In a few decades? Anyone remotely rational or educated is looking at what is happening in the US right now as unbelievable idiocy. Idiocracy was overly rosey, as at least there Camacho understood self-limitations and could defer to others. In the US, a pedophile traitorous imbecile is busy laying out the same policy goals you would find in an online forum full of angry old assholes who never accomplished anything and are a joke, so the best they have is tearing down.
A lot of very smart, capable people gave the US such a comfortable position on this planet that it allows absolute garbage like Trump to float (not going to sugarcoat it for the many Trumpists on here -- the guy is a garbage human being, and encapsulates the absolute worst traits of humanity. His takes on almost everything are impossibly stupid and ill-informed nonsense, but he has captured his party so thoroughly that the clucking chickens all start repeating buffoonery verbatim), and so many in US politics, to ply unbelievably clownery and get away with it for a while. But the collapse is coming much faster than many people realize.
You had me until collapse. What are you picturing exactly? I think humans are really good at muddling through, and life will go on. I think enshittification is a better paradigm to think about the future than apocalypse
Just ignoring the massive devaluation of the dollar underway, the complete loss of the US' geopolitical standing (which China is rapidly taking over), and just the general economic collapse the US is likely to face (though don't worry, Herr Trump is going to fire everyone that doesn't sharpie fake numbers in)...
...the dissolution of the union. Already representatives from one state -- one that is actively destroying democracy to serve the agenda of rapist Trump -- are sheltering in the opposition camp's state, under the protection of its governor.
How long do people think this nonsense is going to continue? How long will better states endure having this human trash lording over them with their grievance and grift (remember that "free for the taxpayer" jet? Actually will cost taxpayers a billion dollars to be transferred to that criminal thief)?
Soon enough tax withholding will happen, there will be a struggle, and the divisions will arise.
A lot of very smart, capable people gave the US such a comfortable position on this planet that it allows absolute garbage like Trump to float (not going to sugarcoat it for the many Trumpists on here -- the guy is a garbage human being, and encapsulates the absolute worst traits of humanity. His takes on almost everything are impossibly stupid and ill-informed nonsense, but he has captured his party so thoroughly that the clucking chickens all start repeating buffoonery verbatim), and so many in US politics, to ply unbelievably clownery and get away with it for a while. But the collapse is coming much faster than many people realize.