We speak to Richard Lachmann, US sociologist and author of First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers. He discusses how the United States’ decline is similar to the imperial collapse of the Netherlands and Great Britain, how climate change could accelerate the US’ decline, what a post-US hegemony world would look like and why China nor India could achieve the power the US achieved, what the Iraq War, Barack Obama's and Donald Trump's election meant for US hegemony, the possibility of mass social unrest and mass movements within the US as the country declines economically and geopolitically and more!<br /><br />LIKE<br /><br />Going Underground <a href="http://fb.me/GoingUndergroundRT" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://fb.me/GoingUndergroundRT</a><br /><br />FOLLOW<br />Going Underground <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GoingUndergroundRT" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/user/GoingUndergroundRT</a><br />Going Underground on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/Underground_RT" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/Underground_RT</a><br />Afshin Rattansi on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/AfshinRattansi" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/AfshinRattansi</a><br /><br />PODCAST<br /><a href="https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/going-underground-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/going-underground-1</a><br />...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTIDJKd3EN4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTIDJKd3EN4</a>