A new survey shows that the majority of peoples in 15 out of 22 nations surveyed believe the United States has been replaced or will be replaced as a superpower by China. 76% of Japanese and 53% percent of Chinese agree to the disfavoring odds being stacked against the United States. With Chinese, Indian, and Latin American emerging-market firms doubling and tripling in size and having their stocks become more popular and costly, investors are being forced into more exotic places which are being less appealed to by the United States.
With this being just another issue to add to the list of America's innumerable staggering issues, does this give us another reason to believe our praiseworthy superpower figure is destined for total demolition? Should we resort to giving up, settle for a defeatist attitude, and discontinue investing at least a small amount of energy and time into having a political stance and opinion? In speaking of defeatism, there are serious thoughts to consider especially since there is too much of an increasing number of people losing faith in America’s superpower status.
Ostensibly, to the chagrin of America, its people's disloyalty and lack of fervidness in being politically involved in any facet that is its greatest enemy in conjunction with all societal, congressional, and media corruption. Government has gotten away with such avarice and subterfuge in the past century because the honor of having a populace truly educated in American history and politics and the practice of accurate interpretation and consistent fidelity to the Constitution has fallen to the wayside. The lack thereof has disabled the masses, after so many generations of malpractice, in being able to distinguish between what has been and is dependable congressional choices and what is government abusiveness.
Too many years have gone by in not galvanizing, even minutely, any potential beneficial change from the politicians who proclaim their desire to upkeep the society's substantial health and well being. Voter fraud and enormously tampered-with electoral outcomes have influenced a nation to discontinue believing in the ballot box. The term “politician” calls to the paternalistically democratized American mind nothing more than an image of a leader who is lackadaisical, judicially and lawfully disoriented, intellectually shorthanded, monetarily parasitical, and a giver unabridged in giving promises that is full of nothing but hot air. And sadly enough, this still doesn’t seem to impassion people to exercise their constitutional duties to abolish abusive government. The masses are atrophied in their constitutional defensiveness by their own inaction, indifference, and the influence of their partial self-inducing stubborn belief of America being in an irreversible gradual disintegration. They are therefore allowing themselves to remain moribund in ever regaining their rightful spot of a unified republic and poised stature.
Democracy and majoritarianism does not give America what so the liberty, peace, and strength everyone thinks it has had. It has rather rendered us a fissured republic where minorities' rights go so very unprotected.
Democracy and majoritarianism does not give America what so the liberty, peace, and strength everyone thinks it has had. It has rather rendered us a fissured republic where minorities' rights go so very unprotected.
In clarifying who we are, who we have been, and where we want to go, let us begin with asking 'what does it mean to be a superpower?' The term was first coined in 1944 and was ascribed to the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Since then a superpower has been conceived of as a nation positioned in having predominant influence within all systemic designs and events in internationality. In being a superpower a nation is to effectively project such influence in a way for the betterment of all of its interests and goals.
After World War 2, and while the British Empire became the Commonwealth with independent territories, the Soviet Union and the United States were the only ones left to go head to head with each other in the Cold War. Since the Cold War, it has been debated amongst scholars as to whether or not the United States should or should not be condoned as a superpower. With the influence of the ideas in China emerging as a second superpower to go on par with the United States and with Brazil, the European Union, India, and Russia being thought of as potentially achieving a superpower status, it is difficult to keep an optimistic attitude of America remaining imperishable. Certainly, as far as being a fiscal superpower is concerned, no help has been brought to our American reputation in the past 100 plus years with the Federal Reserve dismally failing at forestalling every single recessional and fiscal ignominy of each decade.
Mostly everyone is aware of the $14 trillion national debt. If the envelope continues to be pushed like this, many people are going to be blindsided by the eventual national deficit exceeding beyond our GDP. Not enough people are aware that this current debt ceiling raise is the 75th time in American history that the debt ceiling has been raised. By government saying it is insured that a “default on loans” would have occurred is an asinine excuse and cunning way to coax the public into allowing government to continue in unwarranted borrowing and loan-taking. This is government's deceptive way of trying to keep Americans asleep and unaware of the notion that the government is intentionally trying to fiscally degenerate America. Americans need to awaken to the true severity and reality of our government’s premeditated and preplanned activities of degeneracy and deliberate wastefulness.
If they really cared government would allow businesses, corporations, manufacturing, and industry go back to work making its own products rather than continue over-reliance on Chinese imports and consumer goods. Such imports have been proven to be paltry in too many areas thus negating the necessity of continuance. As in additional Chinese expense, China is lending their money back to America only to charge us interest, and our American government knows very darn well of it! Most Americans are no strangers to the large amounts of money we owe to Japan and the inimical Opec nations, however, in addition, we startlingly owe money to the Bahamas, the Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the Netherlands Antilles, Panama, and the British Virgin Islands all of which barely own any money themselves.
While a large percentage of the American citizenry remains so uniformly uninformed and ignorant, another large percentage remains so divided in opinions refusing disillusionment; and of course, who is to blame for it? The media! In a country where one side is saying one thing and the other saying something completely opposite, a nation is nowhere near to attaining togetherness. Massive confusion and conversational mayhem in television broadcasts, documentaries, and magazines rather than having actual informants is what the media thrives on and feeds off of in order to keep their mammoth influx of wealth, elitism, and subjugation over the truth of reality. We have Time Magazine telling us in an August 8th 2011 article called Big Questions, saying, “Despite a few fissures over entitlement spending, Democrats largely are united behind Obama’s vision of a balanced approach to deficit reduction, which has substantial support.” Then we have in a July 30th speech given on the Senate floor by Senator of Florida Marco Rubio saying Republicans and very many Democrats are in accord with each other that Obama has done very little to almost nothing in devising a budgetary plan to cut spending and reduce deficit and debt.
Leftist magazines, such as Time, are utilizing the Keynesian theory to postulate that in an economic fray such as this it is most opportune for government to spend and borrow. How can a country spend their way out of a recession and destroy deficits and debt by spending and borrowing more money that only creates more deficits and debt? How will a balanced budget rule with $424 billion in spending cuts reduce economic output by 4.2% and create extra 5 million more lost jobs and a 10% increase in unemployment? Time magazine is so appealingly persuasive to the many naive liberalized American minds who are so fixated on having the lower classes gain retribution against the wealthy for being so successful. Though, such rash statements made by Time Magazine are made without adequate intellectual, informative, and factual support as to how such downturn would occur as a result of a balanced budget amendment?
It is quite dangerous when we have an American media left telling the public that rules in a balanced-budget amendment are silly and the most irresponsible action imaginable to take. Things have become so contradictory enough, that, while liberal magazines are making ludicrous statements in one article about balanced budgets being silly, they are, in another article of the same magazine, having the nerve to make complaints that “In the immediate postwar years, federal spending consumed only 15% of GDP, but today it has ballooned to more than 24%.” They should know already, but clearly have been too stubborn to discover or admit, that the only way to put an end to such large portions of American GDP being exhausted by federal expenditures is to create a balanced budget plan with a reasonable and equitable approach. Are they that dumb enough to believe in such radically faulty economic assessments? To answer the question, in actuality, we should know better that such organizations who are spreading such propaganda are not really that dumb, but instead know very well they are spelling out one of the most starkest of all stark lies every to be made in history.
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