Be grateful that notwithstanding our problems, others have greater problems. And our system allows our country to pivot when the voters demand change to address the problems. Once again, don't assume America's time has passed.
In 2008 the European Union (EU) economy was almost as big as America's. In 2023, America's GDP was 50% larger (tip to Instapundit):
Yeah, I'd be seeing stars swirling around my head if my precious "ever closer union" was faltering that much against hated America's economy.
Sure, Britain left the EU and Croatia entered between those dates, but that's not why America grew much larger. Experts keep wrongly predicting America's decline in the face of a rising economic power.
Maybe if the EU had remained the European Economic Community of a common market rather than becoming a proto-imperial project overly focused on stripping away the prefix, the gap wouldn't have grown. Perhaps this is the difference between Americans demanding better from our leaders while EU leaders demand their subjects accept what is granted to them.
One day the experts might be right about America's decline. But that's not how you should bet on any given day.
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