"The 2010s marked a collapse of the American political system more profound than any since 1860. They began with the Tea Party victory that put an end even to Barack Obama's very tentative steps to create a fairer economic order. In Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, the government pursued new variants of the wasteful, useless policies introduced in the previous decade by George W. Bush. And in 2016, neither the Republican nor the Democratic party could produce a candidate who could defeat an ignorant, inflammatory, narcissistic reality tv star, who took only a few years to establish a stranglehold over the Republican Party, while governing incompetently and in many ways illegally. Only a great new national enterprise commanding both the assent and the resources of our whole society could restore the kind of faith the government had enjoyed in mid-century, and none such was on the horizon a 2020 dawned, whatever the outcome of the coming election." DK
The founders of the American and Western and globalist post WWI AND WWII LIEO neither liked nor trusted mere nations. TheAmericans hated the Western imperial powers and had them dismantled during the mid 20th Century.
Nations and empires had proved too erratic and unsettling for their global socialist anti nationalist tastes. Their tastes tended toward the left as well as toward the liberal center.
Nations and empires had proved too erratic and unsettling for their global socialist anti nationalist tastes. Their tastes tended toward the left as well as toward the liberal center.
They planned for all nations, even for the US itself, even for the multitude of new ones which their actions themselves had unleashed by breaking up empires, to be subsumed into liberal left oriented globalist multinational and regional leftist and liberal organizations like the League of Nations, UN, EU Nato, etc.
They had planned for individual countries like the US itself to peacefully wither away into these larger and larger political entities.
So, when historians like Professor Kaiser ostensibly bemoan the collapse of the American political system, such a collapse had been planned for, welcomed, and sought after since before WWI. Here is an example of his view:
Friday, October 20, 2017
At least since the time of the French and American Revolutions, international politics have involved conflicts among different domestic political systems. In the periodic crises in the international system since the 1790s, the warring parties have fought in part to establish their own form of government. The Napoleonic Wars ended with the old aristocracy firmly entrenched in Great Britain and bureaucratic monarchies firmly in control in nearly all of Europe. In the 1860s the victory of the democratic North over the aristocratic South in the American civil war helped lead to the institution of some form of democracy in Britain France, and Germany. William II of Germany and Woodrow Wilson both saw the First World war as a context between absolute monarchy and democracy...." DK
The Democratic North was seen, by analogy, as globalist democracy, overrunning the South seen as exemplary of the old european imperial and nationalist aristocracies of Europe, and by extension, the rest of the imperialist colonialist world.
The big difference between the 20th Century planning and the 2010s reality is that that collapse, here and everywhere, heralded by the likes of Kindleberger etc, had long been intended to be the pacific withering and well ordered incorporation into a larger well ordered equalitarian democratic globalist socialist whole. This utopian vision never came about and never will.
So, when historians like Professor Kaiser ostensibly bemoan the collapse of the American political system, such a collapse had been planned for, welcomed, and sought after since before WWI. Here is an example of his view:
Friday, October 20, 2017
At least since the time of the French and American Revolutions, international politics have involved conflicts among different domestic political systems. In the periodic crises in the international system since the 1790s, the warring parties have fought in part to establish their own form of government. The Napoleonic Wars ended with the old aristocracy firmly entrenched in Great Britain and bureaucratic monarchies firmly in control in nearly all of Europe. In the 1860s the victory of the democratic North over the aristocratic South in the American civil war helped lead to the institution of some form of democracy in Britain France, and Germany. William II of Germany and Woodrow Wilson both saw the First World war as a context between absolute monarchy and democracy...." DK
The Democratic North was seen, by analogy, as globalist democracy, overrunning the South seen as exemplary of the old european imperial and nationalist aristocracies of Europe, and by extension, the rest of the imperialist colonialist world.
The big difference between the 20th Century planning and the 2010s reality is that that collapse, here and everywhere, heralded by the likes of Kindleberger etc, had long been intended to be the pacific withering and well ordered incorporation into a larger well ordered equalitarian democratic globalist socialist whole. This utopian vision never came about and never will.
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