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Is America on a downhill slide to becoming ruled by Evangelicals?
America is on a downhill slide that it might not be able to recover from. Just the latest example of this: 5 months ago the head of a political party launched a terrorist attack on the capitol to end democracy and install himself as dictator. The the time since, nothing has been done to address this. They tried to remove the terrorist from office, but his political party said no so that didn't happen. The farthest they have gotten is asking the political party that tried to end democracy if they can be investigated, and that political party has said no to that as well.
As far as the people go, they are poor and exhausted from being exploited. Wages are down, productivity is up, everything is more expensive. People work harder for less pay for stuff they can't afford.
American's don't have reasonable access to basic services like health care or higher education. No one with any political power is or has been trying to actually address the root cause of this because the government profits from it.
Capitalism doesn't exist in the USA. Instead, we have this weird form of corporate communism. The state doesn't own large companies directly. Instead, the companies own the politicians. So the state owns business indirectly though the business's ownership of the state. An inordinate amount of government revenue and debt is spent on welfare for large companies. In capitalism, bad businesses fail and are replaced by better ones. In the USA, when a business amasses enough political power, they are not allowed to fail. They are allowed to create conditions where competitors fail. The big guys can make reckless and devastating moves with no consequence because the government keeps them alive with tax dollars. Business is the biggest welfare recipient in the USA.
Police kill and steal from citizens in the name of keeping order, and those actions are protected.
And so much more.
This shit is unsustainable.
The questions are how long will this last and what comes next. Unfortunately, unsustainable countries can last for decades. The USSR lasted for a while. North Korea is still going somehow. The USA's slide in to the 3rd world could continue for our lifetimes.
What comes next has two directions: self determined by America, determined for us by a comparable power. If it is self-determined, I don't think we will slide in to a theocracy. As loud as the Trump cultists are, they and the terrorist Republicans have always been the minority. The Iranian revolution being theological was determined by the USA because the petrochemical industry relies on the raw material from that region. China relies on US markets, and they probably would choose a theocracy because they are easier to control, just like the USA did for Iran (it didn't work, but that is why they did it).
Some fundamental change will happen. But we are still quite a ways out on it.
There's nothing here!