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The United States of Empire
Less Traveled Road ^ | 8/1/18 | Jon Chaley

Posted on 10/25/2018 10:35:21 AM PDT by LibWhacker

We’re getting close to the end now. Can you feel it? I do. It’s in the news, on the streets, and in your face every day. You can’t tune it out anymore, even if you wanted to.

Where once there was civil debate in the court of public opinion, we now have censorship, monopoly, screaming, insults, demonization, and, finally, the use of force to silence the opposition. There is no turning back now. The political extremes are going to war, and you will be dragged into it even if you consider yourself apolitical.

There are great pivot points in history, and we’ve arrived at one. The United States, ruptured by a thousand grievance groups, torn by shadowy agencies drunk on a gross excess of power, robbed blind by oligarchs and their treasonous henchmen and decimated by frivolous wars of choice, has finally come to a point where the end begins in earnest. The center isn’t holding… indeed, finding a center is no longer even conceivable. We are the schizophrenic nation, bound by no societal norms, constrained by no religion, with no shared sense of history, myth, language, art, philosophy, music, or culture, rushing toward an uncertain future fueled by nothing more than easy money, hubris, and sheer momentum.

There comes a time when hard choices must be made…when it is no longer possible to remain aloof or amused, because the barbarians have arrived at the gate. Indeed, they are here now, and they often look a whole lot like deracinated, conflicted, yet bellicose fellow Americans, certain of only one thing, and that is that they possess “rights”, even though they could scarcely form an intelligible sentence explaining exactly what those rights secure or how they came into being. But that isn’t necessary, from their point of view, you see. All they need is a “voice” and membership in an approved victim class to enrich themselves at someone else’s expense. If you are thinking to yourself right now that this does not describe you, then guess what? The joke’s on you, and you are going to be expected to pay the bill…that “someone else” is you.

In reality, though, who can blame the minions, when the elites have their hand in the till as well? In fact, they are even more hostile to reasoned discourse than Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, or Antifa. Witness the complete meltdown of the privileged classes when President Trump mildly suggested that perhaps our “intelligence community” isn’t to be trusted, which is after all a fairly sober assessment when one considers the track record of the CIA, FBI, NSA, BATF, and the other assorted Stasi agencies. Burning cop cars or bum-rushing the odd Trump supporter seems kind of tame in comparison to the weeping and gnashing of teeth when that hoary old MIC “intelligence” vampire was dragged screaming into the light. Yet Trump did not drive a stake into its heart, nor at this point likely can anyone…and that is exactly the point. We are now Thelma and Louise writ large. We are on cruise control, happily speeding towards the cliff, and few seem to notice that our not so distant future involves bankruptcy, totalitarianism, and/or nuclear annihilation. Even though most of us couldn’t identify the band, we nonetheless surely live the lyrics of the Grass Roots: “Live for today, and don’t worry about tomorrow.”

The “Defense” Department, “Homeland” Security, big pharma, big oil, big education, civil rights groups, blacks, Indians, Jews, the Deep State, government workers, labor unions, Neocons, Populists, fundamentalist Christians, atheists, pro life and pro death advocates, environmentalists, lawyers, homosexuals, women, Millenials, Baby Boomers, blue collar/white collar, illegal aliens…the list goes on and on, but the point is that the conflicting agendas of these disparate groups have been irreconcilable for some time. The difference today is that we are de facto at war with each other, and whether it is a war of words or of actual combat doesn’t matter at the moment. What matters is that we no longer communicate, and when that happens it is easy to demonize the other side. Violence is never far behind ignorance.

I am writing this from the bar at the Intercontinental Hotel in Vienna, Austria. I have seen with my own eyes the inundation of Europe with an influx of hostile aliens bent on the destruction of Old Christendom, yet I have some hope for the eastern European countries because they have finally recognized the threat and are working to neutralize it. Foreign malcontents can never be successfully integrated into a civilized society because they don’t even intend to try; they intend to conquer their host instead. Yet even though our own discontents are domestic for the most part, we have a much harder row to hoe than Old Europe because our own “invaders” are well entrenched and have been for decades, all the way up to the highest levels of government. That there are signs Austria is finally waking up is a good thing, but it serves to illustrate the folly of expecting the hostile cultures within our own country to get along with each other without rupturing the republic. Indeed, that republic died long ago, and it has been replaced by a metastasizing mass of amorphous humanity called the American Empire, and it is at war with itself and consuming itself from within.

Long ago, we once knew that as American citizens each of us had a great responsibility. We were expected to work hard, play fair, do unto others as we would have them do unto us, and serve our country when called upon to do so. Today, we don’t speak of duty, except in so much as a slogan to promote war, but we certainly do speak of benefits for ourselves and our “group” of entitled peeps. We will fail because of our greed and avarice. The United States of Empire has become quite simply too big, too diverse, and too “exceptional” to survive.


TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: america; editorial; future

1 posted on 10/25/2018 10:35:21 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

Only the Lord can tame that beast.


2 posted on 10/25/2018 10:36:59 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: LibWhacker

bookmark


3 posted on 10/25/2018 10:43:12 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Life long friends have broken with me for daring to express support for Trump. People I have loved now consider themselves my enemy. They are ashamed of me and think of me as a violent extremist, read deplorable.
As this midterm election draws nearer liberals are more rabid in their opposition. They have turned against the Constitution, Christianity, family, conservatism, patriotism, and the rest.
They are sending fake bombs to their leaders hoping to divert attention from themselves. They are becoming insane. I pray for their minds.


4 posted on 10/25/2018 10:50:10 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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To: LibWhacker

Let’s win this November election, and focus on getting America back. This writer is a defeatist. Can’t stand whiners.


5 posted on 10/25/2018 10:51:50 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists call 'em what you will they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: LibWhacker
Where once there was civil debate in the court of public opinion, we now have censorship, monopoly, screaming, insults, demonization, and, finally, the use of force to silence the opposition.

Dude apparently does not remember the seventies.

6 posted on 10/25/2018 10:57:17 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Dude apparently does not remember the seventies.

Well Said!

7 posted on 10/25/2018 11:01:23 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Fiddlstix
The democrats strongly remind me of the BTK killer.

They act all respectable and as long as they have the authority to boss people around and can make other people enforce their tyranny they are more or less calm.

The moment they lose that power they become raging psychos.

It is not a new thing. They have been on a rampage since Andy "Ol' Crook" Jackson lost to John Quincy Adams.

8 posted on 10/25/2018 11:10:08 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.)
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To: LibWhacker

Long ago, we once knew that as American citizens each of us had a great responsibility. We were expected to work hard, play fair, do unto others as we would have them do unto us, and serve our country when called upon to do so.

Today, we don’t speak of duty, except in so much as a slogan to promote war, but we certainly do speak of benefits for ourselves and our “group” of entitled peeps. We will fail because of our greed and avarice. The United States of Empire has become quite simply too big, too diverse, and too “exceptional” to survive.
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Let me tell you something-In the early 70s, during an 18th month period, there was 2500 bombings, there were riots all over, and major cities were burning.

A bunch of fouled mouthed screaming harpies is a long way from being the end. In addition, flyover country is a long way from the bleak picture described in this pearl clutching gloom and doom - Red Blooded Americans are alive and well, and articles such as this only serve as PSYOPS to try and demoralize us into giving up to the NWO/globalists.

NEVER NEVER GIVE UP! Consider this: Defeat is a temporary condition-giving up is what makes it permanent.


9 posted on 10/25/2018 12:36:05 PM PDT by greeneyes
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To: LibWhacker

It became an empire on April 9th, 1865.


10 posted on 10/25/2018 12:41:13 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: rockinqsranch

The problem is they will still exist. We need to be either socialist or free. All of one or all of the other. The option is secession, the option which I favor.


11 posted on 10/25/2018 12:43:09 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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