• Skiluros@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    14 hours ago

    I am just curious, do you consider the reverse to be a realistic possibility?

    The US formally becoming a chauvinistic, fake-Christian, oligarch/mafia state, with no real democracy (the Russians nominally do have elections) for the next 30-50 years.

    The only reason I ask is that my centre-right friends from the US have mentioned things like “Well, we had the gilded age, and we made it through.”

    While the above is true, there are also other key historical events to consider like the great depression, global rise of fascism and WW2.

    • lath@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      12 hours ago

      Of course. People change, ideas change, needs change. What was can’t always be.