Do we realize & understand & grasp that we are living in a pivotal moment of history?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. 1) Yes, 2) Only a fall if one assumes things, 3) Presumes such a fall would be bad, 4) The final pivot out might be cool

1) Yes. I'm Canadian, under attack in an economic war for the sovereignty of my country and my way of life and my liberty. Canada at this point is the most free country in the world.

2) You highlight the "fall" in your first sentence and throughout. It is only a fall if you assume there is an actual American Empire. That is highly debatable. One can point to an almost total lack of colonies (Puerto Rico) and counter with cultural imperialism and commercial imperialism.

3) The presumption is that such a "fall" would be bad. Do the economic decline consequences outweigh the moral and humanistic values? Is money everything? Is grossly over-weighted military dominance and expenditure and risk the only way to obtain world peace and "safety for democracy"?

4) Sometimes things have to get bad to get better. When fighting cancer, we can deploy chemotherapy, which temporarily makes the patient feel worse than the disease symptoms. I thought that one term of tRump would have been enough to show a majority of the populace that going back is dangerous and not worth anything. I was wrong. Perhaps it will take the crippling of government for the majority to realize its worthiness.

As a human society we are on the brink of a very progressive, wealthy, and bright future. But it is blocked and attacked by unsustainable wealth & income disparities, religious dogmatism, authoritarianism, and polarization. Before long (in historical terms) tRumpism and the oligarchs will be discredited and swept away and more balance will be restored. While that happens it will seem like an eternity.

So, yes, we (DU and progressives) realize we are in a pivotal moment in history. Reich-wingers hope and pray that we are in one as their greed, close-mindedness, and denial of facts and natural realities blinds them to the consequences that will befall them.