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wolfy42 posted...

I was just reading about this port city in Australia

Seriously if I was a bit younger.

Yeah, but then you'd have to deal with throttled and censored Internet. And drop bears.

And Thunderdomes.

Okay, so maybe most of what I know about Australia comes from Mad Max.



JixHedgehog posted...

Every Dem in power right now including the President can turn this all around

They really can't.

Most of what people are complaining about today are the consequences of global socioeconomic factors outside of anyone's direct control. The US basically stole its way into the top economic powerhouse position after Europe was devastated by two world wars (there's a reason why everyone thinks of the 1950s as the US economic Golden Age). But with Europe having recovered while China is finally shaking off the handicaps of being fucked over by the West and then their own post WWII problems, now there's suddenly competition again, and the US economy is faltering because we're not competitive enough, and we never should have been in the #1 spot in the first place. Not helped by the fact that we've basically shifted from an industrial to a service economy.

Covid only accelerated problems that were already going to inevitably be on the horizon regardless.

It's why Trump's "Make America Great Again" was also BS. Because it really isn't in the power of the US President to do so. There really aren't any laws that are going to reverse the invisible hand of the future. All Congress and the President can do is slightly slow or accelerate the slide.

People complained about the Top 1% of the US population controlling a majority of the wealth. But the US has just spent 75 years being the 1% to the rest of the world (well, more accurately, the 4%, but still). And now the rest of the world is started to demand its stuff back.