Oct 6, 2021
America’s Leaders Pose A Greater Threat to America Than China
Really, people — especially you, Democrats —the China obsession has gone way too damn far given the internal chaos in America right now.
Here’s a quote from Amy Klobuchar, a Senator I usually like but as a good Democrat is actively pushing the approved partisan nonsense of the day:
“Senate Democrats stand united on the debt. We’re not going to give China a leg up internationally by not standing up for the full faith and credit of the United States. We also talked about the Build Back Better Agenda.”
WTF, people. WTF.
This is the issue to worry about if you have to pick one, not China:
We’re looking at a situation where the country is only 55–45 in favor of hanging together. That’s not too far off from the result of the last Scottish Referendum vote on Scottish Independence, which took place before Brexit.
As fundamentally broken as the United States is right now, why do politicians think China bashing helps anything or anyone but arms industry lobbyists? The mere fact that they use the mythical China threat to justify everything they do is another sign that the United States federal government is a threat to itself, regular Americans, and people around the world.
Watching the Democrats embrace rank McCarthyism and Red baiting is both silly and sad. The Boomer elites who run the party and their pet journalists are so obsessed with looking tough they are literally undermining the security of America and its allies. They’re acting like the very people they spent most of their lives telling the younger generations were dangerous bigots.
Republicans are obviously so much worse, but at least they don’t deny being anti-Asian racists intent on resurrecting the worst of the old “Yellow Peril” bigotry that led to Americans of Japanese descent being herded into concentration camps and deprived of their legal property. This happened under FDR, the guy Biden would like to be remembered alongside, so I guess it’s kind of appropriate.
Behind closed doors the average white liberal is as racist as any Trump thug, they just know how to cover it up better. It only takes a little bit of questioning to reveal the truth, even if it’s wrapped in the language of objective science.
When Democrats pull this old racist trope out too, that’s the point I stop giving a damn about what happens to this country’s political system in the future. If both parties are dead set on embracing racist bigotry to justify an expensive, self-destructive conflict narrative to distract Americans from their country’s ongoing collapse…
To hell with them both. Better America kill itself than plunge the world into another global war.
Besides, given America’s inability to come to grips with its own sordid imperial history in the Pacific, it is almost a given that any conflict with China will end in a bloody American defeat. No amount of chest-thumping about America’s magical stealth jets (that aren’t, in fact, that stealthy at all) or pervasive satellite coverage (which China has too) can change the fact the USA is setting itself up for a colossal failure.
Back in 1941 Great Britain sent two powerful warships, the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, both veterans of the hunt for the German battleship Bismarck, to challenge the Japanese blitz into the French, Dutch, and British colonies in southeast Asia. Together they were considered a powerful force capable of deterring Japanese attacks on Singapore.
Japanese aircraft swarmed and sank them both in the South China Sea. Their forces later assaulted and captured Singapore, then considered an impregnable British fortress. At the same time MacArthur was being kicked out of the Philippines (then still effectively an American colony), leaving a subordinate to surrender to the Japanese.
Just saying — America and Britain both have a nasty history of underestimating their opponents in the early stages of a conflict. A lot of people wind up dying because their leaders tragically misjudged a situation.
Setting international affairs and history aside, the biggest reason American political leaders really ought to just shut up about China is that evidence is fast piling up that shows the biggest threat to America isn’t coming from overseas, but from Americans.
A majority of Trump voters in a recent survey done by the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, an extremely well-respected independent group, 52% as well as 41% of Biden voters too agree that Blue and Red should secede. This follows similar polling from Brightlinewatch from June that I’ve written about before.
Trying to amp up a foreign threat is a classic power player technique for avoiding dealing with more difficult and pressing issues. But that is all either party in America can offer Americans now. Hate, fear, and conflict — all to keep the donor money flowing as Americans are told to fear their neighbors.
Worse, according to the survey result above, close to 45 % of both Trump and Biden voters want their President to act like a dictator, defying Congress and the Courts. What is kind of hilarious is that the Center for Politics is using this result to argue that:
“It is in the long-term interest of the country to pursue a series of strategies and tactics that encourage bridge-building and constructive dialogue and re-affirm America’s reputation as the world’s leading representative democracy.”
A lovely sentiment. But impossible — in what society has this ever worked? Peace-making is difficult enough when both sides are tired of fighting. When the majority on both sides appear to want to fight — good luck putting that genie back into its shattered lamp.
None now in a position of power will admit that the United States can only survive through dramatic geographic restructuring. If the federal government isn’t split up, the country will tear itself apart completely — even states could split apart.
On the Left and Right too many now contemplate a country where they win it all. Americans are being told to engage, participate, donate all the way into their collective graves.
But without agreement on what America is and what American means, unity isn’t possible and trying to force it will produce an explosion. No one seems to want to admit that you can’t bridge certain divides, you can only erect fences and establish controls on who gets to cross over and when.
Countries divide when their societies are no longer compatible. America is well beyond that point and has been since the War on Terror began. The pandemic merely accelerated a process long underway.
It’s over, America. Obsessing with China will accomplish nothing, it is just a distraction from the two-party doom loop and the constant predation of the wealthy on the rest of Americans.
Systemic change is the future — it will come one way or another now. A hot or cold conflict with China will only accelerate the death of Fourth America and advance the American divorce.
The choice Americans face is devastatingly simple: restructure the way the federal government works, or watch it linger and fade, wasting more precious resources, harming even more people, then still die anyway. The Constitution is useless to us if each side insists it is the only true defender of the thing.
But as the country marches in lockstep down the road to the nightmare of 2024, the powers-that-be are dead set on giving Americans a foreign nemesis to focus on. It’s all they’ve got — make China the new Imperial Japan and Soviet Union rolled into one, force Americans to pay higher prices for crappier goods thanks to trade wars that don’t re-shore vital industries because labor costs are too high.
And set to get higher as immigration is restricted. Take a look at what’s happening in post-Brexit Britain with skyrocketing prices thanks to a shortage of truckers who used to come over from the EU.
This is the future of the strange new English-speaking alliance being formed that they’re hilariously calling AUKUS. Trillions spent on outmoded technology like gigantic aircraft carriers carrying dismally-performing, less-stealthy-than-promised jets while consumers feel an ever tighter squeeze at home.
The pied pipers leading America down the path to destruction don’t care, because their investments are fully hedged. They have access to the insider information that ensures people like Nancy Pelosi can amass a net worth of over $110 million yet insist she’s a champion of the downtrodden and not be laughed off cable TV.
To hell with all the bigots, I say. Get rid of the unitary federal government and give me a Pacific America that can actually stand up to China and support its democratic allies, not grandstand with aircraft carriers and cheap rhetoric.
America is a land afflicted with chronically bad leaders who are personally responsible for destroying the dreams of millions of people in this country and abroad. There is no hope and no future for Fourth America.
Forget Build Back Better. That only seeks to restore the great wealth-worshiping American scam that brought us here in the first place.
Build something better.
