"Make America great again"... But when was America great?

[Peh]

OdinHades said:
Depends what you mean by great. From 1950 to 2000 or something like that, the USA was the undisputed superpower in the world, No. 1 by any standards. Today, they continue to lose that status. All over the world other countries begin to challenge the former superpower. Russia is again striving for power, germany is generating loads of cash while the US is drowning in trillions of debt, China is producing pretty much any goods in the world, Japan seeks to once again establish a full blown army of their own and so on. Those developments in the world could lead to the US losing their status as a superpower, they could lose the ability to play world police, they already have lost influence in many parts of the world. For some people, those outlooks are very scary. They don't like the feeling that they aren't going to be No. 1 forever. They want to turn the world back to the 20th century.

But whatever, they won't be able to do that anyway. It doesn't matter what you do, the US will never be able to compensate all the successes of all other nations in the world. They would have to strike the competition down by force. But if they start a war, the world as we know it will be pretty much done for and we would be lucky if there was still a living being on the planet at all. So that is also not an option to turn back the hands of time.

Sorry folks, the 20th century is over and earth continues spinning. That's really all there is to say.

I suppose that being #1 went over their head. Becoming greedy to sustain this position at all costs. Starting new wars, screwing with the middle east and making a lot of enemies. Staying for so long on this position makes you also paranoid of your surroundings. Spying on your allies and such. I don't know where it goes from here on, but how can you beome great again by building walls around you? Wanna be the next North Korea? East Berlin? China?