This is what is coming. The issue is not if, but how we will react.
This transition, in my view, is also part of the End of White Dominance Trend. A great deal of American politics today, as I have repeatedly noted, arises from the existential crisis in which, for the first time since Jamestown and the Mayflower, being born White will not automatically confer privilege. For many, particularly in the South, this causes enormous stress. Having the largest economy in the world be an economy of non-Whites will just add to this.
Kishore Mahbubani is Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and author of “The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World.”
When America Becomes Number Two
KISHORE MAHBUBANI , Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy – The Huffington Post
Phi Beta Iota: There is nothing wrong with being #2. Being corrupt and stupid at any rank is the problem.
See Also:
6 FEB 14 Yale University Steele on Reality, Intelligence, Ethics, & Solutions
2014 Steele's Open Letter
2014 INTEGRITY Year 1?
2014 Intelligence Reform (Steele)
2012 Reality Sandwich: How I Tested the Boundaries of the Two-Party Tyranny
