American Decline Will Be Worse Than U.S. Intelligence Agencies Fear

[Joanne98]

"American intelligence agencies project that the United States will lose its position of world dominance by the year 2025." They don't know the half of it. Loss of dominance means the end of U.S. imperialism, the only thing that stands between the United States and the Great Unraveling.

“Once the United States loses its artificial advantages, its decline will be far more profound than Washington’s intelligence agencies can fathom.”

American intelligence agencies project that the United States will lose its position of world dominance by the year 2025. Their report is titled “Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World,”

http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=907&Itemid=1

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. 16 years.

Yikes!

[bemildred]

2. Well, this IS the problem:

"There should be little doubt that America’s ability to bludgeon the rest of the world into economic submission, is over. Unless Washington is willing to roll the dice militarily to hold on to its advantages by force – a doomed project, but one that American ruling circles may believe is their only option"

Our ruling elites are almost to a person devotees of the post-WWII global imperium, and it will not be easy to get them to admit that they have so egregiously screwed the pooch by doing the things that they so believe in and justify themselves by and with. And also, they have long since forgotten how to operate in the real world, there is going to be a shortage of people who still know how to do that for some time yet, a certain amount of education will have to occur.

[foxer]

3. Ruling classes don't care, they moved to Dubai

[Joe Chi Minh]

4. Our education system in the UK has been so traitorously underfunded by

NuLab(c), that we're having to outsource-inwards foreign workers of all kinds.

[bemildred]

6. I have always been struck by the way our education system here was

undermined and weakened after the Vietnam/Civil-rights popular political revolt. We really had made great strides at that point, but it threatened the political status quo, so it had to go. There is a large element of our internal political dialog here that consists of attacks on educational institutions and intellectuals. Ms Palin and Mr Bush are egregious examples, but they are thoroughly typical of an element that has always been present. Aside from what a losing attitude it is in a complex modern technological world, it bespeaks a deep-seated fear of change. For someone like me that remembers the post-sputnik push for education it represents the point in time when the US rejected it's own future, and an indicator of how far we have sunk since then. I can remember when California had a government that really functioned and did good public works. Now they can't even do a budget.

[lib2DaBone]

5. Well said... America is not in a position to bludgeon anyone..anymore...

George Bush has pissed away BILLIONS.. OK, that is old news. But what IS news, is that America is finally going to come to reality.. that yes,,, we are broke.

Just like the war in Afghanistan bankrupted Russia.. the war in Iraq bankrupted the U.S.

We, as a people, are truly fucked, unless we ban together against the Corporations and take back control of our resources.

Think LOCAL. Everything LOCAL. Gardens to raise produce... mom and pop hardware stores instead of Home Depot. Our only hope is to bond together as a people and stave off Wal-Mart and George Bush.

[mwb970]

7. We've been going downhill since the 70s. It had to show eventually.

I've watched 35 years of dumbing-down here in America, with the citizenry continually becoming stupider, coarser, and less informed with each passing year. Electing the totally worthless bush twice was an indicator of something very, very wrong.

Obama's election may represent a tiny, tentative step in the opposite direction. But I'm not counting on it.