(Note: as a rule, I don’t do reposts, but when I read Andrei’s piece, I decided to make an exception. The Saker)
source: https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2020/11/while-they-discount-votes.html
by Andrei Martyanov posted by permission on the Saker blog
Truth is, it doesn’t matter who wins in the United States’ circus, aka presidential elections, because, as I am on the record for a long time, the final result will be within the same realm of outcomes ranging from utter collapse and wide-spread violence to simply protracted, and accelerating, decline and slow dissolution into the Orwellian reality. Acquaintance of mine sent me today some essay, which already circulates in Russian media-sphere, called: A Message to Russian Expats Living in the US. It contains passages such as this:
Colleagues, I want to address you.Face it: the America you came to is dying. A great civilization is getting its last, euthanasia shot. Do not count on the fact that “the Republicans control the Senate, they will not allow anything to be done”. They will allow. And if the election was stolen from Trump now, then stealing two Senate seats in Georgia with Biden as president-elect is clearly an achievable task. You have invested years of work, tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars, and endured serial stress in order to gain a foothold in a new place. This is worthy of respect. Admitting that the best thing you can do for yourself (and more importantly, for your children) is to leave again is very, very painful. However, what is now whispering in your head, that “it’s not so bad”, and that “America will return”, is still your sunk cost fallacy, not rationale.
And, of course, goes into the race relations with statements like this:
Your children will be on their knees, and will write letters of apology for being white, like how American nuclear scientists from Sandia Labs write letters of apology to blacks.
If those children have been brought up in the modern American “cultural” tradition, especially on the campuses of modern American universities studying useless pseudo-scientific BS in “humanities”, absolutely–those children will kneel and prostrate themselves, which would indicate that they are not really Russian children, brought up without any Russian cultural input and in this sense they are one step away from Eurowussies, who surrendered their countries to the hordes of barbarians without putting up a fight. In fact, there is very little difference between urban population in Western Europe and in the US, the larger the American city is, the more emasculated its white male population. Luckily, even despite the fact of GOP being a bunch of unprincipled cowards, even my uber-liberal acquaintances stated that people who elected (yet, again) a flaming “socialist” bat-shit crazy Kshama Sawant, who makes even retarded Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan look reasonable, totally deserved what is coming to them. Same goes to people of Portland, or, for that matter, the whole state of California–a first American state qualifying for the genuine third world shithole.
So, while this pathos-driven essay (or manifesto) to Russian Americans is cute, truth is–the decline of America on the institutional level has been predicted long time ago, and I just want, yet again, to remind you my 6-year old conclusion which led me to writing my books:
In fact, I was on this topic since roughly 2007-08 when it became, after Putin’s famous Munich speech, and Russia disposing of the Georgia’s Army in less than 5 days in August 2008, patently clear that the whole thing was basically the house of cards ranging from economy to military, to social issues. Now we all saw how institutions collapse. I voted for Trump in the state (Washington) where his chances to win are as remote as for me to become Chinese, but the main reason we voted was to reject this:
The bill passed. Here is how it passed:
As you can see, Seattle (King County) is a hot bed for sexual perverts and pedophiles who think that sexually “educating” a kindergarten child is admissible. So is a Jefferson County, known for an extreme concentration of former hippies and alternatively gifted, primarily on the other plane, people around Port Townsend. As you can see rural Washington, especially Eastern Washington, a state and region’s granary rejected this insanity. This is also, where real America survives, the country of deplorables. It is also the America which is is heavily armed and we do not know what will be the responses in coming months but America which I and my family came to has been gone for at least 15 years and my task was to document how nation was committing suicide using prescriptions of the American oligarchy which played its hand really well offering majority of America a faux-choice between shitty and down right disastrous. Remarkably, the only thing Trump got right was decoupling from China, but for NYC real estate shyster it was execution of the plan which sucked pretty badly and I am sure they are smiling in Bejing expecting the charade with vote-counting be over soon and then welcome Democratic Administration which would pursue same set of policies of financing Chinese economy through negative trade balance. Recall this:
This is really important, because this is exactly what (if they push it through) the Biden, I mean Harris, I mean HRC’s, administration will pursue again, while increasing the pitch of anti-Russian hysteria and making sure Euro cucks are in line. Well, Democratic foreign policy “establishment” is an exhibit A of highly illiterate and unprofessional people, so the whole thing will be a big mess with Russia. Not that Trump’s Admin was any better, with the lunatics of the scale of Pompeo or Billingslea–it is just a whole process of American “elites” being increasingly dumb. So, no matter who comes to “power” in the US it changes only the mode of decline, it doesn’t change a fact that nothing could be done about it within utterly corrupt and dysfunctional framework of America’s political discourse and a real data (not some garbage of US economic “statistics” or polls) speaks volumes about America’s shrinking real economy and sociopaths, if not outright psychopaths, constituting America’s ruling class, no matter party affiliation. In the end, look at the title of my upcoming book–it says it all. I warned everyone years ago:
This process is relatively non-violent for now, but the attack on American Europeanism, due to sometimes justified historic grievances and present inequalities, only grows in intensity. The new race- and gender-based agenda and grievances culture has slowly but surely displaced an old left whose main focus were jobs and wages for the majority of working Americans, be they white, black or any other race or gender. The old left is gone today, being supplanted with what Steve Sailer calls the “Democrats’ coalition of fringes”—a combination of interest groups, also known as social justice warriors, associated with the Democratic Party and vying for resources and influence in shaping the future of the United States. It is a profoundly depressing outcome for anyone who came to appreciate and treasure the best that American culture offered in the past—most of it European in origin. But the so-called establishment conservatives in the US are in no position to be critical—they were the ones who conflated American patriotism, often justified, with a culturally and economically debilitating militarism. They were also the ones who continue to push ahead with a destructive neo-liberal globalist economic agenda. And the ones who controlled American corporations and off-shored them, depleting American manufacturing, and thereby unions and jobs. … Against such a background, it is difficult to see how this trust and mutual respect can be restored. US elites have simply stopped producing any truly competent people; the US stopped producing real statesmen, not just politicians, even earlier. When experts fail, as they failed America, not least due to many of them not being real experts at all, actors, comedians, sportsmen, conspiracy theorists and demagogues from the mass-media take their place.
So, there is nothing truly unexpected with what happens to the United States now, since the silhouettes of America’s future were seen by many who had their heads out of their own asses for years. America is a radically divided country which failed to coalesce into genuine nation and that was a recipe for disaster from the get go. Today it is a territory populated with a variety of people who have nothing in common culturally, economically or metaphysically and American “elites” demonstrated this fully. The America as we knew it is no more and many understand that. When enough people will grasp this fact, then there could be some small chance on rearranging whatever will be left in the United States into some form of a functional state. I don’t hold my breath, though. I am a simple man, I just want to get to my beloved Cascades and further, into Rockies, stopping in the small towns in Idaho, Montana or Eastern Washington, sipping on my coffee at some diner, and contemplating the beauty of the nature and of people, who are a disappearing breed still found in the rural America, over my chicken fried steak. Life doesn’t stop, it never does and it will continue on even after we are all gone. We just need to make sure that no life-ending event occurs, thus making possible for a generation of normal people to emerge at some point of time in the future. Last question: do I believe that there were illegal votes and bulletins’ dumping? Absolutely, but it doesn’t matter since in four years Trump did nothing, except tweeting and parading himself in media, to save his (and ours) country. So, good riddance, let democrats now finish off whatever is left of it. Believe me, they will wreck it big time and GOP will help them.
Excellent analysis. The historian Victor Davis Hansen has asserted that the Democratic platform is basically “We hate Western Civilization” . Their programs are all Death worshiping and nihilstic. From their response to Covid to pushing a pro LGBT message onto children, their policies are destructive. California school books are far worse. They teach that “homophobia” is one of the greatest evils and push LGBT lifestyles. forced vaccinations inspite of evidence how many of them are seriously flawed. All these anti-life policies will cause the Democrat establishment to go for further repression and censorship.
So I guess you don’t really believe in your American constitution “all created equal” stuff, huh.
In Australia, a conservative national govt, assisted by all state govts, both liberal and conservative, is deliberately destroying its economy via the covid 1984 lie.
Our hospitals have never been so empty. At last count, 4 people had a sniffle.
So, it’s not just the USA being taken apart.
It is catch22, modern globalized economy requires never-stoppign just-in-time streams of import and export.
They are hard to inhibit globally, but when it happens it is gets very hard to restart them.
Australia was selling charcoal to China and dunno what else, it also should by lots of things.
Now, when all the countries have their economies inhibited – the imports/exports streams shrunk accordingly.
Now, imagine if Australia goes out of the hibernation, into the desert world where all other nations are sleeping, what happens then?
1) Australia starts producing a LOT of export goods – but there is no one to buy them, not in those numbers. Prices for everything Australia produces plunge to almost zero, but even then Australia is still overstocked and can not sell everything it produced.
2) Australia starts buying LOTS of required import good – but there is no one to sell enough. Prices shoot to the starts but even at exorbitant prices Australia can not purchase enough of required import goods and its economy starts shredding.
In the end, due to quitting hibernation Australia goes bankrupt, and the global market prices gets for months or even years to come skewed against Australia. Ooopsie!
” Last question: do I believe that there were illegal votes and bulletins’ dumping? Absolutely, but it doesn’t matter since in four years Trump did nothing, except tweeting and parading himself in media, to save his (and ours) country.”
You don’t get it A Martyanov.
# 1 Trump discredited the Masters of Discourse…the Fake News, extremely effectively, to the point that the vast majority of Americans hold them in absolute contempt….as liars.
That in itself is much, much more than the quite popular and likeable (to many of these Americans you like) Ronal Reagan accomplished, after being nearly killed by a mentally damaged younger member of the Kinkley family….long term friends of the Bushes. Giving people more of a chance to “free their minds” by being much less disoriented….and come to sites like this one for ideas and opinion not owned by the Empire.
Yet your statement above gives aid and comfort to that BS Bullhorn of the Empire. Even if you are not conscious of having that effect.
#2 Donald Trump has removed many corrupt judges (hundreds), replaced them, as well as 2 SC justices ALL of which took time that impatient and unrealistic critics don’t want to allow him…..as though he could just snap his fingers like Joseph Stalin (Now THERE was “simplicity”!) with no regard for these blocks….to conviction in prosecutable crimes by traitorous Deep State bastards that have been after him (or ANY representative not owned by them) going back to 2014 and Stepan Halper and MI-6 and John Brennan setting up UK citizen and Cambridge University scholar Svetlana Lokhova as “the seductress of Gen Flynn” portrayed by one of those judges (Sullivan) as “an agent of Putin” to this day!
#3 Now we are in the 15th Round of Trump’s fight against the Deep State. Watch his counter punch now that he has forced them into the most blatantly brazen and laughably absurd theft of votes………….possibly in World History. One of the kinds of people you and I both like sings about all that in a song he wrote just since the election…..”Pallets Full of Ballots”.
Enjoy!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqVY8uJztqA
Watch his counterpunch now that the cadaver Ruth Bader “Pedophilia is good for the children!” Ginsburg has finally been buried and replaced in the Highest Court of the Land …….by Amy Barrett.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/1WnY8TpBVbL4/
EP 2324B – [JB] SENDS THE MESSAGE, GSA DESTROYS THE MSM ELECTION CALL, TRUMP COUNTERPUNCH COMING
Cheers!
Dear Bro,
Can you explain to me just how John Hinckley, using a revolver firing explosive bullets, was able to have one of those bullets ricochet off the limousine window and then enter Reagan’s chest via the left armpit?
I’ll give you a clue; the explosive bullets were made to explode, naturally. so that when that particular bullet struck the glass window, it would not have ricocheted, but rather explode.
You may of course ignore the open window on the first floor of the motel behind Reagan, but I would not, and a sabot projectile fired from such a position should have done the job for Poppy Bush’s old mate Ari ben Menashe.
Dear Andrew:
The relevance of your ballistics analysis may apply in some fashion you have not made clear.
But I think that DEFLECTION from the point I make for the impatient and too “simple” author is all I see out of it and I will give you my own clue in question form:
Is that deflection of the 39 year old flight of a bullet fired by Hinkley………..the best “rabbit hole” to dive down into right now???
I seriously doubt that it is.
So NO, since time is not unlimited….and must be rationed …and me thinks NOT for answering your deflection (from FAR more relevant and current matters) question….this is my only answer to you..
Have a nice day!
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This is off-topic. Please move any further discussion on this subject to the MFC. Thanx – the mod.
“You don’t get it A Martyanov.”
Thank you for your illustrations of the iterative linear spectrum of ignorance, myopia, blindness, ignorance, myopia, and blindness: the spectrum within which many are enmazed, and continue to be enmazed through some reliance on we-the-people-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evidentness..
A further thank you is also due for the usage of “it” predicated on notions of stasis.
Some like Cher apparently wish to turn back time, whilst some wished/wish to attempt to stop time, in emulation of a useful fool Mr. Fukuyama, whilst some wish to return to a time which never existed.
Your contention in respect of Mr. Martyanov is correct, but it is not neccessarily a pejorative, (chosen as some in some social relations conflate criticism with pejorative), but one option in “hiding in open view” predicated on the certainties/assumptions/presumptions/prejudices of “interpreters”, sometimes known as the Cassandra gambit, since Cassandra was not prone to absolutes.
Consequently some believe that they get what they see, whilst time suggests they get what they don’t see.
“America is a radically divided country which failed to coalesce into genuine nation and that was a recipe for disaster from the get go. Today it is a territory populated with a variety of people who have nothing in common culturally, economically or metaphysically and American “elites” demonstrated this fully”.
Alas, I have been pointing this out for years. This is one of the reasons why the US had it’s civil war in 1861-1865.
I draw readers attention to the following article:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/06/map-of-the-day-ex-kgb-analyst-predicts-balkanization-of-us/58945/
Sorry BF. The Atlantic IS the Enemy.
Imbibe their propaganda??? WHY???
No chance.
“WHY???”
To see what they perceive as “plausible belief of the day” and assess levels of contempt within which they “address” their (posessive case) audience.
Then some, not all, can use this “intelligence” for their own purposes.
These are among the hopes/reasons why some analyse various blogs.
Oh please, do not make us laugh. Panarin, really? He is unbearable. Well known for heaving wet dreams about Slavic Union, Finland, Romania, Germany joining Russian Federation soon, etc. Just BS for years. Probably he is still claiming the Y2K Armageddon according to Maya calendar… ;-)
the master
My intent was not to make you laugh. Having lived in the US, I can state that the map is basically correct. Don’t forget those secessionist movements. All they need is a major catalyst to really start functioning.
“Alas”
Alasness can be a function of attempting the impossible, such as believing/hoping/wishing that cults respond to logic, and that papa czars would act differently “if only” they understood; if they didn’t pay attention to “evil doers” blocking their passage to enlightenment..
“This is one of the reasons why the US had it’s civil war in 1861-1865.”
Not only.
From inception that was a description of “What are the United States (plural, where states are not limited to geographical entities or locations) of America ?” – the extension of which – ” how are they facilitated ?” being largely a function of varying assays of ideological and physical coercion.
Such assays facilitate various interpretations of ex-KGB analysts through conflating a state of stasis/end result with an ongoing lateral process of transcendence, in furtherance of that transcendence with the complicity of would be “interpreters” and would-like-to-be evaluators without perception of the purposes of others.
“Not only” but also – Not alas.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/11/12/americans-didnt-vote-against-trump-they-voted-against-more-media-psychological-abuse/
A useful illustration of one of the disadvantages of “emotion” facilitating “assertion predicated on the conflation of some with all” enhanced by “certainty”, often resorted to by “journalist/messiahs” who believe/hope they are “strategists”.
“Why do they (Dis)Count votes ?”
Partly because some we-the-people-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evidentness has proved effective for at least 244 years, particularly with a garnish of exceptionalism and hubris, since “votes” in aggregate are indications of assays of some of “the people” being immersed in the charade/oxymoron “representative democracy” and more ridiculously of misguided notions including – my/our country/not your country – and hence one’s you should concentrate on – whilst some of “the people” are taking comfort from a hologram of conditions which have never been, as a salve to feelings of alienation/frustration, whilst some are resorting to chemical preparations..
Why do they not fear civil war ?
Partly because it is predicated on immersion in notions of force as ultimate problem solver, whilst illustrating a level of assay of “the people” emulating present linear social practices/relations affording opportunities to some to impose “law and order” in order to “protect the people”after an amount of “the people” are once more seeking “protectors” – a dance/trance around “fixed points”.
That was the “Allied” forces hopes from at least March 1943 onwards.
The amount of force required for the breakup of the United States, especially social forces, or even economic forces are very difficult to imagine much less quantify.
There seems to a social divide, a chasm that won’t be bridged by political leaders. A Trump, a Biden, or any other political leader simply has no standing or charisma with the whole populace.
There is no American philosophy that could serve as a bridge that might connect the two pieces.
As for splintering, maybe into four, six or eight “nations”, that may come about. However, economics comes into play to shape such nations. Ports are necessary. So mid-America, or the inner parts of Northwest or other landlocked states have to have access to the seas. The Gulf and the Mississippi will be vital borders. The Great Lakes passage out to the Atlantic, too are vital. So, how these mini-Americas can be demarcated is very problematic. They simply cannot be just Red or Blue.
How the breakup of the USA occurs and what results is very distant, like an asteroid due to hit the planet or just miss it in 50 or 100 years. It sounds certain, but it’s so far off its manifestation is unseeable.
As for the breakup being caused by this election outcome, I doubt it. What will cause the forces necessary to break the USA is the coming attack on the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and the Social Contract of the Rule of Law. When the Dems as Liberal Cult unleash their BLM/Antifa forces and the “government” destroys the birthrights of American citizens, then a reaction might force the breakup of the nation.
There are no external forces challenging the US. There are competitors but not existential forces.
Maybe an economic collapse will bring down the nation. Many predict the debt and derivative bubbles could do that. And if as they also predict a breakdown of social order from the depression would spontaneously happen, new “nations” might be formed. I think this is dubious.
What I see is what is happening in the arms race and technology race. The US has fallen behind Russia in weapons of offense and defense. As Andrei Martyanov has written extensively, this race for dominance is determined by education and practices, and the US fails miserably in both. Thus, the Russians have jumped ahead in military research and development with proven weapons. Similarly, the Chinese have jumped ahead in digital economy, 5G, Big Data and is very competitive in robotics and AI, nanotechnology and quantum computing and quantum communications.
The US suffers from dependence on brain-draining foreigners, and has made the decision to keep the keenest brains (Chinese students) it depends on from continuing their education and research within the USA.
The US will soon, in the next five years, find itself a real second rate military facing Russia and China. And the US will be outdistanced in the most important technologies by China and Russia over the next five to ten years.
These two factors will create cognitive dissonance as the debt and derivative bubbles weigh heavily on a once preeminent nation. The US society may fracture at that realization that they no longer are Exceptional, #1 or the best at everything, while getting poorer with no leadership that has a clue how to change that fate.
Then, the people will act and maybe tear apart the USA themselves. They could be the force of that change.
“The US will soon, in the next five years, find itself a real second rate military facing Russia and China. And the US will be outdistanced in the most important technologies by China and Russia over the next five to ten years.”
So they will attack us, rather than trade with us??? Of necessity?? WHOSE necessity???
Why do we need to accept the # 1 axiom of The Globalist Empire?
Namely that ALL is a zero sum game and the Great Powers can do NOTHING…except clash….in the nuclear age??? Come on, man!
For their control it IS. a Zero Sum Game…
But we don’t need that axiom! As addictive as professional competitive sports are to the American psyche…….that’s not the only way to behave. Meaningless contests between physical freaks!!!
Win-win-win cooperation, anyone?
“The amount of force”
“social forces”
“economic forces”
Those enmazed in “forces” generally find “difficult to imagine”, consequently “There are no external forces challenging the US” a dogma which facilitates challenge, and some enmazed “We the people hold these truths to be self-evident” aiding such challenge.
“Win-win-win cooperation, anyone?” – unlikely for those enmazed in forces who find “difficult to imagine” co-operation through conflating co-operation with coercion, and “game theory” with thought.
Correct, OlyaPola!
So your ideas for changing it???
Observation of “those enmazed in “forces” and “game theory” traps and deciding NOT to join them in the collective mind trap is only the first step.
Do you have a second step???
Please offer it to the “fans” in the Coliseum.
“So your ideas for changing it???”
Avoid “ideas” and replace them with hypotheses to test through implementation, which are evaluated, modified, and the subsequent modifications implemented.
Knowledge is social through lateral interaction not evangelism.
Colliseum are places of spectacle whilst agora are places of lateral interaction.
“Fans” are spectators not practitioners, and of little if any significance.
Whilst messiah are self-deluded.
Transcendence is achieved through implementation including of appearing to be doing nothing, facilitated by the complicity of others who seek to evangelise, a.k.a. “the collective mind trap” which in context should be encouraged, including by lack of criticism through silence, facilitating others to seek to bridge doubt by belief to achieve “confirmation” through increasing dosages to address increasing presentations.
Some examples of how and by whom the ongoing transcendence of “The Soviet Union” by The Russian Federation was facilitated in the period from 1970 until 2000 were broadcast through this portal, but as expected, not “published” thereby illustrating lack of knowledge of some of the advantages of the would like to be “surveillance society”.
Perhaps you can remember other examples since all datastreams have utility – the key question being – to whom – the crested question being how.
All those humanities degree graduates who were looking for jobs found them in the political arena. Hence I agree with much stated in the above article. This will be the true cause of the decline.
Legacy news media consumption and grievence studies education is about as healthy for your brain as eating a cigarette sandwich is for you body. ‘No legacy is so rich as honesty.’ Shakespeare. “Tonto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
https://youtu.be/ZL-MTP3vD3I or http://www.cowdisley.com/videos/education.mp4 (longer version)
Dear Andrei,
Thank you for a very interesting and correct view of what has occurred in America in times just past.
Yes, you are quite correct in that both of the main political parties in America are corrupt, and both opposed Trump from day one back in 2015, but that doesn’t illuminate just exactly what it was that got Trump elected, got him through his first four years without being assassinated as so many American Presidents had before him. Come to think of it as with so many other world leaders who opposed the primary agenda of those on the left., oh and some on the right.
And then Trump was also a friend to Bibi Netanyahu, of whom I consider to be one of the world’s top terrorists, which was quite adequately displayed with his appearances at both 911 and in London on 7th July 2005. And of course not forgetting his friendship with that old South Australian, Rupert Murdoch, and we get the picture that Trump was not the lily-white knight many saw him as, but…..
Trump did take on what has been called ‘the Swamp’. and Trump was the last and only possible opposition to the ‘Swamps’ destruction of not just America, but the whole of Western society, be it the five eyes, Europe, and so on. What the Bolsheviks did to Russia back in 1917 they are now doing to the rest of the world. Russia would oppose such a catastrophe, but China also has long memories of what Sassoon and his cousins in the British East India Company did to them for almost 200 years.
From memory, I believe that the ‘White Russians’ opposed the Bolsheviks from 1919 to about 1923, and this history is now repeating itself in America. And in America, and possibly the whole Western civilisation Trump was seen as the leader against these modern day Bolsheviks and a last possible chance to avoid the lessons of Russia and then of Spain.
With the advent of the ‘Coloured Revolution’ now taking place in America, America will end up following the path of Spain, but not of Russia as the White Russians failed.
” Bibi Netanyahu, of whom I consider to be one of the world’s top terrorists,”
I remember when this was a left wing opinion.
Could you please delve on the Spain mention?
AFAIK they fought a 3-year long civil war which ended with a (clearly and openly) fascist (extreme right, not extreme left) dictatorship, protected by the atlanticist powers who would next establish Gladio and all Stay Behind NATO terrorist networks with recycled nazi assets in Western Europe “to counter the threat of the Soviet Union”…
Whereas the USSR also had a Great Patriotic War (civil? maybe barring anglozionist influence, roughly the same interests that would finance Hitler’s NSDAP in the 30s), with a Bolshevik victory, as you mention, but then, were not the bolsheviks purged to a great extent by Stalin (chronologically before the Spanish Civil War)?
Not sure why White Russians failing to counter foreign anglozionist Bolshevik meddling and ensueing civil war would be comparable to the military coup in Spain 19 years later, which led to the fascist dictatorship ?
The Dems may want to sell China more treasury bonds but does China still want to buy them? Buying a US treasury bond is lending money to the US. The Chinese may wonder whether they’ll ever get their money back (people have talked about welching on the US debt to China). Also, buying treasury bonds as a way of recycling surplus trade dollars ties a country into a financial system controlled fro Wall St. which can be used against China. This is why the Chinese and others are setting up systems for intranational trade without dollars. Doing this draws the wrath of the US deep state as we saw in Libya and Iraq.
Your underlying problem here is that all your candidates for public office just want to get in, make some money and get out. They can largely exclude anybody who is not of like mind using the ballot laws.
“(people have talked about welching on the US debt to China)”
Yes some are wedded to illusions of precedent, and prime agency; even agency to welch, sometimes conflated with belch, given that fiat currencies are processes of welching.
The democrats are just the kids who took over the U.S. candy store.
‘The democrats are just the kids who took over the U.S. candy store’
No @Alabama they want to turn the US into a totalitarian state (communism/liberalism) something like this.
Interesting and original article.
Would Trump be looked upon as an American version of what Gorbachev was to the Soviet Union? A person who saw that the broken system had to fall apart, the sooner the better, and was bold enough to do nothing to prolong the agony.
“Would Trump be looked upon as an American version of what Gorbachev was to the Soviet Union? A person who saw that the broken system had to fall apart, the sooner the better..”
A similar narrative is being “realised” in respect of Mr. Trump as was the case with Mr. Gorbachev.
Mr. Andropov well before his death did realise “the broken system had to fall apart, the sooner the better” and facilitated to some degree the ascension of Mr. Gorbachev (schmoozer of some experience/repute), whom Mr. Andropov deemed to be acceptable to others in the politburo who wished to retain their “rice bowls” without posing “undue” threat.
Then and subsequently Mr. Gorbachev attempted to “reform” the broken system as realised and applauded by Mr. Stephen F. Cohen who “determined” “reform” to be an option frustrated by “fate”, as illustrated in his book ” Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War”
Some associates of Mr. Andropov and others did not publically draw attention to this cognitive dissonance in respect of Mr. Gorbachev (which in some assay continues into the present), but “allowed” the efforts of Mr. Gorbachev to “speak for themselves”, a courtesy subsequently extended to visitors with intentions to facilitate “colour revolutions” branded as reforms.
Thank you for your illustration of how “silence” and other vacuums are often filled by beliefs.
“A person who saw that the broken system had to fall apart, the sooner the better, and was bold enough to do nothing to prolong the agony. “
https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/506667-american-fascists-christian-right/
The primary significance is not what you believe, but that you believe.
Biden won and many on this site seem to have lost their collective minds. Buying in the false 2 party dichotomy big time. That is all.
He didn’t yet win we will maybe see who won on 14th December
The mainstream propagandastaffel do not elect presidents, not even in the tiniest CIA hunting grounds emergent countries, less so in the USA. Regardless of who is declared finally president, the media are simply not empowered (but boy are they surely entitled) to do so…
What good will the Republican side of the parasitic duopoly do? The same ones who spun 9/11 into an open ended war that is still ongoing? Good riddance as these miscreants are removed from power. Maybe the US needs some political parties that respond to the needs of American citizens!
@DougDiggler
‘the parasitic duopoly’
Yes normally but not under Trump. That is why a a ‘leftist’ transnational empire has cheated and is trying to enforce itself via propaganda and censorship on the American people.