How We Are Now

The U.S. government is not a government of, by, and for the people. It was a lie when Lincoln said it, and it is an even bigger lie now. 


There are many problems with that statement, but a major one is who are “the people”? Perhaps at the end of World War II Americans became almost one people, for the first and last time. Real national unity did not exist before that, and immigration and “diversity” ideology have destroyed any future hope for national unity. 


Even when it almost existed, national unity was mainly window dressing for the corporate state capitalism that Lincoln and his friends substituted for the honourable republicanism of the Southern founders. State capitalism is our ruling system - private ownership and profit with government support. Free markets don’t really exist wherever there is large -scale corporate power. Most of our wealth is now in the portfolios of billionaires, domestic and foreign, and most of our work shipped out to cheap labour places. 


How can “the people” rule when we no longer even know who the people are?Israelis and Palestinians protest and fight each other in our streets. Why are they even here with their problems irrelevant to the American “people”? 


A synagogue is attacked, it turns out by a Lebanese-born “citizen” angered by Israelis. Why were this citizen’s murdered children still in Lebanon or why was he here without them? And Iranian exiles are in our streets cheering on the war that is consuming our blood and treasure? Who are “the people”? 


How can the people rule when the unelected and untouchable Supreme Court has literally changed American society in major ways over the last three-quarters century - imposing “law” for ideological changes that “the people” never voted for or even approved of? How can “the people” rule when there are things we all know are true but are punished when we say them in public? When there is no real public debate and the agenda is controlled by very rich people who own the major media? When most Congresspersons answer to their supposed party interests rather than the interests of “the people”? 


Our rulers never feel punishment for their bad deeds. Bush the Lesser starts an illegal, dishonest, failed war and is re-elected. Joe Biden is suffering no embarrassment from having created vast unwanted demographic change in the American population. 


Foreign “regime change” has been a catastrophic failure, and Trump is doing it again despite all his promises. He is a betrayer of his people, almost the last remaining “Americans.” Just as we feared all along. Someone gave him good material to run on, but what we got was just another smart-aleck New Yorker who cannot resist the temptation of imperial power. 


We will probably never know all about the Epstein files. Some millionaire ought to hire a team to go through the vast collection and find the truth, but that will not happen. Has anyone explained why so much is redacted? What we do learn is that pedophilia is deep in our ruling class. They don’t feel the consequences of anything they do, so breaking a last taboo tempts them to show their power and superiority. 


Have you noticed that the people rioting against law enforcement in Minneapolis don’t seem to have jobs they need to go to? Have you noticed recently that when horrid savage crimes are committed the criminal has been arrested ten times previously but is somehow still out on the street? How does this happen? Do our courts provide justice for protected groups but not for us> 


Perhaps we are experiencing the inevitable decline of a society that makes the slick politician and war criminal Abe Lincoln its greatest hero and symbol. ​