Why America and Britain Are Both Self-Destructing

Look at the world today, and a striking fact glares out at you. The bellwethers of social collapse are…Britain and America. The world’s two largest English-speaking societies. Old friends. Nations with similar political philosophies, both of whom will tell you they’re among the world’s oldest democracies. And yet? Both are in dire, surreal states of collapse. In America, you can get gunned down for…<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65316073" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">knocking on someone’s door</a>…going to school…just existing. In Britain, ambulances can take…days to show up…you can’t get a doctor’s appointment…nothing works…and the Home Secretary is <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiEsZaGs7b-AhVZAzQIHS6VAMsQvOMEKAB6BAgLEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F2023%2Fapr%2F13%2Fsenior-conservatives-hit-out-at-suella-bravermans-racist-rhetoric&usg=AOvVaw3CqHNZyVXTNfYXWBfhc6rF" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">openly called racist</a> by more moderate members of her own party, because of her vile comments and policies, which scapegoat innocents for all the above. How did it come to this? After all, these are two of the world’s richest and most powerful societies. Why are they collapsing? That they are collapsing shouldn’t be in much doubt. Britain’s experiencing the <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjR_pqXs7b-AhUHADQIHRb2A2YQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fworld%2Fuk%2Fuk-still-faces-record-hit-living-standards-obr-predicts-2023-03-15%2F&usg=AOvVaw1sxeFnIXQ_X3DG8FBknZUY" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">sharpest decline</a> in living standards in recorded history. America has four to five generations in steep downward mobility. In both nations, fanatics and lunatics have seized the reins of power, and are doing their best to deconstruct democracy, render it a shell. Of what kind? What’s really striking is that in both nations, political economy isn’t about democracy at all anymore — expanding, guaranteeing inalienable rights, building institutions and systems to enact them. It’s become about taking rights away. <a href="https://eand.co/why-america-and-britain-are-both-self-destructing-d293b32d8b0e">Read More</a>