Collectivists, Gangsters & Jihadis are the Best Candidates
When this supposedly dysfunctional, imperialist nation founded by profiteering, white male slave-owners is finally – however gradually – converted to a truly ‘just society’ that allows all Americans (if that term is still to be used) to live in dignity and comfort — who will be its masters? Who will rule Post-American America? Will it be Transnational Collectivists, Muslim Extremists, or Organized Criminals?
Why bother to speculate on something that is unthinkable for a country as strong and resilient as the U.S? We’ll glance at that later; but first, let’s look at our most likely inheritors. And no, it is very unlikely that, as in the good old days, a nation-state will try to overtly invade the US; stealth is back in style, and subversion – on a naïve population – works like any good lie in history.
COLLECTIVISTS.
Save the Planet! Destroy Capitalism!
'Revolution' Sponsor George Soros
We’ve all gotten used to the idea that at every international government or corporate meeting of any supposed consequence, there will be staged demonstrations by the world’s Leftist organizations. Many months of planning will go into the ‘spontaneous’ demonstrations, and pledges of peaceful marching and non-violence will be made to the local government officials.
The police will come out with batons and shields and water guns, tear-gas and rubber bullets. The ‘peaceful’ demonstrators will smash retailers’ windows, throw molotov cocktails, taunt the police into reacting violently before the cameras in order to prove to the world that the demonstrators are ‘oppressed,’ and, occasionally, someone will die.
They are ‘oppressed’ by Western Civilization, in general, and the United States (Leader of the Free World) in particular. They think of themselves as ‘revolutionaries’ and think that if they get the ‘change’ they seek, it will look something like the Galactic Republic depicted in Star Wars: planets represented at council, rather than (the archaic, destructive idea of) nations.’
Your Fellow Americans
They generally refer to themselves as “the movement’ – even though they comprise many distinct movements joined to fight a common foe — Us. They do not feel obliged to respect the voting ‘masses’ they say they are fighting to liberate, and they only like elections – not, mind you, the idea of elections – that result in an outcome they can rig, both before and after.
Foregoing any candor regarding their goal of achieving power by whatever means necessary, they have cheated and bullied their way into control of large portions of the planet. And due to Democrats’ embrace of movement principles — and Republicans who believe Global Warming/Climate Change is actually about the climate — they are winning nearly everywhere. They have the numbers and the resources; there seems to be no reason why they won’t continue to prevail.
GANGSTERS.
Who's Behind the Curtain?
We’ve also all gotten used to the gangbangers and the drug cartels, and the casual violence that ensues from their various illegal activities. The notion that free money in the form of drug profits destroys society’s institutions from within, and its citizens from without seems to bore folks who have the luxury of keeping the bribery and executions at a distance, even as they use the ‘recreational drugs’ that are aggressively sold by the perps.
Having gangs larger and better-armed than most police departments, and some armies, is not much different than acknowledging the existence of various sports teams. The violence occurs elsewhere, while we attend church, smug in our ‘drug-free’ world. Who could possibly blame us for all the crap that happens to drug dealers and addicts, somewhere else.
And what part of the Western brain lights up when we hear the phrase “Failed State?” Do we think “Oh my God, the criminals are stronger than those governments, and our drug laws caused it, and it could happen to us if we don’t change our laws?” Of course not. That would mean changing our fondest beliefs. It would also damage everyone who is legally profiting from these wickedly destructive laws, whether through employment, or votes gained, or prestige, or personal virtue. Even the liquor industry, to avoid competing drugs.
Random Citizens are Next
What often happens is that the organized criminals have boodles of cash to spend on government servants, and they are willing to murder said servant and family in the absence of cooperation. This results in an unannounced partnership. The public no longer knows who to trust, and taxpayers, like spider’s prey, are kept alive for the next fresh feeding.
Organized crime has been international for a long time, and our government’s cowardice and pandering in not dealing with this has allowed the free drug money to finance expansion into multiple rackets (slavery, extortion, kidnapping, counterfeiting, piracy, and legitimate business fronts) such that it may be too late to turn the situation around through legislation, or law enforcement, or military action.
Offering to kill you or those you care about, or bribe you (an offer you can’t refuse) is an effective strategy that is not going away. And if your response is “I would just call the police,” you need to know that this brand of corruption will make that a mistake – perhaps your last.
MUSLIM EXTREMISTS. -aka Jihadis
This Freedom Can be Yours
PHOTO NOTE: There is no intention to imply that the ladies pictured above are anything other than normal, devout Muslims – certainly not Jihadis or Muslim Extremists. I grabbed the photo with the intent of reminding Western ladies that they would lose their accustomed freedoms under Muslim rule.
The third thing we’ve also all gotten used to is the “terrorist threat.” I call it that because, while my fellow Americans know we are at war in the Mideast, many prefer to think we went into Iraq under false pretenses (they assume it was to get oil), while Afghanistan is just a mistake incident to our hunt for (the criminal) Osama bin Laden and his cronies.
The Executive Branch of the United States government will not utter the word “Jihadi.” (The President finally said the phrase “Radical Islam,” presumably to at least acknowledge that some of the people killing American soldiers and civilians are doing so out of religious conviction.) The Leftists we talked about earlier admire the Jihadis as “Freedom Fighters” and are their natural allies because of their mutual antipathy toward the West, with Israel and the U.S. as prime targets.
Palestinians are the poster children for U.S. ‘imperialism.’ Since it is repulsive to most Americans to consider anyone an enemy because of their religious beliefs, and since we fear a backlash against Muslims in America because of the wars, the Administration has placed many Muslims in prominent positions in our government (Muslim Affirmative Action?).
Those who take the Jihadis’ word that they are, indeed, at war with us, whether we acknowledge it or not, see the Muslim religion as one of conquest and subjugation, whose primary ‘Religion of Peace’ goal is to force the Muslim religion on the entire human population, killing or subjugating all who refuse to cooperate, including other Muslims. If you listen to the Koranic scholars and understand that there is no possibility of the separation of church and state, or of this religious mission being abandoned, you will conclude that they are the enemy they say they are. The rest is willful blindness.
In the event, there are over a billion of them, and they have been attacking Western Civilization – the heir to what was once known as “Christendom,” off and on for about 1,200 years. We forget that; they don’t. Our society’s dominant philosophy is that we can only have enemies through actions or misunderstandings we ourselves created; diplomacy will work it out. But diplomacy has no effect when there is nothing the other party wants from you except either your demise, or submission to their rule. What is the likely outcome in a conflict between one party who always has an enemy and another who never has an enemy?
SPIRALING DOWN.
But why – you ask – the quasi-paranoid gloom? Well, the non-violent revolutions always take time, and are necessarily cheered-on by a significant portion of the populace; Hugo Chavez’ slow replacement of a free-market democracy plagued by corruption with an explicitly Communist dictatorship is a prime example.
But then, all the Socialists worldwide have caught on to the use of Democratic procedures and gestures to smother dissenting views and interests and gain control over whatever parts of the society are the best leverage for control. The rest, they’ve learned, can remain untouched, including Capitalist taxpayers and voting citizens. The Capitalists that matter will either be ‘captives” of the government – earning their profits from the ‘special relationship’ – or regulated into total cooperation with the government’s aims.
We’ve seen this movie before. The last time, it was titled Fascism, this time probably some variation of The Green Economy. Tyranny, after all, is such a small price to pay for supposedly ‘saving the planet.’ And no one need be uncomfortable, because the tyrants will look just like the Congress you already have, and (rigged) elections with carefully selected candidates will still be held, and everyone will still have the liberty to attend free universities for indoctrination and training for government-approved businesses.
Every one who belongs to a union will have a job, whether the employer needs that person or not. Better yet, those most loyal to the beloved government and its ‘Dear Leader” will be rewarded with the homes and accouterments of the former ruling class. All property will be distributed by degree of cooperation. Years of the drip, drip, drip of leaking liberty, until the roof finally collapses. You see, it can happen here.
Noted syndicated columnist and TV Pundit Charles Krauthammer recently opined that the Obama Administration is interested in control of Health Care, Education and Energy. He thought that the Auto companies and financial industry were just windfalls (I disagree, if he means that they don’t want control of the auto companies in order to preserve union jobs and churn out green cars the government –but not necessarily the people — wants, or that the government doesn’t relish the idea of controlling salary and credit levels through bullying financial regs and administrators.)
Does that necessarily mean that the administration is conducting a slow-motion revolution? No, but remember that if you’re wrong, it’s the founding vision of this country – and all it’s subsequent success — that you’re betting against. Regardless, a huge number of citizens are online, expressing their concern, and voicing their outrage over collectivist policies aimed at replacing a free-market constitutional Republic with a “Just Society.”
I think we already have a “Just Society” in the sense that, if you work within the system, it is still possible to address economic and social issues for which there’s a constituency. It’s admittedly gotten harder as Washington has been gamed by nearly all participants, but that’s a topic for another day.
"You Have a Republic if You Can Keep It"
What I’m concerned about now is, what happens to the United States, it’s founding principles, and its citizens if the eighteenth-century old-white-guy system is dismantled before something coherent is available to replace it? The adage There’s many a slip twixt cup and lip can mean millions of American corpses if society collapses, a la Cambodia – where real people’s lives were made to submit to a radical theory about how a ‘fair’ society should be organized, and the result was millions of dead Cambodians.
Same in Russia. Same in China. The National Socialist Party was mimicking the above behavior in Germany before its own “Dear Leader” decided to commit the nation’s resources to conquest and genocide based on old national grudges. The Italians, who invented Fascism, were much admired for inventing a “Third Way” between Capitalism and Socialism.” Then they wrecked the country by jumping on the NAZI bandwagon. England, after fighting Socialist governments throughout WWII, turned Socialist after the war. Beguiled by their intellectuals into an economic death spiral. We have intellectuals, too. They’re in charge of indoctrination and propaganda.
Well, even if your worst scenario occurs, Gress, who — of the above candidates — do you think would be our new masters? And why?
Can’t know, of course, but running a thought experiment for at least one scenario can’t hurt; might jump-start you into trying out your own. Do that, and you might start looking even harder at what various parts of our government are up to, why, and possible outcomes. Here goes:
POSSIBLE END GAME FOR THE WEST.
As noted above, the Collectivists of all stripes are on a tear, all over the globe. Short term, I think they will definitely erode, then ultimately banish Capitalism as we know it, keeping alive the industries that will play ball and support the government tax programs. Because the Collectivists see Jihadis as US victims, and therefore natural allies, they will initially have many Muslim partners, as both private and National actors. The Muslims will play along as long as their numbers are small and their resources weak.
Must be Allah's Will
The gangsters will take control over many aspects of (formerly) American life from the ground up — through the control of cities. The control will not be overt, just as it is not overt in many world cities now. But the politicians who play ball will prosper, and those that don’t will meet with violent reprisal. The terrified average citizen will not know who is in charge, and will be too scared to express public concern. Journalists who report anything that could possibly offend a capo will meet their maker.
The Federal government, meanwhile, will be in a slightly lesser, but nevertheless real partnership with crime elements until the Muslim numbers are large enough to demand whatever they want from the remaining Collectivists. The Muslims will then kill or enslave the Leftists and go to war with the criminals, a war they will eventually win. Game, Set, Match for Allah. (See Jihadi-improved map of Europe, at right.)
CAVEAT:
This scenario is only the battle for Western Civilization. Once won, there will be a standoff between the Muslims and the Chinese. War will eventuate, and Asians will probably emerge triumphant due to their greater numbers and education levels. After the fall of the West, India will probably have no choice but to either join, or be conquered by, China. Russia has the potential for evolving into a nuclear-armed crime syndicate.
CONCLUSION:
Teach your kids Chinese; leave the Western Hemisphere. We’ve already blown it (but don’t hurry — this stuff all takes time).
Apotheosis
