White Elephant

IN THE GREAT POLITICAL drama that is the upcoming election, amid all the sound and fury, there is a white elephanet in the room, that nobody is talking about, no candidate, and apparently nobody else.

The united states began as an expansionist country, expanding european culture across the atlantic to north and south america. That was not the stated intent, but it was the result.

Once established in the new world, european civilization kept expanding across the continent, replacing native civilization, finally expanding throughout the entire western world, and much of the rest of the world, including australia, asia, and africa.

Which brings us to the white elephant.

The united states in particular kept expanding, even after it reached the pacific, aquiring alaska, hawaii, the phillipines, and gradually dominating latin america starting in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,, and maintaing a global empire after the second world war.

And the point is, the united states can no longer afford to expand, or to even keep what it already has. It is going to have to contract, retract. With a sixteen trillion dollar debt, and growing, a falling standard of living and currency, the united states is looking more like a third world country every day.

The united states will not be able to unitarily police the world much longer. The american people,  by all appearances, do not, and never have wanted, to own and control the world. The avarage american citizen simply wants to be left alone to live and flourish.

but, oh that oligarchial plutocratic corporate military industrial complex that ruleth over the cosmetic, and impotent, american federal government. America's true masters are corporate masters, who seek expansion, and profit.

When america starts manufacturing food, clothing, and shelter, and other forms of material wealth, instead of weapons, and returns to being a democratic republic by giving up its empire gracefully, and brings sanity to its currency policy, its time of troubles and decline will, we hope, end.
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