America and the West cannot afford another imperialist presidency.
We must come to grips with the truths of our existence and the new world order with new priorities.
When it comes to political leadership, the ancient adage “The fish rots from the head down” has never been truer than today. The rot in Western civilization constitutes a leadership crisis of immense proportions. It appears everyone except politicians are aware of the crisis as it becomes deeper, more malignant, and increasingl threatening to us all.
Social contracts between governments and populations they are supposed to serve have been shattered. We have gone full cycle from frail democracies to full blown demagoguery where the divorce has been finalized. Politicians of the wayward West have sold their souls to corporatist-capitalist-warmongering-genocidal-sociopathic-megalomaniacs ( “megalomania” according to my sources is stage IV narcissism aggravated by too much money and power in all the wrong places.)
If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.—John Ralston Saul
Where capitalism is allowed to run free it becomes predatory and spawns the rotten eggs and associated corruptions that shatter whole nations and civilizations. The rotten eggs are on the front pages on a daily basis. The corruptions are the unmentionable soiled ad hoc ideologies driving our societies, the systemic undermining of democracy, civility, human values and hard won civil liberties.
Politics has become the playground of infantilized politicians where their degeneracy and lawlessness are so transparent they are the feeble-minded desperadoes suffering their last hurrah. There is no grace, no honor, just their ongoing disgraceful behaviors.
Populations of the West, all 800 million of us, are the victims of this unfortunate circumstance, abandoned, betrayed, and disenfranchised. We are citizens no more, just mere commodities bought and traded on the altars of political treachery and endless wars. Pundits are saying the situation is going to get worse before it gets better, and this is ever so true, as the denigration has been decades long and there are no quick fixes.
Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance.
The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.—John Ralston Saul
Populations of the West suffer a pandemic of Stockholm Syndrome where we have become too passive to the kidnappers holding us hostage to their endless immoralities. Salvation starts by repudiating imperialism, its endless wars and blood shed and returning to the equilibrium of peace and progress. Where there is no peace, no civility, no equilibrium, no democracy whole societies are frozen in time and collapse, perpetrated by treasonous elites.
“Making America Great Again does not mean expansion of the empire into Canada, Greenland, and Panama. It means the restoration of justice in the legal system and the restoration of respect for the truth. Without truth and justice, neither of which exists in today’s America, America cannot be made great again”.— Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Too many Decades ago political scientist and historian Chalmers Johnson warned that America could have empire or democracy, but never both. Now that prophecy has become manifest as democracy has been eradicated in favor of the parasitic empire feeding off and debilitating the Republic.
Genocide Joe Biden is being widely condemned as the worst US president ever. And rightly so, as he provoked a disastrous imperialist war against Russia, now lost. His loyalty to Zionism allowed him to permit an unconscionable genocide when as POTUS he should have stopped it in his tracks.
Biden’s presidency was the culmination of any presidential loyalty to the Republic and the peoples there in. Where previous presidents juggled the irreconcilable disparities between the Empire and the Republic, Biden was the emperor of the empire rather than the president loyal to the Republic.
Now, the office of the president has been reduced to that of an imperialist emperor, a potentate, surrounded by a gaggle of warmongers. Yesterday, they were the thugs screaming and cheering for more war; today, they are rebranded with honorific titles and held out as statesmen, for more stoogery, more war, and more decline.
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen in a democracy. The particular imbalance of this ideology leads to a worship of self-interest and a denial of the public good. The practical effects on the individual are passivity and conformism in the areas that matter, and non-conformism in the areas that don't. —John Ralston Saul
Following are the closing lines of W. H. Auden's poem. In Memory of W. B. Yeats, written in 1939 on eve of WW ll. "In the nightmare of the dark All the dogs of Europe bark, And the living nations wait, Each sequestered in its hate; Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye. Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstrained voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise." In the year 2025 "the free man" has still not learned to praise.
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Name the last 'good' US President. What if the President is irrelevant, xcept for propaganda purposes, to keep people 'engaged' about irrelevancies? Loved some of the quotes in your piece. I once interviewed for an IT position with a major US Bank. The banker told me that no matter what markets do, the bank will always win. Believe that the permanent state bureaucracy, the DEEP STATE, has long ago figured out the same: No matter who voters 'elect' the deep state always wins.
Let us return the REAL meaning of the word 'democracy': the will of (all) the people