> This isn't the place to debate it, but we're currently a rudderless, borderline second world country.
You are teetering on the brink of alliance with the Soviet Union? (The first/second/third world thing originally referred to cold war alignment: first and second were US and Soviet spheres, third non-aligned; later first- and third-world got adopted as synonyms for “developed“ and “less developed”, but second-world is never used in that economic sense.)
You are teetering on the brink of alliance with the Soviet Union? (The first/second/third world thing originally referred to cold war alignment: first and second were US and Soviet spheres, third non-aligned; later first- and third-world got adopted as synonyms for “developed“ and “less developed”, but second-world is never used in that economic sense.)