POLS 264 Lecture 15: 264 Week 8 Lecture 15

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 264
• Professor: Kim Richard Nossal

Document Summary

Kim jong-il, kim jong-un in north korea. Americans began and continue to express doubts about american power embrace the language of decline and worry about the rise of decline. Frequent reassertion of the fact that america is failing and needs to be reviewed. Make america great again and that a certain person is one to do. American declinism happened in the early 2000"s with discourse of a post. This revolved around a number of different themes . Social dysfunction: inequality, race, violence, incarceration despite. American productivity and growing manufacturing the vast wealth of. American is not equitably distributed, long term consequences of slavery, homicide and incarceration rates. Political dysfunction: difficulties of making national policy and hyper partisanship in american politics impossibilities of breaching divides leads to paralysis of political institutions, jonathan rauch saying that the. America is suffering from a hardening of the arteries of american. The notion of america as obsessive, paranoid, xenophobic.