I heard a comment once that "the US government is like simultaneously being king of the world and mayor of a small town." Our leadership class is highly resentful of the American citizenry, for daring to hold them to account, while the rest of the world is their playground for whatever the ideological zeitgeist happens to be. America is not a country to them, its a means to an end.
Another major problem is the fact that the old, collapsing, barely being held together 80 year-old senators REFUSE to hand down power to a younger generation that could possibly help advance and protect the country. But they claw to whatever shards of power they have left.
@@damienchall8297our elections are crooked like USSR in the late 1980's, if you haven't figured that out with 2020 being thr major eye opener, I have little hope for you.
But then the military industrial complex couldn't make their billions. They couldn't bribe the politicians ( or conservative justices) . I do agree that we need to refocus the governments attention on the needs of its citizens rather than endless war. The problem is how do you allocate those resources?
This is in part the United States’ own fault. During the 1950s and 1960s, the US used its position to accelerate the decolonisation, particularly of the British and French Empires. This meant that the US had to intervene in areas of the globe where they hadn’t needed to as the British or French were there.
@Frankthetank-et7woi think the idea was good but it was to rushed and caused a lot of issues especially with the borders and not making sure thenew democracys taking over could stand
This is why I’m so curious about an alternate history where America returned to some form of isolationism in the 90’s, and whether that might’ve left us in a better place today
the U.S. was never an isolationist country. The U.S. can have a lot of influence through trade, cultural exchange and being a neutral country can give them the position of peace talk host. A better word is non-interventions foreign policy.
In terms of foreign policy, the US should have maintained positive relations with Russia after the Cold War and shouldn’t have expanded NATO after the Cold War, without Russia joining as well. In terms of the War on Terror, after 9/11, the US shouldn’t have pursued the Iraq War and should have focused on specifically taking out Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan instead of overthrowing the Taliban and nation-building. If the US had simply avoided the Iraq War, not only would the US not have wasted billions of dollars on an unjustified war, the US would have more peaceful relations with Russia because Russia supported the US after 9/11, but the Iraq War soured relations between the US and Russia.
As a Russian I can say that Russia also has a massive identical crisis. The 'Crazy Ivan - Ushanka for Russia' is essentially a legend among common citizens. I don't believe anyone in the country actually had that mindset since the collapse of the USSR. There are tons of minor ethnic groups flooding major cities in search of good jobs, the car industry is essentially overtaken by the Chinese (seriously half of all the cars in Moscow are Chinese) and even the general feeling of pride for the nation is fading. When I, a Russian, say the word 'Russia', what comes to my mind is a great country that never was. There is great potential for a very strong national spirit, but because of how the government is structured and the country's geopolitical position that spirit simply isn't there.
@@Lemiz1372 A actual intelligent and logically valid self critique of how he sees Russias problems. I know youre used to the typical low IQ vatnik “Russia is the best and there is no problems” so you cant even comprehend being humble and using critical thinking to address problems in your nation, perhaps maybe to get the population aware to fix them? If you ignore problems they only grow slowly like a cancer
Even with a common American identity, Americans are naturally isolationist and have only been involved in the world due to power hungry politicians creating crisis after crisis and pumping the fear at home to force people to keep involved in the rest of the world. Of course, we could still be a superpower while being isolationist. Pushing out sift power doesn't require the majority of people nor the government to be involved in the world. We can still maintain a large nuclear arsenal and a large Navy with the ability to fight a war in multiple theaters simultaneously. We can also be an industrial powerhouse that sells to the world without being involved. Interventions, police actions and wars throughout the world have nothing to do with being a superpower. That is all about politicians abusing their positions to misuse our power to enrich themselves at the cost of Americans blood and treasure and the blood and treasure of those who they want to eliminate/control.
The United States destiny is more middle-kingdom China, rather than the bizarre trade empire (British Empire) security empire (Rome) mashup it's leadership desires.
Maybe true. James K. Polk's seizure of half of Mexico's land was rather unpopular at home, and had Mexico won at Coahuila it's likely he would've been impeached.
Nah a lets be Honest, with all the hate America has built around the world, America can't afford to loose hegemony as it will only mean death, sooner oe later.
I would have to disagree. As a foreigner, the US's power seems mainly to come out of the Key currency status and that comes out of two things, economy and military. Key currency status of the dollar is why the US is a superpower IMO. And to protect this key currency status of the dollar, the US needs to be interventionist and not isolationist. The Iraq war was one example for the United States to maintain this status (cause petrodollar), and we can see such intervention for this probably not as isolationist. So yeah, making the US isolationist would probably be a bad idea and worsen the current situation of the average American.
When you skip past "both parties" you miss the primary dysfunction in our political system -- two corrupt corporate oligarchy factions will constantly put their corrupt designs ahead of the common good. Either they are broken up or the country will be.
trump and new Republican goals and talking points are about destroying the corrupt part of our government system. The corrupt oligarchy is why Trump is constantly insulted on mainstream media and why they keep trying to arrest him over crimes he didn't commit to keep him from destroying the established political oligarchy that makes up so called safe mainstream politicians
@@margotpreston But if the nation were to break up into distinct entities, they would likely need to learn how to get by without relying on each other’s help. I could understand the nation breaking up into parties, but I could not imagine these parties wishing to govern their respective regions as independent nations.
@@aycc-nbh7289 A political party splitting isn't the same thing as a country fracturing. This country did not fracture when the Whigs crumbled, or the Democratic-Republicans split, or when the Federalist party faded from relevance and it will not fracture when the Republican party quits its death throes. Because if this country did split every time a political party changed, because that is all party splits are, the US would be in some real deep shit. A party splitting is not going to result in the US fracturing, or devolve into a civil war. The government will still function, majority rural states will still get the welfare they need to survive. Not to say there won't be any no strife, there absolutely will be. Just that there won't be a collapse the way you seem to be fretting over.
We can already see the US shifting to its old isolationist roots. It was accelerated with Trump's "America first" approach and Biden seems to be carrying on this narrative just with more guile. I think America is realizing that being the global police worked for stabilizing the world but by taking that role its neglected itself. Maybe I'm too optimistic but if there's one country that will make it another 100 years, America has the potential and means to do it.
American people aren't strong enough (or educated enough) to reverse the degradation The only way your country can get out of this mess is to defeat the xenophobic mindset and embrace what made America great......welcoming and embracing the world's brightest minds
Were entering the space age. Im hoping that if the world needs one nation only it will be The USA. Alternatively every continent becomes a state for the Earth home planet. I dont know how turbulent The world stage would be when countries start absorbing eachother for interstellar new order
I‘m from Russia and I sincerely hope that the American people will succeed in making their country better, as my people will do in our country. There is much to be done, but no one needs an unstable world plagued by one crisis after another. Time will pass, and only the ones making their country a better place will have a chance of manifesting in the new world. Respect to everyone working for the well-being of their homeland. Let’s hope for understanding and cooperation between our nations in the future, this will be the only way to master the challenges the coming days will bring 🤝.
your country needs to hold to account war criminals and dismantle your empire and try to replace it with a functioning democracy based on the rule of law, Don't try to equivocate. Your future will be one of disintegration, reparations and hostility by every single one of your neighbors. For god's sake you even managed to get the Finns to join NATO!
Ive heard some terrible things spoken about Russia and i doubt most bad things... fog of war is a terrible thing. I heard Russia is doing great having its own industrial complex, i hope America starts making things again in the near future too
I agree with many of the points laid out in this, however i must disagree with the idea that america will lose its position on global stage for several reasons. The first being that the only two nations which have any ability to challenge the US are geographicly hindered and lack stable population demagraphics and economy. China is heavily reliant on foreign imports to power its economy. Meanwhile Russia is a empire in decline and has an economy devolving from industrialized to resource extraction. The second is that the US has been establishing secondary alliances, which can stand up to both of the above powers without direct us involvement. However, this is in its early stages. In addition, the invasion of Ukraine has led to defense spending increases and rearment of European nations. Lastly, the US is shifting slowly back to domestic focuses, albeit painfully. This can be seen with the Ukraine war and how there is vocal minority that speaks against US aid of Ukraine.
You are under the belief that only Russia or China will be a enemy combatant against your country 😂 You would have a headache if you knew just how many "friends" are sick of Americans mucking around in their domestic politics...... All your overseas bases aren't there to protect the country they're in......it's so the Americans can have a forward deployment base/occupied territory
When you care more about the safety and well-being of foreign nations and people then you do for your own citizens, you don’t deserve to have that power or the loyalty of your people. Put your house in order before you run off to fix your neighbors house.
Ok, sure, the problem is that there’s always going to be problems no matter what. That’s like saying “sorry, we know the Jews are getting butchered in Europe by the millions but since we have segregation/Jim Crow and a host of other issues we can’t intervene”.
@@theeccentrictripper3863 referring more to the of my house is torn apart and your house is torn apart why fix yours Belford I fix mine. Leaky roof and fires aside, we can’t help others if we are stabbing ourselves in back or to put more fine a point on it why ignore our own while help others?
The issue, though, is that the neighbor in this analogy has a mortar that can easily blow up one’s own house and all one would have is, at worst, one room that is already ruined.
@@theeccentrictripper3863 yes but if the United States went back to isolation and neutrality literally about 99% of problems would go away. I’m an American Nationalist so I’m literally comically patriotic but America was meant to be isolated and not find monsters to hunt, we destabilized the Middle East for no reason and have just caused more kids to be born with a burning hatred. We shouldn’t have been in WWI, WWII, the Cold War, etc
That's why I think another internal conflict is inevitable. We'll either come out of it stronger and more unified than ever, or we'll be a disunited mess of seperate kingdoms vying for power over the carcus of a once great nation.
I just hope i witness it/be alive to be able to study it. Not out of a spite for America, but to bear witness to such a momentous event in human history
My favorite political author is Pat Buchanan. He's always been vocal about meddling abroad, and focusing on putting local notional matters first and foremost. Call it isolationism if you want, but at least our resources would be reinvested into our own country.
This is easy to say now but in 1947 there were very legitimate threats that needed to be checked. Imagine if the US just crawled back in it’s hole after WWII and let the USSR and China run amok in a beaten down world, the world now would look insane
It would happen way before 2200 Whites are projected to be a minority by 2040. My guess is it lasts for another 2 censuses, following Whites gaining minority status. So if anything it would collapse around 2060.
One problem, the modern U.S. identity crisis isn’t a regional one. It’s actually largely homogenous between two sides both who want to win and take control of America. I largely also don’t think the US is full of religious nations, areas with biggest religions, said religions are probably only a plurality. The internet has only homogenized the country further but again, it’s gone from loads of coexisting identities to two political ideologies of which only one can win or both merge. The transition from a heterogeneous country culturally to homogenous. America is an empire today and is now finally becoming a nation, however the processes is extremely tense. All those icons earlier on was more a dress up to actual things. Kind of like France in the early 1800s, or Germany and japan in the late 1800s. The only actual sub American nationalities anymore are probably Texas and California, but these are being wiped out. Also if you wanna look at “what it means to be American” you have to ask foreigners. We think of Russians as Ivan but they are almost 35% Muslim. There are also very large differences between north and south Chinese. Russians and Chinese both know the complexity of their identity as well. Same with French which has Bretons, Norman’s, Occitan, and Frankish. All are very diverse as well. You as an American need to ask foreigners what their view is, which is usually a white American with a 1/7 chance of being black. That’s about it. You can’t look internally while looking everywhere else externally. Citing stereotypes then overcomplexifying your identity is a dumb idea. Whites are a dominant ethnicity, and even with immigration, that probably won’t change. If you’re going on about how america is gonna collapse about diversity, what about the growing Muslim and African populations in Europe, or the fact Canada is much more abhorrent with the idea of wiping out its nation? Do they not matter? Canada is much more regionally and culturally strenuous than the US. The US at least is killing off mass immigration unlike Canada. America is in its equivalent of the social war right now, when old structures of rome broke down in Italy with its Italian allies causing a mass revolt. What happened is the local Italian identities were wiped out. Expect the US government to try and wipe out the regional identities, like france, China, and rome did before. The internet has already killed off most accents in favor of what is really a Midwest accent, mixed with Californian, black, and southern loan words. Young Southerners barely have an accent anymore .We are not seeing the US as an empire die, we’re seeing the sub nations die. It’s a tragedy, I don’t welcome it but they are.
Also, you're forgetting one thing, LGBTQ agenda, it's killing everyone, and now they are forcing on churches, religion place, small children, and normal family. This is getting pathetic and worse at the same time.
To your final statement about it being the sub-nations dying rather than the empire dying, I would say that in that situation it would not be the death of an empire, but rather the BIRTH of an empire! It may be the death of a REPUBLIC, however. The empire will replace the republic.
Going forward what will be important is not regional identities, it will be ideas. If the people wish to be free in the future, the US must split along the lines of ideology.
Asking foreigners what it means to be American is just as fallacious and erroneous as asking Americans what it means to be Russian or French. When foreigners accuse Americans of overcomplicating their identity and overlaying their regional, ethnic, and cultural diversity and reduce Americans to just, "white people" they do this from the perspective of an outsider and a foreigner no matter how many (mostly Southern California based) Hollywood movies they've seen. Complaining that we oversimplify Russian identity despite the country being 35% percent Muslim but then turning around and saying that we should listen to foreigners when they do the same to us is a false balance a double standard weighted against Americans. Perhaps instead we should listen to what one another has to say instead of oversimplifying everything as things are rarely as simple as they seem.
I think America's greatest strength is that it is not a defined ethnostate. You see this difficulty in stagnant European countries like Sweden or France who fail to assimilate immigrants that can never truly belong to that nation. Anyone can become an American, which allows the US to import talent from all over the world, that brings wealth and business to this country and enriches your average American Joe.
@richardcostello360 I have never even heard of this anti-FSU stuff. Where I live in America the number one group of immigrants disliked the most is anyone who is Muslim or middle eastern looking. There was a Muslim photographer from Trinidad who used to hire one of my family members to work at his booth for events, he said if there wasn’t a white friend people would be too scared to come up to him. And this is in blue America. The number two is anyone that is Hispanic, especially if they work in trades. They are seen as job thieves by a lot of people. I’ve never heard of any other group that comes over here being disliked. And me and my family have known & met people from the FSU and Eastern Bloc. People don’t dislike them.
@@richardcostello360 Its not like that is particularly new. In the 19th century we had much more opposition to migrants. Just look at the chinese exclusion act or the no nothing party.
@richardcostello360 There is no broad xenophobia here. There is simply dislike (or fear) of certain groups by certain people because they get influenced by news media and thus stereotype them.
To say that Russia or China have some one “core” defined identity as opposed to the US is a massive stretch. It’s like the author tried to compare the insider view on the US identity to the outside view of Russian and Chinese identities. Being from Russia myself I personally do not imagine Ivan in ushanka hat when thinking about a Russian person. He is there among the identities yes, but I also think about many other groups which would rightfully say that they are “true” Russians. In Russian we even have two words for just saying Russian, one has more ethnic and Slavic connotation (more in the Ivan in ushanka hat territory) and Russian in much broader civic, cultural and may be religious sense. Based on what little I know about China they also have a wide diversity of ethnicities who speak different mutually unintelligible languages, who however call themselves Chinese, and probably all have different ideas of what being Chinese is. All this goes to say that overfocusing on your own problems can make them seem exclusive and exceptional therefore barring you from learning from others’ experience dealing with the similar thing. Though the video is pretty interesting. Just a little thing I thought was important to point out.
@@theeccentrictripper3863 the vast majority of people in those countries belong to one ethnic and racial group, and they speak one language for the most part. We literally speak so many languages, and we have so many different races in this country. It’s not even funny there’s no way that we are gonna hold ourselves together like this.
@@stevenjames6830 Similarly the Japanese people are something like 98% or more ethnic Japanese. There are VERY few immigrants in Japan. Most of the immigrants that do exist in Japan are to my knowledge Korean. Although Korean culture is a distinct culture, it still shares many similarities to Japanese culture.
Or maybe Karen might complain to the manager and have him restore the US as a superpower cause China-India bad. Gandhi preacher non violence, Karen preach yell until you get your way!
America was never meant to be "one nation". Most of the founding fathers and original states would not have agreed to the constitution if that was its intent.
And since then, it has never truly have been one nation. Nor should it be politically. Breaking up is by far the best thing the US could do. Along with a complete ending of the imperial practices
@@therecalcitrantseditionist3613 If I had to ask, why do you think that would improve the average American's live. Because they shouldn't have to sacrifice the benefits of a united nation because you heard a nine-minute video LMAO
@CptTexas1 I absolutely concur, the biggest failure of the United States as a whole (not along sectional/regional lines) was not adhering to the 10th amendment for state sovereignty first and foremost. After Lincoln forcefully centralized the entirety of the nation by making war on the South which had seceded for preserving protecting and defending state sovereignty, state sovereignty in entirety had ceased to exist, as everyone before then took it for granted, look at states as independent republics like mini countries within a larger one (Vermont, Texas, California etc) even New England states (and some southern ones) like New York and Massachusetts as well as North Carolina and Virginia had secession clauses in their state constitutions and/or had once been independent republics, unfortunately the outcome of the loss of the war for Southern independence and events leading up to such changed all of that for the North and South, this is exactly why all sections were centralized and forced into one organic unit as we have in our time and why they wrote in the federal supremacy clause into the Constitution. After all the states created the federal government, but the power dynamic shifted due to circumstances and flipped the other way.
@@therecalcitrantseditionist3613Complete end to American domination globally. If we disunite an eastern will take our place and we will all pay the price for it. You have no foresight
I would say yes. I cannot picture a Civil War ever happening again, but I can picture a cultural shift. That is nothing new, though. The U.S. goes through culture shifts every 50 or so years. Even during the shifts, it is still diverse. That is nothing new, though. If the U.S. is not experiencing hardship, then I would say it is going soft and risk falling apart. Even during are supposed "era of good feelings", times were still not the best. We go through different eras, but again, this is nothing knew. The current era we are going through is very mundane compared to some of the past eras. If the U.S. is still here 100 years from now, it would not surprise me.
I agree. Civil War gets thrown around a lot, but only a very small minority of people want that. If you asked a hundred people on the street if they would fight a civil war, not only would every single one of those people be confused why you're even asking that in the first place, but none of them would want to. Even the gun-enthusiasts who are chronically on the internet who say they will start a civil war are lying to make themselves feel better. No way an actual civil war starts any time soon. The Jan 6th thing that Trump tried is by far the worst we'll have to deal with.
You made a great point that the UK passed on its superpower status to the US. This is also somewhat true of Russia (in theory) that it would see itself die to see regional blocs like NATO, CSTO, ASEAN, and the African Union consolidate instead of two competing powers. Now its just BRICS vs G7 just as in the cold war.
Brics is composed of countries that are entirely opposed to one another. Any faction with both China and India in it is doomed to be incapable of getting anything done, for example, since individually outside of Brics they hate each other and are at each others' throats. Same goes for the rest of the new members coming in. Brics is doomed.
The UK was only forced to pass the mantle because the US sped the process, such as during the Suez Crisis. Pax Britannia was the most peaceful period in world history. America has for the most part made a mess of things.
America certainly had an identity by the time of the early 20th century. Our ancestors were a nation of Christian, European pioneers, who carved out a better existence through blood toil and tears. They were aware of the shortcomings of European centralization and the entrenched aristocracies, while building upon the various positive factors of said cultures and institutions. Like you said, this was thrown into a complete tailspin when the US was thrusted into the roll of the global policeman; wanting to better associate itself with its many satellite states, the US sacrificed its cultural identity at the alter of global hegemony.
Christian European pioneers, you say, carving out a better existence through blood, toil and tears? If by that you mean they carved a better existence for THEMSELVES by invoking the blood, toil, and tears of African-American slaves, Chinese migrants, and Native Americans, then I suppose you'd be correct -- if we completely ignored the needs of everyone else in the country. I don't know about you, but I grew up with the idea that America was fundamentally a Melting Pot. All races and backgrounds would unite in the name of freedom and prosperity. That's the real American dream, not whatever white nationalist crap people want to insist this country's about. And I say that as a full blooded white southerner, too.
It will, but it will have lots of tensions. Maybe even more than now, as the US is likely going to end up territorially expanding somewhere in the Pacific, Central America, and Asia.
If America tried to "expand " it would find that their friends would be blocking them 😂 The world is sick of Americans trying to "own" everything that isn't nailed down
Weird imperialism is weird because ima guess based of that you arent a fan of immigration and that we should secure the border or something. So why expand the nations borders to where those people live idk seems counter intuitive
At the beginning of the Roman Republic, it was very clear what it meant to be a ‘Roman’ or at least the ideal of one. There was an ethnic foundation required. On top of that, there was a series of virtues and principles one must adhere to. By the end of the Empire what did it mean to be a Roman? Virtually nothing, one within the boundaries of Rome. In the early days of the American Republic it was very clear what it meant to be an American. In 2023, what does it mean to be an American? It’s becoming more opaque every day. I’ve had a premonition for over a decade now that American, will one day be an extinct nationality/ethnicity the way Roman is today.
This idea that there has to be one straight line of ethnic and national identity is total bollocks. It's why you had the french declaring Charlemagne to be french, while the germans said he was german and even went further down claiming Arminius, a guy who fought Rome around 9(!) AD/AC. Charlemagne was neither german or french and Arminius might have been "germanic" but certainly not german. More recent you have the split between being german or austrian, that wasn't really a thing at even 1900, austrians were german as well. Their identity shifted away from being german due to the national myth created between and after the World Wars.
Any citizen who contributes to the whole, waves the flag, while respecting others' beliefs-privacy even if not their own and demands reciprocation. That is an American. For me, at least.
Anyone who believes in the dream of our country along with the points the person above me made, is an American. We are not a people united by ethnicity, but rather ideals.
@platypusrecords3788 The Naturalization Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 103, enacted March 26, 1790) was a law of the United States Congress that set the first uniform rules for the granting of United States citizenship by naturalization. The law limited naturalization to "free White person(s) ... of good character", thus excluding Native Americans, indentured servants, enslaved people, free black people, and later Asians. America was built by and for Europeans. Anything else is a lie
everyone spouts vaguely-sounding historical bullshit to back up their claims The Illyrians saved the Roman Empire. Also, if a fatal flaw takes, I dunno, 500 years to cause your decline, maybe it wasn't a flaw.
I think I may disagree here. Seems like any Empire, kingdom or nation, regardless of how long they exist will face crisis upon introduction of new demographics and religions. You instantly create tension with change. Africa is a good current view on how multiple ethnicity in single countries can cause war.
Only if dominant group cannot assimilate others into their culture. Only culture is really relevant, because this is the only thing that forms nation and ethnicity. And even then other cultures are not necessarily oppressed, there is just one dominant state forming. Honestly USA is the best example with not a single historical ethnic group making more than 20% of the population, but still having this state forming Anglo-American culture that unites all peoples
Muttmerica is a mutt nation since the arrival of the Irish, then Italians, Chinese, Germans, Japanese, Norwegians and so on. That's not what is causing that country to collapse. What is killing the US is the poison known as democracy, which they have been drinking sip by sip since their founding.
"How could America understand the needs of other countries if it can't even understand itself?" _THE_ quote of all time. We need to slip back into Isolationism. We can barely keep ourselves intact so it's gonna only get harder and harder for us to baby the rest of the world as the decades go by. We need to ween Europe off our teet while forging our own identity. We can't tell France to quell their uprisings in Paris when we had an entire summer of secessions and riots not too long ago.
That sounds a lot like ignorance to me. The USA hasn't really had a lot of issues over time, partially because it's quite literally the easiest place to make a successful country. You have the infrastructure with the rivers like Misssissipi, almost every natural resource in existence, 2 oceans, no real national threats nearby, tons of fertile ground. If this wasn't the case, no way the USA would still exist today. Basically all issues the USA is facing are self inflicted, because you won the lottery in every other regard.
America isn’t going anywhere. The economies are too interdependent. The culture is only homogenizing further due to everyone consuming the same media and people moving states constantly in the millions. I genuinely don’t buy that the regions have distinct enough cultures to be their own countries and I say this as a Texan. Any breakdown would be more similar to a Chinese warlord era than a Yugoslav breakdown due to everyone being similar enough that one nation makes sense and is optimal
Regardless of how it happens, I have high hopes for us. We've gone through some tough times, and I believe this is no different. As long as we stay united and dont drift into civil war, we should be fine.
@yujirohanmaisbestdad that is very ture, but I'm fairly optimistic for this country, and maybe if many more where too, we could make a difference. But where all too busy yelling at eachother. Until we stop fighting eachother we will never progress, but I have hope, think some people should too.
I don't agree with your notion that Americans don't have a shared identity. When Americans meet each other overseas, they recognize each other, and other nations' people recognize us, too, despite the differences you highlighted.
Inacurate. The US does have a national identitry around its different pillars. First is econmics and its natural logistics. Second, the one from many. It relies on a collective identity of the decendants of migrants, a common language, food ways, capitalistic economy, move,ment to regions for jobs, common rights and form of decision making. This overwhelms the regional differences along with extensive internal migration. Re current affairs, the US is going through another of its cyclical political donabrooks like it has since 1675. It wil resolve itself internally, the same as the past 7.
The Naturalization Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 103, enacted March 26, 1790) was a law of the United States Congress that set the first uniform rules for the granting of United States citizenship by naturalization. The law limited naturalization to "free White person(s) ... of good character", thus excluding Native Americans, indentured servants, enslaved people, free black people, and later Asians
I’m a German American! Took a dna test and I’m 78% German from the region of Bavaria. It matches the stories at my family reunions which I thought was neat! My lineage came over in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.
In my opinion, America's lack of a central identity is the source of its imperial appeal. The problem with large, homogeneous empires is that their enforcement of cultural homogeneity causes them to become wildly unpopular with conquered peoples, creating a ton of instability across the territory. America having no central identity beyond nationalistic ideals is by design, so that it can stay together despite the differences that were there from the beginning. No one can agree what the quintessential American looks like, but a large portion of Americans see themselves as fitting the mold. The US' real issues stem from their insane geography. The union is divided by a harsh mountain range spanning all the way from the north to the south, and another one that almost reaches those levels. There is no water route through the entire country, requiring that all national trade have an overland component. Anyone looking to get from west to east has to travel through 1000 miles of flat, dry plains. Much of the coast is swampland or cliffs. If it weren't for the trans-continental railroad, this nation would have been split in half centuries ago.
The Naturalization Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 103, enacted March 26, 1790) was a law of the United States Congress that set the first uniform rules for the granting of United States citizenship by naturalization. The law limited naturalization to "free White person(s) ... of good character", thus excluding Native Americans, indentured servants, enslaved people, free black people, and later Asians
I disagree. We do and have had a national identity. I’ve had this debate here on RUclips for years now. The reason that so many Americans aren’t aware of any common American identity or even of American culture (the bedrock of national identity) Despite being born and raised here. Is because starting in the 1960’s liberal college professors began to de emphasize the American cultural identity. And emphasize multiculturalism. This has led many Americans to falsely believe that multiculturalism is our culture and identity. Which is nonsense. We are not and never were supposed to be a hodgepodge of different groups with their own separate and gatekeeping cultures. For that is not a nation. Theodore Roosevelt certainly had a strong sense of the American cultural identity. So did the founders and Andrew Jackson. And that’s what we need to restore. We are currently in a war for our national identity. It’s pro America and American culture vs anti America and multiculturalism.
@@whathell6t The melting pot is understood as immigrants from many nations/cultures, shedding cultural ties to those countries and assimilating into American culture.
@arkady7739 First let us define culture. It is the customs, traditions, symbols, art, sport, etc. of a specific group, tribe or nation. Also it’s not about what is American culture to me personally. Our culture isn’t an opinion it’s a fact that these things are aspects of our culture. So some examples of American culture in no particular order are. 1.) Speaking English specifically American English. 2.) The American accent which is an amalgamation of different regional accents such as the east and west coast, MidWest and Southern. All different yet easily recognizable as American. 3.) Baseball a.k.a the American pastime. 4.) Football. 5.) Mickey Mouse and Disney. 6.) Country music and the American Cowboy. 7.) Marvel and DC comics. Most notably Superman. Who stands for truth, justice and the American way. 8.) Uncle Sam. 9.) Tall tales such as Paul Bunyan, Pecos bill and John Henry. 10.) Food such as Hamburgers, chicken fried steak, pecan pie, cornbread, biscuits and gravy etc. And these are just off the top of my head.
Yeah it would be great if more countries starting lifting at least SOME of their own weight. Come on NATO Members its only 2%. Americans ourselves pay upwards of 40% in taxes
In my opinion, the Identity of the US is not defined by geography, ethnicity or religion, (because most of them were europeans fleeing from persecution) they united in the thought of freedom and self-governance. The USs core foundings based on the idea that every people is equal and has a place in the nation, so for an identity we have to search elsewhere, by the founding laws and practising of livestyles f.e. The US never saw that really and tried to establish a national identity. All the problems of racism is traceable to this problem. The recent developements to lash out even more against everything not being "american" hurts the country even more. IF the US wants to stay united, they need to to focus on reunification of the cultures and ethnicities. Otherwise, the country will be thorn apart by Racism and culture seperation movements of the regarding people. If I thing american I think of the dream. No person, no culture, no ethicity, I think of the promise to found a well life with work.
I saw another comment and I agree, I think one of the major problems, is that the Avearge Age of the leadership in the US is over 60. We know that old people no matter the generation are less likely to accept change. People in general think it was great when I was a kid or young adult, lets do that again, but the World has moved on. Technology has moved on. Hell there were congressional hearings about tik tok, about Facebook and the people asking the questions, didnt even have a basic understanding of how the internet or how wifi works. The US needs to set an Age limit on who can be in Congress and who can be President. Make it 60 or 65, the fall of the US will be caused by old people not wanting to give up power, look at Mitch two freezes on camera and signs of declining health and he wont retire. Then you have Extreme Christen Groups trying to turn the US into a Theocracy, and they are gaining power.
You know what is "screwing your country" right 😂 It's the fact as a society you're incredibly xenophobic.......which means everything from culture and arts to sciences and defence is stagnant Your society used to welcome and embrace the world's brightest minds that enriched your country.......the sad state your country is in is solely caused by that
@@LuciusAurelius69 It’s such a small amount of people relatively I just don’t understand how it’s relevant politically honestly. Seems to just be used for political talking points, remember the 2018 midterms? Everyone on both sides was huffing up a storm about that caravan then they weren’t mentioned once after the election.
I think that speaks to the heart of what we here in the Commonwealth Realms are hearing as "First Nations" nationalism, what it really is is a debate between whether or not we, as agrarian settler nations want to be propositional or something more intrinsic? Considering how unnatural our States are. I'd say the latter will win out eventually. Hence the folly in Pan-Anglo Imperialism. Case and point, I'd prefer to see an independent and robust New South Wales then a strong and independent "Australia". There is no "Australia" anymore. And even if there were, it would suck, and be woke.
@@MonsieurDean Hate to break it to you, but it's because the British Empire was a trade empire, more the Londinium empire. For the sake of economic interests they'd line every English man, woman, and child to the slaughter; it was never about spreading "Englishness" to the world.
Balkanising into tiny states instead of uniting is just about the stupidest thing the Anglosphere could do. There's a reason hegemons like to break up countries into several successors, and it's not because the successor states become robust or stronger for it.
In short the United States bit off more than we could chew and we're paying the price for it now unless we change our course right now I don't have high hopes for us.
@@phoenixfulcrum5734legit would rather get struck down by nukes then live under a dictator. The American people have to put differences aside and arm up if anyone like the Austrian painter somehow gets power
Americans, we need to stop viewing ourselves as separate “ethnicities”. The rest of the world views us as one group! Try telling someone actually from Ireland or France or Japan that you’re Irish or French or Japanese because your great-great grandparents were, they’ll laugh in your face! We need the collective social responsibility of being one group. We’re all Americans guys, that’s the way forward…
Getting involved in World War I was likely the worst mistake the United States has ever made in its history and I think we are still experiencing the consequences because of US Allies' dependency on American protection.
@@richardcostello360 Not as much in 1900s aside from the Spanish-American war and other conflicts. And don't use pronouns like "you" because none of us in Modern Day has anything to do with the conflicts back then. And that does not even refute my point.
You realise the only reason that the USA has to prop up NATO is because it sped up the decline of Britain? The USA strongarmed the UK during the Suez Crisis, with the purpose of dismantling faith in the Empire, which is exactly what happened. Britain would have been happy to continue Pax Britannia as it had done for centuries.
None of them have the amount of global clout the US does, be it through economy or military force. The EU specifically is also very bureaucratic and slow in the way it handles many things and I doubt a common military force would be of much use, even if one is somehow created despite the differences between its member states, due to these very differences. For example, would Hungary or Poland vote in favor of a common EU military force providing access to abortion services in countries that are more restrictive of them, notably Hungary and Poland?
No but it's geography basically gurantees that it is a superpower. Just because peeps are like "I STRONGLY DISLIKE OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM!!!" doesn't mean that the us will collapse or even increase the likely hood of it collapsing or atleast I think so.
All I can say this is the best video out there describing what’s going today. Side note, I 100% agree if the US does not give up its global empire, or the ambitions of it, then the collapse is all but certain.
There has only been a downward trend in politics since like 2016. 2016 actually wasn't so bad compared to now but I think that's when it started. It's like a circus now, except a circus is supposed to be fun. Sometimes there's disrespect between different followers of party members, which results in physical assaults, serious property damage etc. (Insurrection is one example.) Reps the states have voted in seem so unhinged. Like they belong in a psych ward.
My entire life, I've always felt that I can't do anything unless someone says it's okay. I have never felt free. I've never felt truly happy and independent. All I feel is a sense of disgust towards my existence and that everyone thinks I owe them my life simply for being born on "their" land.
Its sad hearing people getting indoctrinated into hating their country theyre born in, hating their skin theyre born in, hating their sex theyre born in...
You need to reject the premise that you were born on "their" land. All nations have conquered territory from others. No different than what America did.
"and will require intelligent decision-making from both politicians and the public." You know, you could just say we're screwed, you don't need to sugarcoat it.
This isn't accurate. The US isn't like other countries in that our national identity isn't based on ethnicity or religion as you talked about. We are all unitited by our fanatical love of freedom and democracy above all else. We also have a culture that has been exported to the rest of the world. We always have been and always will be a very unique country. Naturally, thst uniqueness will lead to problems that other countries don't face because as you said they are more homogeneous than us, but that differing of perspectives, our melting pot of people's can be both a weakness and our greatest strength.
The Roman Empire went through a lot of ups and downs. I think America will still be better than most places in the developed world for some time to come.
If that's the case why are the world's best and brightest minds not flooding to your shores in the last 30 years 😅 Your country used to be a land of wealth and freedom.......that has now changed to Europe 🇪🇺
@@richardcostello360 Europe is the land of wealth and freedom? Our poorest states have salaries of your richest countries. Germany gonna be able to manufacture stuff with green tech because you guys let a little Swedish girl make you feel guilty? Europe is going to have a Syria style failed state in Ukraine compounding upon the refugee crisis. Oh European demographics as a whole are terrible. Y’all don’t have a lot of young people. Maybe France and Turkey. Europe has so much work to do. I wouldn’t gloat. You’re up a creek.
@@richardcostello360it’s the other way around actually. Europe is becoming more and more secluded to immigrants while the usa imports the best. It’s the reason why our gdp is so high. Europe can never compete in productivity
America was never a single country. When are people going to come to terms with this? We are currently 50 individual States (plus territories), united only by a common federal constitution. We need to decentralize and democratize. It’s not worth trying to act like something we never were.
It's very unlikely. For a Nation to flourish and last, people inside need to have a set of values and dominant language to unite them. This shouldn't be a surprise since countless people, empires and nations have tried the Diversity is our Strength card for over 10,000 years. How many of them remain? None. I love how people try to counter my argument by asking what about The Roman Empire? which collapsed over 1,500 years ago due to Diversity, Corruption, Endless Wars, Lack of Allegiance etc
Not as we know it, I wouldn't think. But it will persist in some form, I'm sure of that much. Whether well and truly, as either a stronger and more united republic or an unstable, dying hell, or as an idea in the minds of the people of a number of successor states, I can't say. Time, as is often said, will tell.
I think the next logical step is a unified North American nation. We share so much in common with the UMS (Mexico) and Canada. So many of our citizens are of Mexican descent. Our border with Canada is one of the least patrolled on earth just because of our closeness not to mention the cultural similarities in the Midwest with Canada. So many of us are so hellbent on not seeing that happen but people need to realize that in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t matter if you’re from the US, or China, etc. Uniting NA would benefit all of us. All 3 countries could exist as political regions in a new nation and then comes the states and provinces, cities, towns, etc. Imagine what that would do for say people in Mexico dealing with cartels. Imagine the opportunities that could be created for the poor. All 3 countries have strengths that could possibly address their weaknesses.
@@jst4572 I'd love to see something like that come to fruition. It'd be incredible to see, after the wild ride that the twentieth and twenty first centuries have been so far.
@@jst4572I actually like the idea of a North American Union, I just don’t like it with the current U.S. government in charge, also I would prefer it to be decentralized and allow for self rule and autonomy and I don’t mean just at the national level but at the state and local level. Actually, maybe redrawing state borders from 50 states to 13 Commonwealths. Canada and Mexico could do this to if they want.
There could possibly be another internal conflict in the US but I honestly believe there are too many current US citizens who wouldn't be able to survive long enough without insulin and fast food to fight for an extended period of time.
I would challenge this notion with while there are various cultures/perspectives in America, there seems to be a general American identity of 'you can write your own destiny without anyone or anything's consent'. Essentially a 'Don't tell me what to do' mentality. The methodology of protecting that right may vary by area (regional, state, national, or global level protection) but the goal of protecting the ability to write your own destiny is the core of the American identity. What do you think?
For me it seems like states like California and Texas have strong national identities and spheres of influence while places like Idaho and Iowa would probably just be swallowed up by their more populated neighbors and become a region of it. I honestly hope for a peaceful transition like this not unlike the collapse of the Soviet Union. But I feel like it can easily turn into the collapse of Yugoslavia, too.
We all speak the same language the only Part of the country that has a independence party is Alaska the us won’t balkanize we have survived far worse and have come out fine
America has an identity. It is unique to the world and not having a solid identity is its identity. Land of the free and home of the brave. Do not piss her off or the people will put there differences aside and fk you up.
I think politicizing the history of the territories in the United states has been its biggest problem. Many states have their own identity, but because the federal government politicizes the idea that some states will "be racist" and choose oppression. I see states as almost their own country. It feels more balanced to view the country as a confederation. (Which doesnt mean slavery is good or supported.) The problem is the stigma. Ill put it to you this way. Im willing to trust the federal government as much as theyre willing to entrust states with more soverign powers. People in idaho are too far away to appeal to DC and show up at the capital. Thus, the original reason for independence from a centralized government occurs again. This time, its the federal government out of touch with the needs of its people. Not the english monarchy.
you yanks keep getting your own history wrong... the English monarchy wasn't what you yanks rebled over... it was the English Parliament legislating for you yanks, without consent.
How would giving state governments more power improve anything? It gives states more leeway to ignore federal law and interfere with each-other. It’s already happening with Palestine not being mentioned in history textbooks because they’re all made in Texas, where educational material acknowledging Palestine is illegal.
States are starting to show they are soverign. Laws are becoming more extreme from 1 state to the next. Texas is almost at war with the Fed at the southern border.
A varied "national identity" isn't the thing leading to America's decline and American imperialism actually made this country even more wealthy and powerful than it would have been otherwise. Our problem is that our political system's predatory nature has been allowed to be turned on Americans by the institutionalized system of bribery that has been formed since WW2. Our fundamental institutions in this country have been hijacked by coorperate interests that see this country the same way they see every other country, capital to exploit until depletion. If this country is to survive we need people in power who actually have an interest in the continued survival of this country.
The main issue is the war hawk mentality that permeated this country since the end of WWII and trying to shape countries in our model (something that has statically not gone well) and has only drained our blood and gold, I agree that turning inward to tackle the domestic issues we face would be the better strategy, in fact we could have had the chance to do that very thing in the 90's after the fall of the USSR however, we ourselves created another serpent whom arguably maybe even worse in the form of China, which we had a large hand in bringing into global power no thanks to Clinton advocating their admission into the WTO and then our increasing dependency on them from then on, whom and while I don't have concrete proof has likely contributed to the erosion of our society via soft power means. At this point like in the case of the USSR we have very little other choice than to stand as opposition to them however, the crucial bit is how we got about it and that likewise involves the inward strategy as well, we need to completely break free of China (my preference would be treating them the same way we do Iran or North Korea) and revive domestic industries that have long since withered after the 90's and will help to alleviate many of the economic and domestic stresses we are currently facing, we can still exert foreign power but we need to do it via soft power means not unlike we did during the gross majority of the Cold War and through diplomacy with like minded countries. Unlike many of my constituents I am in favor of remaining in NATO, but our participation comes with a caveat, which if a nation doesn't meet that 2% of GDP spending which all signatory members have agreed upon and does not have a standing military capable of defending itself from most aggression we will not come to their defense, we will no longer provide that military umbrella which those nations have gotten so cozy under anymore. I am in favor of removing ourselves from the UN, as it is all but defunct as a useful entity given that there are permanent council seats seated by our enemies and are but useless as they consistently veto anything not in their favor and we do likewise thus it is a pointless endeavor, it could be replaced by another entity where that type of veto power does not exist and majority vote rules, but that is for another discussion. Another thing to tackle the economic front is getting out of these multilateral trade agreements i.e. NAFTA, as they are poison and more often than not screw us over and replace them strictly with bilateral trade agreements where we have more say on the terms and conditions like how Chile is doing for example. Regarding the soft power to we need to get Hollywood out of the grip of China, as they have far to much control over it anybody remember the debacle over the new Red Dawn movie? Once we have control over that again we can start producing American media like we used to prior to its decay which was our greatest form of soft power we had at our disposal, we can likewise help facilitate infrastructure projects in countries that don't either have the capital or political cohesiveness to get the project done, despite the fact that their populations maybe in desperate need of it, it would likely do much to improve the US global image overall especially if we tout the fact we are doing it and why we are doing it. Likewise regarding foreign policy in lets say "troubled areas", creating coalitions of friendly countries in those areas to police the areas themselves with only marginal oversight from us and us only exerting our political pressure if the situation gets really dicey, that method has typically worked out for us pretty well. Suffice to say if we back off of being the world police and start putting the US first again, we will likely start to see far less discontent back home, it may also be a good idea to effectively breakup the duopoly or monopoly depending on how you look at it of our party system, into smaller parties that do not have has much individual sway alone and instead are forced to form coalitions on particular issues or just do away with the party system altogether and have candidates run on their own merits alone rather than on party affiliation. I mean we were never meant to have parties in the first place unfortunately Hamilton and Jefferson basically kick started the duopoly we currently have and maybe the introduction of a quasi rank choice voting system may not be a bad idea either with say "most preferred candidate" and a "next preferred candidate" so voters do not feel like they are shoehorned into voting one particular way and or that their vote won't matter if they vote for the perceived less popular candidate, this could also help in doing away with runoff elections as well. Well that is my two cents on the matter I suppose I'm sure I forgot a few things, but that pretty much sums up most of it. TL;DR Totally ostracize China both politically and economically, turn national focus inward and build up industry again, leave the UN but remain in NATO with conditions, leave multilateral trade agreements and exclusively focus on bilateral ones, step away from being the world police and let regional coalitions handle policing regions with the understand that if things get hectic we will help if they pull their weight, breakup the US political duopoly and introduce quasi rank choice voting and possible elimination of the party system for candidates to strictly run on their own merits.
The biggest issue with alienating China and Europe would be the European countries latching on to the Chinese teat. If it ever came to blows we would be the odd man out.
@@Jasper118 While I am advocating for alienating China completely, I am not advocating for alienating Europe only pressuring them to likewise abandon China using our economic and diplomatic means just to make that clear.
@@HypnoticChronic1 but throwing our weight around in Europe by doing things like pressuring them to pay into NATO along (even though that is what they agreed to) or turning them against China will start to alienate them. Just look at what their attitude what was when Trump started to do that stuff.
@@Jasper118 So what, we just let them get away with it breaking their agreement and continue the status quo? That is not a effective strategy and only hurts the US, it is worth noting to that some of the European nations have met and in a few cases even exceeded the 2% spending requirement i.e. Poland, in cases such as them we would demonstrate increased backing and support while removing and or decreasing support for those who don't meet that 2% quota. Those nations that do not meet that 2% quota are ones that often cannot defend themselves without US backing anyways and would want to keep it, so you put them in a diplomatic catch 22 either they do not increase spending up to that 2% and lose US support which would make them vulnerable or they increase to that 2% and maintain US backing. Since you brought up Trump look where we are at right now because they didn't heed his warnings, he warned them Russia was going to be a threat to them both militarily and economically but did they listen? No and now we got a war with Russia and a heavy economic backlash from depending on Russian energy, regardless of what you think of the man he was right on both those accounts and very much right on the threat China poses to the world as well. Another thing to mention is being beholden to China is far worse than being beholden to the US, we've seen thus far so many countries get screwed when they couple up with China, Sri Lanka is prime example of that or Pakistan even, many European nations recognize this for example Italy whom canceled their contracts with China's BRI, so pressuring the Europeans away from China is in Europe's own best interests to especially now after everything that has happened since his presidency, from China ramping up their harassment of Taiwan to the pandemic to many of China's BRI infrastructure projects in other countries falling apart etc. and the US as it stands right now still has a lot of diplomatic and military weight, but if the trends continue that weight is eroding pretty rapidly so we need to use it while we still have it and can use it to our advantage.
@@HypnoticChronic1 no, the status quo is not sustainable, I don’t think. You are correct with basically everything you said. I’m more saying that Europe is getting very comfortable these days and the situation requires a lot of finesse. The countries that are not meeting the 2% have little to no threat from invasion so they’re just leeching, where as Poland needs full buy in because of their position. At any rate they absolutely should be paying their fair share. I’m more just concerned that with the current political environment in the US, going too hard at the Europeans may push them into bed with China, especially if we alienate both at the same time. They are a sensitive bunch. I really like that Trump went after the NATO countries but you could see that it was not accepted well, NATO was not a fan of the US during his admin and if that aggressive style continues I can see Europe moving away from us.
This is a very U.S. High School History take. Here is a slightly more Eurocentric one: WW1 and WW2 would never have happened to the scale it did if Europeans understood that an Americans likes to talk Isolationism but in practice is staunchly Interventionalist. It was even made diplomatically clear to some after WW1 this was the case, but made abundantly clear to everybody after WW2. Even today, what does America do? They invade people on the pretense that they are letting those people speak for themselves.
...are you arguing for or against American interventionism because more people died in WWI and WWII than in every other war in the last two centuries combined
I think that the United States will be around in another 100 years. However, the form that the United States takes will definitely be different. At some point between now and 2223, the United States will have no choice but to refocus itself on domestic or at most, regional interests. I see something akin to the era of good feelings in the 1820s-1840s. We cannot afford to be the world's hedgemon any longer. European and Asian allies will have to take responsibility for their own defense. As to the United States domestic situation, the parties, hopefully, they'll be more than just 2 in a 100 years; will have to refocus themselves on the improvement of American citizens. Should that take place, we won't have to worry about a breakup due to civil conflict because the government for once will be fulfilling it's very first duty, promote the general welfare and actually take care of its citizens first.
The United States will always be an economic power but it needs to put the people's needs first. When I say the people, I mean all people. It can't have identity politics and cannot favor rich over poor or poor over rich. We will have to step back from being the world's police force and let countries handle their own affairs. America will always have a tight relationship with Europe and E. Asia but the rest of the world would be better off without us constantly getting involved.
The only way to get politicians that actually care about improving the lives of the people is to vote for them. Part of why the political divide grew so great and politicians became inept is because the people, the voters, stopped caring about substance and focused entirely on tribal group identity, he has an (R) or a (D) next to his name so that tells me everything I need to know and now discuss policy like it is religious dogma rather than a debate about merit, costs, and tradeoffs. Arguably social media is a root cause of this as it allowed people to retreat into echo chambers that slowly radicalized them into die-hard fanatics for their ideological positions of choice. So my suggestion to any who read this is go and look at what the other side is saying. Look at TIKHistory, Hakim, Arch, and Adam Something. They all have very different views on the world, but we must remember that the American Republic will stand as long as her people can keep it, it is on us if we want to have an America in the future.
The geography of America makes it a superpower. The Mississippi river basin and the deep water ports all along both coasts make it inevitable. But what do we do with it?
This is very much sounding like a northern liberal arts perspective of the United States... Also, someone who grew up after the Cold War... The problem is not that an American identity was never established. The problem was that we've been allowing the American identity to be shredded along ridiculous microdivides by group seeking political power. There was a very strong national identity until at least 9/11...
I always find Texas an interesting region in these scenarios. A people with a very strong and somewhat different culture (due to it being a mixture of picks and pulls from so many cultures plus extra “just Texas” thing) from their neighbours. Probably doing the best of “multiethnic/lingual but monocultural” in their region. They would have massive potential with their diverse economy of oil/gas, agriculture, heavy industry, service, and technology as well as a devotion in their culture of “victory or death” in regards to war as seen from their origins to all they wars they’ve fought in along side the US. The issue they have is that they are surrounded by multiple factions that are varying degrees of hostility. Wether it’s Mexican nationalist and cartels to the south, west coasters across the desert, whatever would be in the Midwest in need of the massive oil/gas and aquifer deposits that Texas sits on, or the Dixies to the east that would love to control the population and resource rich area again. Such a scenario would lead either to a Texas being possibly one of if not the strongest in the region or a complete domination of Texans by outside forces.
I somewhat disagree with this analysis. I just saw an article stating that the reason for the great divide today is race. The US is becoming more and more diverse. Due to this, there are more and more non-white people in public office. It is my opinion that a group of older, white people just cannot accept this. This group starting feeling uncomfortable in the 1990s(leading to hate spreading radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh). When Brarak Obama was elected, this group went crazy. I still remember racist comments coming out at least once a month during his presidency. Usually from someone associated with the GOP. From what I read, younger people do not have this issue. My feeling is that if we can survive the next 10 or so years, nature will fix this issue. People do not live forever.
There are so many shaky assumptions underpinning the main arguments this video makes, it's hard to address them all. But first and foremost, the promise of America has always been that a society can work without a specific ethno national identity dominating. That was the foundation of the American experiment. And it still is.
@MonsieurDean 4:31 New England formed the New England republic and absolutely tried to secede (during the war of 1812) when the nation was expanding West as the merchant class saw a political and economic threat from Southerners and Westerners, therefore the Southerners were the true Americans standing up for state sovereignty, but when the New Englanders wanted to present their amendments to change the U.S. Constitution at the Hartford Convention in Connecticut the war of 1812 was already over by then.
What makes an American is a dream. Freedom is what make people come across the border illegally. Jobs and a hope of giving a better future to the next generation. Our political parties need to get back the basics of putting the needs of the people above special interest. Lobbying is what will destroy our country from within not the people.
@@MonsieurDean But not any of the previous Chinese empires, and the PRC is a quite new creature, in the grand scheme of things. To quote a certain famous piece of Chinese literature: "The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been."
I think the USA is too big of a monster to fail. Theres too much power at the federal level. I will say that regoinal differences are HUGE. Have you ever been to Utah or Florida? They're like completely different countries! I'm from the pacific northwest and Im all about Greater Cascadia. Give the mormons the great basin for the state of deseret. Give dixie to the southerner. Ect. The people of Washington Oregon Idaho and Montana have alot in common and the Columbia watershed we share is important to us.
The U.S. is the longest lasting most stable country in the modern world. We have the second oldest continuous government in the world. We all speak the same language. We all believe in the same form of government and by and large the country is still dominated by a tolerant brand of Christianity. We are good. We’ll still be here for quite a while now.
We should have withdrawn from Europe when the Soviet Union collapsed and disbanded NATO. Keep a few allies like Israel, Japan and Korea as regional checks against rising powers but that's it. Pull our troops home and focus inward.
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What if Philip the handsome survived to suceeded his father as Holy Román Emperor? He would have done a good or Bad Job?
@@paolirejosef3392 Soon.
I heard a comment once that "the US government is like simultaneously being king of the world and mayor of a small town." Our leadership class is highly resentful of the American citizenry, for daring to hold them to account, while the rest of the world is their playground for whatever the ideological zeitgeist happens to be. America is not a country to them, its a means to an end.
America is an economic zone to them.
Whta government class? Everyone can be in government and anyone over a certain age can be a Ppolotition.
@@GreenBlueWalkthrough The government class aka the people in government. The Bureaucrats.
@@crusader2112 It's an ATM machine, just like how Mexico was an ATM machine for the PRI party. And look at what it is now...
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Another major problem is the fact that the old, collapsing, barely being held together 80 year-old senators REFUSE to hand down power to a younger generation that could possibly help advance and protect the country. But they claw to whatever shards of power they have left.
They keep getting elected
@@damienchall8297*installed, fixed it for you.
@@damienchall8297our elections are crooked like USSR in the late 1980's, if you haven't figured that out with 2020 being thr major eye opener, I have little hope for you.
Vote in ALL elections. Including primaries
@@damienchall8297you really think we still have our democratic values?
I once heard someone say that America should stop focus on being an empire and start focusing on being a country and I couldn't agree more
But then the military industrial complex couldn't make their billions. They couldn't bribe the politicians ( or conservative justices) .
I do agree that we need to refocus the governments attention on the needs of its citizens rather than endless war. The problem is how do you allocate those resources?
Agreed. America has it's own problems to solve first instead of worrying about everywhere else
Well tbf it’s kinda hard when something happens in Europe everyone calls on us for help
@@lukewilliams8835nah let them suffer. They already hate the US enough as we see on Reddit and other social media platforms.
@@lukewilliams8835 Surprise surprise, when you instate yourself as the world police, people call on YOU when shit goes down.
This is in part the United States’ own fault. During the 1950s and 1960s, the US used its position to accelerate the decolonisation, particularly of the British and French Empires. This meant that the US had to intervene in areas of the globe where they hadn’t needed to as the British or French were there.
An absolutely foley on the part of the United States.
IS foley a word? Or do you mean folly?@@MonsieurDean
@Frankthetank-et7woi think the idea was good but it was to rushed and caused a lot of issues especially with the borders and not making sure thenew democracys taking over could stand
How do you think I’d black people feel when u say things like this
@Frankthetank-et7woThis is asinine
This is why I’m so curious about an alternate history where America returned to some form of isolationism in the 90’s, and whether that might’ve left us in a better place today
the U.S. was never an isolationist country. The U.S. can have a lot of influence through trade, cultural exchange and being a neutral country can give them the position of peace talk host. A better word is non-interventions foreign policy.
More people will be suffering in a quite peacefull hell on earth...
@@transon6655But it was a very neutral country with an army (the branch, not the military) smaller than Holland’s before WW2.
In terms of foreign policy, the US should have maintained positive relations with Russia after the Cold War and shouldn’t have expanded NATO after the Cold War, without Russia joining as well. In terms of the War on Terror, after 9/11, the US shouldn’t have pursued the Iraq War and should have focused on specifically taking out Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan instead of overthrowing the Taliban and nation-building. If the US had simply avoided the Iraq War, not only would the US not have wasted billions of dollars on an unjustified war, the US would have more peaceful relations with Russia because Russia supported the US after 9/11, but the Iraq War soured relations between the US and Russia.
Our freedoms aren't for everyone. Some don't want them, and some can't handle them.
As a Russian I can say that Russia also has a massive identical crisis. The 'Crazy Ivan - Ushanka for Russia' is essentially a legend among common citizens. I don't believe anyone in the country actually had that mindset since the collapse of the USSR. There are tons of minor ethnic groups flooding major cities in search of good jobs, the car industry is essentially overtaken by the Chinese (seriously half of all the cars in Moscow are Chinese) and even the general feeling of pride for the nation is fading.
When I, a Russian, say the word 'Russia', what comes to my mind is a great country that never was. There is great potential for a very strong national spirit, but because of how the government is structured and the country's geopolitical position that spirit simply isn't there.
Что за фигню я сейчас прочитал?
@@Lemiz1372 A actual intelligent and logically valid self critique of how he sees Russias problems. I know youre used to the typical low IQ vatnik “Russia is the best and there is no problems” so you cant even comprehend being humble and using critical thinking to address problems in your nation, perhaps maybe to get the population aware to fix them? If you ignore problems they only grow slowly like a cancer
To be fair, those ethnic minorities were in their parts of Russia first, until duchy of Moscow or the tsardom of Russia swallowed them up
@@Lemiz1372Безумие! Безумие, я вам скажу!
Russia will likely become larger at least. Reunification with Ukraine and Belarus.
Even with a common American identity, Americans are naturally isolationist and have only been involved in the world due to power hungry politicians creating crisis after crisis and pumping the fear at home to force people to keep involved in the rest of the world. Of course, we could still be a superpower while being isolationist. Pushing out sift power doesn't require the majority of people nor the government to be involved in the world. We can still maintain a large nuclear arsenal and a large Navy with the ability to fight a war in multiple theaters simultaneously. We can also be an industrial powerhouse that sells to the world without being involved.
Interventions, police actions and wars throughout the world have nothing to do with being a superpower. That is all about politicians abusing their positions to misuse our power to enrich themselves at the cost of Americans blood and treasure and the blood and treasure of those who they want to eliminate/control.
The United States destiny is more middle-kingdom China, rather than the bizarre trade empire (British Empire) security empire (Rome) mashup it's leadership desires.
Maybe true. James K. Polk's seizure of half of Mexico's land was rather unpopular at home, and had Mexico won at Coahuila it's likely he would've been impeached.
Nah a lets be Honest, with all the hate America has built around the world, America can't afford to loose hegemony as it will only mean death, sooner oe later.
I would have to disagree. As a foreigner, the US's power seems mainly to come out of the Key currency status and that comes out of two things, economy and military. Key currency status of the dollar is why the US is a superpower IMO. And to protect this key currency status of the dollar, the US needs to be interventionist and not isolationist. The Iraq war was one example for the United States to maintain this status (cause petrodollar), and we can see such intervention for this probably not as isolationist. So yeah, making the US isolationist would probably be a bad idea and worsen the current situation of the average American.
@@charmyzard Lincoln and other politicians had opposed the Mexican American War
When you skip past "both parties" you miss the primary dysfunction in our political system -- two corrupt corporate oligarchy factions will constantly put their corrupt designs ahead of the common good. Either they are broken up or the country will be.
But what new states would emerge from the breakup?
trump and new Republican goals and talking points are about destroying the corrupt part of our government system. The corrupt oligarchy is why Trump is constantly insulted on mainstream media and why they keep trying to arrest him over crimes he didn't commit to keep him from destroying the established political oligarchy that makes up so called safe mainstream politicians
@@aycc-nbh7289 None? We're talking about political parties here, not states.
@@margotpreston But if the nation were to break up into distinct entities, they would likely need to learn how to get by without relying on each other’s help. I could understand the nation breaking up into parties, but I could not imagine these parties wishing to govern their respective regions as independent nations.
@@aycc-nbh7289 A political party splitting isn't the same thing as a country fracturing. This country did not fracture when the Whigs crumbled, or the Democratic-Republicans split, or when the Federalist party faded from relevance and it will not fracture when the Republican party quits its death throes. Because if this country did split every time a political party changed, because that is all party splits are, the US would be in some real deep shit. A party splitting is not going to result in the US fracturing, or devolve into a civil war. The government will still function, majority rural states will still get the welfare they need to survive. Not to say there won't be any no strife, there absolutely will be. Just that there won't be a collapse the way you seem to be fretting over.
We can already see the US shifting to its old isolationist roots. It was accelerated with Trump's "America first" approach and Biden seems to be carrying on this narrative just with more guile. I think America is realizing that being the global police worked for stabilizing the world but by taking that role its neglected itself. Maybe I'm too optimistic but if there's one country that will make it another 100 years, America has the potential and means to do it.
Wtf are you on? Biden is trying to start WW3.
Guile? That decrepit corpse of a man works for one thing alone: the prosperity of Biden.
American people aren't strong enough (or educated enough) to reverse the degradation
The only way your country can get out of this mess is to defeat the xenophobic mindset and embrace what made America great......welcoming and embracing the world's brightest minds
Were entering the space age. Im hoping that if the world needs one nation only it will be The USA. Alternatively every continent becomes a state for the Earth home planet. I dont know how turbulent The world stage would be when countries start absorbing eachother for interstellar new order
How is Biden helping isolationist policy at all? Biden has dragged us back into the threat of a great war.
I‘m from Russia and I sincerely hope that the American people will succeed in making their country better, as my people will do in our country. There is much to be done, but no one needs an unstable world plagued by one crisis after another. Time will pass, and only the ones making their country a better place will have a chance of manifesting in the new world. Respect to everyone working for the well-being of their homeland. Let’s hope for understanding and cooperation between our nations in the future, this will be the only way to master the challenges the coming days will bring 🤝.
your country needs to hold to account war criminals and dismantle your empire and try to replace it with a functioning democracy based on the rule of law, Don't try to equivocate. Your future will be one of disintegration, reparations and hostility by every single one of your neighbors. For god's sake you even managed to get the Finns to join NATO!
Ive heard some terrible things spoken about Russia and i doubt most bad things... fog of war is a terrible thing.
I heard Russia is doing great having its own industrial complex, i hope America starts making things again in the near future too
@@arkady7739 and someday pigs will fly
@@arkady7739 I take it English isn't your first language; it's a well used adage for never.
@@pwp8737 Even if thats the case your pessimism aint helping anyone
I agree with many of the points laid out in this, however i must disagree with the idea that america will lose its position on global stage for several reasons. The first being that the only two nations which have any ability to challenge the US are geographicly hindered and lack stable population demagraphics and economy. China is heavily reliant on foreign imports to power its economy. Meanwhile Russia is a empire in decline and has an economy devolving from industrialized to resource extraction.
The second is that the US has been establishing secondary alliances, which can stand up to both of the above powers without direct us involvement. However, this is in its early stages. In addition, the invasion of Ukraine has led to defense spending increases and rearment of European nations.
Lastly, the US is shifting slowly back to domestic focuses, albeit painfully. This can be seen with the Ukraine war and how there is vocal minority that speaks against US aid of Ukraine.
It may retain it's position as the technically most powerful country on Earth, but it will probably not be a hegemon for much longer.
@@zfloyd1627 it hasnt been the sole hegemon for a while. china is pretty on par when it comes to global influence.
Yeah, what does any of that matter if we tear ourselves apart from the inside. We need national salvation
You are under the belief that only Russia or China will be a enemy combatant against your country 😂
You would have a headache if you knew just how many "friends" are sick of Americans mucking around in their domestic politics......
All your overseas bases aren't there to protect the country they're in......it's so the Americans can have a forward deployment base/occupied territory
Russia is not an enemy.
When you care more about the safety and well-being of foreign nations and people then you do for your own citizens, you don’t deserve to have that power or the loyalty of your people. Put your house in order before you run off to fix your neighbors house.
Ok, sure, the problem is that there’s always going to be problems no matter what. That’s like saying “sorry, we know the Jews are getting butchered in Europe by the millions but since we have segregation/Jim Crow and a host of other issues we can’t intervene”.
@@theeccentrictripper3863 referring more to the of my house is torn apart and your house is torn apart why fix yours Belford I fix mine. Leaky roof and fires aside, we can’t help others if we are stabbing ourselves in back or to put more fine a point on it why ignore our own while help others?
The issue, though, is that the neighbor in this analogy has a mortar that can easily blow up one’s own house and all one would have is, at worst, one room that is already ruined.
@@theeccentrictripper3863the analogy would be better if you started the fire at your neighbor's house
@@theeccentrictripper3863 yes but if the United States went back to isolation and neutrality literally about 99% of problems would go away. I’m an American Nationalist so I’m literally comically patriotic but America was meant to be isolated and not find monsters to hunt, we destabilized the Middle East for no reason and have just caused more kids to be born with a burning hatred. We shouldn’t have been in WWI, WWII, the Cold War, etc
That's why I think another internal conflict is inevitable. We'll either come out of it stronger and more unified than ever, or we'll be a disunited mess of seperate kingdoms vying for power over the carcus of a once great nation.
Quite possibly.
I just hope i witness it/be alive to be able to study it. Not out of a spite for America, but to bear witness to such a momentous event in human history
Sounds like the background lore of a good adventure game.
Or HOI4 mod.
@@charmyzard there are a lot of those in which it happens, Kaiserreich/redux, Red World, Red Flood, Extremis ultimis
@@sirius6738im winning each one 🗣️
My favorite political author is Pat Buchanan. He's always been vocal about meddling abroad, and focusing on putting local notional matters first and foremost. Call it isolationism if you want, but at least our resources would be reinvested into our own country.
This is easy to say now but in 1947 there were very legitimate threats that needed to be checked. Imagine if the US just crawled back in it’s hole after WWII and let the USSR and China run amok in a beaten down world, the world now would look insane
At 60 I don't see us balkanizing in my lifetime.
However, I have long seen the symptoms.
I fully expect us to breakup before 2200.
Gen Alpa is majority non white, one more generation and it's over.
It would happen way before 2200 Whites are projected to be a minority by 2040. My guess is it lasts for another 2 censuses, following Whites gaining minority status. So if anything it would collapse around 2060.
We should push for Balkanization, it's the only way people will be truly free
I highly doubt that
@@mgkcjkadding more borders and more rules makes people free?
One problem, the modern U.S. identity crisis isn’t a regional one. It’s actually largely homogenous between two sides both who want to win and take control of America. I largely also don’t think the US is full of religious nations, areas with biggest religions, said religions are probably only a plurality. The internet has only homogenized the country further but again, it’s gone from loads of coexisting identities to two political ideologies of which only one can win or both merge. The transition from a heterogeneous country culturally to homogenous. America is an empire today and is now finally becoming a nation, however the processes is extremely tense. All those icons earlier on was more a dress up to actual things. Kind of like France in the early 1800s, or Germany and japan in the late 1800s. The only actual sub American nationalities anymore are probably Texas and California, but these are being wiped out.
Also if you wanna look at “what it means to be American” you have to ask foreigners. We think of Russians as Ivan but they are almost 35% Muslim. There are also very large differences between north and south Chinese. Russians and Chinese both know the complexity of their identity as well. Same with French which has Bretons, Norman’s, Occitan, and Frankish. All are very diverse as well. You as an American need to ask foreigners what their view is, which is usually a white American with a 1/7 chance of being black. That’s about it. You can’t look internally while looking everywhere else externally. Citing stereotypes then overcomplexifying your identity is a dumb idea. Whites are a dominant ethnicity, and even with immigration, that probably won’t change.
If you’re going on about how america is gonna collapse about diversity, what about the growing Muslim and African populations in Europe, or the fact Canada is much more abhorrent with the idea of wiping out its nation? Do they not matter? Canada is much more regionally and culturally strenuous than the US. The US at least is killing off mass immigration unlike Canada.
America is in its equivalent of the social war right now, when old structures of rome broke down in Italy with its Italian allies causing a mass revolt. What happened is the local Italian identities were wiped out.
Expect the US government to try and wipe out the regional identities, like france, China, and rome did before. The internet has already killed off most accents in favor of what is really a Midwest accent, mixed with Californian, black, and southern loan words. Young Southerners barely have an accent anymore .We are not seeing the US as an empire die, we’re seeing the sub nations die. It’s a tragedy, I don’t welcome it but they are.
Also, you're forgetting one thing, LGBTQ agenda, it's killing everyone, and now they are forcing on churches, religion place, small children, and normal family. This is getting pathetic and worse at the same time.
To your final statement about it being the sub-nations dying rather than the empire dying, I would say that in that situation it would not be the death of an empire, but rather the BIRTH of an empire! It may be the death of a REPUBLIC, however. The empire will replace the republic.
Going forward what will be important is not regional identities, it will be ideas. If the people wish to be free in the future, the US must split along the lines of ideology.
Asking foreigners what it means to be American is just as fallacious and erroneous as asking Americans what it means to be Russian or French. When foreigners accuse Americans of overcomplicating their identity and overlaying their regional, ethnic, and cultural diversity and reduce Americans to just, "white people" they do this from the perspective of an outsider and a foreigner no matter how many (mostly Southern California based) Hollywood movies they've seen. Complaining that we oversimplify Russian identity despite the country being 35% percent Muslim but then turning around and saying that we should listen to foreigners when they do the same to us is a false balance a double standard weighted against Americans. Perhaps instead we should listen to what one another has to say instead of oversimplifying everything as things are rarely as simple as they seem.
Nice book of words I didn’t reas
What if Austria-Hungary was made of chocolate
April fools video
Most sane comment in this comment section. Insane how many people I’ve read vying for European colonialism to come back lol.
Would only happen if switzerland was part of it 🤣
asking the real questions, vote wet_owl for president 2028
@@restitutororbis964 exactly
I think America's greatest strength is that it is not a defined ethnostate. You see this difficulty in stagnant European countries like Sweden or France who fail to assimilate immigrants that can never truly belong to that nation. Anyone can become an American, which allows the US to import talent from all over the world, that brings wealth and business to this country and enriches your average American Joe.
Yeah maybe in the 40's but Americans are pretty xenophobic since the 90's and still have a hard one against migrants from the former soviet union
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@richardcostello360 I have never even heard of this anti-FSU stuff. Where I live in America the number one group of immigrants disliked the most is anyone who is Muslim or middle eastern looking. There was a Muslim photographer from Trinidad who used to hire one of my family members to work at his booth for events, he said if there wasn’t a white friend people would be too scared to come up to him. And this is in blue America.
The number two is anyone that is Hispanic, especially if they work in trades. They are seen as job thieves by a lot of people.
I’ve never heard of any other group that comes over here being disliked.
And me and my family have known & met people from the FSU and Eastern Bloc. People don’t dislike them.
@@richardcostello360 Its not like that is particularly new. In the 19th century we had much more opposition to migrants. Just look at the chinese exclusion act or the no nothing party.
@richardcostello360 There is no broad xenophobia here. There is simply dislike (or fear) of certain groups by certain people because they get influenced by news media and thus stereotype them.
To say that Russia or China have some one “core” defined identity as opposed to the US is a massive stretch. It’s like the author tried to compare the insider view on the US identity to the outside view of Russian and Chinese identities. Being from Russia myself I personally do not imagine Ivan in ushanka hat when thinking about a Russian person. He is there among the identities yes, but I also think about many other groups which would rightfully say that they are “true” Russians. In Russian we even have two words for just saying Russian, one has more ethnic and Slavic connotation (more in the Ivan in ushanka hat territory) and Russian in much broader civic, cultural and may be religious sense. Based on what little I know about China they also have a wide diversity of ethnicities who speak different mutually unintelligible languages, who however call themselves Chinese, and probably all have different ideas of what being Chinese is.
All this goes to say that overfocusing on your own problems can make them seem exclusive and exceptional therefore barring you from learning from others’ experience dealing with the similar thing.
Though the video is pretty interesting. Just a little thing I thought was important to point out.
@@theeccentrictripper3863same with India too an even more extreme lol these anti diversity/mono ethnic people are rather odd
@@theeccentrictripper3863A Texan and Californian have little in common other than they speak English.
90% of Chinese people are Han Chinese and 90% of them speak Mandarin they don’t have any kind of crisis going on let’s not be ridiculous
@@theeccentrictripper3863 the vast majority of people in those countries belong to one ethnic and racial group, and they speak one language for the most part. We literally speak so many languages, and we have so many different races in this country. It’s not even funny there’s no way that we are gonna hold ourselves together like this.
@@stevenjames6830 Similarly the Japanese people are something like 98% or more ethnic Japanese. There are VERY few immigrants in Japan. Most of the immigrants that do exist in Japan are to my knowledge Korean. Although Korean culture is a distinct culture, it still shares many similarities to Japanese culture.
Yes it will. Emma and her two moms will protect us.
😂😂❤
Or maybe Karen might complain to the manager and have him restore the US as a superpower cause China-India bad.
Gandhi preacher non violence, Karen preach yell until you get your way!
America was never meant to be "one nation". Most of the founding fathers and original states would not have agreed to the constitution if that was its intent.
And since then, it has never truly have been one nation. Nor should it be politically. Breaking up is by far the best thing the US could do. Along with a complete ending of the imperial practices
@@therecalcitrantseditionist3613 If I had to ask, why do you think that would improve the average American's live. Because they shouldn't have to sacrifice the benefits of a united nation because you heard a nine-minute video LMAO
@CptTexas1 I absolutely concur, the biggest failure of the United States as a whole (not along sectional/regional lines) was not adhering to the 10th amendment for state sovereignty first and foremost. After Lincoln forcefully centralized the entirety of the nation by making war on the South which had seceded for preserving protecting and defending state sovereignty, state sovereignty in entirety had ceased to exist, as everyone before then took it for granted, look at states as independent republics like mini countries within a larger one (Vermont, Texas, California etc) even New England states (and some southern ones) like New York and Massachusetts as well as North Carolina and Virginia had secession clauses in their state constitutions and/or had once been independent republics, unfortunately the outcome of the loss of the war for Southern independence and events leading up to such changed all of that for the North and South, this is exactly why all sections were centralized and forced into one organic unit as we have in our time and why they wrote in the federal supremacy clause into the Constitution. After all the states created the federal government, but the power dynamic shifted due to circumstances and flipped the other way.
@@therecalcitrantseditionist3613Complete end to American domination globally. If we disunite an eastern will take our place and we will all pay the price for it. You have no foresight
@@therecalcitrantseditionist3613that would be a disaster and make all less wealthy too
I would say yes. I cannot picture a Civil War ever happening again, but I can picture a cultural shift. That is nothing new, though. The U.S. goes through culture shifts every 50 or so years. Even during the shifts, it is still diverse. That is nothing new, though. If the U.S. is not experiencing hardship, then I would say it is going soft and risk falling apart. Even during are supposed "era of good feelings", times were still not the best. We go through different eras, but again, this is nothing knew. The current era we are going through is very mundane compared to some of the past eras. If the U.S. is still here 100 years from now, it would not surprise me.
Oh you're deluded😂
Americans are always in the civil war territory.....but like a roller-coaster it goes in ridges and troughs
I agree. Civil War gets thrown around a lot, but only a very small minority of people want that. If you asked a hundred people on the street if they would fight a civil war, not only would every single one of those people be confused why you're even asking that in the first place, but none of them would want to. Even the gun-enthusiasts who are chronically on the internet who say they will start a civil war are lying to make themselves feel better. No way an actual civil war starts any time soon. The Jan 6th thing that Trump tried is by far the worst we'll have to deal with.
@@richardcostello360we are nowhere close to a civil war what are you talking about?
@@Jasper118I believe he as a brain problem.
You made a great point that the UK passed on its superpower status to the US. This is also somewhat true of Russia (in theory) that it would see itself die to see regional blocs like NATO, CSTO, ASEAN, and the African Union consolidate instead of two competing powers. Now its just BRICS vs G7 just as in the cold war.
Brics is composed of countries that are entirely opposed to one another. Any faction with both China and India in it is doomed to be incapable of getting anything done, for example, since individually outside of Brics they hate each other and are at each others' throats. Same goes for the rest of the new members coming in. Brics is doomed.
The UK was only forced to pass the mantle because the US sped the process, such as during the Suez Crisis. Pax Britannia was the most peaceful period in world history. America has for the most part made a mess of things.
BRICS isn’t even an alliance or anything like G7
@@etherealhawk that is utterly insane. Pax Americana has been the most peaceful, prosperous period in human history, and it's not close
America certainly had an identity by the time of the early 20th century. Our ancestors were a nation of Christian, European pioneers, who carved out a better existence through blood toil and tears. They were aware of the shortcomings of European centralization and the entrenched aristocracies, while building upon the various positive factors of said cultures and institutions. Like you said, this was thrown into a complete tailspin when the US was thrusted into the roll of the global policeman; wanting to better associate itself with its many satellite states, the US sacrificed its cultural identity at the alter of global hegemony.
Pretty sure it started with Wilson.
Cultural identity of Jim Crow
That’s just the culture identify of the white man, you can’t rlly speak for everyone else
Christian European pioneers, you say, carving out a better existence through blood, toil and tears? If by that you mean they carved a better existence for THEMSELVES by invoking the blood, toil, and tears of African-American slaves, Chinese migrants, and Native Americans, then I suppose you'd be correct -- if we completely ignored the needs of everyone else in the country. I don't know about you, but I grew up with the idea that America was fundamentally a Melting Pot. All races and backgrounds would unite in the name of freedom and prosperity. That's the real American dream, not whatever white nationalist crap people want to insist this country's about. And I say that as a full blooded white southerner, too.
It was a country founded by liberal Freemasons and dont even call Protestanism Christianity. The US butchered christianity.
It will, but it will have lots of tensions. Maybe even more than now, as the US is likely going to end up territorially expanding somewhere in the Pacific, Central America, and Asia.
That would be Incredibly Based
If America tried to "expand " it would find that their friends would be blocking them 😂
The world is sick of Americans trying to "own" everything that isn't nailed down
Weird imperialism is weird because ima guess based of that you arent a fan of immigration and that we should secure the border or something. So why expand the nations borders to where those people live idk seems counter intuitive
@13ased_Americanhey I've seen you around!
Territorial expansion? Maybe. In Asia, though? I can't see that happening.
At the beginning of the Roman Republic, it was very clear what it meant to be a ‘Roman’ or at least the ideal of one. There was an ethnic foundation required. On top of that, there was a series of virtues and principles one must adhere to. By the end of the Empire what did it mean to be a Roman? Virtually nothing, one within the boundaries of Rome. In the early days of the American Republic it was very clear what it meant to be an American. In 2023, what does it mean to be an American? It’s becoming more opaque every day. I’ve had a premonition for over a decade now that American, will one day be an extinct nationality/ethnicity the way Roman is today.
This idea that there has to be one straight line of ethnic and national identity is total bollocks.
It's why you had the french declaring Charlemagne to be french, while the germans said he was german and even went further down claiming Arminius, a guy who fought Rome around 9(!) AD/AC.
Charlemagne was neither german or french and Arminius might have been "germanic" but certainly not german.
More recent you have the split between being german or austrian, that wasn't really a thing at even 1900, austrians were german as well. Their identity shifted away from being german due to the national myth created between and after the World Wars.
Any citizen who contributes to the whole, waves the flag, while respecting others' beliefs-privacy even if not their own and demands reciprocation. That is an American. For me, at least.
Anyone who believes in the dream of our country along with the points the person above me made, is an American. We are not a people united by ethnicity, but rather ideals.
@platypusrecords3788 The Naturalization Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 103, enacted March 26, 1790) was a law of the United States Congress that set the first uniform rules for the granting of United States citizenship by naturalization. The law limited naturalization to "free White person(s) ... of good character", thus excluding Native Americans, indentured servants, enslaved people, free black people, and later Asians.
America was built by and for Europeans. Anything else is a lie
everyone spouts vaguely-sounding historical bullshit to back up their claims
The Illyrians saved the Roman Empire. Also, if a fatal flaw takes, I dunno, 500 years to cause your decline, maybe it wasn't a flaw.
I think I may disagree here. Seems like any Empire, kingdom or nation, regardless of how long they exist will face crisis upon introduction of new demographics and religions. You instantly create tension with change. Africa is a good current view on how multiple ethnicity in single countries can cause war.
Delete the 1965 Immigration Act from history and America would be just fine today.
@@Rayclouddelete the protestant colonies in the Americas and this would have never have happened.
Only if dominant group cannot assimilate others into their culture. Only culture is really relevant, because this is the only thing that forms nation and ethnicity. And even then other cultures are not necessarily oppressed, there is just one dominant state forming. Honestly USA is the best example with not a single historical ethnic group making more than 20% of the population, but still having this state forming Anglo-American culture that unites all peoples
@@RaycloudSorry dude, even if that was the issue you can’t reverse immigration
Muttmerica is a mutt nation since the arrival of the Irish, then Italians, Chinese, Germans, Japanese, Norwegians and so on.
That's not what is causing that country to collapse. What is killing the US is the poison known as democracy, which they have been drinking sip by sip since their founding.
"How could America understand the needs of other countries if it can't even understand itself?"
_THE_ quote of all time. We need to slip back into Isolationism. We can barely keep ourselves intact so it's gonna only get harder and harder for us to baby the rest of the world as the decades go by. We need to ween Europe off our teet while forging our own identity. We can't tell France to quell their uprisings in Paris when we had an entire summer of secessions and riots not too long ago.
We have been able to get through a civil war and 2 economic collapses America will survive again
What was the 2nd economic collapse?
@@bigboineptune9567I believe he’s referring to 2008
That sounds a lot like ignorance to me.
The USA hasn't really had a lot of issues over time, partially because it's quite literally the easiest place to make a successful country. You have the infrastructure with the rivers like Misssissipi, almost every natural resource in existence, 2 oceans, no real national threats nearby, tons of fertile ground.
If this wasn't the case, no way the USA would still exist today.
Basically all issues the USA is facing are self inflicted, because you won the lottery in every other regard.
@@Nitsua2828 ever heard of bleeding Kansas
@@Nitsua2828nigga we had native Americans various tribes. Hell we had slave uprising black then idiot we were not homogenous
I enjoy how you're posting a university thesis in each video. Dramatic education and introspection, as well as effective community building.
America isn’t going anywhere. The economies are too interdependent. The culture is only homogenizing further due to everyone consuming the same media and people moving states constantly in the millions. I genuinely don’t buy that the regions have distinct enough cultures to be their own countries and I say this as a Texan. Any breakdown would be more similar to a Chinese warlord era than a Yugoslav breakdown due to everyone being similar enough that one nation makes sense and is optimal
Regardless of how it happens, I have high hopes for us. We've gone through some tough times, and I believe this is no different. As long as we stay united and dont drift into civil war, we should be fine.
@@yujirohanmaisbestdadwhat would you propose?
@@yujirohanmaisbestdadwhy? It’s problems despite having them are nowhere near as bad as what it’s faced.
@yujirohanmaisbestdad that is very ture, but I'm fairly optimistic for this country, and maybe if many more where too, we could make a difference. But where all too busy yelling at eachother. Until we stop fighting eachother we will never progress, but I have hope, think some people should too.
@@yujirohanmaisbestdadNice defeatist attitude.
@@obligatoryusername7239 Saying that change is needed is hardly a defeatist attitude mate.
I don't agree with your notion that Americans don't have a shared identity. When Americans meet each other overseas, they recognize each other, and other nations' people recognize us, too, despite the differences you highlighted.
US haters, middle easterners, western europeens russian and chinese bots are going crazy in the comments 😂
Inacurate. The US does have a national identitry around its different pillars. First is econmics and its natural logistics. Second, the one from many. It relies on a collective identity of the decendants of migrants, a common language, food ways, capitalistic economy, move,ment to regions for jobs, common rights and form of decision making. This overwhelms the regional differences along with extensive internal migration. Re current affairs, the US is going through another of its cyclical political donabrooks like it has since 1675. It wil resolve itself internally, the same as the past 7.
The Naturalization Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 103, enacted March 26, 1790) was a law of the United States Congress that set the first uniform rules for the granting of United States citizenship by naturalization. The law limited naturalization to "free White person(s) ... of good character", thus excluding Native Americans, indentured servants, enslaved people, free black people, and later Asians
I’m a German American! Took a dna test and I’m 78% German from the region of Bavaria. It matches the stories at my family reunions which I thought was neat! My lineage came over in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.
The Republic will sustain.
As soon as the Hart-Cellar Act passed, collapse became inevitable.
In my opinion, America's lack of a central identity is the source of its imperial appeal. The problem with large, homogeneous empires is that their enforcement of cultural homogeneity causes them to become wildly unpopular with conquered peoples, creating a ton of instability across the territory. America having no central identity beyond nationalistic ideals is by design, so that it can stay together despite the differences that were there from the beginning. No one can agree what the quintessential American looks like, but a large portion of Americans see themselves as fitting the mold.
The US' real issues stem from their insane geography. The union is divided by a harsh mountain range spanning all the way from the north to the south, and another one that almost reaches those levels. There is no water route through the entire country, requiring that all national trade have an overland component. Anyone looking to get from west to east has to travel through 1000 miles of flat, dry plains. Much of the coast is swampland or cliffs. If it weren't for the trans-continental railroad, this nation would have been split in half centuries ago.
The Naturalization Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 103, enacted March 26, 1790) was a law of the United States Congress that set the first uniform rules for the granting of United States citizenship by naturalization. The law limited naturalization to "free White person(s) ... of good character", thus excluding Native Americans, indentured servants, enslaved people, free black people, and later Asians
04:16 as à foreigner we imagine the average american as à white guy named John Smith who love gun and live in a small town
I second this.
I imagine a fat la creatura sitting on his porch with a rifle whilst everything behind his house burns
A texan redneck with a pick-up
I disagree. We do and have had a national identity. I’ve had this debate here on RUclips for years now. The reason that so many Americans aren’t aware of any common American identity or even of American culture (the bedrock of national identity) Despite being born and raised here. Is because starting in the 1960’s liberal college professors began to de emphasize the American cultural identity. And emphasize multiculturalism. This has led many Americans to falsely believe that multiculturalism is our culture and identity. Which is nonsense. We are not and never were supposed to be a hodgepodge of different groups with their own separate and gatekeeping cultures. For that is not a nation.
Theodore Roosevelt certainly had a strong sense of the American cultural identity. So did the founders and Andrew Jackson. And that’s what we need to restore. We are currently in a war for our national identity. It’s pro America and American culture vs anti America and multiculturalism.
You forgot about the American Melting Pot culture.
@@whathell6t The melting pot is understood as immigrants from many nations/cultures, shedding cultural ties to those countries and assimilating into American culture.
@arkady7739 First let us define culture. It is the customs, traditions, symbols, art, sport, etc. of a specific group, tribe or nation. Also it’s not about what is American culture to me personally. Our culture isn’t an opinion it’s a fact that these things are aspects of our culture.
So some examples of American culture in no particular order are.
1.) Speaking English specifically American English.
2.) The American accent which is an amalgamation of different regional accents such as the east and west coast, MidWest and Southern. All different yet easily recognizable as American.
3.) Baseball a.k.a the American pastime.
4.) Football.
5.) Mickey Mouse and Disney.
6.) Country music and the American Cowboy.
7.) Marvel and DC comics. Most notably Superman. Who stands for truth, justice and the American way.
8.) Uncle Sam.
9.) Tall tales such as Paul Bunyan, Pecos bill and John Henry.
10.) Food such as Hamburgers, chicken fried steak, pecan pie, cornbread, biscuits and gravy etc.
And these are just off the top of my head.
I think we’ll be fine besides last I checked we’re moving more towards isolationism these days cause we’re tired of being the global police
Yeah it would be great if more countries starting lifting at least SOME of their own weight. Come on NATO Members its only 2%. Americans ourselves pay upwards of 40% in taxes
We need a second version of the video with Malcolm X and George Lincoln Rockwell. @MonsieurDean
The actual domestic alternatives to the path the US took after the era of Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and Charles Lindbergh.
In my opinion, the Identity of the US is not defined by geography, ethnicity or religion, (because most of them were europeans fleeing from persecution) they united in the thought of freedom and self-governance. The USs core foundings based on the idea that every people is equal and has a place in the nation, so for an identity we have to search elsewhere, by the founding laws and practising of livestyles f.e.
The US never saw that really and tried to establish a national identity. All the problems of racism is traceable to this problem. The recent developements to lash out even more against everything not being "american" hurts the country even more. IF the US wants to stay united, they need to to focus on reunification of the cultures and ethnicities. Otherwise, the country will be thorn apart by Racism and culture seperation movements of the regarding people.
If I thing american I think of the dream. No person, no culture, no ethicity, I think of the promise to found a well life with work.
I saw another comment and I agree, I think one of the major problems, is that the Avearge Age of the leadership in the US is over 60. We know that old people no matter the generation are less likely to accept change. People in general think it was great when I was a kid or young adult, lets do that again, but the World has moved on. Technology has moved on. Hell there were congressional hearings about tik tok, about Facebook and the people asking the questions, didnt even have a basic understanding of how the internet or how wifi works. The US needs to set an Age limit on who can be in Congress and who can be President. Make it 60 or 65, the fall of the US will be caused by old people not wanting to give up power, look at Mitch two freezes on camera and signs of declining health and he wont retire. Then you have Extreme Christen Groups trying to turn the US into a Theocracy, and they are gaining power.
Love your channel z!
Suggestion: blessed karl saves the Empire!
Drain the swamp, get rid of lobbyists, and for the love of GOD stop voting for people unfit to lead.
We won't turn around if we don't shut immigration and reverse illegal migration over the last 30 years we are screwed, royally.
Oh yeah, illegal immigration is what is hurting us most right now. 😂
You sound racist
You know what is "screwing your country" right 😂
It's the fact as a society you're incredibly xenophobic.......which means everything from culture and arts to sciences and defence is stagnant
Your society used to welcome and embrace the world's brightest minds that enriched your country.......the sad state your country is in is solely caused by that
@@LuciusAurelius69 It’s such a small amount of people relatively I just don’t understand how it’s relevant politically honestly. Seems to just be used for political talking points, remember the 2018 midterms? Everyone on both sides was huffing up a storm about that caravan then they weren’t mentioned once after the election.
I don't see America surviving another 100 months, never mind years.
I think that speaks to the heart of what we here in the Commonwealth Realms are hearing as "First Nations" nationalism, what it really is is a debate between whether or not we, as agrarian settler nations want to be propositional or something more intrinsic? Considering how unnatural our States are. I'd say the latter will win out eventually. Hence the folly in Pan-Anglo Imperialism. Case and point, I'd prefer to see an independent and robust New South Wales then a strong and independent "Australia". There is no "Australia" anymore. And even if there were, it would suck, and be woke.
You're on to something there.
@@MonsieurDean Hate to break it to you, but it's because the British Empire was a trade empire, more the Londinium empire. For the sake of economic interests they'd line every English man, woman, and child to the slaughter; it was never about spreading "Englishness" to the world.
@@yujirohanmaisbestdadyou mean the love of money
Balkanising into tiny states instead of uniting is just about the stupidest thing the Anglosphere could do. There's a reason hegemons like to break up countries into several successors, and it's not because the successor states become robust or stronger for it.
Australia is too small in population to really break apart. Also it doesn’t bring much benefit either.
In short the United States bit off more than we could chew and we're paying the price for it now unless we change our course right now I don't have high hopes for us.
But we may at least need to swallow what we bit or else everyone else at the restaurant will mock us and we’ll eventually be kicked out.
In a sense Republicans acknowledges how much we bit and want to swallow our pride and fix the internal situation
"The candle that burns twice as bright, burns half as long"
I simply don't see how would all factors could change ( maybe only if become dictatorship)
@@phoenixfulcrum5734legit would rather get struck down by nukes then live under a dictator. The American people have to put differences aside and arm up if anyone like the Austrian painter somehow gets power
Americans, we need to stop viewing ourselves as separate “ethnicities”. The rest of the world views us as one group! Try telling someone actually from Ireland or France or Japan that you’re Irish or French or Japanese because your great-great grandparents were, they’ll laugh in your face! We need the collective social responsibility of being one group. We’re all Americans guys, that’s the way forward…
I saw something somewhere that compared the US to late stage Roman Empire. We could never be like Rome, because they have better roads.
And our Ceaser is a total wimp.
To be fair they didn't have huge metal machines carrying tons of cargo driving on them everyday. America is Rome in fast forward.
Wouldn't it be poetic irony if the USA collapsed in 2091? Same as its former enemy, the USSR collapsing in 1991.
I prefer the idea that it will fall by 2076.
@@royalstag3795I prefer the idea that it will fall by 2025
@@dakotadurham4788 well, I wish you luck in your prediction sir.
@@dakotadurham47882026, so it can at least make it to 250.
@@royalstag3795i prefer 2044 or not at all ngl
Getting involved in World War I was likely the worst mistake the United States has ever made in its history and I think we are still experiencing the consequences because of US Allies' dependency on American protection.
You are joking right 😂
You Yanks turn up lare to any wars that you haven't started 😂
@@richardcostello360 Not as much in 1900s aside from the Spanish-American war and other conflicts. And don't use pronouns like "you" because none of us in Modern Day has anything to do with the conflicts back then. And that does not even refute my point.
@@richardcostello360 the British not realizing how much they benefit from the usa is still astounding to me. The audacity 😂
You realise the only reason that the USA has to prop up NATO is because it sped up the decline of Britain? The USA strongarmed the UK during the Suez Crisis, with the purpose of dismantling faith in the Empire, which is exactly what happened. Britain would have been happy to continue Pax Britannia as it had done for centuries.
@@richardcostello360 bros really insulting all of new england
Canada, Australia, or the European union needs to take the mantel of responsibility.
Why?
You Americans wanted to change the world to better suit your needs so you guys can clean up that mess yourselves
None of them have the amount of global clout the US does, be it through economy or military force. The EU specifically is also very bureaucratic and slow in the way it handles many things and I doubt a common military force would be of much use, even if one is somehow created despite the differences between its member states, due to these very differences. For example, would Hungary or Poland vote in favor of a common EU military force providing access to abortion services in countries that are more restrictive of them, notably Hungary and Poland?
No but it's geography basically gurantees that it is a superpower. Just because peeps are like "I STRONGLY DISLIKE OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM!!!" doesn't mean that the us will collapse or even increase the likely hood of it collapsing or atleast I think so.
All I can say this is the best video out there describing what’s going today.
Side note, I 100% agree if the US does not give up its global empire, or the ambitions of it, then the collapse is all but certain.
There has only been a downward trend in politics since like 2016. 2016 actually wasn't so bad compared to now but I think that's when it started. It's like a circus now, except a circus is supposed to be fun. Sometimes there's disrespect between different followers of party members, which results in physical assaults, serious property damage etc. (Insurrection is one example.) Reps the states have voted in seem so unhinged. Like they belong in a psych ward.
Do we just allow China to run roughshod in their empire ambitions?
The USA decided to speed the decline of British and the Pax Britannia, in order to take the mantle, hence this mess
My entire life, I've always felt that I can't do anything unless someone says it's okay. I have never felt free. I've never felt truly happy and independent. All I feel is a sense of disgust towards my existence and that everyone thinks I owe them my life simply for being born on "their" land.
they have therapy sessions for that.
Its sad hearing people getting indoctrinated into hating their country theyre born in, hating their skin theyre born in, hating their sex theyre born in...
You need to reject the premise that you were born on "their" land. All nations have conquered territory from others. No different than what America did.
"and will require intelligent decision-making from both politicians and the public."
You know, you could just say we're screwed, you don't need to sugarcoat it.
I will become president and outlaw waffles
They're just complicated pancakes
Not to mentiom they're BELGIAN.
But I like Belgian Waffles. Sorry guys.
vote cosmic cosmonaut 2024
@@crusader2112 we will declare war on the godless belgians -sam 1987
@@cosmiccosmonaut820Thank God crepes are safe😅
This isn't accurate. The US isn't like other countries in that our national identity isn't based on ethnicity or religion as you talked about. We are all unitited by our fanatical love of freedom and democracy above all else. We also have a culture that has been exported to the rest of the world. We always have been and always will be a very unique country. Naturally, thst uniqueness will lead to problems that other countries don't face because as you said they are more homogeneous than us, but that differing of perspectives, our melting pot of people's can be both a weakness and our greatest strength.
The Roman Empire went through a lot of ups and downs. I think America will still be better than most places in the developed world for some time to come.
If that's the case why are the world's best and brightest minds not flooding to your shores in the last 30 years 😅
Your country used to be a land of wealth and freedom.......that has now changed to Europe 🇪🇺
@@richardcostello360 Europe is the land of wealth and freedom? Our poorest states have salaries of your richest countries. Germany gonna be able to manufacture stuff with green tech because you guys let a little Swedish girl make you feel guilty? Europe is going to have a Syria style failed state in Ukraine compounding upon the refugee crisis. Oh European demographics as a whole are terrible. Y’all don’t have a lot of young people. Maybe France and Turkey. Europe has so much work to do. I wouldn’t gloat. You’re up a creek.
@@richardcostello360it’s the other way around actually. Europe is becoming more and more secluded to immigrants while the usa imports the best. It’s the reason why our gdp is so high. Europe can never compete in productivity
America was never a single country.
When are people going to come to terms with this?
We are currently 50 individual States (plus territories), united only by a common federal constitution.
We need to decentralize and democratize. It’s not worth trying to act like something we never were.
We already tried that twice
It's very unlikely.
For a Nation to flourish and last, people inside need to have a set of values and dominant language to unite them. This shouldn't be a surprise since countless people, empires and nations have tried the Diversity is our Strength card for over 10,000 years. How many of them remain? None. I love how people try to counter my argument by asking what about The Roman Empire? which collapsed over 1,500 years ago due to Diversity, Corruption, Endless Wars, Lack of Allegiance etc
The Romans also lasted a really long time
france?
Not as we know it, I wouldn't think. But it will persist in some form, I'm sure of that much. Whether well and truly, as either a stronger and more united republic or an unstable, dying hell, or as an idea in the minds of the people of a number of successor states, I can't say. Time, as is often said, will tell.
I think the next logical step is a unified North American nation. We share so much in common with the UMS (Mexico) and Canada. So many of our citizens are of Mexican descent. Our border with Canada is one of the least patrolled on earth just because of our closeness not to mention the cultural similarities in the Midwest with Canada.
So many of us are so hellbent on not seeing that happen but people need to realize that in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t matter if you’re from the US, or China, etc. Uniting NA would benefit all of us. All 3 countries could exist as political regions in a new nation and then comes the states and provinces, cities, towns, etc.
Imagine what that would do for say people in Mexico dealing with cartels. Imagine the opportunities that could be created for the poor. All 3 countries have strengths that could possibly address their weaknesses.
@@jst4572 I'd love to see something like that come to fruition. It'd be incredible to see, after the wild ride that the twentieth and twenty first centuries have been so far.
@@jst4572I actually like the idea of a North American Union, I just don’t like it with the current U.S. government in charge, also I would prefer it to be decentralized and allow for self rule and autonomy and I don’t mean just at the national level but at the state and local level. Actually, maybe redrawing state borders from 50 states to 13 Commonwealths. Canada and Mexico could do this to if they want.
@@crusader2112you play fallout don’t you?
@@vegetableman3911 I like fallout yes.
There could possibly be another internal conflict in the US but I honestly believe there are too many current US citizens who wouldn't be able to survive long enough without insulin and fast food to fight for an extended period of time.
I would challenge this notion with while there are various cultures/perspectives in America, there seems to be a general American identity of 'you can write your own destiny without anyone or anything's consent'. Essentially a 'Don't tell me what to do' mentality. The methodology of protecting that right may vary by area (regional, state, national, or global level protection) but the goal of protecting the ability to write your own destiny is the core of the American identity. What do you think?
For me it seems like states like California and Texas have strong national identities and spheres of influence while places like Idaho and Iowa would probably just be swallowed up by their more populated neighbors and become a region of it.
I honestly hope for a peaceful transition like this not unlike the collapse of the Soviet Union. But I feel like it can easily turn into the collapse of Yugoslavia, too.
This is America we got guns so no
We all speak the same language the only Part of the country that has a independence party is Alaska the us won’t balkanize we have survived far worse and have come out fine
@@darklord7479Alaska join Canada
@1mol831 we're more likely to break apart up here.
@@theeccentrictripper3863 you guys just have to get rid of biden first.
America has an identity. It is unique to the world and not having a solid identity is its identity. Land of the free and home of the brave. Do not piss her off or the people will put there differences aside and fk you up.
I think politicizing the history of the territories in the United states has been its biggest problem. Many states have their own identity, but because the federal government politicizes the idea that some states will "be racist" and choose oppression. I see states as almost their own country. It feels more balanced to view the country as a confederation. (Which doesnt mean slavery is good or supported.) The problem is the stigma. Ill put it to you this way. Im willing to trust the federal government as much as theyre willing to entrust states with more soverign powers. People in idaho are too far away to appeal to DC and show up at the capital. Thus, the original reason for independence from a centralized government occurs again. This time, its the federal government out of touch with the needs of its people. Not the english monarchy.
you yanks keep getting your own history wrong... the English monarchy wasn't what you yanks rebled over... it was the English Parliament legislating for you yanks, without consent.
How would giving state governments more power improve anything? It gives states more leeway to ignore federal law and interfere with each-other.
It’s already happening with Palestine not being mentioned in history textbooks because they’re all made in Texas, where educational material acknowledging Palestine is illegal.
States are starting to show they are soverign. Laws are becoming more extreme from 1 state to the next.
Texas is almost at war with the Fed at the southern border.
A varied "national identity" isn't the thing leading to America's decline and American imperialism actually made this country even more wealthy and powerful than it would have been otherwise.
Our problem is that our political system's predatory nature has been allowed to be turned on Americans by the institutionalized system of bribery that has been formed since WW2. Our fundamental institutions in this country have been hijacked by coorperate interests that see this country the same way they see every other country, capital to exploit until depletion. If this country is to survive we need people in power who actually have an interest in the continued survival of this country.
The main issue is the war hawk mentality that permeated this country since the end of WWII and trying to shape countries in our model (something that has statically not gone well) and has only drained our blood and gold, I agree that turning inward to tackle the domestic issues we face would be the better strategy, in fact we could have had the chance to do that very thing in the 90's after the fall of the USSR however, we ourselves created another serpent whom arguably maybe even worse in the form of China, which we had a large hand in bringing into global power no thanks to Clinton advocating their admission into the WTO and then our increasing dependency on them from then on, whom and while I don't have concrete proof has likely contributed to the erosion of our society via soft power means.
At this point like in the case of the USSR we have very little other choice than to stand as opposition to them however, the crucial bit is how we got about it and that likewise involves the inward strategy as well, we need to completely break free of China (my preference would be treating them the same way we do Iran or North Korea) and revive domestic industries that have long since withered after the 90's and will help to alleviate many of the economic and domestic stresses we are currently facing, we can still exert foreign power but we need to do it via soft power means not unlike we did during the gross majority of the Cold War and through diplomacy with like minded countries.
Unlike many of my constituents I am in favor of remaining in NATO, but our participation comes with a caveat, which if a nation doesn't meet that 2% of GDP spending which all signatory members have agreed upon and does not have a standing military capable of defending itself from most aggression we will not come to their defense, we will no longer provide that military umbrella which those nations have gotten so cozy under anymore. I am in favor of removing ourselves from the UN, as it is all but defunct as a useful entity given that there are permanent council seats seated by our enemies and are but useless as they consistently veto anything not in their favor and we do likewise thus it is a pointless endeavor, it could be replaced by another entity where that type of veto power does not exist and majority vote rules, but that is for another discussion.
Another thing to tackle the economic front is getting out of these multilateral trade agreements i.e. NAFTA, as they are poison and more often than not screw us over and replace them strictly with bilateral trade agreements where we have more say on the terms and conditions like how Chile is doing for example.
Regarding the soft power to we need to get Hollywood out of the grip of China, as they have far to much control over it anybody remember the debacle over the new Red Dawn movie? Once we have control over that again we can start producing American media like we used to prior to its decay which was our greatest form of soft power we had at our disposal, we can likewise help facilitate infrastructure projects in countries that don't either have the capital or political cohesiveness to get the project done, despite the fact that their populations maybe in desperate need of it, it would likely do much to improve the US global image overall especially if we tout the fact we are doing it and why we are doing it.
Likewise regarding foreign policy in lets say "troubled areas", creating coalitions of friendly countries in those areas to police the areas themselves with only marginal oversight from us and us only exerting our political pressure if the situation gets really dicey, that method has typically worked out for us pretty well.
Suffice to say if we back off of being the world police and start putting the US first again, we will likely start to see far less discontent back home, it may also be a good idea to effectively breakup the duopoly or monopoly depending on how you look at it of our party system, into smaller parties that do not have has much individual sway alone and instead are forced to form coalitions on particular issues or just do away with the party system altogether and have candidates run on their own merits alone rather than on party affiliation.
I mean we were never meant to have parties in the first place unfortunately Hamilton and Jefferson basically kick started the duopoly we currently have and maybe the introduction of a quasi rank choice voting system may not be a bad idea either with say "most preferred candidate" and a "next preferred candidate" so voters do not feel like they are shoehorned into voting one particular way and or that their vote won't matter if they vote for the perceived less popular candidate, this could also help in doing away with runoff elections as well.
Well that is my two cents on the matter I suppose I'm sure I forgot a few things, but that pretty much sums up most of it.
TL;DR Totally ostracize China both politically and economically, turn national focus inward and build up industry again, leave the UN but remain in NATO with conditions, leave multilateral trade agreements and exclusively focus on bilateral ones, step away from being the world police and let regional coalitions handle policing regions with the understand that if things get hectic we will help if they pull their weight, breakup the US political duopoly and introduce quasi rank choice voting and possible elimination of the party system for candidates to strictly run on their own merits.
The biggest issue with alienating China and Europe would be the European countries latching on to the Chinese teat. If it ever came to blows we would be the odd man out.
@@Jasper118 While I am advocating for alienating China completely, I am not advocating for alienating Europe only pressuring them to likewise abandon China using our economic and diplomatic means just to make that clear.
@@HypnoticChronic1 but throwing our weight around in Europe by doing things like pressuring them to pay into NATO along (even though that is what they agreed to) or turning them against China will start to alienate them. Just look at what their attitude what was when Trump started to do that stuff.
@@Jasper118 So what, we just let them get away with it breaking their agreement and continue the status quo? That is not a effective strategy and only hurts the US, it is worth noting to that some of the European nations have met and in a few cases even exceeded the 2% spending requirement i.e. Poland, in cases such as them we would demonstrate increased backing and support while removing and or decreasing support for those who don't meet that 2% quota.
Those nations that do not meet that 2% quota are ones that often cannot defend themselves without US backing anyways and would want to keep it, so you put them in a diplomatic catch 22 either they do not increase spending up to that 2% and lose US support which would make them vulnerable or they increase to that 2% and maintain US backing.
Since you brought up Trump look where we are at right now because they didn't heed his warnings, he warned them Russia was going to be a threat to them both militarily and economically but did they listen? No and now we got a war with Russia and a heavy economic backlash from depending on Russian energy, regardless of what you think of the man he was right on both those accounts and very much right on the threat China poses to the world as well.
Another thing to mention is being beholden to China is far worse than being beholden to the US, we've seen thus far so many countries get screwed when they couple up with China, Sri Lanka is prime example of that or Pakistan even, many European nations recognize this for example Italy whom canceled their contracts with China's BRI, so pressuring the Europeans away from China is in Europe's own best interests to especially now after everything that has happened since his presidency, from China ramping up their harassment of Taiwan to the pandemic to many of China's BRI infrastructure projects in other countries falling apart etc. and the US as it stands right now still has a lot of diplomatic and military weight, but if the trends continue that weight is eroding pretty rapidly so we need to use it while we still have it and can use it to our advantage.
@@HypnoticChronic1 no, the status quo is not sustainable, I don’t think. You are correct with basically everything you said. I’m more saying that Europe is getting very comfortable these days and the situation requires a lot of finesse. The countries that are not meeting the 2% have little to no threat from invasion so they’re just leeching, where as Poland needs full buy in because of their position. At any rate they absolutely should be paying their fair share.
I’m more just concerned that with the current political environment in the US, going too hard at the Europeans may push them into bed with China, especially if we alienate both at the same time. They are a sensitive bunch.
I really like that Trump went after the NATO countries but you could see that it was not accepted well, NATO was not a fan of the US during his admin and if that aggressive style continues I can see Europe moving away from us.
Russia wanted to join nato we denied that. Imagine if we did probably wouldn’t be a war in Ukraine right now.
NATOs sole purpose was to be an anti-Russian military alliance. There was never the possibility of admitting them into the ranks.
This is a very U.S. High School History take. Here is a slightly more Eurocentric one: WW1 and WW2 would never have happened to the scale it did if Europeans understood that an Americans likes to talk Isolationism but in practice is staunchly Interventionalist. It was even made diplomatically clear to some after WW1 this was the case, but made abundantly clear to everybody after WW2. Even today, what does America do? They invade people on the pretense that they are letting those people speak for themselves.
...are you arguing for or against American interventionism
because more people died in WWI and WWII than in every other war in the last two centuries combined
I think America is too stubborn to change, but too stubborn to accept dissolution
I think that the United States will be around in another 100 years. However, the form that the United States takes will definitely be different. At some point between now and 2223, the United States will have no choice but to refocus itself on domestic or at most, regional interests. I see something akin to the era of good feelings in the 1820s-1840s. We cannot afford to be the world's hedgemon any longer. European and Asian allies will have to take responsibility for their own defense. As to the United States domestic situation, the parties, hopefully, they'll be more than just 2 in a 100 years; will have to refocus themselves on the improvement of American citizens. Should that take place, we won't have to worry about a breakup due to civil conflict because the government for once will be fulfilling it's very first duty, promote the general welfare and actually take care of its citizens first.
I think that is a bit optimistically delusional.
And let China take the spot at the top? Don’t be a pussy.
@@neongenesisevangelion587countries existing 100 years later feels more pessimistic lol
@dallas9397 how?
@@longiusaescius2537 because ideally (imo) a united world government would be the next step in human civilization.
The United States will always be an economic power but it needs to put the people's needs first. When I say the people, I mean all people. It can't have identity politics and cannot favor rich over poor or poor over rich. We will have to step back from being the world's police force and let countries handle their own affairs. America will always have a tight relationship with Europe and E. Asia but the rest of the world would be better off without us constantly getting involved.
The only way to get politicians that actually care about improving the lives of the people is to vote for them. Part of why the political divide grew so great and politicians became inept is because the people, the voters, stopped caring about substance and focused entirely on tribal group identity, he has an (R) or a (D) next to his name so that tells me everything I need to know and now discuss policy like it is religious dogma rather than a debate about merit, costs, and tradeoffs. Arguably social media is a root cause of this as it allowed people to retreat into echo chambers that slowly radicalized them into die-hard fanatics for their ideological positions of choice.
So my suggestion to any who read this is go and look at what the other side is saying. Look at TIKHistory, Hakim, Arch, and Adam Something. They all have very different views on the world, but we must remember that the American Republic will stand as long as her people can keep it, it is on us if we want to have an America in the future.
The geography of America makes it a superpower. The Mississippi river basin and the deep water ports all along both coasts make it inevitable. But what do we do with it?
This is very much sounding like a northern liberal arts perspective of the United States...
Also, someone who grew up after the Cold War...
The problem is not that an American identity was never established. The problem was that we've been allowing the American identity to be shredded along ridiculous microdivides by group seeking political power.
There was a very strong national identity until at least 9/11...
Nice break down and an objective point of view.
I always find Texas an interesting region in these scenarios. A people with a very strong and somewhat different culture (due to it being a mixture of picks and pulls from so many cultures plus extra “just Texas” thing) from their neighbours. Probably doing the best of “multiethnic/lingual but monocultural” in their region. They would have massive potential with their diverse economy of oil/gas, agriculture, heavy industry, service, and technology as well as a devotion in their culture of “victory or death” in regards to war as seen from their origins to all they wars they’ve fought in along side the US. The issue they have is that they are surrounded by multiple factions that are varying degrees of hostility. Wether it’s Mexican nationalist and cartels to the south, west coasters across the desert, whatever would be in the Midwest in need of the massive oil/gas and aquifer deposits that Texas sits on, or the Dixies to the east that would love to control the population and resource rich area again.
Such a scenario would lead either to a Texas being possibly one of if not the strongest in the region or a complete domination of Texans by outside forces.
I somewhat disagree with this analysis. I just saw an article stating that the reason for the great divide today is race. The US is becoming more and more diverse. Due to this, there are more and more non-white people in public office. It is my opinion that a group of older, white people just cannot accept this. This group starting feeling uncomfortable in the 1990s(leading to hate spreading radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh). When Brarak Obama was elected, this group went crazy. I still remember racist comments coming out at least once a month during his presidency. Usually from someone associated with the GOP. From what I read, younger people do not have this issue. My feeling is that if we can survive the next 10 or so years, nature will fix this issue. People do not live forever.
There are so many shaky assumptions underpinning the main arguments this video makes, it's hard to address them all. But first and foremost, the promise of America has always been that a society can work without a specific ethno national identity dominating. That was the foundation of the American experiment. And it still is.
@Pecos33109 literally bs 1790 immigration act, all white male citizenship and voting for 200 years
@MonsieurDean 4:31 New England formed the New England republic and absolutely tried to secede (during the war of 1812) when the nation was expanding West as the merchant class saw a political and economic threat from Southerners and Westerners, therefore the Southerners were the true Americans standing up for state sovereignty, but when the New Englanders wanted to present their amendments to change the U.S. Constitution at the Hartford Convention in Connecticut the war of 1812 was already over by then.
May it survive Ten-Thousand years.
4:40 [.Forgot The Native Americans.]
The more diverse the less social cohesion
What makes an American is a dream. Freedom is what make people come across the border illegally. Jobs and a hope of giving a better future to the next generation. Our political parties need to get back the basics of putting the needs of the people above special interest. Lobbying is what will destroy our country from within not the people.
Every Empire will die, that's a fact in life, we don't know who'll come next
China's still around and kicking.
@@MonsieurDean But not any of the previous Chinese empires, and the PRC is a quite new creature, in the grand scheme of things. To quote a certain famous piece of Chinese literature: "The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been."
@@MonsieurDeanChinas got bad demographic issues my man. “Han Chinese” also is as vague of an identity as white American.
I think the USA is too big of a monster to fail. Theres too much power at the federal level. I will say that regoinal differences are HUGE. Have you ever been to Utah or Florida? They're like completely different countries! I'm from the pacific northwest and Im all about Greater Cascadia. Give the mormons the great basin for the state of deseret. Give dixie to the southerner. Ect.
The people of Washington Oregon Idaho and Montana have alot in common and the Columbia watershed we share is important to us.
I am Latin American, so your videos help me to learn English and to learn about the history of the United States at the same time.
The U.S. is the longest lasting most stable country in the modern world. We have the second oldest continuous government in the world.
We all speak the same language. We all believe in the same form of government and by and large the country is still dominated by a tolerant brand of Christianity. We are good. We’ll still be here for quite a while now.
We should have withdrawn from Europe when the Soviet Union collapsed and disbanded NATO. Keep a few allies like Israel, Japan and Korea as regional checks against rising powers but that's it. Pull our troops home and focus inward.
Well Europe knows its still occupied........even the countries that were your allies in ww2 were occupied with Yank troops znd bases
There will be something in 100 years, just not exactly the same as what we have now
Can someone please upload the video with Rockwell and Malcolm X somewhere, I can't find it on any site?😊
Lmao the midwest in the thumbnail