With the first election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, the country demonstrated how gullible, violent and vicious, unpredictable, and dangerously stupid the country is at its core. After Trump and his minions attempted to violently overthrow the 2020 election results and the repercussions for Trump and what passes for Republican leadership proved to be non-existent, national credibility and trust took another huge hit. The 2022 midterm elections were another demonstration of how awful a near-majority of the country are. Regardless of the legitimacy of the 2024 national elections, and the outcomes were very likely fraudulent, the fact that 78 million Americans voted for a convicted felon with close ties to Russia and organized crime and put the American Fascist Party in charge of both houses of Congress and the Extreme Court has marked the country as “unstable” to the world. Those were the latest nails in the national coffin.
Nixon and Reagan started fastening the coffin shut 40-50 years ago. By expanding the Vietnam War without Congressional approval and weaponizing the dumbest half of the population against the institutions, standards, ethics, and laws of the nation, Nixon began the countdown to empire collapse. Even though Nixon paid a small price for his corruption and fascist moves, his minions (the entire Reagan Administration) exacted a price that really started the nation’s decline. In eight chaotic, noisy, distracted years, Reagan trashed the integrity of the nation’s media, flipped the tax system to penalize talent, work, and usefulness as opposed to inheritance and financial gambling, formalized treason as a political tool, created an unsustainable national debt, and convinced the nation’s Marching Morons to repeatedly vote against their own interests. Trump is the logical end result of the kind of self-serving, short-sighted, downright evil “businessman” politics that fascists have promoted since the Roman Empire. History repeatedly demonstrates that always results in the same conclusion.
As Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, described earlier this year at Davos, the world is "in the midst of a rupture, not a transition . . . [and that the] middle powers must act together because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu.” That our once-closest friend and neighbor is now warning the world that the United States is as unpredictable, unstable, and dangerous as the other major world powers (Russia and China) is as the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace described "uncharacteristically candid both for Davos and a Canadian." The Carnegie Endowment document said that Carney had "laid out, for all to hear, the catastrophic implications of Washington's current policies for global order and signaled that at least one erstwhile ally is prepared not only to hedge against an unpredictable and predatory United States, but, if need be, to balance against it.” For the world, this is not a bad thing. The United States has been an irrational force in the world since the turn of the last century when our government became little more than a military tool of corporations. How our country has been perverted into a front for uniformed armed mobsters was eloquently described in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC, “It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.” And in the next 93 years, nothing has changed except for the worse. The best estimates are that the United States has successfully overthrown somewhere between 14 to 26 foreign governments (estimates, because our government’s actions are far from transparent). Despicably, 6 to 10 of those covert, military international interventions were against a democratically elected government. And not a one of those intrusions was, as General Butler said, for the “two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.” It’s time that the rest of the civilized world (the one we’ve abandoned) treats the United States as a threat, not a dependable ally.
As Trump, Musk, and Theil’s minions wandered through the ranks of the federal government, purging “disloyal” (i.e. “competent”) federal employees from every institution from the Department of Education to the CDC to the military, the country has been dumbed-down to the lowest common denominator in one painful, ignorance-filled, destructive year. I doubt that anyone thought the country’s intellectual capacity was that fragile, but here we are. In February of 2025, when Musk’s DOGE idiots were plowing through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, one of the recently purged scientists described the damage done as a national intellectual “extinction event.” That kind of destruction has been perpetrated across the federal government and the only thing Musk and Trump proved is that even total fools can break practically everything. At the other end of that demonstration, they proved that total fools aren’t even capable of painting a shallow concrete pool.
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