Secessionist Fever Rages Again in the South

PREFATORY NOTE
Migrants without a cause, really?

So Greg Abbott, the Texas Governor, capitalising on the "migrant invasion" hysteria, is now toying with secession, to the acclaim of more than two dozen fellow Governors and tens of millions of Americans from Texas to Alaska. Sensing blood in the water given Biden's stunning number of deficits and boondoggles, including a major personal scandal and three active wars and more in the offing, Abbot has decided to throw down the gauntlet and defy Biden's Constitutional prerogatives. His complaint is unequivocally rebellious, if not seditious. But Abbot doesn't have his head in the clouds. There IS a big migrant crisis, and it is something that the US government, as a whole, in its Federal suit, should be dealing with. But it doesn't. Under Biden, with his obsession to shovel bllions to Ukraine, Israel and other self-created imperialist flashpoints, the neglect of this crisis has become an insult. Hence the Txas Governor's letter:

So what is causing all these impertinent masses of people to trek all the way North to storm our Southern ramparts and disrupt our supposedly idyllic existence in LaLa Land? Politicians and professional patriots are noisily rending their garments at the intrusion, but no one in this furious lot is much interested in asking about the actual causes of this disaster.

The "border crisis", inflated by Trump's neo-nativist, self-serving inflammatory rhetoric, sees migrants in totally racist terms as virtual invaders, rapists, drug dealers, vectors of plague, and worse. As we have seen with Zionist propaganda that would like us to believe "all history" about the Hamas-Israeli conflict began with Hamas's supposedly "barbaric raid" on Israel on Oct. 7, the politicians that just zero in on the current migrant tsunami conveniently forget what came before. 

Trump, of course, has never been too lucid or precise in his diatribes, let alone a genuine friend of truth and justice, not to mention his aversion to books, which may have something to do with his massive, largely unchallenged social and political illiteracy, but, like the rest of the abominably ignorant and chauvinist US political class, he has a 12-mile wide streak of demagogic opportunism. Trump (as does Abbott) knows that many Americans are scared of the rapidly growing "brown horde" crashing America's southern border, and he aims to exploit this enormous human crisis as one of his catapults to personal power. So far he has done quite well with it and there are no signs he may soon abandon it (nor are there reasonable signs that this problem will go away on its own). But all human crises of this magnitude have deep roots, and in this case, the cause is like the legendary pink elephant in the living room, you can't miss it, unless you stubbornly refuse to look.  Could this mess actually be connected with America's immaculately conceived foreign policy?

The inevitable wages of Supremacy, Exceptionalism and Imperialism

Filled with typically racist Anglo contempt for the "inferior" civilisations living South of the "Rio Grand" (the cultures impregnated by Southern European powers), and sitting on immensely rich natural lands they obviously could not possibly deserve, USians, ever since they got organised as a new nation with a mechanism to project power, set about to systematically and cold-bloodedly destroy sovereignty throughout Latin America and the Caribbean (treating the latter as an American lake). Intimidation, overt meddling, regime change ops, civil wars, diplomatic isolation, economic sanctions, and outright invasions have been routine in these martyred lands, and the upshot is what anyone could logically expect: highly dysfunctional lands mired in perennial poverty and civil strife, despite their colossal natural resources. This is the root cause of this tsunami of migrants who, ironically, seek relief in the land that caused their misery.

Notably, until recently, almost the entire establishment, from academics to media and the professional apologists for US power, were united in denying the very existence of an American Empire. America did not have an empire, they assured us, using, apparently the same wavelength they use when telling us the US doesn't really have a working class (an obsolete and useless commie classification favored only by malcontents): the US only has a big middle class, period. Not even a ruling class, nah, this is a nation of proud commoners. Some just happen to have a bit more than the others. And the proof of this excellent state is that EVERYONE wants to be in America. 

The ugly reality of Empire is however a huge fact to hide, and eventually it had to be admitted. John Gerassi, a bold intellectual, and onetime journalist with Newsweek (fired therefrom for ideological insubordination), had a few choice words to say about this matter in a must-read essay he wrote in the late 1960s. 

The Disheveled Invaders at the Gates

Broken nations, or nations undergoing insufferable conditions (vide Ireland and India under the British boot), have a way of ejecting sizable portions of their populations. The White Empire, once led by Spain, Britain and France, and since 1945 by the US, has indeed broken scores of nations around the world to better exploit their natural and human resources. In the 21st century it has finally begun to reap, big time, what it sowed. The US is indeed facing a complicated human crisis, trying to deflect and opportunistically accommodate a human flood that in a couple of decades might change the complexion of the culture from top to bottom with unforeseen consequences, (a cynic might say probably for the better), considering the rotten state of US society at this point. 

The same is true for Europe, the vainglorious West Asian peninsula that likes to think itself "different" and superior to the East and America itself.  Technically, the womb of capitalism, colonialism and its accursed spawn, US imperialism, Europe has a long resume of vicious plunder.  Now, however, weakened by Washington's policies of de facto occupation, cannibalisation, and constant wars, Europe is facing a problematic future. Thanks to the US Hegemon's depraved wars in the Middle East and Africa—conflicts supported by Europe's Quislings in Britain, France and the rest of the NATO gang—the region is currently not only economically imploding—as the case of pathetic Germany, illustrates—but awash in millions of migrants widely regarded (and resented) by the natives as "disruptive outsiders".  This particular crisis will not improve much when proudly "Aryan white" Ukraine finally collapses in the near future and bestows on Europe a few more millions of displaced people with deep physical and psychological wounds, not to mention a sizable portion of fascist psychos well versed in the art of social mayhem. 
—PG