The White House and American news media are wringing their hands over China’s economic slowdown, which is construed as posing a threat. The argument that China should focus on consumption instead of investment is fallacious, and serves to bolster a Western sense of superiority.
I think part of the reason the “vote blue you guys! Come on! No matter who! Other team is always worse! You’ve gotta vote for us!” crowd are getting so shrill in recent years is because it is clear that the tactic isn’t working anymore. People are becoming increasingly disenfranchised in the US, as they can see that both parties operate the exact same way, one is just “more civil” about it.
The only problem is that the republicans have started taking that frustration against the system and pushing it towards scapegoats and conspiracy theories. A certain group of Germans in the 1920s were fond of doing that, and the liberal response at the time was…“just vote them out.”
I’m quite worried for the people of the US tbh. The rest of the west is slowly collapsing, but the US seems to be doing a speedrun into open Fascism.