Quote Originally Posted by gugi View Post
The debt was the biggest problem only a couple of years back. Then everybody moved on just like Ebola was forgotten as soon as the election was over and it was no longer needed to whip people into outrage.

If you look at the economic parameters there is nothing to indicate a collapse anytime soon. The strong dollar slows down growth a little bit but that's it. The only slightly worrisome thing is that the distribution of the generated wealth is extremely heavily slanted towards a tiny fraction of people, and most people's incomes haven't increased for decades, but americans seem to be fairly comfortable with that.

Of course, with rising China and the appetite for more wars in US somewhere down the road US will lose its economic dominance and will have to deal with the world like every other country, not as a superpower. But that's a gradual process.
China's economy passed ours years ago, it's only a matter of time before they become the superpower the US once was.