The second is that while Americans think of the Constitution as the greatest plan of government known to man, it's actually the opposite: a grotesque pre-modern relic that grows more unrepresentative and unresponsive with each passing year.
The third thing to keep in mind is that as the constitutional system grows more and more undemocratic, the two-party system that grew out of it in the nineteenth century grows more undemocratic as well.
In order to safeguard the ancient republic at home, the US must pay foreign satraps to defend its imperial interests abroad. Since no patriotic American could possibly disagree, any and all problems must stem from meddling by the evil dictator Vladimir Putin and his traitorous puppet in the Oval Office.
Americans must therefore fulfill the ancient law by impeaching him just as the "Founding fathers" would have wanted.
It's all quite ridiculous, but what's even more bonkers is that millions of Americans think it's true.
Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has described an all-out Senate war as "Mutual assured destruction," and he's right since, once unleashed, the ancient constitutional machinery will grind everything to dust in its path.
If Putin looms larger and larger on the world stage; if "The moment has come," as the Times Literary Supplement recently announced, "For even the most hardened skeptics to admit that he is one of the most successful world leaders of our era"; if the US at the same time staggers from one imperial disaster to another even while descending into civil war - then it's not because the Russian leader is particularly clever, but because the US is locked in an ancient mindset that is increasingly divorced from reality.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/01/01/american-collapse/
The third thing to keep in mind is that as the constitutional system grows more and more undemocratic, the two-party system that grew out of it in the nineteenth century grows more undemocratic as well.
In order to safeguard the ancient republic at home, the US must pay foreign satraps to defend its imperial interests abroad. Since no patriotic American could possibly disagree, any and all problems must stem from meddling by the evil dictator Vladimir Putin and his traitorous puppet in the Oval Office.
Americans must therefore fulfill the ancient law by impeaching him just as the "Founding fathers" would have wanted.
It's all quite ridiculous, but what's even more bonkers is that millions of Americans think it's true.
Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has described an all-out Senate war as "Mutual assured destruction," and he's right since, once unleashed, the ancient constitutional machinery will grind everything to dust in its path.
If Putin looms larger and larger on the world stage; if "The moment has come," as the Times Literary Supplement recently announced, "For even the most hardened skeptics to admit that he is one of the most successful world leaders of our era"; if the US at the same time staggers from one imperial disaster to another even while descending into civil war - then it's not because the Russian leader is particularly clever, but because the US is locked in an ancient mindset that is increasingly divorced from reality.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/01/01/american-collapse/
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