America has devolved from a 1st world country into a 3rd world country?

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is this true

N192K001 · Accepted Answer

Not yet, but on the trajectory toward it. The course can still be undone , and  the Union has not yet reached rock-bottom . Courses can be adjusted and re-adjusted (for the good or the bad). For whatever it's worth, these are the words of dual-citizen Filipino-American who left a 3rd-world nation for the U. S. Now (ironically & despite the "reports" of foreign news-media), crime in the PH plunged under the Duterte-administration by a whopping 73.76%…  (Manila state-media, PH News Agency)  (domestic anti-administration  PH Daily Inquirer ) … and the PH was among the rising economies of the world… Then, everything changed when the COVID attacked! And the PH is already rising again, with outgoing-Pres. Duterte's last economic quarter resulting in 8.3% growth, the highest I've ever witnessed in my life so far.  (PH News Agency)  (domestic anti-administration media,  A. B. S.-C. B. N. News  allegedly shut-down according to foreign "news"-reports, when it STILL plainly exists & operates!)  (anti-administration media-wing  Rappler , funded by a foreign-government, plus an foreign-national oligarch who also funded regime-change media in another jurisdiction whose government was toppled in 2014) Granted, elections are a significant economic-transaction, so a rate higher than the usual 5%-7% is normal & expected, but still. That's an impressive farewell gift/report-card to me, at least. How did this happen? ● The setter of the positive course was then-Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (conservative Christian-Muslim Democrats), a Ph. D. in Economics. From 2001-2010, she did  overhauled the economy , made many enemies, was smeared as corrupt, was later tried in court and jailed erroneously, but did what had to be done. ● Her successor (& student) was then-Pres. Benigno "Noynoy"/'Pnoy" Aquino Ⅲ (Liberal Party), a B. A. in Economics. Ironically (from a U. S. perspective), this liberal did from 2010-2016 what we Tea Party, Libertarian, and then-Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)-supporters in the U. S. tried and failed to do:  cut the budget  and  slash the National Debt . He utterly replaced Manila's incremental budgeting-system (in which next year's budget = this year's + Congressionally-added increments, whose "cuts" if applicable still guarantee more spending than this year's) copied from and still used by Washington, and replaced it with a zero-based system (in which next year's budget starts with 0, with  every  department, agency, and program justifying their very existence & budget-request every year). In so doing, he discovered and de-funded en-masse SCARY amounts of corruption & taxpayer-abuse. (At this time, Manila bought Navy vessels imported from the U. S., built infrastructure Republic-wide, didn't raise taxes, and was  still  criticized by spendaholic business-news articles for alleged severe, chronic under-spending that endangers the economy! Can you image how much of the hard-earned taxpayers' money was siphoned-off to fund non-existent students in non-existent schools in non-existent school-districts and to subsidize companies that were nothing more than empty, grassy fields for all those years before‽) But (if the  Manila Times  is right), Washington made a fateful mistake (deliberately or mistakenly?) mis-advising Pnoy's sloppily-gullible-at-foreign-policy administration during a border-clash with Beijing, causing Manila to henceforth lose administration of the ᜃᜎᜌᜀᜈ᜔ (" Kalayaan "; "kah-lah-YAH-an"; 「Freedom/Liberty」) Islands. (To my surprise years after the end of his administration, it was this overly-dependent Washington-subservient Pres. Aquino who started deepening ties with Moscow just months to the end of his term. Hence, contrary to even what I was originally thinking, his successor only continued what was already started, and ran all the way with it, he did.) ● With the economy set,  law & order  was the next project (which was utterly neglected for decades & administration straight) from 2016-2022, so today's outgoing-Pres. Rodrigo Duterte (social-democrat P. D. P.-ᜎᜊᜈ᜔ "Laban" "LAH-ban"; 「Fight」) actively hunted down the cartels' double-agents who so heavily infiltrated the government in all levels, used a nationwide amnesty-deal to secure massive amounts of intelligence & evidence from the 1.4mil surrenderees on their networks, and broke their systems that perverted Manila's premier New Bilibid maximum-security prison into their fortified H. Q. guarded by taxpayer-funded personnel. He continue, boosted, and completed Pnoy's negotiations with the 2 largest Muslim rebel-militias (30k-40k strong each), tried to do the same with the Maoist insurrectionist militia, but broke their back after their failed assassination-attempt with a bullet-barrage to the (decoy) Presidential limo. All the rest of the Muslim militias joined Islamic State, overran a Lanao del Sur province's capital-city of Marawi, and were almost all annihilated with the help of traditional allies (Washington & Co.), new-found friends (Moscow, Beijing, and their blocks), and our regional neighborhood. Caliphate & Communist terrorist-groups are now but a shell of former themselves. With the generations' long insurgencies & civil-wars essentially done and "normal" crime-victimizations significantly reduced, the Filipino people have finally been able to breath easier, work more productively, and catch-up with our neighbors in attracting foreign investors & tourists. Pres. Duterte will leave office on 30 June 2022 with his final approval-rating of 67.2%, and retire with an lawsuit against him from the gullible International Criminal Court (I. C. C.) who only seem to listen to the side that lost the elections 3x in a row (2016, 2019, and 2022) and definitely has incentive to demonize, depose, and replace the dynasty that's replaced them. A cog in the outgoing-administration & now-ruling dynasty, Pres.-elect Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr. (Partido Federalismo 「Federalist Party」), has the people's mandate to continue the reforms. What will he do: f—-up everything; start the new phase where his predecessor lacked, as was done before him; just continue; etc? Only time will tell. But every nation has its own challenges, problems, and solutions. Luckily, ● Islamic State has not taken a State-capital and begun doing heinous things to the citizenry stuck there; ● the Communist Party U. S. A., Socialist Party U. S. A., other smaller but similar parties, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) don't have an insurrectionist-militia running its own rival-government, "taxing" unfortunate residents, hijacking schools to indoctrinate the children, bombing police-stations, and ambushing U. S. Army & law-enforcement patrols on a regular basis; ● U. S. prisons are not iron fortresses of the cartels, with gangs "self-regulating" and "cooperating" with administrators to "maintain order" in the severely understaffed jails, so that drug-lords & gang-leaders (whose hidden armories exceeded that of the guards!) regularly check-in & -out like a hotel, entertain election-candidates & future-judges in lavish parties, and other things like these from a 2014 raid on New Bilibid Prison: Yes, this is from A. B. S.-C. B. N., the Liberal Party's mouthpiece. And there's more! And there's STILL more, as shown by Discovery Channel Southeast Asia's  Inside the Gangsters' Code  series (episode "The Commandos" from 2013)… as aired by A. B. S.-C. B. N.'s then-livestreaming of the resulting Duterte-era 2016 House of Representatives hearing on the matter! And predictably, Pnoy's then-Secritary of Justice (now outgoing-Sen.) Liela de Lima (Liberal) went went to jail…as a convict, this time. After all, how can your nation's premier maximum-security prison transform into that WITHOUT the Department of Justice (D. O. J.) knowing and allowing it? Can you imagine a U. S. maximum-security prisons transformed into cities governed by criminals and protected by the police even documented by the Discovery Channel, the U. S. Sec. of Justice going to jail for it, and… having the Discovery Channel host publicly ashamed of making "propaganda" used to jail an "prisoner of conscience"… and the world believes the garbage an treats the U. S. like a human-rights violating Fascist dictatorship! There's still a lot more that the Union has not experienced yet. Pray it never gets that bad.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

If you want to see what a true 3rd world country is like than just leave America and spend some time in some Central African countries. You can even go south of the border and spend some time in rural Mexican villas. You will see real quick that even the poorest parts of America have it better than most people in the world.

I spent a lot of time in Mexico last year. Most of my friends were working class locals. Mostly good, hard working and honest people. But that gave me a stark reminder of how much privilege I was born into in the USA. I was born into a lower middle class family (which worked to become upper middle class). That was reality for me.

Aurora1010 · Accepted Answer

People who say this wouldn't make it in a country that actually has third world problems. I think you guys should be a little more grateful.

Flower7 · Accepted Answer

No, not quite. But it definitely has some signs of moving in that direction.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

It is only true for those who hate America and look for excuses to be critical of our great country.

RealMarek · Answer

We’re more like a second-world country. People focus on averages, like average income that is close to highest in the world, but the median standard of living that is more reflective of a typical American’s experience is similar to that of Chile’s and declining rapidly.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

Not 3rd world, but America definitely is no longer a 1st world country, more like a 2nd world country.

America is literally the only country of 193 countries that can't even protect little kids from getting shot to death in school by crazy people.

SlightlyEccentric · Answer

No but we are slowly creeping in that direction it seems

888theGreat · Answer

Not yet , but we are headed that way. One more cheat in election to keep house and senate and screw Trump again and I am sure we will be 3rd world and like 50th in the world. Zimbabwe will be more wealthy than US

sawno · Answer

Nah, thats a long way off. It would be closer to second world countries if this continues.

lofii · Answer

Probably. It is letting those illegals in and taking liberals opinions seriously

jshm2 · Answer

It never was a first world country, to be fair.

LazerBean · Answer

Not even remotely close.

jahaims · Answer

Go to a third world country and find out.

Anonymous · Answer

In more than one way. Yes.

Philyouup · Answer

we devolved into a nest of “Christian” assholes

Slingblade1126 · Answer

Not even close.

jimmy2 · Answer

No not true we still are a force to to deal with

WindAtMyBack · Answer

Don't be stupid.

Kichbazp_ · Answer

Oh... Yes

msc545 · Answer

Very true sadly.

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