An oldie, but a goodie, from Palladium: China’s Real Threat Is to America’s Ruling Ideology
“Ultimately, the danger for American elites is not that the U.S. may become less able to accomplish geopolitical objectives. Rather, it is that more Americans might begin to question the logic of U.S. global hegemony. Perhaps not every state is destined to become a liberal democracy, and nations with very different political systems can coexist peacefully, as many countries in East Asia do. Maybe the U.S. will not always be at the frontier of military and economic power, and the country that overtakes it may have completely different attitudes about the nature of the relationship between government and its citizens.”
The writing has been on the wall for some time - The 21st century belongs to Eurasia. Yes, many of the nations in that sphere are authoritarian, but they still largely work on the behalf of their people. The West, especially Western Europe and the United States, gave up on such notions long ago. Western governments not only don’t care about their people, their ruling classes hate the people and want them dead, as well as replaced by a more compliant foreign underclass.
You can stay and fight a losing battle, or you can face facts, get out, and go where you’re treated best. I choose the latter. I would rather live my life like a permanent VIP guest at a luxury hotel, rather than as a nobody in a hovel. Yes, I may never be fully accepted as “one of them” by the natives who work in and around said hotel, but I don’t mind, as long as I am treated well. If the service slips, I check out, and I go somewhere else that I am treated best.
It’s more of a possibility than you think.