Why has the US fallen?
It's pretty clear at this point that the US is in decline and losing. But who is the US losing to? It's the classic question of why empires fall. In the case of the US, I know quite a few of the reasons. The US is suffering from a death by 1,000 cuts, from enemies both foreign and domestic. Obviously Soviet infiltration during the Cold War was highly damaging to the US. The Cold War officially started in 1947 under Truman as President, but really it had been going on for awhile. Hollywood famously had the blacklist in the 1940s where Marxists and communists weren't supposed to be involved in films. Yet, even during that time some of the most successful films were written by communists. During WW2 US propaganda promoted the Soviet Union communists as good for fighting the fascist and socialist Germans, and even before that the Marxists were able to start getting a strong foothold in the US. Marxism, communism, and socialism are different terms for the same basic philosophy t...