We've been in decline for some time now. I'm guessing for the last 15 years or so it's been a steady decline. What's funny is how it's considered damned unpatriotic to think or acknowledge it.
Combined all the aforementioned items in AVG's post, with things like, the diminishing middle class. How class boundries are becoming increasingly distinct. Executives making huge salaries bonuses while outsouricng american jobs overseas. I feel we've become a consumerist nation of two distinct classes: those in service oriented jobs, and the gilded elite that manage them; with little in between.
On a related note, I also believe that we no longer have the capacity to win any major wars because most of the industriy that won WW2, is now in China and elsewhere, with more jobs on the chopping block. We are well on our way to becoming a poor nation. The philoslphy of "America First", and "Made in the USA" need to return and are a long time over due.
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