The Decline of the American Empire: A Dystopian Nightmare
Why morale is at an all-time low
“Through money, modern democracy destroys itself — after money has destroyed the spirit.”
— Oswald Spengler
America is experiencing an existential crisis.
It’s like we are in the early stages of Idiocracy, Snow Crash, 1984, Brave New World, and some Terminator potential all rolled into one.
Politicians have been reduced to helpless goons in the hands of decades of rampant lobbying and insider trading; all the while inflation is doing away with the middle class and we’re divided on abortion, guns, drugs, sex, LGBT issues, feminism, class war, race, and a million other things.
We’re turning into Brazil. We’ll have favelas here in no time.
My questions are:
- How bad is it, really?
- Who’s to blame?
- And how is this going to end?
People say America is declining, but by what metric?
How can you tell a country is declining? It’s not an easy thing to measure like a company or a sports team.
If you ask someone why they believe that America is declining they might say “I don’t know, I just feel it.”
It’s not a very satisfying answer, but it’s the truth by these metrics:
- IQ is dropping by seven points every generation
- The economy is overinflated and propped up by a fractional reserve fiat banking system that most Americans aren’t even aware of
- Nearly 50% of Americans are obese and that number is increasing
- And we’re in the middle of a “culture war” that involves everything from cancel culture to transgender issues.
If you have little children make sure to tell them that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy are all real. It’ll soften the blow as they find out that America is a dystopian nightmare.
The thing to remember about these metrics, however — besides the fact that you can cherry-pick them to make any argument you want — is that America won’t cease to exist just because it’s in a “decline.” Humans, especially Americans, are alarmists who don’t know anything about history.
To use the Roman Empire as an example, you had veterans of the second and first-century BCE returning from 10-year campaigns to literally nothing and living in abject poverty in the streets because wealthy senators and equities stole their land. You had extreme poverty for the majority of the Roman people.
This is the mistake of the modern era, taking the visibility of poverty as signs of collapse. Poverty is always prevalent in empires but when we think of Rome we don’t think of the homeless, we think of the coliseum, the circus Maximus, the forum, the cloaca maxima, the pantheon, etc.
Rome had worse poverty and worse inequality than America and they lasted over a thousand years. America will likely do the same.
So who’s to blame for America’s decline?
The Founding Fathers adamantly warned against the creation of one institution that could completely destroy Western democracy.
Oh my gosh.
What could it be?
Was it the two-party system? Or maybe the Illuminati?
No. It was the creation of a central bank — and if you give me a second I’ll tie it to everything including the decline of Western civilization.
“[Bankers] have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.” — Thomas Jefferson
“The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me. But I will kill it.” — Andrew Jackson
We have a debt-based monetary system. Most Americans don’t understand this concept but the people who run the Federal Reserve Bank do.
No debt, no money.
In plain English, that means America and Americans need to spend more money than we have, and go into debt, in order to create money.
Look at your money, it says “For debts public and private.” All money is debt that is lent out from the Federal Reserve, and herein lies the problem. The Federal Reserve is controlled by a cartel of banks including JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and the Rockefellers.
This should worry you for these reasons:
- The banks control whether we are in a recession or a depression. In fact, former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke once said, “Regarding the Great Depression. You’re right, we did it. We’re very sorry. But thanks to you we won’t do it again.” They did not learn their lesson because the current Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is now taking blame for this new Recession.
- Both Democrats and Republicans are in bed with these banks. I wrote an article about Nancy Pelosi’s insider trading scandal, but even worse, earlier this month 64 members of Congress violated a law designed to prevent insider trading and stop conflicts of interest. Money is more powerful than your vote. Did you really think your vote mattered? What is this preschool? There’s lobbying, gerrymandering, and foreign wars to profit from. Not to mention that the banks also control the media through advertising dollars.
- When it comes to this “culture war” the banks are the most crucial part. Black Lives Matter, for instance, is funded primarily by banks (and that’s not getting into how that money was poorly spent). In fact, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. were both killed after they started speaking out against the Federal Reserve. And the buck doesn’t stop at social issues, banking giant BlackRock owns both CNN and Fox News further indicating that you’re being played by banks.
- Smedley Butler. Who’s Smedley Butler? He was a two-time Medal of Honor recipient and a major general in the U.S. Marine Corps. In the early 1930s, Butler was approached by a group of wealthy industrialists and bankers including the Duponts, the Rockefellers, and JP Morgan. They asked him to lead a coup against President Franklin Roosevelt with the help of 500,000 war veterans. Butler went to Congress and testified about the plot. If you don’t believe me, read his testimony for yourself.
Do you understand what I just said? Less than 100 years ago the banks tried to overthrow a president. What the fuck do you think they’re doing now? Also, why don’t you hear about Smedley Butler and when bankers tried to blatantly overthrow the government? Hey, don’t ask me. But maybe this guy knows a thing or two…
“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”
— George Orwell
What’s Next
If you find yourself arguing about who’s better: Donald Trump or Joe Biden, congratulations, you’ve been played. The banks don’t care who’s in office. They make money whether we’re at war or at peace, sick or healthy, employed or unemployed. They don’t need your vote, they own both parties, stupid.
The best part is that the Federal Reserve isn’t even a part of the government. It’s as federal as Federal Express yet every action they take affects every single one of us.
Yes, there are key issues that are somewhat out of their control and in the hands of the people such as abortion and gun control. But even these issues are at the behest of lop-sided campaign donations and lobbyists.
If you have money in America you can get away with anything. Just ask Jeffery Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, or R. Kelly. Or ask the banks who “support” Black Lives Matter but forced Black and Latino applicants to pay higher mortgages or accept subprime loans despite even qualifications with their white counterparts.
This is why you “Follow the money.”
It’s the first lesson you get in journalism school for a reason.
Complaining about the decline of America because of a bad president or a law you don’t agree with is like arguing with a cashier at Burger King.
He doesn’t have any power to change the price of the Whopper. All he can do is apologize and say, “I can go get the manager.” But even that guy isn’t who you really want to talk to. You want to talk to the franchisee, and if you want to talk to the real decision-maker, you need to go to headquarters.
But nobody is going to do that over a bad burger, they’d rather just scream at the cashier and feel self-righteous and indignant while doing it.
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