presidency... The debt levels are not the issue it is just a way to negotiate political issues. Though it plays with people's lives, I am glad that I don't work for the Feds...
I think as the system stands, everyone is working for the Feds.
It sounds simple to start producing to sell to others other than the USA, but they are the ones who buy the most on the planet, so selling to those who do not consume is not easy. CHINA does not buy either, it only sells. There is no other country with enough capital to cover this, nor is there a need in the market for which countries have a product to buy, nor has the USA let its system die, it increasingly makes moves to strengthen its currency, when it feels a possible threat, at the moment at a practical level there are no real solutions or ones that can be executed.
No it is simple, it just takes time to adjust. The initial sales would be lower, so production falls, but as the rest of the world would effectively start increasing its own possibility to purchase, it would rise again. The US is the largest single consumer, but not if you factor in the rest of the world as a whole. The rest of the world could increase consumption by about 6% and cover the US. And, it could be partly financed in the short term by appropriately taxing the US companies where they earn their money. Cutting off the US of both cheap capital inflows that drive their stock prices and dividends, whilst also cutting off the supply of all the goods that the US has been getting for cheap, because the global companies want access to the largest single market.
I agree that it would be a very good idea but I do think it's much harder than you think... purely because shareholders demand constant growth and so if a company has 20% of its market in the US, any CEO that suggests dropping revenue by 20% won't last long enough to have that 20% replaced by other countries.
Private companies have a much better chance, but I still imagine it'd be hard for them to step away from the US market and allow their competitors to pick up the slack.
Unfortunately, as with everything, capitalism ruins this fantastic idea.
The idea that a country can prosper while accumulating more and more debt seems like a ticking bomb. I think we should consider about whether this system actually benefits the people or just keeps the chaos going.
It is a ticking bomb, and we are all going to be burned.
Well, not selling to the US would be tough for countries whose products are heavily purchased by Americans. Finding alternative markets would be sorta difficult. The best might be to first stop depending on the dollar for international transactions and transact in their local currencies. That's what BRICS is trying to do, I don't know how far they've gone with the idea. But I believe, in the near future, China will strip America of it's economic superpower crown. I read somewhere that the reason Britain fell back as a superpower after the second world War was because of financial exhaustion, huge debts. Because almost only Britain kept Hitler at bay. That enabled the US to take Britain's place. The same can happen to America - financial exhaustion.
Only in the short term. The world gives the US discounts in many ways because of their status as largest consumer. But, that needn't be the case. Stop giving concessions and start taxing their companies properly. Use that income to start building consumer confidence and spending, and shift the trade routes away from the US.
The people of the US are used to getting what they want whenever they want it. Look at the problems there already. Cut the consumer drug addicts off, and see what happens in the country.
They say around there, that you have to know the Underworld and that the descent is not optional, it is mandatory for everyone.
The future has already arrived and is in accelerated development and as has always happened in history, some countries lead from the educational, techno-scientific, economic, social, political and geopolitical locomotive.
Other countries go in the first, second, third locomotive and many others in the wagons and cabooses. I think that each reader can make his list and location, according to his taste.
History is chaos and order, order and chaos, stability and crisis and vice versa.The world is changing, which forces us to change our perspective and open mind.
We have to "get excited" because we are history and we are in history, until the last breath or at least, our mental health, allows it.
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A few months after the formation of our new government, President Trump imposed very high import tariffs. At that time, our country's garment industries were also facing the threat of closure. However, as the trade council focused on markets outside the United States, Trump minimized the tariff rate. Although it is said that America is the world power, today's market opportunities must be expanded. It is a serious situation that many governments make all the tough decisions because of the greed for power.
Is there a government in the world that you think is doing an okay or good job?
I'm not even sure the US has a government anymore, it's current leaders do not care about the people at all.
The system is more about keeping power than serving people. The constant fighting just weakens everything while the ordinary people pay the price. It's hard for me to call that leadership
It definitely feels like dark times over here. I don't have the fighting spirit at all, and it seems to me only the bad guys have all the guns. I'd rather just get out while the getting is good. I already missed my shot to dump my entire social security fund to buy BTC at 8K during the pandemic... RiP