While the US government becomes larger, more tyrannical, more irrational and insane seemingly by the day the US people go along with it. Why? They might bitch and complain about this or that thing going on, certain abuses of power or problems with what the government is doing. But at the end of the day they support the government and even have come to falsely conflate the government with the nation itself.
I remember hearing on news once how the pledge of allegiance is about being loyal to the government. Wait, what? No, it is about loyalty to the nation. The nation does not equal the government. In fact the very founding documents of the nation clearly state the right of the people to overthrow the government if it is abusing them. Not that NPR or any corporate mainstream ânewsâ would ever mention that, of course. The false conflation of the nation with the government is a huge error seen in fascism, and has now deeply infected the political left and right in America. Therefore you can be sure that fascism, I mean open obvious fascism and not the quiet semi-apologetic fascism that pretends to care about not being fascist, is not far behind in America.
But the critical point here is about how the American people need the American governmentâs abuses to keep maintaining their own high standard of living. Most Americans have living standards better than most people on the planet. Ironically lots of Americans have shitty lives emotionally, they are on psychotropic meds or use drugs and alcohol to try and manage their negative emotions because high level materialism does not in fact satisfy spiritually or bring real meaning to their lives. And yet they cling to their material standards with all the desperation of someone who works 2 or 3 jobs they hate to maintain the ability to keep their credit card debt-fueled hyper-consumption going.
The evil of the American people is largely an evil of omission. An evil of âwhen good men do nothingâ. Most people are decent and good for the most part, assuming they are not put into extreme situations, but even the average American has accepted the evils of his own government because on some level he realizes this is what keeps his standard of living going. It used to be claimed that the west has stolen its wealth from the rest of the world, and this has become true now. The theft is not always direct, it can be subtle such as how the US creates and exports massive amounts of inflation all over the world. Forcing everyone else to use its increasingly worthless dollars. And all of the wars and military conflicts, color revolutions, weapons and drugs trafficking, outsourcing to child labor factories, all examples of ways the US fucks over people around the planet for its own gain.
The American people know this. We have seen so many examples by now of American imperialism. War and land theft and resource theft and regime overthrow. All to put the people of the non-US world under the thumb of western capitalism, generating profits for their new masters. We all know this happens. Yet most people keep supporting the US government anyway, they use the excuse crafted for them by the system itself: âwell the other side is so bad, we must vote for the lesser of two evils!â This is merely the excuse. They may or may not believe it (emotional capture) but the real reason is deeper and more insidious: Americans want their high standard of living in a material way and they know the US government will invade and conquer and steal and kill whoever around the planet it needs to for the capitalist materialist system to keep functioning. This is quite apparent when the US starts a new war and the stock market goes up.
The US people are guilty of the crimes of the US government because they supported it all the way. When the rest of the world is finally in a position to pass judgment upon America for its many crimes the US people will not be able to beg innocence. They have chosen ignorance to maintain an unearned standard of living, one they know deep down is sustained only by constant imperialism, abuse, theft and killing of other people elsewhere in the world. Think of what happened to Germany after WW1 and WW2.
And the parasitism is mutual because the US government also needs the people to maintain its appearance of legitimacy. Not only that but it needs the people to remain sedated in a capitalist narco-haze of materialism, pop culture, media news insanity and psychotropic meds. As long as the people are sedated enough to not rise up or demand anything better of their leaders yet still keep turning out in large enough numbers to vote every 2-4 years then the system perpetuates itself while maintaining the appearance of being legitimate and âdemocraticâ.
The US is a parasite on its own population, dumbing it down over time, abusing and socially engineering it more and more, making it more and more sick and confused and poor and lazy and indebted all the time, robbing its people of their rights and freedoms and prosperity all for the sake of maintaining the carefully coordinated level of control needed to keep the system going and appearing legitimate. Meanwhile the US people are parasites upon the US governmentâs imperialist atrocities and harmful actions around the world because these secure the continued existence of western material-capitalist dominance. Both entities need each other.
And yes I choose the wording in the title deliberately. At this point it is quite clear the US government owns the people. We are not free human beings with rights and autonomy and respect anymore, it is not a government of the people by the people or for the people. Instead it has become a people by, for, and of the government. We are its property. This has been obviously the case with the political left for some time, they openly worship the government (think mandatory experimental mrna jabs) and now Trump has completed the circle by bringing the political right into the same place of accepting their subservient position to the state. Both âsidesâ worship the government and its unholy power to abuse, steal and kill whatever it wants so long as the peopleâs comfy bubble of materialism and ignorance is not disturbed.
