“You can’t be a global leader with a hollowed-out foundation.”
History already wrote this story once. When Britain lost control of its debt and prestige after World War II, the world moved on. The dollar took center stage. Empires don’t always fall with a bang. Sometimes they just get quietly outpaced.
The show ends the way it always does: applause, a wave, a fade to black.
The cameras catch the words one last time—Pro-Worker Priorities.
But offstage, it’s fewer teachers. Fewer nurses. More hungry kids. More billionaires shopping for a fifth home. And a middle class stretched so thin it can’t even cushion the fall.
“This isn’t trickle-down. It’s a siphon.”
And it’s running full blast.