{"id":177635,"date":"2018-10-13T04:39:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T04:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=177635"},"modified":"2018-10-16T06:17:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T06:17:17","slug":"the-us-has-become-too-big-too-diverse-and-too-corrupt-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=177635","title":{"rendered":"The US Has Become Too Big, Too Diverse, and Too Corrupt to Survive"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Freeman — Russia Insider Oct 12, 2018<\/a><\/h1>\n

We\u2019re getting close to the end now. Can you feel it? \u00a0I do. \u00a0It\u2019s in the news, on the streets, and in your face every day. You can\u2019t tune it out anymore, even if you wanted to.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where once there was civil debate in the court of public opinion, we now have\u00a0censorship<\/a>,\u00a0monopoly<\/a>,\u00a0screaming<\/a>,\u00a0insults<\/a>,\u00a0demonization<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, and, finally,\u00a0the use of force<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0to 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"caution<\/a><\/p>\n

There are great pivot points in history, and we\u2019ve arrived at one. The United States, ruptured by a thousand\u00a0grievance groups<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, torn by shadowy agencies drunk on a\u00a0gross excess of power<\/a><\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0robbed blind by oligarchs<\/a>\u00a0and their treasonous henchmen and decimated by\u00a0frivolous wars<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0of choice, has finally come to a point where the end begins in earnest.<\/span><\/p>\n

The center isn\u2019t holding\u2026 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

There comes a time when hard choices must be made\u2026when 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 \u201crights\u201d, even though they could scarcely form an intelligible sentence explaining exactly what those rights secure or how they came into being.<\/span><\/p>\n

But that isn\u2019t necessary, from their point of view, you see. All they need is a \u201cvoice\u201d and membership in an approved victim class to enrich themselves at someone else\u2019s expense. If you are thinking to yourself right now that this does not describe you, then guess what? The joke\u2019s on you, and you are going to be expected to pay the bill\u2026that \u201csomeone else\u201d is you.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Black Lives Matter<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Occupy Wall Street, or\u00a0Antifa<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. Witness the complete meltdown of the privileged classes when President Trump mildly suggested that perhaps our \u201cintelligence community\u201d isn\u2019t to be trusted, which is, after all, a fairly sober assessment when one considers the track record of the\u00a0CIA<\/a><\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0FBI<\/a><\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0NSA<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, BATF, and the other assorted\u00a0Stasi<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0agencies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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 \u201cintelligence\u201d vampire was dragged screaming into the light. Yet Trump did not drive a stake into its heart, nor at this point likely can anyone\u2026and that is exactly the point. We are now\u00a0Thelma and Louise<\/a>\u00a0writ large.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2019t identify the band, we nonetheless surely live the lyrics of the\u00a0Grass Roots<\/a><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cLive for today, and don\u2019t worry about tomorrow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cDefense\u201d Department, \u201cHomeland\u201d 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\u2026the list goes on and on, but the point is that the conflicting agendas of these disparate groups have been irreconcilable for some time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2019t 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am writing this from the bar at the\u00a0Intercontinental Hotel<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0in Vienna, Austria.\u00a0I have seen with my own eyes<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0the 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Foreign malcontents can never be successfully integrated into a civilized society because they don\u2019t even intend to try;\u00a0they intend to conquer<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0their 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 \u201cinvaders\u201d are well entrenched and have been for decades, all the way up to the highest levels of government.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2019t speak of duty, except in so much as a slogan to promote war, but we certainly do speak of benefits for ourselves and our \u201cgroup\u201d of entitled peeps. We will fail because of our greed and avarice.<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States of Empire has become quite simply too big,\u00a0too diverse<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, and too\u00a0\u201cexceptional<\/strong><\/span>\u201d<\/a>\u00a0to survive.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: Roads Less Traveled<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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