Imperial America
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America’s political and economic situation portends violent solutions.
If the current economic, political, and social situation of the United States of America remains on the present trajectory, the most powerful economic and military force to ever exist, will either implode in civil catastrophe or go to war.
There is no way to sustain the fiscal fantasy that we have created in the United States. As the government continues to terrify Wall Street and to threaten to pillage the rich to pay for every social program that the lower classes desire, we run deeper and deeper into unsustainable debt. How is it that every business and household in this nation is cutting back its operating budget, but the federal government, in its wisdom, is tripling its budget. These numbers do not add up. This radical debt creation can have only one of two realistic outcomes.
1. The United States of America economically and politically implodes. Worse-case scenario: civil war. The Left has moved so quickly and so radically in its first month of political domination, that the Right has not only survived, but its base has galvanized. If the Obama-Pelosi-Reid faction continues on this pace, they may so radicalize the Right that protests become rebellions. Where does the military stand?
Best case scenario: the world ends with a whimper. After years of social and economic degradation, the United States finally becomes the ghost of its former self. China calls in its debts and the U.S. is forced into a decision: declare bankruptcy or simply refuse to pay. Either response will lead to financial disaster.
2. The United States of America, perhaps under the rule of a right-wing leader, decides that the only way to get out of its financial mess is the traditional way: war. Perhaps Iraq indicates this path, but we moralized it far too much. War is money, and big debts require big wars (think Germany WW2). Iraq is a pittance.
These possible scenarios would have seemed like unstable ranting a few years ago, but in this climate, radicalization is becoming the standard, not the aberration. If we study history we will see that such radical economies and policies, pared with massive military might (i.e. Late Republican Rome, Weimar Germany, etc.) often create conflagrations that burn the entire world.
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It seems to me like the easiest solution would be to pull a Clinton. Cut funding wherever you can get away with, end the war (we spend about a trillion a year on defense) and work us to a surplus which we can use to pay down our debt with China.
I mean, that seems to me like the only logical and moral solution but not a single politician seems willing to try it… Democrats like deficit spending and Republicans think a surplus is stealing.
Very good stuff, though it is hard to really know the future. But, you could be quite correct since many things are possible. I hope, in my own writing, that I may, in fact, be wrong because if I am correct, then a dark future will be coming; however, I can only go by what has happened in terms of world history.
What some people once thought would be unthinkable has, in fact, sometimes happened. If I had a pure choice, I would hope that things would not get worse; but, neither you nor I have control over great events, as far as I know.
Good luck with your writing!!
Thanks Jas. History is disturbing and mostly because those who were swept up in great waves of change, were often blissfuly unaware of the consequences of their political choices. We certainly lack a long-view, informed by historical knowledge, in this nation.