Why the Year 2025 Might Be the Last for America as We Know It
Chaos following the ’24 election could trigger the downfall; I just hope Uncle Sam doesn’t go out like a cowboy and take the entire planet with him
It doesn’t get more doomscroll-y than that title of hyperbolic clickbait predicting a looming era of darkness and the downfall of the Stars and Stripes. But anyone who writes and even semi-pays attention to politics knows that these pieces write themselves.
After fifty years of steady decline and the one-two punch of Trump and COVID, America and Americans are barely hanging on. Pull on just about any societal thread in my home country and one could be led to a fall-of-the-nation-as-we-know-it level event.
Be it the near third-world level social and poverty scores, the general political despondency, and anger mixed with 390,000,000 guns, extreme weather from climate change and its continued denial, surging fascism, right-wing militias’ war games in the forest coming to the streets, Christian theocratic authoritarianism imposed by fundamentalist stacked courts with lifetime appointments, or nuclear war triggered by the over-aggressive foreign policy of an arrogant dying empire determined to keep its neocolonial exploitative grip on the throat of the…
