The USA as a viable sovereign nation state is most certainly doomed and there is nothing anyone can do to fix it. I’m sure very many people will try to argue otherwise but sadly it’s inevitable and I’m not the only one who has come to that conclusion.
So why is it doomed what factors are in place to doom it? Firstly you must remember the USA is an empire in itself and it did not grow through happy clappy people singing kumbaya at the indigenous inhabitants. Lets be honest it expanded as all empires do at the point of a sword and the deliberate genocide or displacement of it’s original inhabitants the fact that any survived is in itself a small miracle if you enjoy living on the most marginal lands in the USA.
So the USA expanded as an empire and like all empires during that phase it prospered and grew richer. Then like all empires it can no longer expand and slightly over reaches itself with territory’s like the Philippines which it will quickly relinquish this is an empire at it’s zenith it will then turns to the stable phase where it expends a great deal of wealth to maintain it’s wealth and prestige in the world getting involved in what turns out to be pointless wars to defend what it perceives as it’s interests but in reality are usually not.
Now the USA has entered the decline phase as all empires do and an inevitable shrinking back to it’s core in it’s death throes it will still exert a lot of power and get in involved in yet more pointless wars accelerating it’s spending of wealth and the decline.
Like ancient Rome the symptoms are there the barbarians are pouring across the border invited or not and like those ancient hordes do not share your values but naively everyone expects that nothing could possible go wrong.
Tax avoidance among the wealthy is at an all time high while inflation and unsustainable debt eat away at the foundations of the empire. The masses need ever increasing amounts of bread and circuses to keep them quiet via welfare and healthcare all free of course purchased with yet more debt and mindless entertainment 24×7. Corruption is endemic and the rich abuse their power with impunity and morality is fading fast even among those that claim to be religious.
The debt is now unpayable which means ultimately something has to give and that will be military might while the bread and circuses eat everyones lunch and that is when America’s enemies will strike knowing finally the beast is in it’s death throes.
Of course a rump empire like Byzantium could limp along for a while but like Rome before it it will bring the seeds of it’s own destruction with it.
So no matter who you elect, no matter what you think you can do to change things no matter how many guns you buy, how many rallies you attend how much you personally keep your faith it ultimately does not matter. The forces of history will grind on and even if you win for a day it’s all going to end.
The only man who saw this clearly was Jefferson but Lincoln made sure that his advice could never be put into practice ever again. No doubt people will tell me oh this time every things different, it couldn’t happen to us sadly time is running out and hopefully something will arise from the ashes.
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Look on the bright side. The Euro is being devalued to save the fucking banks; the $US is being devalued to save America.
Yes and so are my wages but I have noticed the rich are giving themselves pay rises to keep pace with the devaluation.
Wouldn’t it be nice if what emerged from all this creative destruction was the US that Jefferson envisaged, and which he tried so hard to bring about?
FB actually that’s what I really hope will happen once you get past the hypocrasy even they would admit of people like Jefferson it was a noble vision hopefully we can make it happen for real soon.
I’m wondering whether or not to pose the question at LibertyGibbert, who should be accorded a citizen? Who gets to vote? Should it be confined to taxpayers, with votes perhaps weighted by net tax paid? Would the wealthy be less inclined to avoid tax under such an arrangement, would it result in a more free and just society, and would this have made a difference to America’s current predicament?
ozboy actually that would be a good topic maybe multiple topics, as for the rich under a system which accords them more influence they would would just game the tax system to their advantage while leaving their voting rights alone.
Rothbard has a very good discussion of the internal contradictions of democracy, but I can’t remember whether it was in man economy and state, or in power and markets, I’ve been listening to the audio book versions of both on my MP3.
Hans Herman Hoppe’s “Democracy, the god that failed” has about 50 years more libertarian thinking in it than his late mentor and colleague, Rothbard’s work has.
I’ve got to warn you though, both depart from von Mises’ minarchist view point, and support the idea of a purely private law society.
Either way, clip the politician’s wings sufficeintly, and the questions of the personality of the wannabe politico, and who comprises the franchised electorate, both become much less important.
The Italians (those who are net tax contributors, rather than net consumers – such is libertarian class / caste analysis!) have a very healthy attitude towards politicians; they assume that they will all be psychopathically corrupt, and so get on with their family and business lives and try to keep as much dealing as possible in cash and so invisible to the net consuming caste.
Belated happy birthday.
Thanks,
Spent it with my estranged 8-/
Well I hope it was a friendly meeting with no Garda involved.