Originally Posted by
Marshmallow Marshall
The thing is, if America loses its superpower status (and by this, I mean its supreme influence over the Western world), it will eventually lead to the fall of America itself. I'm gonna look like a brainwashed cold war guy here, but China will take over what the US leave behind them, which threatens democracy, first of all, but which also happens to screw America's economy by reducing its ability to make deals in other countries. Of course, pure isolationism is possible for some time, but other powers (such as China) would eventually take America's place and cause "the American way of life" to stop being possible.