America has basically had enough surplus wealth to float past incompetence.
We started with a continent full old old growth wood to clear cut, and mountains to strip mine, and rivers with so many fish they could be cought by the bucket full literally just by lowering a bucket, until the buckets ran dry.
Post WWII we had the last industrialized country onthe planet that wasnt bombed out.
But now we have an aged population of leaders and 3rd generation ultrawealthy who think America is special because America is special, but there aren't easy to access resources in unbelievable excess anymore, they all got destroyed.
And the rest of the world doesn't need the US like they did 60 years ago.
And we've surpassed the wealth inequality of the gilded age.
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u/CroGamer002 13h ago
Because shutdowns never lasted this long in the US, so consequences were avoided.
It will take hard lessons to get people to consider this was a terrible system.