10 Biggest Threats That Endanger America on It's 250th Birthday
Let's define the problems and then solve them even as we celebrate the rich beauty of the United States.
The threats to America are real as we celebrate our 250th. Define the problem, then solve it. Please let me know your thoughts.
1. Chinese covert and proxy influence worldwide, in partnership with vassals Russia, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan and others, including China’s unprecedented growth of economic influence, military might and political ambitions, while spreading collectivism and gaining vast worldwide influence, seriously threatening US and Western interests, including its currency, through exploiting Western open society models, laws, customs, economics, cultural and spiritual beliefs.
2. Incompetent Western leadership that has led to gross and out-of-control deficit spending and credit-based growth utilizing fiat currencies that tolerate and even elevate gambling in the form of contracts, all of which should be closely regulated to protect the economy but regulators are now promoting rather than controlling financial industries -- all this while governments propagating propaganda control all popular narratives
3. Ineffective, out-of-touch institutions that are unable to respond to threats or, often, to even see them as threats -- coupled with high level corruption that can conveniently and deceptively be dismissed as incompetence amid growing graft.
Supply chains that have never fully recovered from the pandemic, while war in Iran disrupts more supply chains
Politicization and partisan weaponization of laws, institutions, non-profits and other components of society by both political parties
A “race-to-the-bottom” mentality in which political dirty tricks have to be matched by more dirty tricks in a form of increasing incivility that leads to a slow society-destroying culture of revenge -- fed by a growing show-business political model that contrasts grotesquely with the political-experience and institutional-memory prerequisites for Western leaders of 35 years ago
Privatization of cultural and political change in the bloated use of non-profit organizations, misnamed and guided by high-paid administrators, while even more bloated charitable groups take in cash but distribute a relatively minor amount -- all while most Americans erroneously think “non-profit” is the same as “noble-spirited.”
And colleges and universities ironically grow swollen with capitalist endowments while spreading collectivist principles that now grant degrees that are irrelevant in the new jobs era.
4. The lack of modernization of a fraying and failing electrical grid coupled with greatly increased immigration, mal-investment in power generation resources as the demand for electricity outstrips the ability to produce it, so much so that power providers are continually playing catch-up with no ability to get ahead of the crisis, which can easily be exacerbated by natural forces such as storms, unusual heat and dire cold.
5. The growing depletion of easy-to-produce and cheap-to-produce oil (and water, which is parenthetical only because it’s just now becoming popularly clear that water resources are being taxed to their limits, including the unspoken stress of out-of-control immigration piled upon outdated infrastructure and new water and electricity requirements of “data centers”).
6. A race for superiority into the far-reaches of artificial intelligence (AI), a race that appears to be with China, even as public perception in the West is that AI will either save mankind or will alter and suppress human creativity and human control as well as eliminate entire careers while humans become more lazy by increasing dependence on AI. This can lead to inescapable constant surveillance and elites hoarding knowledge and algorithms, forsaking a population placed only on a “need to know” basis while history is slowly rewritten.
7. Social experimentation (income redistribution, laws that favor business over individuals and families, encouragement of counterintuitive sexual, moral and collectivist concepts, marginalization of traditional families and the staunch individual in popular culture) that leads to growing personal mental stress with drugs, along with confusion, deception and civil and religious division, engendering more political and spiritual polarization among the population, then exposing them to more extreme behavior as they gather into group mentalities.
8. Nationalism and globalism both appear to be causing an increasing scramble for land and natural resources, leading to wars that are changing in nature from the old fashioned troops-and-battleships to a new drones-and-missiles-plus-AI race for dominance, while Neo-Malthusian ideas survive among rich and influential elitists who increasingly and erroneously believe that possession of lots of money is proof of wisdom.
9. Medical threats that include excess regulation, medicines outsourced to other nations, drug experiments foisted upon uninformed subjects, chips in pills and other technology research that will be seen as ominous and threatening to the populace. Add increasing decline in medical care thanks to insurance paperwork and policies, overworked doctors and poorly-paid nurses and medical personnel, corporate demands and apparent pharmaceutical capture of hospitals and consolidated doctors’ offices that reduce quality of patient care.
10. Unseen and hard-to-measure weather and environmental changes, whether because of a “grand solar minimum,” or simple disregard for “nature,” including accelerated species die-off, undermining of the resilience in ecosystems, soil microbiome depletion, and ocean phytoplankton changes.
Never mind the threats to the population of the West through unhealthy food and drink and…
What did I leave out that should be among these Ten Threats?