THE USA: A FAILING STATE CAUGHT WITHIN A VICIOUS CIRCLE OF ITS OWN DEVISING

The presentation of the USA as the most perfect society with the most perfect systems of all kinds, far above and beyond that of any other nation, has always been a public relations pitch.

The reaction of many Americans to this statement will be a strong denial that it is mere public relations, that it is true, evidenced by the continuing numbers wishing to reach their shores and cross their borders.

While it is true that many see the opportunity for lowly jobs in the USA as at least providing them a basic living unavailable in their own countries nearby this is only evidence of desperation, nothing more.

In regard to others who have attained skills required in the USA what is found is that they go to work for corporations and institutions that cater primarily to the rich and super rich and extremely rarely for the vast majority of Americans.

The experience of the average, not so wealthy American is of declining life chances, stagnant wages that cannot keep up with rising prices, of infrastructure that is ageing fast, of exorbitant health care and child care costs, the scarcity of a good, affordable education, of the unaffordability of local housing for newly weds, of a gig job market, of a nation where the super-rich contribute less in taxes than teachers, doctors and nurses... a nation in short that is reaching the end stages of terminal redundancy as a system of benefit for all.

The USA is a nation with an out-of-date ethos of hyper-individuality where you must do it yourself and expect no help, an anti-community region of greed-driven humanity where, like a chain-letter Ponzi scheme hitting the last end dregs of the scam. Most of the money has been sucked upward. And those sitting up there are determined to ensure it stays there. They produce nothing new in terms of products or services of benefit to the majority of U.S. citizens. Most of their time seems to be spent avoiding tax through some scheme or other or speculating via financial products that simply churn their money round for profit.

The systems of the future where true equity will be found along with true humanity and community will avoid functioning within any such end game system such as that winding down now in North America. There is no future in the cold, dull world of aggressive acquisition and hoarding to the detriment of all outsiders to the personal gene pool, no future in the totally self-interested use and abuse of state support systems to gain advantage over others and generate profit that is then guarded and in no way brings any social benefit for others.

If you observe carefully you will see a wider negativity to the entire ethos on which the USA is built which is reinforced daily from its elites. To claim superiority over all others then allows the judgement of others as of lesser validity. It allows war, regime change war, it allows the justification of the subversion of others, of the right to destabilize others’ systems bringing chaos in the name of some claimed and very much self-awarded superiority.

Look at which systems have been explicitly targeted in recent years. Most of them have been in the Middle East and have been largely secular nations with an ethos where socialist principles have been applied. Free education and health care among many other benefits. Most were adherents of Baath Party principles. Iraq, Syria, and Libya for instance. Take a look sometime at the benefits distributed by Libyan authorities before the country was fractured into warring factions and brought to a point where a new slave trade emerged. You will be surprised by how much an apparently “evil” president provided for his people.

In my view the Cold War as well as every other war the U.S. fought had nothing whatsoever to do with creating a better life for the people of the nations it fought wars against. It was to make them susceptible to their system, a parallel, mirror image of their system or as close to it as possible, and therefore able to be exploited by their system.

It brought down the most idealistic system ever seen on the planet, the socialist system of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact nations. It did this step by step all the while proclaiming on the best of intentions. Again, these were the usual and terminally cynical public relations statements designed only to conceal the true intent.

The system that brought such calumny upon the world is now itself observably failing.

And yet the leaders of that corrupt, corrupting and failing system fight on, now primarily against China, the main target. China where, despite all the slanderous disinformation, the vast majority of wealth raised is returned directly to the Chinese people in terms of social benefits bringing ever greater life chances.

The elites of the USA are like a composite junkie that thinks the very next fix will bring back the same initial euphoria felt when the habit first began. It won’t. It will bring only the death of the addict.

It is up to the rest of us to ensure that the power-junkie that is the USA does not bring the rest of us down with it. For the USA is a failing state caught within a vicious circle of its own devising.