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Paul Edwards
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As with Rome, America’s descent into tyranny was long in the making. From its earliest days, forces of greed and exploitation worked to expropriate and enslave its people, finally creating a society of such appalling inequity and undisguised malevolence that the transparent burlesque of viable government evaporated.
That is where we stand today. The monstrous Capitalist engine run without principles or morality, raping the living world for money, has betrayed all that was human in the theory of our polity, and replaced it with brutal, nihilistic madness that made a degenerate, subhuman monster its symbol and dictator.
The unprecedented opportunity presented to British colonists of an undisturbed continent in which a myriad of tribal societies, without the lethal weaponry Europe had developed, made its conquest a certainty. The great bulk of white immigrants were ignorant and determined to take the land to exploit it, and an episodic, rolling genocide exterminated nearly all the natives.
The push to break from the mother empire was entirely financially motivated, fueled by a risen Capitalist class chafing to absorb the increasing home generated profits monopolized by the British.
[su_pullquote]Unrestrained capitalism has taken America to the monstrous, dysfunctional perversity we are now forced to inhabit.[/su_pullquote]
In the new nation, a wild rush by the rich began, to exploit the vast, intact cornucopia of continental resources. After the Civil War, Robber Barons’ fortunes exploded, freebooter Capitalism metastasized with government behind it, and corporate wealth formed titanic trusts that ran the nation as a gigantic business.
With exceptions only in the great Capitalist crises under the two Roosevelts, big business had it all its own way. With the Spanish American War, imperialism was jump-started and soon was the norm, with whole countries and territories violated and subdued.
Criminal seizures of peoples was sold to an ignorant, avaricious nation taught that it was their right and duty to approve whatever atrocity their bullying, larcenous Capitalist cabal perpetrated.
With WWII, the heyday of raw, violent theft by brute Colonialism faltered, and in the Cold War, blood and guts methods gave way to black bag, monetary subversion. Capitalism found it was far simpler and slicker to own and control nations by buying their power elites, than by conquering them. Besides, it was invisible.
The Empire’s ego inflated to cartoonish dimensions with success in its bullying hegemony until the Towers went down. Then much air leaked out as the debacles of Afghanistan and Iraq showed the world how inept and incapable American power truly was.
The first decades of the 21st century were years of catastrophic decline for The Empire in two major ways. It was humiliated by successive pratfalls in which poor, unarmed states drove it, tail between legs, from the field, and as it failed miserably, its two great rival nations rose spectacularly in power and influence.
Russia, under constant assault by The Empire, sanctioned and subverted, augmented its economic and military power. Nazi Ukraine’s attacks on Russian majority oblasts in the Donbas—provoked and funded by The Empire—finally forced a response.
Russia has broken Ukraine in war, and it is barely held together with money taken from their people by the cadre of fanatic hags, dingbats, and loons who head EU governments, and Putin has suavely rejected Trump’s idiot notion to impose his will to end it.
China, meanwhile, with leadership devoted to serving its whole society and improving people’s lives through creative, energetic social and economic policies, took only decades to innovate and produce its way, first to equity with the sick, fatally delaminating Empire, in which all wealth is siphoned off for the richest and people’s needs count for nothing, to absolute superiority now.
This overtaking manifests not only in enormous, stunning gains in the well-being of China’s people but, concomitantly, in totally surpassing The Empire in its state-of-the-art military arsenal.
The combination of these historic reversals has left The Empire, metaphorically, like giant Polyphemus in the Odyssey, blinded and staggering in humiliating, spastic impotence. In extremis, it has sunk under the power and control of a hateful, malevolent subhuman, which is where all empires end.
This hideous moral monster has launched the supine, politically gelded Empire on a path of giving the grossest possible offense to the greatest number of states by the most outrageous acts of criminal insanity he can devise and arrange.
The violent kidnapping of Venezuela’s head of state is unique in iniquity, without modern precedent. The world watches as he funds riots in Iran, loudly covets Greenland, and finances mass murder in Palestine. The risk of world war causes Russia and China to heed mad Lear’s rant in his fury, to not “come between the dragon and his wrath”, but their prudence is strained.
Trump has seized a Russian tanker at sea, which Russia angrily condemned, and it just destroyed, by Oreshnik, the largest gas storage facility in Ukraine for its recent foolish and useless drone swarm attack. The Empire, driven by its hubris, blunders on.
Sometime, somewhere, and soon, a reckoning is coming.
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