America’s Death March

Regardless of the outcome, the U.S. election will not stop the rise of hyper-nationalism, crisis cults and other signs of an empire’s terminal decline, writes Chris Hedges.

[consortiumnews.com]

{The removal of Trump from office will only exacerbate the lust for racist violence he incites and the intoxicating elixir of white nationalism. The ruling elites, who first built a mafia economy and then built a mafia state, will continue under Biden, as they did under Trump, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, to wantonly pillage and loot.}

If Biden were to win, it will only be a stage towards engineering the next Trump like figure. We staunchly need to pound this message through to prepare for 2024! For we have totally missed the fact that for 5 decades we've been served Trump light presidents who each became worse than their predecessor. Trump has merely been the knock out punch we were served under a predecessor named Obama like Bush Jr. after Clinton. The democrats have been setting us up with 1-2 punches to clear the way for the republicans to come in and knock us out now for 5 decades. Biden and Harris will be no better than Obama-Biden was compared to Bush Jr. They will manage to use the foot work Trump set and essentially continue with the same agenda.

{Social collapse, as Peter Drucker observed in Weimar Germany in the 1930s, brings with it a loss of faith in ruling institutions and ruling ideologies. With no apparent answers or solutions to mounting chaos and catastrophe — and Biden and the Democratic Party have already precluded the kind of New Deal programs and assault on oligarchic power that saved us during the Great Depression — demagogues and charlatans need only denounce all institutions, all politicians, and all political and social conventions while conjuring up hosts of phantom enemies.}

{Drucker saw that Nazism succeeded not because people believed in its fantastic promises, but in spite of them. Nazi absurdities, he pointed out, had been “witnessed by a hostile press, a hostile radio, a hostile cinema, a hostile church, and a hostile government which untiringly pointed out the Nazi lies, the Nazi inconsistency, the unattainability of their promises, and the dangers and folly of their course.}

Does this sound eerily similar?

{“Nobody, he noted, “would have been a Nazi if rational belief in the Nazi promises had been a prerequisite.” The poet, playwright and socialist revolutionary Ernst Toller, who was forced into exile and stripped of his citizenship when the Nazis took power in 1933}

This is basically what is being done to journalist and news sources attempting to wake up our citizens with factual independent work. They can't get covered in the main stream corporate media, and are suppressed and or banned from social media outlets to limit their following to only those who actually visit their pages. China can't hold a candle to the suppression of information we face in the US!

{The poor, the vulnerable, those who are not white or not Christian, those who are undocumented or who do not mindlessly repeat the can't of a perverted Christian nationalism, will be offered up in a crisis to the god of death, a familiar form of human sacrifice that plagues sick societies. Once these enemies are purged from the nation, we are promised, America will recover its lost glory, except that once one enemy is obliterated another takes its place.}

And then they came after me. It's coming. There's only 2 questions now. What generation it takes full hold of. Or do you have the balls to help us stop it? Can you break free of the 2 establishment parties chains?

{These crisis cults are, as Drucker understood, irrational and schizophrenic. They have no coherent ideology. They turn morality upside down. They appeal exclusively to emotions. Burlesque and celebrity culture become politics. Depravity becomes morality. Atrocities and murder become heroism. Crime and fraud become justice. Greed and nepotism become civic virtues.}

We're already there. We deal it out worldwide----in our name.

{What these cults stand for today, they condemn tomorrow.}

A growing regularity since the Reagan administration perpetrated by both political parties and their supporters. Growing loss of rights and constitutional erosion. As long as it's their chosen party committing the crimes and or unethical practices all is fine. Yet they wag their fingers at each other as the other side does so in bliss of their own compliances.

{Ruleless-ness means the norms that govern a society and create a sense of organic solidarity no longer function. The belief, for example, that if we work hard, obey the law and get a good education we can achieve stable employment, social status and mobility along with financial security becomes a lie.}

We have totally lost any sense of governance. We are ruled by the ruling class who now own all of our governments and the medias in which they use to engulf our society with controlling propaganda. We are merely a power source to their matrix. Welcome to serf hood.

{Joe Biden, a shallow, political hack devoid of fixed beliefs or intellectual depth, is an expression of the nostalgia of a ruling class that yearns to return to the pantomime of democracy. They want to restore the decorum and civic religion that makes the presidency a form of monarchy and sacralizes the organs of state power.

Donald Trump’s vulgarity and ineptitude is an embarrassment to the architects of empire. He has ripped back the veil that covered our failed democracy. But no matter how hard the elites try this veil cannot be restored. The mask is off. The façade is gone. Biden cannot bring it back.

Political, economic and social dysfunction define the American empire. Our staggering inability to contain the pandemic, which now infects over 5 million Americans, and the failure to cope with the economic fallout the pandemic has caused, has exposed the American capitalist model as bankrupt.}