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| Re: Empire [message #98682 is a reply to message #98678] |
Sun, 08 June 2025 11:40   |
Rusty
Messages: 1365
Registered: May 2018
Location: Kansas City Missouri
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I've been interested for some time in the goings on in our society as I've ripened with age. Maybe that's just a gaseous process emanating from me. I'm trying to understand what seems to me to be a negative process affecting our lives. That's led me into researching our economic philosophy which leads invariably to the political process and our ways of interacting with the nations of the world.
I feel the track I'm on with the help of the influences with the individuals I relate to that have the experience and knowledge from their disciplines make sense of what relates to the negative processes which don't seem to be explained by our media sources.
I've learned our economic doctrine adopted by our society is the major contributor to how our political process and foreign policy has turned into dysfunction. Our leadership follows an ideological path that deviates from reality based thinking. Denial and subterfuge assists in keeping the public unaware of the possibilities of alternative ways of economic and political choices. That and our deeply entrenched deep state institutionalized construct of our national authority. Every nation on earth has some form of it.
But our nation, in that it has pursued a worldwide dominance of empire management particularly since the end of WWII. Has become more and more an aberration of a democracy due to the influence of wealthy elites insinuating themselves into the political process. They control the electoral campaign process completely now. And our economic doctrine has been tailored to resemble the top down style of management as is done with corporate enterprise. Neoliberal, financialized trickle down economics.
Our cost of living has been climbing since the adaptation of this economic doctrine. While our debt both individually and national debt in the form of trade debt, has risen to levels that are untenable. Our infrastructure in key areas is outdated. Our educational, medical, childcare and many other metrics of a stable thriving society show burden and neglect. Yet our authorities feel obliged to spend more than any other nation, or the combination of many other nations towards military procurement and status with over 700 installations in the world.
Our nation is at a point now with the development of the once 3rd world aligning together to counter our tradition of empire colonialism, financial weaponization and warmongering. Our economic fortress of the mighty dollar is being challenged by alternatives that the BRICS nations are developing to counter what we have taken for granted for too long. A free lunch, rentier philosophy of dominance in the world of trade and finance.
What will become of this challenge is being discussed and editorialized by the few and not well known group of people of various journalistic, academic, former governmental, military and various disciplines in society. I for one take solace with following this movement in our world. It goes way beyond our borders as has what our capitalism has done over the centuries. What it has become should be at a crossroads. Because it isn't functioning in the interests of people in the majority.
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| Re: Empire [message #98687 is a reply to message #98682] |
Tue, 10 June 2025 07:46 |
Rusty
Messages: 1365
Registered: May 2018
Location: Kansas City Missouri
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I wonder with hope and optimism through the deepening gloom of news attributed to our current administration, if that it is unwittingly hastening the process of change. Change in the realization that our capitalism is at the twilight of its usefulness.
When it originated after the French Revolution in the late 18th century replacing Feudalism of the aristocracy there was the hope it would come to embody the slogan "Liberty, equality and fraternity". As it stands now here in the US, it resembles more like the Feudalism it replaced. The aristocracy replaced now are the oligarchy class, our modern lords to we the serfs. The gap of economic inequality now is as deep and wide as then.
When we were an industrial nation there were those issues, but the industrialists realized the government could keep their workforce wages lower by augmenting the cost of living better then they could with social services. By the mid 20th century after the big war our nation was at its peak. And our middle class and living standards as well. That's all changed from the deliberate adoption of finance capitalism settling in our society for good in the 1980's. Its taken us down that path of the Feudal system of centuries past ironically. A government comprised of an ideological shift towards letting the corporate and financial sector plan the economy through the notion of the free market. Which would be only free for the needs of the few that most benefit from that notion.
That's demonstrated by what our administration has inflicted on the world with the tariff debacle. The free market isn't free when you can't dominate it by monopolization. Blanket tariffs are the tool of desperation for an economy in turmoil from a strong rival that has put all the advantages in peril for our finance capitalists. We couldn't take advantage of the Chinese market as we'd conspired. Because they invested in their markets, they built them up. They were not solely trying to capitalize their market for a few at the expense of their huge population. As we have let happen to ours.
We threaten them with war. They are our greatest threat our leaders say. We devise ways to hamper their superior economy unsuccessfully. Theirs is a hybrid economy. A socialist-private enterprise economy. Their government keeps finance controlled by the state. Thus speculation is minimized. Cost of living low.
Our government relinquished that to the (un)free market. For profit. And we languish from it.
Capitalism in the hands of the financiers devours itself. Hopefully its at a crossroads. Do we try to keep this false facade in place or come to realize that the word socialism isn't bad after all? It means sharing and working more equally. The freeloaders of society are the ones whom make their profit in their sleep. That takes a strong government to make it so.
The only pretense of strength of our government is the authoritarianism projected at home and abroad just to enable the continuation of this fantasy notion of the free market finance capitalism.
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