Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   US in Decline and on the Brink of Civil War Date:   12/20/2021 9:12:54 PM

Read an article today that said a University professor, who sits on a CIA board that rates the stability of countries, says we are a lot closer to civil war than we think.  Apparently, we check a lot of the boxes that they use to determine if civil war will break out in a country.  The article said that the committee is of the opinion that we are no longer a stable democracy - we are somewhere on spectrum between democracy and autocracy.  They portend that the US is in decline and has been been for the last 5 years, but it is speeding up.  

I am generally an optimist, but it is clear that something is going wrong.  We don't have as much influence over the allies, some of them have stronger economies than we do.  Our foreign policy has been influx for some time.  Our economy is failing, our national debt is increasing and we have civil unrest.  Our judicial system is wobbly and growing more and more political.  Our political system is being pulled to the far left and the far right with very little conpromise.  

Did anyone else read the article?  What did you think?