State Collectivism atheism has again reared its ugly head, call it Communism, Socialism. Social Democracy or co-opted American Democrats. It is all about power being centralized in the core of the government and separating individual Americans into competing groups carrying out politics with GOD always in mind. We must lift up our end. Our job as Christians is in regaining our country.
Christians to fill local school boards, county boards, and state and federal offices. Many states have ballot initiatives, and citizens can directly change a law. Down to the county level in some states. Promote & support candidates. God has blessed us, now it's time to give back.
s snarling and hating one another rather than a United America and stealing our freedom and individual power, our power to associate, protest peacefully, and even how or if we can communicate.
We now live in tyranny with political prisoners, the government pulling opposition politicians out of bed, by jackbooted thugs in the middle of the night, We now have rigged elections, the government coercing social media into stopping free speech the politicization of federal agencies like the DOJ and EPA, etc.
The Lord will always pick up His end of the log. We must lift our end and we haven't been doing that. God gave us the power to take this land and manage it in his name (all land eventually reverts to God) his land to be guided by Christian framework and morality. Not other cultural and religious cultures.
America has grown into the freest, most charitable, and most welcoming country in the history of the world because of that moral framework. That Judeo-Christian structure has the sustainability of 3000 years of civilization.
Our churches must become the framework and structure of that America once more, as it was in the beginning.
Our churches must become the basis of our culture & politics once again. The Constitution forbids the establishment of a state religion. Other than that Christians have free reign and should do so while we have a somewhat conservative court.
Churches are full of patriots and good Christians as a basis for organizations. Carrying out politics with GOD always in mind. We must lift up our end. Our job as Christians is in regaining our country. Christians and their churches need to fill local school boards, county boards, and state and federal offices. Many states have ballot initiatives, and citizens can directly change a law. Down to the county level in some states. Promote & support candidates. God has blessed us, now it's time to give back.
We owe it to GOD for giving us this wonderful motherland and we should keep it in His name it is the only thing that will save our country. Our laws must always be secular our culture must be aggressively Christian. I am a Christian Nationalist and MAGA. God, Family, and Country.
Only GOD will save us and only if we pick up our end of the log.
These people don’t believe that human life is sacred, that objective morality is real, or that conservatives and Christians are people.
Not fully, in the sense that we actually matter, the way abortionists, illegals, violent felons, tech gurus, Yalies and celebrities have lives that matter. We’re like Neanderthals, an obsolete rival species that needs to disappear.
The answer is staring at you. The Communist Party has slipped on the skin of Democrats like the Alien Cockroach in "Men in Black". Tell me," In what way has the Democrat Party not acted like the Communist Party if the Communists took over the Democrat party.
Communist thugs in black breaking, looting, and burning businesses, political intimidation, media propaganda, rigged elections, censorship, fake show trials of politicians, teaching CRT communist propaganda, and political prisoners. What's the difference?
There is no difference, I doubt if we have another section, Biden could declare a medical or environmental emergency and change the rules like last time or postpone it altogether.
The Communist Party has infiltrated the Democrats.
We begin with showing the Democratic Party as not being the party for the people, but rather being a party of the Masters of the voters that are kept in place to vote Democratic so they can continue to obtain their free stuff. Just how did the Democrats come from being 100% supporters of slavery to modern day ideology to keep their people voting so they keep their benefits, welfare, food stamps and so on? We have to go back to 1932, when Democrats elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who built his “New Deal” with the coalition of liberals and Southern (DEMOCRAT) segregationists.
In The “Solid South,” Democrats For Generations Grew Up In One-Party States Whose Voters Would “Rather Vote For A Yellow Dog” Than Any Candidate Of The Party Of Lincoln.
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Check it out: the Democrats supported the segregation of the races and did so in a “shadowy” way. In 1944, the Socialist Party realized that the people of the United States would never openly accept Socialism/Communism, but they understood this and changed the Socialist Party to merge into the Democratic Party under the shadow of “Liberalism.”
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Norman Thomas, The Six-Time Socialist Party Candidate For U.S. President, Said The Following In A 1944 Speech:
“The American People Will Never Knowingly Adopt Socialism. But, Under The Name Of ‘Liberalism,’ They Will Adopt Every Fragment Of The Socialist Program, Until One Day America Will Be A Socialist Nation, Without Knowing How It Happened…. I No Longer Need To Run As A Presidential Candidate For The Socialist Party. The Democratic Party Has Adopted Our Platform.”
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The Democratic Party adopted the Socialist Party ideologies and continue that today. The Democratic Party does not have the people’s hopes and dreams in their visions; they would much rather have all the “people” to be their slaves and they the masters of them by forcing Government control onto them, as they began with the Obamacare act. These are facts, but it becomes even crazier when we look into what happened to the Democratic Party in the 1960’s. It was then that the Socialists and Communists knew they could convert the Democratic Party into a Party they could control using the single word, “Liberal.”
The 1960s Were The Heyday Of The Radical, Anti-American Movement Known As The New Left. (For A Detailed Discussion Of The New Left And Its Worldview And Activities,Click Here.) By The Early 1970s, However, The New Left Had Spent Its Political Capital And Was A Dying Movement. But Its Adherents Remained Committed To The Cause, Altering Their Tactics So As To Work Within The Political And Social System In A Manner The New Left Had Previously Chosen Not To Do. These Latter-Day Leftists Incorporated The Tactics Of Saul Alinsky, Seeking To Change Society By First Infiltrating Its Major Institutions – The Schools, The Media, The Churches, The Entertainment Industry, The Labor Unions, And The Three Branches Of Government – And Then Implementing Policies From Those Positions Of Power.
Most Notably, The Ex-New Leftists Found A Home In The Democratic Party. By 1972, They Had Seized Control Of The Party, As Evidenced By The Nomination Of George McGovern As The Democratic Presidential Candidate On An Antiwar Platform That Cast America’s Military Involvement In Southeast Asia As An Immoral, Imperialistic Venture. Though McGovern Lost 49 Of The 50 States In The 1972 Election, He And The Anti-War Radicals Who Flocked To His Campaign Moved The Democratic Party Dramatically To The Left. By Way Of Its Political Ascendancy Within The Democratic Party, The New Left, In A Political Sense, Effectively Killed Off The Classical Centrist Liberals Who Had Vigorously Opposed Communist Totalitarianism. After Accomplishing This Parricide, The New Left Occupied The Corpse Of Authentic Liberalism (I.E., The Democratic Party) And Appropriated The Name, “Liberalism.”
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Here, we see the name of Saul Alinsky coming into the work of the Socialist/Communist to help “Change” the Democratic Party into a party that by all standards was now working for the ideologies of both the Socialists and Communists of the times. It was very easy to lead the people supporting the Democrats, even in the last election of 2016; Hillary Clinton stated that Democrats were easy to lead because they were stupid. But today, we clearly see the word Liberal displayed with any Democratic idea. That by itself should wake some people up, but they fail to see the intricate connection of Liberalism and the ideologies of both Socialists and Communists. The proof that the Democrats use their name as a front to the hidden Socialistic/Communistic ideologies is clearly shown by statements made in April of 2010.
In April 2010, The Official Website Of The Social Democrats USA (SDUSA) Revealed That Organization’s Ties To The Democratic Party. Describing Itself As A “Party Within A Party,” SDUSA Stated The Following:
“The Social Democrats, USA Kept The Name Socialist Party For Our Political Arm Because We Are The Party Of Eugene Debs, Mother Jones, Helen Keller, Carl Sandburg, Norman Thomas, A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, And Thousands Of People Who Worked To Build The Civil Rights And Trade Union Movements In This Country. Many Good Folks Gave Their Lives In These Movements.
“The Socialist Party, USA, In 1956, Chose To Stop Running Candidates Of Its Own, Except On Rare Occasion. During The 1960’S, We Began To Work In The Democratic Party. This Is Where Our Allies In The Civil Rights And Trade Union Movement Worked And Continue To Work Politically. We Are Proud Of What We Helped Accomplish Within The Democratic Party, Particularly The Civil Rights Legislation And Anti-Poverty Programs Of The 1960’S. The Struggle Continues….
“Our Movement Has Been Involved In The Left Wing Of The Democratic Party Since 1947. Socialist Party Members Helped Found Americans For Democratic Action. ADA Is This Country’s Premiere “Anti-Communist, Liberal” Organization. We Are Proud Of Our Long Relationships With Eleanor Roosevelt, Hubert Humphrey, And Others. We Look Forward To Forging A Good Working Relationship With Our Fellow Pro-Labor, Anti-Totalitarian, Left Democrats.”
Late In 2010, Communist Party USA Member C.J. Atkins Called For His Comrades To Drop Their “Communist” Label, So That They Could Work More Effectively Inside The Democratic Party. Soon Thereafter, Joe Sims, Co-Editor Of The CPUSA Publication Peoples World, Acknowledged Not Only That Collaboration With The Democrats “Will Be An Area Of Engagement For Those Wanting To Make A Difference,” But Also That Communists Might Someday Be Able To “Capture” The Democratic Party Entirely. Sims Warned, However, Against Dissolving The CPUSA Entirely Into The Democratic Party. Rather, He Advised His Organization To Remain A Separate Entity, Working Both Inside And Outside The Democratic Party As Circumstances Required.
In January 2015, Communist Party USA National Committee Chairman John Bachtell Published An Essay In People’s World Stating That American Communists Were Eager To Work With The Democratic Party In Order To Advance Their Goals. For Details, Click Here.
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Again, with all this documented information, Democrats will deny what they really know to be shown here. Many Democrats will never freely admit they were or currently are members of either the Socialist Democratic Party or of the Communist party. Think of what was just stated: ONLY the Socialists and Communists could infiltrate the Democrats, mainly because the Unions are based upon the Socialist ideology and the Civil Rights movements. Why is this? Mainly due to the facts that Democrats since 1856 have held the idea that they should “Control” the people, not allowing them to “Control” their own ideas or their government. That of itself is directly against the very Constitution that Democrats took an oath of office to, uphold, defend, and protect.
We hear of what many in the Democratic Party call the “New Left,” an idea based upon not just Socialism, but linked to Communism, as well. This “New Left” ideology of the Democratic Party places it directly inline of what Nikita Khrushchev had stated.
In February 1956, Nearly Three Years After The Death Of Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin, His Successor Nikita Khrushchev Delivered His Historic “Secret Speech” To A Closed Session Of The 20th Party Congress Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union. In That Address, Khrushchev Denounced Stalin For The Cult Of Personality He Had Cultivated, And Condemned Stalin’s Regime For Its Gross “Violation Of Leninist Norms Of Legality.” In The Aftermath Of Khrushchev’s Revelations About Stalin’s Abuses, Most Of The World’s Communist Parties Abandoned Stalinism And, To Varying Degrees, Adopted The Moderately Reformist Positions Of The New Soviet First Secretary. The American Far Left Likewise Sought To Distance Itself From Stalin, Rebranding Itself As The So-Called “New Left,” A Counter-Cultural Movement That Would Hold Fast To The Overriding Ideals Of Marxism-Leninsim While Formally Abjuring The Horrific Crimes Of Stalinism. But Before Long, This New Left Would Romanticize The Neo-Stalinists Of The Third World, Embracing A Whole New Set Of Totalitarian Heroes Such As Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, And Daniel Ortega.
The Core Of The Early New Left Was Formed By The Students For A Democratic Society(SDS), A Radical Organization That Aspired To Overthrow America’s Democratic Institutions, Remake Its Government In A Marxist Image, And Help America’s Enemies Emerge Victorious On The Battlefield In Vietnam. Many Key SDS Members Were “Red-Diaper Babies,” Children Of Parents Who Had Been Communist Party Members Or Communist Activists In The 1930s.
Established In Late 1959, SDS Held Its First Meeting In Ann Arbor, Michigan In 1960. Its First President Was Alan Haber, And Its First Impress On The Political Landscape Was The Port Huron Statement Of 1962, Drafted Principally By Tom Hayden, A Former Editor Of The University Of Michigan’s Student Newspaper. The Port Huron Statement Adopted The Position Of “Anti-Anti-Communism,” Refusing To Support The West In The Cold War. The Statement Identified And Denounced America’s Many Sins: Racism, Abundance, Materialism, Industrialization, And Militarism. Its Prescribed Solution To Cold War Tensions Between The U.S. And The Soviet Union Was To Entirely Dismantle America’s “Permanent War Economy”: “Universal Controlled Disarmament Must Replace Deterrence And Arms Control As The [American] National Defense Goal.
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With all this going on inside the Democratic Party, why would anyone wish to support them as they wish to control every thing one does and they wish to make slaves out of every Democrat to keep them voting for the very people that keep them both poor and uneducated. It is time to have the Democratic Party displayed for what it really is, a modern day party filled with Socialists and Communists that do not wish good for the United States. It is time to either send them packing or make them remove all factions of the Socialists and Communists now working within their party. That will not happen, as they love to control people and keep them ignorant and poor to keep their votes coming into the Democratic Party.
Ballot Bombshells: 20 episodes exposing fraud, illegalities, and irregularities in 2020 election
A Foreign Intrusion. Federal authorities have confirmed that two Iranian nationals successfully hacked into a state computer election system, stole 100,000 voter registrations and used the data to carry out a cyber-intimidation campaign that targeted GOP members of Congress, Trump campaign officials and Democratic voters in the November 2020 election in one of the largest foreign intrusions in U.S. election history. The defendants "were part of a coordinated conspiracy in which Iranian hackers sought to undermine faith and confidence in the U.S. presidential election," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams declared in an indictment.
Alleged Bribery. The former state Supreme Court justice appointed by the Wisconsin Legislature to investigate the 2020 election concluded that millions of dollars in donations to election administrators in five Democrat-heavy municipalities from the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life violated state anti-bribery laws and corrupted election practices by turning public election authorities into liberal get-out-the-vote activists. “The Zuckerberg-funded CTCL/ Zuckerberg 5 scheme would prove to be an effective way to accomplish the partisan effort to 'turnout' their desired voters and it was done with the active support of the very people and the governmental institution (WEC) that were supposed to be guarding the Wisconsin elections administrative process from the partisan activities they facilitated,” Justice Michael Gableman wrote.
Illegal ballot harvesting in Wisconsin. Gableman also exposed an extensive vote collection operation, known as ballot harvesting, in nursing homes in which third-party activists illegally collected the ballots of vulnerable residents, some of whom lacked the mental or physical capacity to vote or were forbidden from voting by guardianship agreements. State election regulators “unlawfully directed the municipal clerks not to send out the legally required special voting deputies to nursing homes, resulting in many nursing homes’ registered residents voting at 100% rates and many ineligible residents voting, despite a guardianship order or incapacity,” Gableman wrote in his explosive report.
Ballot harvesting probe in the Peach State. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has announced he has opened a criminal investigation into allegations that liberal activists engaged in illegal ballot harvesting, collecting ballots from voters and delivering them in violation of state law. Raffensperger said he is planning to issue subpoenas to identify a whistleblower who admitted he engaged in the operation, and there could be prosecutions. The True the Vote election integrity group says in a formal state complaint that the man, identified as John Doe, admitted his role and identified nonprofits who funded it at $10 per ballot delivered. The watchdog group also claims it has assembled cell phone location records pinpointing the alleged harvesting by as many as 240 activists.
Bad voter signatures? A review of Maricopa County's mail-in ballots in Arizona's 2020 presidential election estimated that more than 200,000 ballots with signatures that did not match voter files were counted without being reviewed, more than eight times the number the county acknowledged.
50,000 Arizona ballots called into question. An extensive audit by Arizona’s Senate officially called into question more than 50,000 ballots cast in the 2020 election, including voters who cast ballots from residences they had left. The tally in question is nearly five times the margin of Joe Biden’s victory in the state.
Foreign voters found on Texas rolls. An audit of Texas voter rolls identified nearly 12,000 noncitizens suspected of illegally registering to vote and nearly 600 cases in which ballots may have been cast in the name of a dead resident or by a voter who may also have voted in another state. Officials are now in the process of removing the foreign voters and deciding whether prosecutions are warranted.
Foreign voters found on Georgia rolls. An audit by Georgia’s Secretary of State has identified more than 2,000 suspected foreigners who tried to register to vote in the state, though none reached the point of casting ballots. Raffensperger says prosecutions may be forthcoming.
Unconstitutional mail-in voting. The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court has concluded the state law that opened the door to no-excuse mail-in voting in 2020 was unconstitutional and that mail-in voting can only be enacted by a constitutional amendment. “A constitutional amendment must be presented to the people and adopted into our fundamental law before legislation authorizing no-excuse mail-in voting can be placed upon our statute books,” the court ruled. About 2.5 million voted by mail in Pennsylvania in 2020, votes now called into question by the ruling.
More noncitizen voters. The Gableman investigation in Wisconsin also found noncitizens had made it onto the state voters rolls in violation of state law. The Wisconsin Election Commission failed “to record non-citizens in the WisVote voter database, thereby permitting non-citizens to vote, even though Wisconsin law requires citizenship to vote — all in violation of the Help America Vote Act,” the investigator wrote.
Ballot chain of custody issues. The Georgia Secretary of State's office has opened an investigation into the handling of drop box ballots last November in one of the state's Democratic strongholds following a media report that there were problems with chain of custody documentation in DeKalb County.
Fulton County irregularities. Georgia’s handpicked election monitor for Fulton County, the state’s largest voting district, documented two dozen pages of mismanagement and irregularities during vote counting in Atlanta in November 2020, including double-scanning of ballots, insecure transport of ballots and violations of voter privacy. The revelations prompted the state to take steps to possibly put Fulton County in receivership, empowering state officials to run the elections. Most of Fulton County's election officials have left their jobs.
Errant vote counting. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp referred the audited November 2020 election results in Fulton County to the State Election Board after multiple reviews found three dozen significant problems with absentee ballot counting, including duplicate tallies, math errors and transposed data. Kemp’s referral calls into question hundreds of ballots in the official count.
Dirty voter rolls. Michigan’s official state auditor has found that Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson failed to adhere to state election law by properly updating and reconciling Michigan’s qualified voter roll. This oversight, according to the audit, increased the risk of ineligible voters casting ballots.
Illegal exemptions from voter ID. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled as many as 200,000 voters were allowed to illegally skip voter ID for absentee ballots by claiming they were indefinitely confined by COVID when there was no such legal authority to do so. Biden beat Trump by about 20,000 votes in the state.
Uneven enforcement of election laws. The Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau identified more than 30 problems with the administration of elections in 2020, including unlawful orders and uneven enforcement of the law and urged lawmakers to make sweeping improvements.
Voter fraud in Michigan. Michigan charged three women in connection with voter fraud schemes, including efforts to cast ballots on behalf of non-consenting nursing home residents.
Still more nursing home fraud. In Wisconsin, Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling announced his investigators have secured evidence that eight out of 42 residents at a local nursing home had been recorded as casting absentee ballots that their families said was not possible because the residents didn't possess the cognitive ability to vote.
Illegal rule changes, ballot harvesting, Iranian voter hack are among the many now-confirmed serious irregularities, putting the lie to the "perfect election" narrative.
Here are 20 of the most important revelations uncovered by Just the News over the last 15 months of reporting, complete with substantiating evidence and links"
Here is a required reading list for anyone interested in the above issues:
The Gableman Report
Iranian Hackers Indictment
Pennsylvania court ruling striking down mail-in voter law
Georgia state memo on irregularities in Fulton County vote counting
Biden / Democrats will try to make you forget their agenda ...
Defund the Cops War on Big Oil/High gas prices Opening up the border Authoritarian mask.mandate Authoritarian vaccine.mandate Inflation breeding spending Critical Race Theory Boys in girls bathrooms Boys breaking girl's sports records
The US is a de facto one-party state where the ideology of national security is sacrosanct, unsustainable debt props up the empire, and the primary business is war.
“Let’s Make a Deal,” an original work by Mr. Fish.
By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost
When all else fails, when you are clueless about how to halt a 7.5% inflation rate, when your Build Back Better bill is gutted, when you renege on your promise to raise the minimum wage or forgive student debt, when you can’t halt the Republican suppression of voting rights, when you have no idea how to handle the pandemic which has claimed 900,000 lives – 16% of the world’s total deaths although we are less than 5% of the world’s population – when the stock market fluctuates on wild rollercoaster rides of highs and lows, when what little help the government offered to the labor force — half of whom, 80 million, experienced a period of unemployment last year — sees the termination of the extended unemployment benefits, rental assistance, forbearance for student loans, emergency checks, the moratorium on evictions and expansion of the child tax credits, when you watch passively as the ecocide gathers momentum, then you must make the public afraid of enemies, foreign and domestic. You must manufacture an existential threat. Terrorists at home. Russians and Chinese abroad. Expand state power in the name of national security. Beat the drums of war. War is the antidote to divert public attention from government corruption and incompetence. No one plays the game better than the Democratic Party. The Democrats, as journalist and co-founder of Black Agenda Report Glen Ford, said, are not the lesser evil. They are the more effective evil.
The US, burdened by de facto tax boycotts by the rich and corporations, is sinking in debt, the highest in our history. The US government budget deficit was $2.77 trillion for the 2021 budget year that ended September 30, the second highest annual deficit on record. It was exceeded only by the $3.13 trillion deficit for 2020. Total US national total debt is over $30 trillion. Household debt grew by $1 trillion last year. The total debt balance in our government Ponzi scheme is now $1.4 trillion higher than it was at the end of 2019. Our wars are waged on borrowed money. The Watson Institute at Brown University estimates that interest payments on the military debt could be over $6.5 trillion by the 2050s. None of this debt is sustainable.
At the same time, the US is facing the ascendency of China, whose economy is projected to overtake the US economy by the end of the decade. Washington’s slew of desperate financial tricks – flooding the global market with new dollars and lowering interest rates to near-zero – staved off major depressions after the 2000 dot.com crash, 9/11, and the 2008 global financial meltdown. The cheap interest rates led corporations and banks to borrow massively from the Federal Reserve, often to paper over shortfalls and bad investments. The result is that US businesses are deeper in debt than at any time in US history. Added to this morass is rising inflation, caused by businesses that have increased prices in a desperate effort to make up for lost revenue from supply chain shortages and rising shipping costs, the economic downturn, and the slight wage increases triggered by the pandemic. This inflation has forced the Fed to curtail the growth of the money supply and raise interest rates, which then pushes corporations to further raise prices. The desperate measures to stave off an economic crisis are self-defeating. The bag of tricks is empty. Massive defaults on mortgages, student loans, credit cards, household debt, car debt, and other loans in the United States is probably inevitable. With no short-term mechanisms left to paper over the disaster, it will usher in a prolonged depression.
An economic crisis means a political crisis. And a political crisis is traditionally solved by war against enemies inside and outside the nation. The Democrats are as guilty of this as the Republicans. Wars can get started by Democrats, such as Harry S. Truman in Korea or John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson in Vietnam, and perpetuated by Republicans. Or they can get started by Republicans, such as George W. Bush, and perpetuated by Democrats such as Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Bill Clinton, without declaring war, imposed punishing sanctions on Iraq and authorized the Navy and the Air Force to carry out tens of thousands of sorties against the country, dropping thousands of bombs and launching hundreds of missiles. With its $768 billion military budget, the war industry, along with the expansion of Homeland Security, the FBI, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the National Security Agency, is a bipartisan project. The handful of national political leaders, such as Henry Wallace in 1948 and George McGovern in 1972, who dared to challenge the war machine, were ruthlessly hounded into political oblivion by the leaders of both parties.
Biden’s bellicose rhetoric towards China and especially Russia, more strident than that of the Trump administration, has been accompanied by the formation of new security alliances such as those with India, Japan, Australia, and Great Britain in the Indo-Pacific. US aggression has, ironically, pushed China and Russia into a forced marriage, something the architects of the Cold War, including Nixon and Kissinger with their opening to China in 1971, worked very hard to avoid. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, after meeting recently in Beijing, issued a 5,300-word statement that condemned NATO expansion in eastern Europe, denounced the formation of security blocs in the Asia Pacific region, and criticized the AUKUS trilateral security pact between the US, Great Britain, and Australia. They also vowed to thwart “color revolutions” and strengthen “back-to-back” strategic coordination.
Warmongering by the Democrats always comes wrapped in the mantle of democracy, freedom, and human rights, making Democrats the more effective salespeople for war. Democrats eagerly lined up behind George W. Bush during the calls to invade Afghanistan and Iraq in the name of “humanitarian intervention” and “liberating” the women of Afghanistan, who would spend the next two decades living in terror, burying family members, at times their children. Even when Democrats, including Barack Obama, criticized the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq while running for office, they steadfastly voted to fund the wars to “support our troops” once elected. Now, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), says “an assault on Ukraine is an assault on democracy,” the same argument Democrats clung to a half-century ago while launching and expanding the disastrous war in Vietnam.
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), the chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, is currently crafting legislation he proudly calls “the mother of all sanctions bill.” The bill led in the House by Gregory Meeks of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, also a Democrat, demands that the administration “not cede to the demands of the Russian Federation regarding NATO membership or expansion.” NATO expansion to Ukraine along Russia’s borders is the central issue for Moscow. Removing this for discussion obliterates a diplomatic solution to the crisis. Sanctions under the legislation can be imposed for any act, no matter how minor, deemed by Ukraine to be hostile. The sanctions cannot be lifted until an agreement is reached between the government of Ukraine and Russia, meaning Ukraine would be granted the authority to determine when the US sanctions will end. The proposed sanctions, which target Russian banks, the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline, state-owned enterprises, and leading members of the government and military, including President Vladimir Putin, also calls for blocking Russia from SWIFT, the international financial transaction system that uses the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
“The legislation would grant at least $500 million in foreign military assistance to Ukraine, in addition to the $200 million in new assistance sent over the last month,” writes Marcus Stanley. “This makes Ukraine the third leading recipient of US military assistance globally, after Israel and Egypt. While it wouldn’t come close to giving Ukraine the ability to combat Russia on its own, it may come with US military advisors that would increase the danger the US would be drawn into a conflict. The bill also takes steps to directly involve countries bordering Russia in negotiations to end the crisis, which would make it much more difficult to reach an agreement.”
While cutting Russia off from SWIFT will be catastrophic, at least in the short term, for the Russian economy, pushing Russia into the arms of China to create an alternative global financial system that no longer relies on the US dollar will cripple the American empire. Once the dollar is no longer the world’s reserve currency, the dollar will precipitously drop in value, perhaps as much as by two-thirds, as the pound sterling did when the British currency was abandoned as the world’s reserve currency in the 1950s. Treasury bonds used to finance America’s military-based balance-of-payments deficit, and the ballooning government budget deficit will no longer be attractive investments for countries such as China. The nearly 800 US military outposts abroad, sustained by debt – the Chinese have lent an estimated $1 trillion to the US on which they collect hefty interest – will dramatically shrink in number. Meanwhile, the massive US interest payments, at least in part, will continue to fund the Chinese military.
The US domination of the world economy, after 75 years, is over. It is not coming back. We manufacture little, short of weapons. Our economy is a mirage build on unsustainable levels of debt. The pillage orchestrated by the capitalist elites and corporations has hollowed the country out from the inside, leaving the infrastructure decayed, democratic institutions moribund, and at least half the population struggling at subsistence level. The two ruling parties, puppets for the ruling oligarchs, refuse to curb the rapacious appetites of the war industry and the rich, accelerating the crisis. That the rage of the dispossessed is legitimate, even if it is expressed in inappropriate ways, is never acknowledged by the Democrats. Who were instrumental in pushing through: the trade deals, deindustrialization, tax loopholes for the rich, deficit spending, endless wars, and austerity programs that have created a crisis. Instead of shooting the messenger, the Biden administration is targeting Trump supporters and winning draconian sentences for those who stormed the capital on January 6. Biden’s Justice Department has formed a domestic terrorism unit to focus on extremists, and Democrats have been behind a series of moves to de-platform and censor their right-wing critics.
The belief that the Democratic Party offers an alternative to militarism is, as Samuel Johnson said, the triumph of hope over experience. The disputes with Republicans are largely political theater, often centered around the absurd or the trivial. On the substantive issues, there is no difference within the ruling class. The Democrats, like the Republicans, embrace the fantasy that, even as the country stands on the brink of insolvency, a war industry that has orchestrated debacle after debacle, from Vietnam to Afghanistan and Iraq, is going to restore lost American global hegemony. Empires, as Reinhold Niebuhr observed, eventually “destroy themselves in the effort to prove that they are indestructible.” The self-delusion of military invincibility is the scourge that brought down the American empire, as it brought down past empires.
We live in a one-party state. The ideology of national security is sacrosanct. The cult of secrecy, justified in the name of protecting us from our enemies, is a smokescreen to hide from the public the inner workings of power and manipulate public perceptions. The Democratic courtiers and advisers that surround any Democratic presidential candidate – the retired generals and diplomats, the former national security advisers, the Wall Street economists, the lobbyists, and the apparatchiks from past administrations – do not want to curb the power of the imperial presidency. They do not want to restore the system of checks and balances. They do not want to challenge the military or the national security state. They are the system. They want to move back into the White House to wield its awful force. And now, with Joe Biden, that is where they are.
Chris HedgesChris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America.
