Get Down (with Capitalism), or Lay Down - How the US Enforces Hegemony

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   Justin Earickposted 4 years ago

   
   Here's how the world works: The US is the world's sole super power, and the other countries either get down (with capitalism), or lay down. They become US client-states, or Official Enemies. We do this by using our military to invade rogue nations. We fund NGOs such as "human rights" organizations, elections monitors, and chemical weapons inspectors, to make false claims against rogue nations, fuel calls for regime change, and justify our nefarious efforts. We implement economic sanctions to isolate and starve (the poor people of those) countries, and cause political unrest. We have Wall Street, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, which withhold loans from poor or indebted countries, unless they implement capitalistic austerity measures by cutting taxes on corporations and the rich, along with government programs for regular people. We use the CIA to arm violent rebel groups, kill leftists and fuel political unrest, and prop up corrupt politicians who will do business on the terms of the US. This means implementing austerity, selling natural resources to US-based corporations at the prices they want; doing international trade in US currency; and repeating our lies about our Official Enemies. Do these things, and US-backed dictatorships, oligarchies, and theocracies can do as they please. They needn't hold elections, can murder journalists, dissidents, political opponents, and religious minorities. They can kill gays and oppress women, or operate an apartheid state with the world's largest open-air prison. It's all good! We'll cover for all that in the media, and with our UN veto powers. Just help maintain the capitalistic status quo on behalf of the ruling class who benefit from poverty and hegemony, and nothing else could ever matter

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      Kyler J Falkposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Okay.
      
      So concisely, what would you like the American public to, realistically, do about it?

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         Justin Earickposted 4 years agoin reply to this

         As residents of the sole super power, we are the most propagandized people on the entire planet. Our job is to question reports, and assume that everything the US government, and media stenographers, have to say about war and our Official Enemies, are lies on behalf of the corporation, to promote US hegemony and perpetuate the status quo. Our job is to protest, to harass our politicians rather than treat them as heroic celebrities, to reject the red/blue duopoly, to withhold our votes. And organize labor, so the people can finally regain at least a tiny semblance of political power in this country. Power which we had in spades in the 1930s, until the Cold War, Hearings on Un-American Activities, McCarthy-ism, and employment Black Lists were used to divide and conquer the coalition of communists, socialists, and trade unionists who had coalesced and forced FDR to give us Social Security, minimum wage, unemployment insurance, GI Bill, bank regulations, the FDIC, the FHA, 94% marginal tax rate for the uber wealthy, and federal jobs programs such as the WPA, which built public parks and infrastructure, including soil conservation efforts which ended the Dust Bowl disaster

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 4 years ago

   https://warontherocks.com/2019/04/an-em … l-control/

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 4 years ago

   Its not the governed, its the governments.

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 4 years ago

   Follow the US constitution.
   There is your solution.
   Our government is to protect the citizens and determine their wishes. How can the government know the wishes of the people without freedom of speech?
   (and that is the good of freedom-of-speech.)

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