Reply #22: America, as a nation is 235 years old, as a settled colony of Europe, only 400

[stockholmer]

The demographics are changing incredibly fast for a population that large (with many having very weak socio-cultural ties to the so-called American way of living), the medium to long term financial picture is grim at best, with the empiric wars being a huge manifestation of this. The culture is marked by hyper-fluidity within the single most controlled media-paradigm in the developed world. Traditions there are extremely new and artificial compared to rest of the world, and for the most part are now co-opted by oligarchic meta-system as a means to simply further their ends and agenda.

I do grant that a higher percentage (than any other major nation in modern history) of Americans will simply be too unhealthy to leave for a myriad number of resons. Just one example- by 2020 over half of the US will either be fully diabetic or in the final pre-diabetic stage. http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/11/23/unitedhealth-diabetes-idUSN2229234020101123.

However, given that the sui generis of immigration to the US for so many was the pursuit of a 'better life', I would definitely be willing to take a wager that you will see large amounts of exodus over the next 10 to 20 years, unless the control grid simply ring-fences Americans in. Such is always the lot of all empires in their collapsing era.