Will the United States ever fail?

America is learning, growing, and changing....however, will the US ever fail? yes. no. Maybe. US Failure....is it overall or on a specific area? I think the US has failed on specific items a number of times...remember, failure is having poor results due to action or lack of action. We have had that. US Failure maybe/no..... depends really on the will of the people and the elected officials. If the people are involved and elect good leaders, the US will continue to move forward. If the people descend into "who cares" only poor leaders (those with personal agendas) will seek office and eventually drive things into the ground.

Of course it will. Not because it's on any path to destruction or anything like that, but does anyone here seriously believe that any nation is or can ever be completely immortal? Even in the best possible case in the furthest possible future . . . eventually our whole solar system will simply cease to be. The point is not to never die, but rather to live a good, long, healthy life where we improve the lives of people around us. Maybe in a few hundred years a better nation will arise, Maybe we have already failed in the past and are now a wiser people in a nation that shares nothing with it's predecessor but a name and some paper. Or maybe I need to drink less coffee because I'm getting rambly. In any case: live, love, be happy.

I don't think America is failing... It won't fail. I think the core reason of American Exceptionalism is based on her ability to learn, grow, and change with the times. While there are may reasons to believe her failure is determined, I have faith in Columbia to find her right path...

When it comes to trying to fight against insurgents and terrorists, America, as a whole, has a lot to learn... from learning to not antagonize a particular ethnic group by giving proper knowledge of the groups culture while also trying to not take complete control of anti insurgent governments and let them deal with the problem themselves instead of doing the job for them (ie: training the country and not engaging in operations and let them do the job themselves completely)

When I look at what America started out to be and is now, it seems certain that it is a failed system. Look at the "Cycle of Democracy " and you'll see we're in the later part. Parts of America, primarily in the inner cities, are fully in the Dependency stage of the cycle, one away from full on Tyranny. I don't use that term flippantly, or in an alarmist sense.

So I can see three things happening with say 50 years:

1) We get annihilated by a world war 3 situation (nukes included)

2) Economical Collapse (Most USA jobs are service and not manufacturing)

3) United States of [insert corporate sponsor here]

and a Pandora's box of Hope: 4) We continue to build a more perfect union.

I'm not sure that we'll fail, per se, but I don't think that the United States will forever and always be the premier superpower. In 100 years, we may not have forces in over 100 countries. In 100 years we may joint a coalition "willingly" to fight a war for someone else. In 100 years, English may no longer be the lingua franca. However, I think that in 100 years the United States of America will still exist. The United Kingdom exists, even if it's a shell of its former empire. After two devastating world wars, Germany still exists as done Japan. I don't think, provided that there isn't some unforeseen disaster, that states will just disappear. Well, not western states, at least. Look how difficult it was to create South Sudan!

Of course it will. No civilization throughout all of recorded history has stood the test of time. Rome itself only lasted a couple millenia and is considered amazingly long lasted. It is naive and arrogant to think that the United States will somehow succeed at a task that is so ridiculous in scope, to last the length of all of future recorded history. There will come a day when new government that is not based on our current constitution will hold power, the only questions are when, how, and whether we'll have the strength as a people to ensure that the successor government is as great as or better than what came before it.

Now let the red thumbs rain.

The problems we had during the course of our history especially our Civil War. A Civil War should cause a fail quite decisively. In my opinion, the function of government needs a sound foundation and a awareness of hope for the future. The Civil War crushed both of these elements. Somehow, we survived. Insurgency, is a tough fight to win while our government in labor pains of another Civil War, but I still have hope.

I belive so.