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Problem is people have no perspective.
They worry about trumps tweets, tone, demeanor, and keeping up with traditional presidential norms of the past few decades.
Obviously the most crucial problem facing our country is that we are losing our hegemony....and worse of all we have ushered it in ourselves for short term gains. Everything about trumps presidency revolves around maintaining that hegemony.
Everyone screams about a trade war. When the alternative to a trade war is China surpassing us in gdp in the very near future. Of course an arms race would follow and god forbid war.
We are at the tail end of our reign and if there was an all out trade war we would win. The same thing may not be true in 5-10 years. Now is the time, while we have a fleeting leverage, to take on China economically.
I hate repeating the same talking points due to different threads with different posters but the hegemony is not something we really need going forward and we are far too bloated and overextended around the globe as it is.
The US is actually the least internationally linked (dependent) economy in the developed world with a robust future demography outlook, is an agricultural superpower with the largest and most productive region of contiguous arable land of any country, is soon to be not only energy independent but the largest oil and gas producer on the globe and net exporter for the first time since 1953.
It's rapidly reindustrializing and will be the most competitive manufacturing country on the planet by 2020 thanks in part to the shale revolution, reshoring and manufacturing 4.0 innovations, it has the dominant market share of the two most high-tech industries there are (aerospace and semiconductors) and is throwing inflation-adjusted record sums towards all forms and fields of research and development.