This is a challenge.
We know we don't want to be an Empire. We also know we .. that is .. these more-or-less "United" states--wield extraordinary economic power, which translates to military and political power.
So what do we want to be? How do we want to use that power?
Here's the vision thing writ large. What is a realistic and progressive role for the USA in the coming decades? What are we to become when we are no longer the only "superpower?"
This is not a solicitation for "comments," but a challenge to work out our new role in a "new world order:" -- a world of the sort we would want to be part of?