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America Will Collapse by 2025 (2010)

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Re: America Will Collapse by 2025 (2010)

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America will not collapse, but American democracy likely will collapse.

At the end of 2022, GOP will win the mid-term elections and have the majority in the house and the senate.

They already have state legislatures effectively under control, and the supreme court is full of conservative judges.

In 2024 Ron De Santos, or another authoritarian candidate, will win the GOP nomination and easily win the election because Mr. Biden is a total loser.

With the supermajority, the GOP will establish an autocracy for decades.

Re: America Will Collapse by 2025 (2010)

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post #3

I lol'd at this oil analysis. The author had no idea what technological developments would be widely deployed in just the next couple years after they wrote this

>I lol'd at this oil analysis.

You really shouldn't tho.

>The author had no idea what technological developments would be widely deployed in just the next couple years after they wrote this

None of the technological developments created since then [2010] are able to mitigate an oil shock of the kind described in the article given their current deployment levels.

Actually, not even any developments that might be created in the next 5-10 years, in the level that they can be applied within the next 15 years would solve such an issue.

Re: America Will Collapse by 2025 (2010)

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post #5

Doom and gloom has been selling for decades. Don't buy it.

I think you've gotten the wrong takeaway message from "The boy who cried wolf story".

At some point, there were indeed wolves, so dismissing the chance of them because of fradulent/failed prior warnings turned out to be a mistake.

Plus, in 2022 it's more accurate than ever. Though of course, Rome didn't decline in a day, either...

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