[mrcheesebreeze]

Its not that, its more the general feeling of an american decline and an obsession on knowing how it will end.

Doomer feelings are growing more prevalent as out population becomes more divided and our monetary situation grows worse.

Many americans feel that our "American Empire" that dominated world politics is losing ground fast and there is a need to cope by being "smart" and swearing you know how it will happen.

Its pure copium, but it feels good to cope and feel an illusion of control.

TL;DR: its a need for control in worsening times, not hatred, that drives the doomer theories of an American collapse.

[elforce002]

Interesting. Will the term "self fulfilling prophecy" apply here? I mean, that's how the stock market work, right? Something or someone introduce fear (impending war, possible crash of the dollar, etc.), get people talking about it causing more uncertainty, and the cycle continues, thus fulfilling the original premise.

I'm not a geopolitical expert by any means, but if there was a time to make a move against the US, this would be it for sure.

I mean, by the looks of it, the Western doesn't "feel" that hopeful. Just look at the US alone:

- Patriotism is on an all time low (per NYT);

- Social divide is on an all time high;

- Highest inflation in +30 years;

- Afghanistan's debacle;

- Proxy war with Russia got the American people basically divided between spending that money at home and striking a deal between RU & UA. vs helping Ukraine defeating Russia;

- US culture is getting a pushback from other countries (mainly in the African continent) that think the US is trying to impose their morals upon them (it's not that far fetched if you think about it). This is affecting US relations with those countries to the extent that they prefer to align with US "frenemies" instead of the US per se;

- US foreign policies pushing together countries that were/are still enemies, bringing forward the old saying `the enemy of my enemy is my "friend"`.

This decade will be really interesting, to say the least.

[onlyrealcuzzo]

Fun exercise, do the same thing - but for positives:

- We'll be basically energy independent in 10 years

- Manufacturing is being decentralized and re-shored

- Our domination in tech is not slowing

- Despite the news, violent crimes are near all-time lows

- Education is at an all time high

- Low income wages are at recent-history high

- Working hours are declining, PTO is going up

- Gay rights are at an all time high

- Turns out, Russia isn't much of a threat

- etc.

You see what you want to see. It's a good idea to at least try to see things from the positive and negative sides.