Is there any time or event before 1900 that the USA could have collapsed or become a failed state?
Perhaps even worse civil war, but I don't know how it could happen.
The U.S. probably would have collapsed if it didn't reform the Articles of Confederation.
but the U.S. ended up under Socialist administration(some inspiration from Red Dawn, there), so that may or may not quite count, depending on the criteria, but I'd think so.
Ending up under a certain political ideology doesn't in any way default into being a failed state. Thats not to say that certain ideologies can't end up being failed states, but except for certain anarchistic and/or anti-authoritarian ideologies, it rarely have any direct influence on a state's succes.
You think most of Europe is a failed state since they (with northern europe being the most triumphant example) have governments fairly close to what most Americans think of when they say socialism? looking at where most of the worlds democratic population is standing on political ideology, its USA thats an outlier, with even their far left wing being fairly centrist in most other (westernized) countries.
And before being smart and saying USSR, that was more of a dictatorship (well, tyrannical Oligrachy / Junta ), dolling themselves up in the clothes of 'Commuism' as that is an easier sell. And their failure was due to the rulers more than the ideology they were said to be following
Is there any time or event before 1900 that the USA could have collapsed or become a failed state?
Ending up under a certain political ideology doesn't in any way default into being a failed state. Thats not to say that certain ideologies can't end up being failed states, but except for certain anarchistic and/or anti-authoritarian ideologies, it rarely have any direct influence on a state's succes.
You think most of Europe is a failed state since they (with northern europe being the most triumphant example) have governments fairly close to what most Americans think of when they say socialism? looking at where most of the worlds democratic population is standing on political ideology, its USA thats an outlier, with even their far left wing being fairly centrist in most other (westernized) countries.
And before being smart and saying USSR, that was more of a dictatorship (well, tyrannical Oligrachy / Junta ), dolling themselves up in the clothes of 'Commuism' as that is an easier sell. And their failure was due to the rulers more than the ideology they were said to be following
If your definition of socialism is broad enough to include modern Europe, it's broad enough to include Soviet Russia as well. Conversely, if you're insisting on the strict definition of socialism in order to exclude the USSR, you're also going to exclude Northern Europe.
Or, on the flipside, no Civil War at all, with slavery surviving until about 1900 or so, until the economy suffers a major breakdown, and/or political unrest explodes into full-blown societal violence; I actually started a mini-TL on this very scenario(list-based, which was inspired by another list done by Lost The Game a while back), but the U.S. ended up under Socialist administration(some inspiration from Red Dawn, there), so that may or may not quite count, depending on the criteria, but I'd think so.
Most importantly, their continued obstructionism on tariffs will lead to spiraling federal debt.