America's empire is currently in liquidation for many other reasons besides the ones that were listed in this article. The "social democracies" of the late 1960s (eg Canada, France and Switzerland to name a few) are satellite states of America, and they are now imposing austerity measures in an attempt to reduce the debts of their countries as a result of economic crises sunch as the European sovereign debt crisis of 2009. Imposition of austerity measures leads to an increase in poverty, which in turn causes fascist forces to rise to power. Countries that are just like those three mentioned now have fascist parties in control of many of the local governments. The 2008 economic crisis was the main reason why the main pseudo-democratic regime of the United States is now on the chopping block. All the countries that are functioning "social democracies" are actually predatory capitalist countries which utilize voting systems that are derived from America's voting system. For example, the Greek government-debt crisis of the 2010s prompted the EU to institute austerity measures in Greece despite the people becoming wary of them and rejecitng a financial bailout in 2015. The bailout was initiated despite failing at the ballot box due to political pressure, and was the first thing that brought Greece closer to authoritarianism. Other countries that impose bailout measures like Greece are expected to meet the same fate by the middle of the 2020s.