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I am Polish and I live in Poland. Between 1945 and 1989, real socialism prevailed in my country. We laughed as a nation that our system is best at solving problems that it has created itself and that are nowhere else. Unfortunately, the same can be said of the political and social system in the USA from today's perspective.
In a country where anyone can kill anyone and in a country where the death penalty is commonplace, everyone has a finger on the trigger and the Police, who are supposed to defend everyone from crime, have such a difficult task that it becomes impossible to do it without pathology. Europe recognises neither a universal right to arms nor the death penalty. No one here needs to protest too much against the brutality of the Police - the Police don't need to be brutal here. What else America - how many of you, my dear, are bringing daily weapons into schools - thousands? No, tens of thousands. And you want to take the police money today and give it to education. What for? Some time ago in the U. S. , a psychotic brought a gun to a psychiatric hospital. He tried to shoot his psychiatrist, but as he also had a gun, the psychiatrist shot first and shot the psychotic. The USA was proud to have such heroic psychiatrists, while the rest of the world wasn't skimping on criticism. It's a sick situation - no one there should have a gun, but it's also a situation that shows how sick the US system is about this.
The world is moving towards a system in which a person, instead of doing the wrong thing, will not be punished in the direction of a situation in which, before doing something wrong, he will stop knowing that punishment is inevitable. The system of universal access to arms and the death penalty in the US makes this impossible. Yes, you can count on good people with guns, but the same combination is sick and makes you paranoid, which is impossible to fight. You put your hand in the fire and count on someone on the side to blow it. Wake up.
There were Indian civilizations that were so successful that they developed. Giant cities developed because they had a sewage system, for example. Unfortunately, the bigger such cities were, the more it turned out that it was difficult to feed them, because the food resources had to be obtained close. However, when there was a serious crisis due to unpredictable circumstances - chaos was created in these cities, so such civilisations fell within a very short period of time. Russia or China are just powers. The U. S. is an empire because of the leader's position, which it won a long time ago. A superpower cannot defeat an empire by becoming an empire. He's always a superpower. But when empires fall, the powers are divided. Today, the USA is in a similar situation to that of the Indian civilisation - because of its size - it is so far ahead that it lacks a backside. You fall for trivial reasons only because, looking at your greatness, you are not able to discipline yourself like the rest of the world, which, without such a position as the USA, had to resist more solid socio-political foundations.

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I said A, so I have to say B and C. Somehow today it is hard to believe the argument that the U. S. is still an empire and that when empires fall, powers are divided. Especially with the alleged domination of China. Only that money doesn't really play a role here. The role of a superpower is always to be stronger than an empire, and yet not to be able to break this dominance due to the position of the empire. Let me remind you that even in the fifties the Soviet Union had a nuclear arsenal capable of destroying the Earth's surface fifty times, and the USA could only do it twelve times. So far, Russia has a nuclear advantage by 2050 (which may have changed recently, but I don't know about that). It's not a matter of strength or money to be an empire. There are countries where you live better than in the USA, where economic growth is greater, where culture is more vibrant, or where people earn more. Despite this, the USA has won the leader's position and it is the USA that is the one that is most willing to stick to the leaders.
The whole scotch is in the word perspective. Yeah - in SUPERVISION! If you ask the psychotic when he interrupts his medication and why, he will say that he does it when he no longer sees prospects - we want to see that hope and we will do everything for it. An example? In the 1950s, J. F. Kennedy promised that in ten years'; time Americans would set foot on the moon - an unrealistic idea - it's like saying today that in five years'; time I'll know the warp technology that will allow humanity to fly to Proxima B circulating around Proxima Cenatauri. A sick dream that only the greatest sleepwalkers can dream of. And yet the US and Kennedy did. Before the Apollo missions, higher education was only for the elite and nobody was in a hurry to study. After Apollo's missions, the belief that studying, especially the sciences, is simply a hero has entered mass culture. This, much more than the Second World War, has accelerated technological progress in the world. In 1945, the head of IBM said that in 2000 the demand for computers in the world will not exceed 5 units. Nowadays, practically everyone has a smartphone that is capable of outpacing all Apollo missions with its technological complexity. It wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for J. F. Kennedy's sick dream.
America has set a new goal. The goal was so great that it could only be achieved because it was too big to be carried away by reason, and therefore the sick psyche did not forget about it - because the goal itself was sick. It has become a reality and no one can take it away from the US anymore. And China? Even if they go to Mars, no one will care. Two weeks will be of interest to people. Unfortunately, today's young people do not see such a perspective and all they believe in are smartphones, plastic rap and diabetes. Yes, either the U. S. will move towards Proxima Centauri, or another country will do it and thus become an Empire. But it will be neither China nor Russia, for they do not owe their power to effort, but to force.
In the 1980s. people thought that Japan would be the most important country in the world. They were buying patents and improving them. Now they have serious economic and political problems. China? They do the opposite - they steal patents and use low quality. Now they think that it is enough to invest to improve this quality, and quality in companies is one of the most difficult subjects, and such a giant pierce cannot be switched to better quality.
Once again, there are countries where you live better, but they all live in the shadows. The Americans, who even got to know Poland, publish a lot of videos on YouTube about worship for this country, claiming that Poland is the last bastion of normality. We can be small and beautiful, and others can be even stronger than the USA, and yet no one is able to match the step of the USA, because those from the machine have the advantage and there are universal rules that defend that advantage. Unfortunately, every empire once rains and gives way to a new one. However, it is difficult to accept the fact that the order in which the civilized world believed is to collapse due to the fact that the necks are inexorable.