Have we passed the "golden age" of our country?

[POed_Ex_Repub]

Poll question: Have we passed the "golden age" of our country?

Every dominate country has a "golden age", that time period where the economy and territory expands and times are generally good. Rome had it, Greece had it, name your empire it had one of these periods.

They also all eventually collapsed. So, have we already passed our "golden age" or are we just at a blip and our "golden age" is yet to come?

Call it the winter blues, the unemployment blues, or the "I've lived under an idiot's administration for 3 years now" blues, but I'm not feeling all that optimistic at the moment.

I'd be interested in your thoughts, or hey, just cheer me up, I could use some of that too. ;)

[K-W]

1. The Golden Age is ending

America cant exploit the rest of the world for much longer.

[eleonora]

2. I'd love to say something positive

I think it's too soon to say for sure, but.....looking at the deficit......

[POed_Ex_Repub]

4. Did I properly welcome you to DU yet eleonora?

Don't think I have... Okay.. here it is...

:hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi:

[eleonora]

6. Thank you!

I've been watching for about a year, now is the perfect time to jump in and taste the waters :)

[newyawker99]

15. Hi eleonora!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[minkyboodle]

3. nothing lasts forever...

Unfortunately I think the baby boom generation is gonna end up having the sweetest deal as far as the right time to live...
Scott

[K-W]

5. It will be a slow fall

As the bottom falls out of the middle class. I imagine it wont hit my family for another 2 generations or so. But overall you are probably right.

[Cat Atomic]

7. Depends on what you mean by "golden age".

If you mean the ability to project military power with little opposition, then maybe we've seen our peak. If you mean unopposed economic domination of the markets, then maybe.

Socially, I think we're just coming into our own.

Look at France. People would say her golden age is passed, but the average citizen of France lives FAR better now than during France's "glory days".

I have high hopes for this country. I think we'll prosper when our pretend emperors can't play empire anymore.

[Dookus]

8. I may be an incurable optimist

but I believe the ideals of the enlightenment on which our country was founded still have a great future.

If we all work at it, our best times are ahead of us.

[punpirate]

9. Yes, but this time is just a point on a continuum....

Fifty or a hundred years from now, the world may finally be united against the worst aspects of nationalism and imperial tendencies, finally recognizing that competitive absolutism is destructive. Something to work toward, anyway, even if we don't live to see it....

Cheers.

[screembloodymurder]

10. Hello!

What gave you the clue?

[xchrom]

11. hmmm, golden age?

i'm one of those who believes that our economic strength lies in the fact that we stole the natural resources of this country from someone else. so our economic greatness isn't built by all that hard work every one loves to toot over -- but that we got the raw materials really cheap.
social awareness high points have come in waves -- with the real change being marked by brown v board of ed{not over looking the end of slavery in the 19th cetury, just being more contemporary} and then by the civil rights and free speech movements thereafter.
we are at a period now where economic justice is the battle field -- and that's what the presidency of the chimpmeister is all about.
we can turn this into another golden age but the enemy has put many legions onto the field, i.e. right wing christians, small gov lunatics, and the mac daddy of them all -- corporate facists.

[MercutioATC]

12. We're an immature society. Our "golden age" is yet to come...IF we make

it happen. Hopefully, we can have leadership that is able to learn from our mistakes and make the U.S. better. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to have happened yet. Our past successes will pale when placed next our future accomplichments....but only if we choose to become a responsible world power rather than the adolescent bully.

[kodi]

13. we peaked in 1985

and even then it was inertia that got us there.

[RichM]

14. Yes, but this is different from Rome. This time, the whole world will go

down with us.