As noted regarding the internal collapse of the Roman empire, when taxes became burdensome, expansion was required to maintain population growth to support the original areas, farming and manual labor became scorned, and there was no longer a tradition of service either military or political by the upper echelons the rot had become total, and it was just waiting for a small disturbance to drop the whole structure.
We are doing the same glide path and have been for most of my life. Farming, self sufficient people, manual or blue collar labor are flat out despised, military service is considered an option for the lower classes, but not the elites, fly over or red state country is spoken of as if it was a forgiegn enemy, and if it doesn’t be legit the “elites” it isn’t worthy of any attention or effort. This will come to a bitter and difficult fruition eventually if we don’t step back from the edge. Defunding the people who hate us more than our actual enemies, put us below the invaders and economic migrate who drain our coffers and the self serving politicians who are only concerned with their own plunder is a good start, highlighting the hypocrisy in burning swasticars in protest of a movement you don’t support us putting it all out there for everyone to see.
Tag: Global American Empire
Fun Times to Witness Firsthand
The United States started out as a group of small settlements along the Atlantic coast of North America. Within 150 years these seedlings had spread to become the basis of the most powerful, most productive nation ever to exist. By 1900 it had become a continental power that had harnessed great scientific and technological innovations to become a world power. By 2000 it was the global hegemon, with no other nation even daring to pretend parity with the United States of America.
Twenty-five years later this country is much diminished. And almost none of the change has to do with military might or technological capability. We still have wonder weapons and a nuclear arsenal. We have the most advanced information technology systems including the latest innovations in artificial intelligence and data acquisition.
What we have lost is our identity. The Left has been on a campaign to destroy the myth of America for the last seventy years and I think they’ve been almost wholly successful. Because it is this myth that provided us with the power that allowed us to perform all the miracles we have seen over the last century and more of our civilizational highpoint. I’ll arbitrarily assign 1900 as the zenith of American civilization. This convenient date, more or less, starts the “American Century” and the first decade was Teddy Roosevelt’s presidency. I would say this was when American morale was at its highest point. We were respected and envied around the world and our self-regard was very high. And at the same time, we were still a very self-reliant place. People were expected to support themselves and government had no place in micro-managing our lives and finances. From our point of view there was no government safety net and poverty was only one economic panic away. But Americans depended on themselves to survive.
And this was doable. America truly was the land of opportunity. Everywhere you looked there were great ventures building bridges, railroads, telephone systems, electrical infrastructure; all the systems needed for a modern civilization. There was work to do for anyone willing to do it. And we considered ourselves a moral people. We had police and courts that made sure that everyone lived according to the laws that each state enforced. And every man could be judged by a jury of his peers. It wasn’t perfect but it seemed like a reasonably fair system. And we had representative government. We got to vote for our presidents and congressional representatives. Well, not women. We were still sane back then and kept them in the home. That madness was still twenty years in the future. Funny how that innovation seems to track with the end of American greatness. Oh well.
And most importantly, we hadn’t gotten involved in a European War at all up to that point. Sure we slapped their hands if they interfered in the Western Hemisphere; Monroe Doctrine and all that. But we were smart enough not to stick our noses into European quagmires. We left that to the British.
But now? Well, we’re mired in conflicts all over the Middle East and even Ukraine. We rattle our sabers at China, Russia and Iran constantly. We meddle in the elections of half the planet, spending clandestine money to rig elections and decide what cultural values we will permit “democracies” to have.
And we’ve allowed the education of our children to undermine the belief in the fairness and morality of American laws and institutions that have stood us in good stead for over two hundred years. These educators and politicians have labeled our society racist, sexist, bigoted and immoral. And worse still, a whole generation has been brainwashed into believing it’s true.
They’ve also empowered the leading corporations to outsource almost all the manufacturing jobs that formerly supported a thriving middle class to foreign shores where labor prices are impossibly low. This has single-handedly dropped the United States into the second tier of nations economically. And it has devastated the morale of the whole country. And now the Left has tried to finish off the middle class by flooding the country with tens of millions of third-world refugees to compete for the few jobs that are left at the lowest wage imaginable.
So where do we go from here? If we looked for examples we have Rome. A great and proud people expanded under the leadership of wise rulers but then allowed foreign wars to turn their Republic into an Empire. And that Empire turned its back on the small farmers who had been the backbone of the Republic and turned to slave labor to enrich the senatorial class and changed the army into a profession with no pretense of an end to the forever wars.
That looks very much like what we are seeing planned by the Left, only on a global scale. Now Trump is trying to reverse the picture. He is taking steps to deal with each of the problems; wars, outsourced manufacturing, global corporations, hordes of illegal immigrants and culture war. And we’re even seeing some small progress from his efforts.
But can he turn it around? When the Gracchi Brothers or Julius Caesar took the side of the plebians in Rome they were assassinated and the Empire rolled on. So we’ve never seen this trend from Republic to Empire reversed. Of course I’d like it to be so. The ends of Republics aren’t fun times to witness firsthand.
ArthurinCali Has an Article on Realpolitik and Trump
ArthurinCali has a very interesting interesting discussion about how Trump looks at the ways and means of running the American Empire.
“From time to time, the mask slips and the broader public catches a glimpse into the inner machinations of the Global American Hegemon. This can be a striking blow to the ideals and platitudes usually presented as representation of the Liberal international order.”
A Bitter Pill
I was talking to a very smart guy recently about where we are now. He was of the opinion that the American Empire was a natural consequence of America taking up the global mantle from Britain after the First World War and we had no choice but to let the federal government grow into the monster it has become to prevent any other emerging power like China from overtaking us in any of the various arenas that we compete in; military power, technological prominence and financial and monetary control. And I sort of see what he means.
But I also know that what America has become is only a good thing for a miniscule fraction of Americans and I can’t imagine how most people wouldn’t be horrified to see the world become the reductionist inhuman dystopia that the people in charge more and more openly espouse. To see the grandchildren of the men who fought World War II programmed by their teachers to think that their duty was to die childless while living in a cubicle sized enclosure while eating dried crickets and watching their phones, is a sickening spectacle. This is just the replay of the Roman Republic collapsing into an empire where the patricians buy up all the land using the spoils created by the plebian legions and then flooding Italy with slaves from these same wars to bankrupt the last of the small farmers and turn them into paupers that could only become soldiers to survive.
You know, I don’t think I care if the dollar loses its reserve currency status and all the masters of the universe have to give way to Beijing. In fact, maybe I would prefer it. If all the American and European billionaires were suddenly impoverished and became just plain old millionaires and suddenly none of us could afford the newest smart-phone made in China or whatever the latest status symbol was, I don’t think I’d be sad at all. If all the guys working for the big investment banks, hedge funds and pharma companies suddenly had to lose one or two zeros from the end of their paychecks, I think it would make me smile. I really wish someone like Donald Trump really would raise enormous tariffs against the foreign manufactured products that all those American companies sell to us. Hell, I’d even buy lousy American cars if they would benefit Americans working in those lousy plants.
And to be honest, I’m not even mad at the Chinese workers or the Mexican workers or even the Vietnamese workers who presently make all the stuff we have to buy. I’m mad at the American globalists who set up this zero-sum game that basically sucks up all the middle-class prosperity that was built up in this country over the course of hundreds of years and transfers it to an oligarchy that figured out how to monetize that middle-class right out of existence.
Even the commissars in the old Soviet Union didn’t want to eliminate the Russian people. They still wanted them to survive and have children. But our modern overlords have a new model where their human serfs are replaced to as great an extent as is technologically possible with computers, robots and drones. Only a small cadre of actual humans will be needed and even this residue will be reduced from iteration to iteration of the plan.
Populism is now the name of what we must espouse. Expansion of the middle class should be the goal of any politician that wants our loyalty. And busting up monopolies now sounds like a wonderful idea. And the first company I would bust up into a thousand pieces is Google. The second would be Amazon. And after taking on the Silicon Valley billionaires I would want to see the FBI shut down permanently. And the CIA would be put under a very tight control and if they interfered with American citizens the perpetrator should be punishable up to the death penalty.
Now all of this is just pipe-dreaming. We are about to find out if we are now permanently out-voted by the new serfs that the overlords imported. If so, the only thing we can do is look for some local infestation of populism that some renegade leader cobbles together and rush to it and hope for the best. Or just wait for the World War III that the neo-cons are pushing for and hope your location on the targeting grid gets missed by enough to allow survival. Then in the post-apocalyptic nightmare that will ensue we might eke out an existence that might at least be free. Ending bitter rant.
Update:
War Pig commented:
Teddy Roosevelt was shot on the campaign trail. He got elected then became the Trust Buster. When the Arabs kidnapped an American widow and her children, he basically invaded the nation and got them back. He built the Panama Canal and used the Great White Fleet as gunboat diplomacy. He was Trump before Trump. I agree, we should give the internet lords the Ma Bell treatment. Increase competition and keep costs down. You and I can remember when Bell ruled communication. We remember usurious long distance tariffs on calls. We also remember the initial wobbles as the baby Bells got their footing, but eventually came into their strides and began exploring new technologies. Competition is everything. It is what drives humans to excel, to innovate. We need more of it, to include taking away unconstitutional powers the feds have siezed and let private industry show how most government agencies are inefficient and rampant with graft and political favoritism.
Post Renaissance European Collapse
Since at least 1500 AD the most dominant, dynamic culture on Earth has been Europe and its colonies. Portugal, Spain, Holland and England along with smaller contributions from France, Belgium and Germany colonized the world by sea. And the Russians conquered northern Asia by land. European science and technology revolutionized all aspects of life and their cultural endeavors produced superb music and art. Basically, Europe transformed life and they dragged the rest of the world along with them.
But along the way the Renaissance civilization has seemingly lost the morale and confidence it once had. It has adopted a global view that holds Europeans guilty for all of the ills of the third world nations and requires them to make amends by allowing endless immigration into their lands until there is no longer a trace of Europe left. And that goes double for the United States.
I don’t think there is a previous example of something like this in history. Civilizations have been overrun by migrations before. The Bronze Age Collapse and 5th Century AD Rome are obvious examples but, in neither case, did the invaded civilization go out of its way to invite the event that overwhelmed them. The globalists think they can manage this replacement of their people and culture seamlessly. But even at this early stage of the process, things don’t look very promising. Crime, ignorance, poverty and disease are problems that were minimized in the highly organized environment of the first world. The new immigrants are a totally different case. And no attempt is being made to force them to assimilate to the culture of their hosts. Pretty soon we will have a very large population with a multitude of backgrounds and cultures that will drown out the older European culture. And it may be the case that it will drown out the properties that this older population possessed and which were the source of the stability and prosperity that used to be the status quo.
If that’s the case, what will follow?
As I said there really isn’t any close analog for what is going on. The globalists believe in their “end of history” theory. They feel that the western countries have already built a framework (financial and military) that precludes the possibility of their arrangements being challenged. After all, China gets to sell us all our stuff and in return they get to be the new Japan and do what we say. The same holds for the Middle East and Russia and the rest of the world. Well, it seems they might be wrong. Lots of countries that toed the line during the Cold War are beginning to talk amongst themselves and maybe they no longer think that a monopolar world is the only or even the best choice for their future. Places as different as Saudi Arabia and Brazil are looking around at their options and they aren’t necessarily thrilled with the program that Washington and Brussels are pushing. Things are changing pretty rapidly. New alliances are forming and even the military power of the United States isn’t as formidable as it once was.
So where does this leave us in a few years? My guess is a West swamped with third world poor will be a less powerful, less technologically advanced place. I guess it will be something like Brazil; a patchwork of poor and rich areas but without the stability formerly provided by the large middle class. And this will allow some other countries to move ahead as world leaders. Guessing I’d say maybe China and some other of the Asian countries are the best bet for these up-and-coming places. Who knows, maybe in the future China might even sponsor enterprise zones in North America where Chinese industry takes advantage of labor resources to set up factories where Americans can earn slave wages to feed their families. And I’m sure the American oligarchs will figure out a way to get their percentage from the deal. They’ve always been interested in making a buck off the misfortune of their neighbors.
But we’ll have to wait and see. We have an election where illegal immigration is one of the hot topics. Anything is possible, I guess.
A Jaded Mandarin
People are always trying to compare the present era to other historical epochs. Thucydidean Athens or Caesarian Rome or pre-revolutionary France. All these analogies are clever or foolish depending on the author. And all of them are of necessity partial in their similarity. What’s the expression, “History never repeats itself but merely rhymes.”?
And that is true. This era is like no other because the assembly of characters is unique. What I notice about the cast of this drama is that most of them are a poor lot. Don’t look for a Pericles or a Julius Caesar or even an Augustus. We’ve got the Clintons, the Bushes and the Obamas. And when even these mediocrities walk away, we get Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Now I don’t mean to exhort Trump’s virtues as if he’s some messiah. His feet of clay are legendary. But he isn’t a politician. He’s more of a supporting cast member dragged on stage because the headliners all forgot their lines and ran off stage in terror of the audience pelting them with tomatoes and oranges.
There’s something distressing about the people who run things from behind the scenes handing over the kabuki theater to really obvious fifth raters like Biden and Harris. I can’t make up my mind whether they just don’t think it’s necessary to keep up the pretense of a republic anymore or that some bizarre sequence of circumstances has thrust these two truly unimpressive hacks into the limelight. I’m not sure which of these two reasons is true and I’m not even sure which is a worse reason.
But for whichever reason, here we are. And it is a spectacularly awful moment in our history. For more than twenty years I have been steadily more and more dismayed by the path our leaders have been dragging us down. Every presidential term has plumbed new depths until at this point it appears we may be well beyond the point of no return. And so possibly the only thing left to do about our present situation is laugh.
Maybe mockery is all that’s left to do. After all, exposing the stupidity and evil of our supposed leaders may even accomplish some small good. Maybe it could even tip the balance by waking up even the terminally dense to just how imbecilic someone like Kamala Harris truly is. And, if nothing else, laughter is good for the soul. Watching those compilations of Biden stumbling and bumbling around trying to walk off stage or failing to remember words like government or health care were hilarious and without a doubt cheered me up. And listening to Kamala expound on yellow school buses or the relationship of Russia and Ukraine on the map of Eurasia did my heart good.
But humor aside, I do think about what it means that Biden and Harris are now the caliber of leader that the dominant party of this empire finds acceptable. It’s got to say something about how this country works. We don’t elect political leaders. We hire actors to read us the news from the regime. In fact, it’s gotten so bad that we now have actors who translate the news from the actors we “elect.” We have the Haitian Betty Boop come out and explain what Joe Biden meant when he mumbled incoherently about Russia or Gaza or ice cream. We won’t get the truth but we’ll get today’s version of the narrative.
And so, looking at what we have devolved into I wouldn’t compare us to Athens or Rome. I wouldn’t even compare us to Stalin’s USSR. We’re more like one of the decadent Chinese bureaucratic dynasties right before the barbarians overran it. We’re the Middle Kingdom that has always been and will always be. It will go on regardless of ineptitude, graft and stupidity. It will survive due to the titanic size and inertia of the whole interlocking structure. Even the Mongol hordes were subsumed into its colossal bulk. Maybe in a century a revolution will sweep the Earth and topple it to the ground but a century seems like the minimum time needed.
In the meantime, I hope for some miracle where Trump gets in and like some latter-day Heracles he beheads and cauterizes the polycephalic Hydra of the Deep State and returns sanity to our poor abused republic. Otherwise, I better learn to bow.
Pick a Province, Any Province
The United States of America is not the Roman Empire. I repeat, it is not the Roman Empire. Regardless of iconography, colonnades in front of classically designed buildings and a Latin phrase or two on our currency this is a different empire. Of course, that doesn’t mean that parallels can’t be drawn. I’m sure if I consulted Gibbons, I could find several emperors that were old, depraved, demented and soiled themselves in public like our current commander in chief.
And one of those parallels is that in a declining empire, the uniformity of institutions and way of life begins to break down. Famously, the Eastern Roman Empire managed to avoid the downfall that overwhelmed the West in the 5th century A.D. There were various reasons for these differences in fate. The eastern provinces were for the most part shielded by distance from the full brunt of the Germanic incursions. The climate itself might have been somewhat responsible. German tribesmen probably would have found the weather in Egypt and Judea a trifle warm and dry for cattle herding.
So, it should be expected that the intentional destruction of the American nation by its mad rulers will have a disparate effect on different regions and states. For instance, California has embraced the self-destructive agenda of the Left with great gusto. Look at how they’ve dismantled their electrical generation infrastructure and the water reservoir system that they depend on for agriculture and human consumption. They have willingly dismantled their criminal justice system and sanctioned dysfunctional lifestyles like drug addiction and homelessness. With such an incredible head start few other areas of the country will be able to disappear into neolithic conditions as quickly as California. Eventually a large part of the state will return to a pre-human state with Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes becoming the dominant lifeform.
But other areas, maybe the Midwest or the South may endeavor to hold onto the forms and trappings of the past. Just as the Byzantines long maintained Latin as the court language and calling themselves Romans in Constantinople long after their “empire” was just the Hellenized provinces of Asia Minor and Greece, so too these areas may maintain the polite fiction that America still exists long after many of the regions begin to diverge into their new cultures and ways of governing.
For someone looking ahead to what their family will be faced with in the next decade or two, there is real importance in either figuring out ahead of time which areas will provide the best places to live or alternatively, adopting a way of life that will allow you to “jump” successfully when the time comes to make that move.
Personally, I think making a choice of where to live is probably the best way. Not that I have a foolproof method for picking the winner. But I think I have a pretty good idea where the losing areas will be. As stated above, California looks like ground zero for catastrophe. Similarly, I think the east coast is also a bad bet. Perhaps looking for places where population density is low and where natural resources like plentiful water, forest cover and a decent climate might be a winning strategy. As far as population density, I wouldn’t count out a whole state just because there happened to be a large city in that state. As long as the distance to where you planned to live was several hundred miles away it might make perfect sense. After all, state boundaries won’t mean much in the future. Geographic boundaries like rivers and mountains will. Western New York has very little to do with New York City. Northern Nevada and Las Vegas are a world apart.
Who knows! Possibly an unexpected victory by patriots will completely reverse the current decline and fall of the American Empire. And then places like New York City and Philadelphia will once again become great centers of culture and commerce instead of squalid dung heaps filled with murderous savages. But in the meantime, consider choosing where you want your family to build their lives. Choose carefully.
Ten-Dimensional Chess
Being old now, I don’t know if I’ll live to see the outcome of the great experiment that our oligarchy is currently embarking upon. What this experiment is I’m not completely sure of. I can see the actions being taken and make some assumptions about what is planned, but much is still speculation. Let’s review.
The industrial basis for our modern economy has been almost completely moved to Asia. High skill manufacture is located in Japan, South Korea and China and the low skill assembly is farmed out to Thailand, Vietnam and other backwaters.
The use of fossil fuels is being curtailed in the United States, Canada and Europe. This will have the effect of impoverishing the majority of the former middle class and their descendants. And the knock-on effect of this is the discouraging of these young people from marrying and having children.
At the same time the United States, Canada and Europe are being flooded with migrants from Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, various parts of Asia and the Middle East. These migrants have the effect of further depressing the economic opportunities of the younger American and European citizens while at the same time plunging the whole of these areas in a chaotic environment that further discourages stability and political action by the supposed sovereign citizens.
So, what is this experiment? Apparently, the oligarchs find representative democracy, at least one that doesn’t accord with their dictates as inconvenient. So, what they are doing is reshuffling the deck. If those pesky Europeans and European descendants have gotten demanding (things like a living wage and a middle-class existence for their children) why then let’s just find some people whose expectations only include a tin shack and a dollop of beans. After all, if the Chinese can get the Uyghurs to assemble smart phones while they’re being genocided in the camps then surely, we can expect Guatemalans to pick fruit and work in an Amazon warehouse for practically nothing.
Ultimately, these supermen see the whole world and all the people in it as their tools. They decide what the world will look like and even who gets to live in it.
But for this to continue to work, the Global American Empire has to be able to control basically the whole world. Asia has to continue to make our tech equipment and America has to run things without producing anything except Artificial Intelligence and high-end war equipment.
But is this a stable system? That’s the part that will take time to discover. Already there appear to be some parts of the machine that are coming loose. The extension of the European sector into Russia and its satellites has turned into a land war that has the earmarks of a catastrophe for the West. If Russia overwhelms Ukraine, then the much-vaunted NATO alliance will have failed at its primary task of keeping Russia in check.
On the other side of Asia China is preparing to call America’s bluff over Taiwan. That is a much more serious threat. Such a move would cause a panic in South Korea and Japan and alter the way things are looked at throughout East Asia.
And even in a nothing place like Niger in Africa, the dominant role of the West is in retreat. Warlords are kicking over the West’s puppets and telling the United States and France to take their troops out.
Now which way all this will go is completely unknown. Maybe our oligarchs are playing ten-dimensional chess and they’ve already looked fifty moves ahead and know to a certainty how all of this global pinball game settles out. Maybe the much-vaunted AI has run the simulation ten trillion times and every time the result shows the masters of the universe winning the game and the peons being crushed down to dust.
That’s what I’d love to know the answer to. Do they know something we don’t or are they guessing? My hunch is they’re winging it. The face of the oligarchs is Joe Biden. That’s not the face you get from a directorate of super geniuses. That’s the face you end up with from a bureaucracy of hacks, crooks and hucksters and a shoddy one at that.
So maybe this regime will last long enough to outlive me. But I’m holding out hope that the awful people running things aren’t as smart as they or even we think they are. They’re just more ruthless than we are. In which case they won’t have things all their way. The global empire will end up as all empires do; in the dustbin of history. I just hope to see it and get the last laugh.
He Isn’t the Plucky Hero, the Alliance Isn’t Some Evil Empire
Joss Whedon is a Leftist. Despite his recent fall from grace on account of saying and doing mean things to actors on set, he believes in the cause. All of his cinematic and television creations to some extent, are shaped by progressive concepts. So, it always seemed a very strange thing that he created Firefly. Based, he said, on a book about the battle of Gettysburg he imagined a universe where the elites defeated the freedom loving proles in an interplanetary civil war and these defeated forces maintained an outlaw existence at the edge of a distant new solar system among pirates and barbarians.
In the cinematic finale of this universe, the elites in the “Alliance” send out an agent to eliminate the renegades that have some dangerous secrets about the government’s experiments with controlling the behavior of the ordinary people.
During one encounter the agent recites the title of this essay.
He is portrayed as a true believer. He is making a better world, a world free of sin. And he’ll do this, no matter how many people he has to kill to get there. The agent is polite, intellectual, cultured and completely ruthless. Because he thoroughly believes in what he is doing. In this portrayal I think Whedon was being completely honest in how he evaluated the Left and the Right. The Left is polite, intellectual, cultured and completely ruthless. The Right is crude, naïve, boorish and principled. And for some reason Whedon sympathized with the Right, at least somewhat. Possibly he recognizes the inherent lack of intellectual freedom that the Left always creates. As a creative type himself, maybe he could see how restrictive life under this regime would be.
Well, all of the above is just a long digression because the line from the movie seems to encapsulate our reality. Our rebellion isn’t like Star Wars. It’s more like Firefly. We don’t have any plucky heroes who will save the day by blowing up the Death Star. We’re outnumbered, outgunned, outmatched in money and buried by the media and Corporate America. The elites have a firm hand on the levers of power and we are just outlaws living on the margins trying to avoid being rounded up and chloroformed like some troublesome stray cats.
And if we look back through history all free societies seem eventually to collapse into oligarchies like ours. But I haven’t been able to figure out what is the “smart” way to think and act in this environment. If I had a strong enough stomach I probably should suck up to the elites and try to find a spot among their toadies. But I’ve always had trouble convincing them I believed in their bilge. Something about my sense of humor always gets me in trouble.
But what is the right answer? Is there a way to live in such a society and still have any self-respect? It doesn’t appear to be the case. And what about children? What do you tell them? Look at the mess we have with Gen Y and Gen Z. They’re living in a fantasy world and life will completely pass them by without leaving a trace.
So, there’s my thought. The elites don’t appear to be vulnerable to anything we can do. And waiting for their decadence to finish them off might take centuries. I guess eventually Caesar or Theodoric will appear on the scene and we’ll get a different group of oligarchs and different bread and circuses.
But is it impossible to get a Brutus instead of a Caesar? And not the Brutus who slew Caesar, not Marcus Junius Brutus, but rather his ancestor Lucius Junius Brutus, the one who overthrow the last Etruscan king Tarquinius Superbus and ushered in the Roman Republic. Is it impossible that a member of the elites would side with freedom over power? I think the answer is that it is impossible. And the reason is that no one man, no matter how smart and strong can rearrange an empire once it’s built up. All that can be done is bend its path slightly for a few years.
So I’ll finish by saying that there are plucky heroes and it is the evil empire and that in their prime, evil empires outlast plucky heroes every time. It’s in their nature. Better to look to the fringes of empire for where the successor to that empire will appear.
Colorado Wake Up Call
If anyone, not on the Left, needed any further proof of the lack of political freedom in this country, the decision of the Colorado Supreme Court has hopefully provided it. Bottom line; the powers that be will decide which candidates you are allowed to choose between. Maybe it would be more efficient if on January 1st the Department of Truth just tells us in advance who will win the November election and saved us all that time and expense. Maybe it’s Nikki Haley’s turn. After all she’s slightly smarter than Kamala Harris, better looking and she will have the same policies as Joe and Kamala. And she has the added bonus that she can drag along another ten percent of the electorate who call themselves compassionate conservatives, whatever that means.
I’m reconciled with the Left keeping Donald Trump off the ballot. People should know what’s what. Enough making believe. Look around you and understand how things get done. If Trump wouldn’t play ball with the State Department and CIA over Ukraine then they stage a race war and then a pandemic. And if he’s still too popular to beat in an election then just bring out the “vote harvesting” and manufacture a presidency. If the Biden agenda bankrupts the nation and alienates 70% of the electorate, why simply manufacture an insurrection charge against Trump and presto-change-o, we get candidate Nikki Haley.
In effect that is what they mean by “our democracy.” What they really mean is “their oligarchy.”
Well, there you go. That’s what it is. And unless someone really wants to go toe to toe with their mafia gang you live under that oligarchy. What you don’t have to do is pretend it’s some sacred arrangement. You have to pay the mafia shakedown guy. You don’t have to pretend you like it. And when the day comes that some other mafia gang comes along and tries to knock them off their pedestal it’s definitely not your job to take up arms for them. Let them send their own sons off to die. That’s the nature of a mob. They’re killers and they better be the best at it or someone stronger or nastier will knock them over.
For us it’s a matter of surviving in an oligarchic tyranny. There are all kinds of strategies and tactics. Mostly find a spot outside of the epicenters of the regime and try to hold onto whatever prosperity they haven’t managed to extract from their slaves. Find a spot where they haven’t managed to hem in their cattle in the tightest pen.
And maybe someday when the disastrous global policies of this regime lead to catastrophe, which becomes more likely every day, then there will be a strong enough reaction to pull down this regime and install more moderate maniacs who will confine themselves to simply stealing money and not killing off the majority of their citizens through nonsensical policies like green energy and de-industrialization.
But until then watch what happens. If Trump stays on the ballots and wins the election then I have wildly overestimated the strength and arrogance of the regime. If he ends up in jail then I’ve got it about right.