Can Biden Turn a Failing Fascist Empire into a Functioning Modern Society?
Americans Still Don’t Really Understand Why America Collapsed. Here are the Stakes for Biden’s Presidency.
OK, party’s over. Joe Biden is officially the President. And it’s time to talk about what his challenge is. The Big One, if you will.
Let me put it as simply and bluntly as possible. Joe Biden’s challenge is transforming America. From a failing fascist empire. To a functioning modern society.
Let me begin with the first part. America’s a fascist empire. Americans won’t like to hear that — especially white Americans, even the liberal ones— but it’s a fact. Most of the rest of the world hates Americans for a very simple and very good reason. America turned their countries fascist. If you think I’m kidding, consider any of the following examples. The CIA installing Pinochet in Chile. The CIA creating the Taliban and Saddam both. America trading guns for drugs with Latin America’s hard right wing extremists.
Around the world, America built a fascist empire. I’m not kidding about that. It helped set up death squads in Chile. It helped create the monstrous Taliban that bombs schools and parliaments. It helped put monsters like Saddam — who tortured and maimed with impunity — into power.
That is why Trumpism was inevitable. All this hatred, all this bloodshed — it was always going to come home. America developed an elite class of technocrats who were really only good at one thing: administering the fascist empire. As ruthlessly and efficiently as possible. Hey, Steve, should we bomb some poor villagers today? Or should we keep that “war on drugs” going by invading yet another desperate country? Gee, Bob, I don’t know. Let’s do both — and let’s fund a coup in an even poorer country while we’re at it!
The only thing — let me repeat — the only thing that America’s elites got any good at was administering America’s global fascist empire. America’s institutions, values, and norms grew to reflect its fascist empire. It developed norms of insane cruelty, legendary the world over. Who let their kids be shot at schools? Why, Americans — the same way, maybe, Spartans threw weak kids into the sea. Who voted down…
