The decline doesn’t stop with the US, you just can’t help but notice it because of the blowhards in control here. Freedom is under attack across the west, the only reform option is a far right supported by the US and Russia that fully intends to fix elections, their own and those countries. They will help them get elected then help them fix elections.

It will work because all of the other parties are just plutocratic sell outs, refusing to offer popular reform while we degenerate every cycle. Telling us the economic numbers are as good as ever despite the fact that no one can afford what past peoples’ did afford.

And on their own are trying to lock down society, putting ai in charge of secret social scores and the like, arguing as we speak to bring the trojan horse (and redesigned trojan sheep,) of age controls and chatcontrol in behind the walls of liberal democracy. They are making protests illegal if the government proscribes it.

The developing world will hardly prosper from it despite what the tankies might tell you. Having the US run by fascists with a bunch of fascist client states will see them sponsoring coups left and right, puppet regimes, like our new one in venezuela where they made a deal with the military for them to be the next de facto rulers after they gave up maduro and stood down for their grab mission. Civilian leadership is now a figurehead. The military will be committing more abuses as soon as they extract enough resources for an armed resistance to develop.

Back to the 1980s for the global south. No one is better off, not the least the rich supporting these coups like they can control the monster they created.