[mostlysimilar]

> Really the only thing that can stop the US is the reduced wages and loss of the middle class, because the middle class actually creates the velocity of money that the market runs on.

Political turmoil and "culture war" collateral damage is a genuine risk as well. If nothing else it's preventing us from enacting laws that prevent corporations from continuing to decimate the middle class (e.g. offshoring in software companies.)

[mikewarot]

The culture war is a distraction created by the owner class to keep the wage class busy fighting itself.