I remember my father (now over 80 years old) talking about how America is as a country. Everyone accepted this as a self-evident fact. The "Made in USA" label had real substance behind it. Everyone wanted to own something that had the label Made in USA because everyone understood that American made stuff meant something.
Today, this label has essentially become rare and very nostalgic. I have a few items I own at home that are stamped Made in the USA. I have a few brand-new Everyday Carry (EDC) items (e.g., Leatherman knives, a flashlight, a watch). I had to think very hard to identify something I owned that was made in America. Most things I did have were probably made at least 40-60 years ago.
Today, America's industrial centre has changed. In fact, it has almost entirely disappeared completely. There are no longer factories in the beltway of the mid-west and east coast of the United States of America. People had enjoyed a standard of living and lived rather comfortable lives for many decades. Today, this has been slowly dissipating and disappearing. This is why politicians and Trump supporters are nostalgic and believe in the slogan: Make America Great Again.
America has become "soft" and not as hard working, to put it nicely. To be more direct, a large portion of Americans have become "lazy." America's position as the number one economy is no longer the case. America has not been number one for years.
Most Americans still believe it is the best and most free country in the world. This is what the media says and it's what we like to tell ourselves. Reality is that the USA might no longer be the strongest, the freest, or the happiest people in the world. America is probably somewhere in the top one-third of western nations. Americans need to get out more often and see the world.
Americans are desperate for nostalgia. Conservatives like me and my 88 year-old father remembers the United States as the number one nation in the world. Americans were proud to be American. Americans, on the whole, as still proud to be American. The Star Spangled Banner is sung proudly with ball caps removed and hand on the heart.
In the last century, the United States of America was the economic driver and producer of the world. America had taken over the number one position from Great Britain at around 1850. Britain had taken over from Holland at around 1670.
A new economic engine and military powerhouse will arise in the next 15-30 years. This new powerhouse will remain as such for the next 100 years. At around 2030, it has been predicted that China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy.
There will be a new world order coming to the world and the elites are afraid of China taking over this position. The elites want to build up the American military industrial complex because the military and arms industry can more easily create a larger economy. Arms and national defense are the only things left that America can create on its own--possibly.
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