“Is It Our Turn to Collapse?”

So asks Kunstler, reminding us that “shortly after it withdrew its troops [from Afghanistan] in 1989, the Soviet Union commenced to collapse” — Strange Days Ahead. “How much is the USA of 2021 like the Soviet Union of those years?” he asks, answering:

Well, we’ve become an ossified, administrative nomenklatura of Deep State flunkies as the Soviets were, and lately we’re just as lawless as they used to be, constitution-wise — e.g., the abolition of property rights via the CDC’s rent moratorium… the prolonged jailing in solitary confinement of January 6 political prisoners… the introduction of internal “passports.” The USA is running on fumes economically as the Soviets were. Our dominant party leadership has aged into an embarrassing gerontocracy.