I think Trump has successfully defeated America:
- He has culturally poisoned generations of minds
- drained all our scientists and academics of research positions and funding, causing "brain drain,"
- destroyed the dollar as both the World Reserve Currency and the Petro-Dollar,
- humiliated our military in multiple entanglements,
- despite defunding every useful program, he has still managed to make the government insolvent,
- de-legitimized the Rule of Law and our Institutions,
- sabotaged the relationships with our closest allies,
- shook down the world with tariffs and elevated mafioso politics,
- created supply chain disruptions everywhere,
- exploded the price of everything.
Weep or rejoice, the Empire has fallen. What America becomes (post-empire) is something yet to be written. The rise of STRUCTURALISM must occur! We can't rely on personalities, religions, or these half-baked, social-darwinist economic delusions (i.e. Capitalism) to be the basis of society. We need to base policy on science, the greater-good, sustainability, reduction of suffering, and approach all of this holistically. We need a system that makes good use of evolutionary processes and not constant revolutionary reactions or pendulum swings. We need a system that accounts for the Human Condition, and assumes that it will be challenged by despots, corruption, and zealots... it must be resilient; incentivizing good actors and enabling good outcomes, while mitigating bad outcomes and punishing bad actors. The STRUCTURE of the system -itself- must lead to flourishing.
