Pretty sure climate change is the answer.
I hope, my only goal in life is to outlive america
I would say that people losing rights hand over fist would be the breaking point, but 50% of the population doesn’t care about that apparently.
In reality my guess is cost of living as everyone has to buy groceries or deal with health insurance, and it’s something that everyone can agree on that it sucks.
That, or death by a thousand cuts.
Us Americans have lots of rights. They’ve all been eroded at over the years. People like rights, I’m almost sure of it. I’m sure they’ll really regret losing them.
Unfortunately for all the accelerationists here that are salivating over the idea, America is not even close to a breaking point.
I doubt it will be climate change specifically. I think it will be the increasing political divisiveness. It’ll be a whole bunch of different issues, climate change included, that neither political party can agree on the reality of, much less how to address them that will continue to escalate tensions between the two major political parties until we reach the point of a second civil war.
I think America is less than 50 years away from that point. The path we’re on ends in war. Who knows if our country will survive.
50 years is generous, I could realistically see widespread civil disorder by the end of the decade. People are pissed and verging on desperate, and I don’t blame them. It’s finally becoming blatant to the common person just how rigged the system is against the masses, and the social contract is rapidly crumbling.
Nope, it’s always a surprise! It’ll probably be some damned foolish thing in the Balkans though.
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The answer is ‘whatever you feel concerned about’ and multiply that by 300 million. Charles Bukowski said (paraphrasing) that it’s not the big things that will break a man, its the little things that drive men mad - like a broken shoelace.
It’s not just going to be one big issue but an aggregation of all little issues. And boy, do we have issues.
H5N1 with 50% mortality. Collapse of the economy. Food shortages. Fuel shortages. Power outages.
Political breaking point or physical breaking point?
Politically, I’d say the whole national debt thing is going to take a toll and we’re going to see internationally backed revolutions in the US, in every part that wasn’t one of the thirteen colonies.
Physically though? If anything, it would be something like damage to the ecosystem.
Why? Why national debt?
So there’s this thing called MMT which essentially (vast oversimplification incoming) opines that the national debt is meaningless as long as we’re the dominant military power and everyone uses our currency (most large multinational trade deals are balanced with USD and most currencies derive a portion of their value from the country’s stockpile of USD). That theory has so far not been proven correct nor incorrect but we might be both 1) coming up on the first real test of MMT and 2) seriously breaking assumptions of MMT (BRICS has been investigating an alternative trade currency and Russia has a lot of oil and gas it wants to sell but USD sanctions have prevented).
Is MMT correct or fantasy? Well, a lot of MMT supporters are highly paid government employees whose employer really wants them to say it’s correct but we haven’t really been able to run an experiment on it or anything.
MMT = what?
Modern Monetary Theory.
Thank you!
I mean, the fundamental breakdown of civility is going to be the answer, because widespread politically-motivated violence cannot happen without it. How long it will take for the country that keeps threatening to devolve into a civil war to actually do so is anyone’s guess.
fundamental breakdown of civility is going to be the answer
I mean, have you driven recently? Seems like it’s already started.
No
No. We will find out afterwards.
Not climate change.
There’s a reason there’s American companies buying up fresh water and aquifers all over the world. When it comes to passing and shoving, the US would have the upper hand.
That’s a blood statement to assume they’d be able to keep guard on it from people that would be literally dying of thirst.
Do you think they won’t protect something that will become a national security? Look at what they do with oil and “national security”.
There’s a huge difference between oil and water when water reserves need defense, the latter of which rendering the former a non-issue.
Water wars will make oil wars look like kindergarteners playing in a sandbox.
What do you expect would happen?
Civil War v2? No, I don’t think so.
Civil Rights Movement v2? Very likely.
Don’t threaten me with a good time!
I only have one goal in life: outlive america
Most of the america i knew growing up is gone, so there is that.
