>>2729998the US empire isn't going to fall in our lifetimes. Every decade had people who believed the empire was in terminal decline and in the 1970s it looked that way. The Bronx was burning, serial killers were on the loose, satanist cult scares in the news, drugs, crime, Vietnam disasters, oil price shock, CIA corruption, Watergate scandal, etc.
You can go back to the British Empire and find people making the same assessments of imperial decline in the 1850s. London was falling apart. The River Thames was a open sewer. People were looting the treasury, going to India to make fortunes, coming back and buying up all the politicians. they were building steamships, trains, telegraphs in madras but people in London didnt have drinking water, and suffered rickets. 40% of the population was unfit for service in the Boer War.