O Sonho dos Idiotas: A Decadência Americana e os BRICs

O sonho de todo idiota é a decadência da América. Eles torcem para que alguma outra nação a substitua. Por isso inventaram essa baboseira de BRICs. O que esses beócios são incapazes de entender é que a força e o poder da América não está na ponta das armas e sim no livre mercado, na democracia representativa e no estado de direito. Os boçais realmente acreditam que uma ditadura comunista como a China pode competir com os EUA, ou até mesmo aquela gigantesca, imunda e repugnante favela chamada Índia, algum dia será uma alternativa viável [o SB não vai gastar tempo falando dos cachaceiros russos e muito menos da selva]... Em meio a tantos jornalistas ignorantes e mau intencionados, analistas de porta de cadeia, e um exército de analfabetos que infestam as universidades, encontramos uma exceção. Neste artigo Joshua Kurlantzick fala o óbvio que pouca gente vê, que a Asia está muito longe de representar uma alternativa a América: "there are many good reasons to think that Asia’s rise may turn out to be an illusion. Asia’s growth has built-in stumbling blocks. Demographics, for one. Because of its One Child policy, China’s population is aging rapidly: According to one comprehensive study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, by 2040 China will have at least 400 million elderly, most of whom will have no retirement pensions. This aging poses a severe challenge, since China may not have enough working-age people to support its elderly. In other words, says CSIS, China will grow old before it grows rich, a disastrous combination. Other Asian powers also are aging rapidly - Japan’s population likely will fall from around 130 million today to 90 million in 2055 - or, due to traditional preferences for male children, have a dangerous sex imbalance in which there are far more men than women. This is a scenario likely to destabilize a country, since, at other periods in history when many men could not marry, the unmarried hordes turned to crime or political violence.
Looming political unrest also threatens Asia’s rise. China alone already faces some 90,000 annual “mass incidents,” the name given by Chinese security forces to protests, and this number is likely to grow as income inequality soars and environmental problems add more stresses to society. India, too, faces severe threats. The Naxalites, Maoists operating mostly in eastern India who attack large landowners, businesses, police, and other local officials, have caused the death of at least 800 people last year alone, and have destabilized large portions of eastern India. Other Asian states, too, face looming unrest, from the ongoing insurgency in southern Thailand to the rising racial and religious conflicts in Malaysia".