Call it what you want. Post-America. The American Century of Humiliation. The decline of the Burger Reich. However you slice it, the United States’ de facto role as the global hegemon is waning. The wheel of disillusionment turns, and reasons for Americans to grow tired become redundant: dire economic conditions for working people; the cringe-ification of the government apparatus through DOGE; civilians shot in the street by ICE agents; militarized police; towns driven to madness by the hum of AI data centers; the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran; President Donald Trump’s links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein; the disappearance of immigrants at home; and a direct hand in the Gaza genocide abroad, to name just a few. Who, then, could blame American youth for looking at how other countries govern?

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