>>510281893 (OP)The cycle is always the same.
We are at the start/middle of decline caused by the overexertion
the government always chose one of to way to fight the decline:
-liberalization, hopping thing fix themself (the democrat)
-Authoritarianism, hopping that you can force thing work (the Republican)
In all case the fail as a large system cannot be controlled efficiently, don't under estimate inertia.
The result is a big messy collapse, thing calm down and new regional power appear, fight each other and the winner became an empire and collapse once again.
google: the 5 stages of empires