Quote Originally Posted by Adam Strange View Post
Authoritarians will wreck the world and non-authoritarians will try to fix it. It is basically what you've seen for the past forty years in US politics.

Bush attacks the Middle East, Clinton makes trade deals, Bush II attacks the Middle East and Afghanistan, Obama tries to make trade and nuclear disarmament deals, Trump attacks the Middle East.

It's a lot like the US deficit. Republican president lowers taxes on the rich while raising defense spending and reducing welfare benefits thus blowing up the deficit, Democrat does the opposite and gets a budget surplus, rinse, repeat.

Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House roof as a symbol of his administration's efforts to reduce Global Warming, Reagan had them removed, citing "government over-regulation".

It's pretty clear, I'd say.

But I really do recommend reading the original reference.
I find it amusing how badly the US has been blowing it's global lead through shitty politics. Just 20 years ago the US far above most of the world just about every metric, and know you can really start to see it's relative decline. Education's shit, infrastructure's crumbling, shitty healthcare, innovation's gone down the tubes, renewable energy is not being embraced as fast as it should, etc. The petro dollar and America's naval control over global trade gave it major economic advantages that allowed it get away with having piss poor leadership. When US global hegemony unravels it will have cascading effects and people are going to be in for rude awakening.