The End of the American Empire
As much as I hate the doom and gloom prophets, I am beginning to think that we may see the end of the American Empire in our lifetime.
The Republicans are not going to allow any solution proposed by President Obama and their solutions are what got us into the mess in the first place. Tanking the American economy seems to be their sole objective.
They may get the independent and the progressive voters so marginalized that the only people that could save us just won’t vote. If the Republicans gain control of both houses and the White House, it is the end.
This will have an impact on those corporations they serve. If America becomes marginalized in the world, those businesses that depend on our strength to pursue their agenda abroad will lose their power also.
The American people can survive, but at a very high cost.
I don’t see it actually going that way
The Oil Corporations could not openly field an army to seize the Oil Fields in Iraq, or to gain control of the Oil Pipeline coming down from Russia through Afghanistan. So instead they got George Bush to do it for them, AT OUR EXPENSE. Haliburton got contracts to provide services for the military, which the military used to do for themselves AT COST. Haliburton over billed us, of course, but they also provided our troops with water which was contaminated, and provided showers in which many of our troops were electrocuted, due to faulty wiring.
Moreover, the Oil Corporations got us to hire their Mercenaries at great expense. These “civilian contractors” operated outside the Geneva Conventions, killing civilians at will, and for sport
I don’t expect that we can get out of this until after 2012. Then the “American Empire” will start to collapse, meaning that the Multi-National Corporations will begin losing the strangle hold they have had on people all over the world. America will be fine, and so will everybody else.
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The Republican party had carte blanche in 1952 and then again in 1994. The American empire survived both of these tests with flying colors. The fact that the GOP held sway only twice in 59 years demonstrates that the GOP is out of step with the majority of American voters.
Major corporations here in America may seem powerful to some, but after you consider that their success depends upon the will of the American people’s financial support of these institutions, they are only as powerful as we the people let them be.
It will not be the end of the American Empire, nor democracy in America, Mr. Ackbar. It will merely be a reminder why this party belongs in the dust-bin of another 60 years of American history.
Fear not the powerful, pity them.
Thank-you.
Allah-O-Akbar;
Actually I have to disagree. The Repulsive-blicans are not at full fault with the Way America is today and heading toward. The Demon-crats are not at full blame either. It is the Corporate Banks and Corporate Business Moguls who are at fault with what America is today. Everyone wants to blame each other and each others political Party..
But.. in reality, our fingers should be pointing Straight Toward Wall Street. [There is the Problem]
When politicians have sold this country out for everything it is worth, they’ll retire to the Caribbean. When the corporations have used us up, they’ll relocate their home offices to China and India and reopen their factories here in the states so they can exploit our cheap labor. The sooner the Republicans lower minimum wage, kill the unions, and remove all regulations the sooner they can exploit us at illegal alien field worker wages.
I just wanna make popcorn and see what happens.
I like henry’s answer above ❗
There is only so much we Americans will take…we are spoiled and used to having it our way….there definitely will be another war here if this happens. HA…they think their Tea Party is bad to the bone….wait till they see us get worked up!!!!!!!! I am not worried yet!
I hope you’re wrong, bro. Yet, I thought the same damned thing.
Lets consider the full implications of “Empire”. Empire implies power often achieved through coercion… military or economic or by supporting puppet governments that would otherwise fall. Done to gain resources and economic benefit.
England was a better place when it’s Colonial Empire collapsed. I tend to think we will be better off as well.