IN this post I argue not only that the US Empire is in decline, but that it will be replaced - with or without elections - with a model more amenable to survival.
This is because the policies of Liberalism it espouses are the politics of national suicide.
We inhabit a moment of profound change in world affairs whose consequences will rewrite the mythology under whose power we have been propagandised for a century.
In brief:
The Liberal state is no longer legitimate. It is a despotism which cannot offer the basic guarantees on which the right to rule relies. There is a right to revolution when the state is illegitimate.
The Imperial economy is based on a criminal enterprise.
Change is coming. It is a matter of survival - for the US Empire itself.
Welcome back to the war on terror
The criminal enterprise is the permanent war model. It has completely corrupted the West, which is the US Empire. We now inhabit a death cult which inverts practically every moral meaning and virtue. It sanctifies vice.
From the murder of the unborn to that of entire states including your own, it is cancelling everything of value in human culture. It is a system which is universally degrading, and is devaluing life itself.
Another war has come along now.
Both sides of this new war aim to internationalise the conflict.
This means the war will involve you directly. That is what both sides want.
This may be through your nation’s military participation, and/or through a renewed wave of global terrorism.
Once begun, no one has any idea or plan for how these may end.
Aside from the cost in human lives, these wars have wrecked nations around the world. They have also ruined our own. Culturally, politically and financially the political establishment have wrecked our lives.
It was the war on terror which saw the introduction and legitimisation of mass surveillance in the West, and created a vast economy dependent on forever wars.
Between 2001 and 2021 the US alone has printed and handed almost 9 trillion dollars to the war industry. These are the same people who own our politics and our media.
What is happening now is a new “War on Terror”. That is, a vast enterprise of slaughter and plunder is planned under the guise of the defence of “democracy”.
The Empire is directed from the US State Department by politicians with ethnic grievances - leading them to cheerlead their side in an attempt to engulf everyone in their blood feud.
Thanks to our political class, our nations are also full of people with ethnic and religious grievances, in addition to the legitimate resentment of the nations that bombed theirs.
People with serious grievances against us are all over the place these days.
All over what place, you might ask?
That would be somewhere we used to call our own. Now, for many people including you, there is no place like home.
A Terrible Beauty
Our home life has been completely transformed by the war economy of regime change.
The ruling idea is one of Liberal chauvinism. It says “we, the elite, are supreme. If you disagree with us we are duty bound to destroy you. This we do in the name of freedom, of democracy, in our Liberal interventions”.
If you do not submit they destroy your income, your economy, your nation. In fact, they also destroy you if you do. It is a death cult. This means the death of everything precious to anyone who sees value beyond money.
Liberal interventions take place at home now. Economic sanctions and licensed hatred can be unleashed on anyone who publicly questions the madness of a system for which no one ever voted. Noticing reality out loud can lead to prosecution or ruin.
Our states are surveillance states, with severe penalties for fact based speech about basic realities which were, until recently, common sense.
There are no penalties for nation wrecking.
Liberalism
The Liberal idea has changed since its Enlightenment birth. Ours is the Liberalism which formed the post-Soviet settlement.
It was supposed to continue the Liberal ideas of pluralism, democracy and freedom which it formerly championed.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union it has abandoned all three in everything but name, and this is the reason the control of naming things is so important today.
What is more, it is no longer legitimate.
What is Legitimacy?
If a state has legitimate authority it has the right to make and enforce laws, punish those it calls criminals, tax its populations for the common good and exercises a monopoly on force to maintain order.
There are two types of legitimacy which concern us here. One is constitutional, meaning the legal right of the State to rule, and the other is moral - meaning “is our state morally justified?”
These are both important as what is legal and what is moral are two different things.
The Legal Right to Rule
Does our state have the right to rule?
Presumed Consent (Voting)
The right to rule of governments in democracies rests on presumed consent. Governments are formed when elections give them a majority whether absolutely or by the forming of coalitions.
The act of voting confers what is called “presumed consent” to the act of governance which results. By voting for the winning party you are presumed to consent to what they do afterwards.
What if you did not vote for the winner - or at all? There is no answer to this question other than a wider definition of presumed consent - that is, you consent to lose your voice because that is how democracy works.
Constitutional legitimacy
A state has the right to rule not only through the process of winning elections, but also because of a basic idea about the rights of the State as duties.
The state has a duty to
maintain order
maintain security
defend its people
maintain the public trust
None of our Liberal states can maintain order. There is little to no border security. These conditions are the result of their policies.
Our states do not defend us. They confect some pretext for yet another war elsewhere whose severe civilisational shocks are felt at home as well as resulting in mass slaughter abroad.
There is near complete distrust of the government in many sections of society in the American Empire. This is for good reason, as crime appears to have been decriminalised from international affairs down to shoplifting.
State Murder
Our states conspire in the destruction of international order in the use of military force to destroy other nations. This is state murder - the intentional killing of another state.
Money is printed to fund these wars, which destroys our economies along with sanctions and the increased taxes we pay to finance our own destruction.
These wars breed resentment and infuse our nations with a level of blood-feud vengeance to which it has no answer but censorship. In the resulting silence these antagonisms - some of which are insoluble - are simply incubated until they explode.
This is what is happening now.
The Virtuous Circle
Our states tell us it is a virtue to welcome the people whose nations our states have destroyed, and it is a vice to be concerned that these people hate us for having destroyed their nations.
What is more, our states tell these people that our states are democratic, and that is the reason our state has destroyed theirs. This also means that our state is telling these people, whose nations our states have destroyed, that we chose to do so because we are in charge of our states.
Therefore, not only do our states engage in state murder, they blame us for it and make us live with the victims of their crimes. We bear the consequences for their actions. They commit these crimes and get away with it, are richly rewarded into the bargain, and ruin our lives in the process. If we notice any of this they call us evil.
If we complain about the wars before they happen we are called traitors or ignored. If we complain about the consequences we are called nasty names and even prosecuted.
We are supposed to applaud the wars and the people who start them. We are then supposed to applaud being replaced by the mass migration which results. We are further compelled to applaud the destruction of our norms, culture, law and entire civilisation which follows. To legitimise this population transfer we must annihilate our differences, which is everything we are except entrances and exits.
Our states are not merely illegitimate. They are insane.
State Murder at Home
Our nations are not only insecure, our state is murdering them deliberately.
The open borders policy is destroying every nation which has adopted it. The Net Zero measures will result in the intentional collapse of industrial society. This is happening in Germany now. It is called “deindustrialisation”.
The nation is a family of kinship and values.
The nation is being replaced by a placeless and normless hyperreality in which nowhere is home and nothing is safe.
God is replaced by technology, which accelerates the patterning of humans upon machines. Progress in this sense is literally dehumanising.
Social progress means the death of home. It is as if we are all to inhabit a supermarket browsed by hostile strangers, whose doors never close. Occasionally the background muzak is ruptured by an explosion in aisle 7.
Moral progress is the decriminalisation of crime and the celebration of the most unspeakable vice, including the large scale preparations underway for the normalisation of sex with children.
The German Government, for example, has been engaged in the “sexual liberation” of children since the 1960s. As a result, thousands of children were homed with known paedophiles over decades. This is one nation which condemned Hungary for its anti-LGBTQ laws, which have been passed to protect children from sexual exploitation and the proven means of transmission of the transgender mind virus - social contagion.
An Economic Model of National Suicide
Economically, the debt-consumer model is a recipe for national suicide. It requires only more borrowing and consumption. Borrowing - printing more money - degrades the value of existing money, including the value of existing debts.
The economic model of infinite growth sees in increased consumption a maximum virtue. The GDP line going up means all is well.
Yet the GDP line going up is bought at the cost of everything else of value. The consumer debt model does not care who is doing the consuming. It requires more consumers. This is another reason your borders are open.
The wars demand trillions to be printed. These trillions go to the war industry ($9 trillion between 2001-2021).
The wars create mass migration.
The debt consumer economy welcomes the migration.
More consumers.
Line goes up.
Let’s start another war!
Mass migration results in a net economic loss. Migration Watch cites a UCL report of 2014 showing that
Between 1995 and 2011, immigrants in the UK cost at least £114 billion, or about £18m a day
A 2018 report showed that non-European legal immigration cost the UK £9 billion in one year. In the US, FAIR reported in March of this year that the cost of illegal immigration was almost $151 billion in 2022.
This does not include the cost to society of legal immigration. As Robert Putnam’s work showed, the population churn of ‘diversity’ is not a strength, but is deeply corrosive to “social capital” - the human relations which make life worth living.
Mass immigration is one major reason why more Americans - and Westerners - are “Bowling Alone”.
By 2017, the foreign born US population counting only legal immigrants was nearly 45 million, or almost 14 percent of the population. This, said FAIR, is the highest proportion of any nation in the world.
The illegal immigrants in the US and Europe, where they work, are submerged in a grey economy of indentured labour. This serves as a cheap labour force, providing many new consumers, but also drives down wages. Finally, the existence of an underclass into which any middle- or working class native may fall functions as an instrument of discipline to terrorise the working population into conformity.
Drug abuse legal and otherwise is widespread. An epidemic of opiate abuse and of strange “zombie” drugs is highly visible in major Western cities. Antidepressant use has more than doubled in Europe in the last two decades, with a Harvard study showing in 2020 that one in every ten Americans uses them.
What is more, when you start to take them “you can’t quit”.
The abortifacient effect of the birth control pill results in millions of women experiencing inexplicable hormonally triggered sensations of grief. This may well be related to the pathological altruism which compels them to support the influx of men far more likely to rape them than their compatriots. This sounds crazy, and it is, but it is far from conjectural.
Mass society, and the technocratic death cult which directs it, is the machinery of human extinction.
Death Cult
We inhabit a death cult. Its chief sacrament is abortion. The elites are expressly anti-natalist and celebrate childless lifestyles of self indulgence. This alone would kill the nations, but combined with permanent war and mass migration the state assisted suicide of civilisation is rapidly advancing.
We are being put to death on a mass scale. Our health services promote toxic and contaminated injections. Our governments continually start wars. Our states are made insecure and unstable by the people managing them. What we are told are the good beliefs are not merely wicked but insane.
Civilisation itself is threatened with an extinction level event promoted by the people who have appointed themselves as our philosopher-kings.
They are neither philosophers, nor kings. They are criminals, whose profit is your loss.
Everything that is bad for you is good for them. That the state is not legitimate is obvious. It is destroying everything you love, and soon it will demand you or your children die, when one of its wars escalates beyond control.
These people have no plan to stop. They will not stop the wars. They will not stop mass immigration. They will not stop the collapse of the birth rate. They will not stop the collapse of society. They will not stop the destruction of everything of value in life.
They will call you evil if you try to stop them. Call them what they are. The truth stings them like sunlight does a vampire.
Our political class are parasites and their livelihood is the business of death. Ours.
This year will see a profound change in the protocols of American Empire. If it does not, then the people will have a legitimate right to save it, and its subject nations, from the politics of national suicide.
Coming soon: The Appeal to Heaven - John Locke and the Liberal Right of Revolution.
Postscript: Happy news
Donald Trump is going to win. This means an end to Forever War and the rotten global system which it financed.
Douglas MacGregor is beginning a new party in the USA on the basis of “God, Family, Country”, in order to rescue the USA from the criminal cartel which has hijacked it.
The vast propaganda campaign to legitimise the slaughter in Gaza which in turn would spark a regional war involving Jordan, Syria, Iran, Lebanon and perhaps even Turkey has failed.
With Israel likely to be charged with a self-proclaimed genocide, the US State Department is moving away from unconditional support - and towards a Saudi-brokered peace deal.
I do not believe the US State Department is united behind fostering a war it cannot win in the Middle East. There is open talk of “no military solution”.
Project Russia has failed at the cost of many hundreds of thousands dead and injured. This is tragic, but is less bad news than the provocation of a global nuclear war. The result of the collapse of Russia, unlikely in the extreme as that was, would be a calamity involving the largest nuclear arsenal in the world.
The Regime is weak and its propaganda is no longer effective in maintaining control. Panic has set in with attempts to criminalise the opposition in Germany and in the US.
The Liberal idea has dissolved and is producing a growing disillusionment with its false, utopian promises.
Realism is returning. The common sense idea of having a homeland to avoid a permanent culture of intractable slaughter is a point well made in recent days. Civilisational distinctions can - and will - be accommodated through a separate peace.
Everyone deserves a homeland. You, me and the displaced peoples of the world. The dusk of the Empire of Lies presages a realistic world order based on nations - which is a word which derives from “natio” - “children of the same birth and also a human group of same origin”.
Plant the oaks under whose shade we shall never sit. See your life as that of a social missionary.
Do not despair. There is a better future being born from the ashes of this Empire of Lies.
We can only hope it will all collapse and we can salvage something. Especially our nation.
2016 was 8 years ago, before Trump locked everyone in their houses and fast-tracked the vax, presided over the BLM riots, and peacefully handed the White House keys over to Joe Biden after accusing him of a coup. Trump’s last action in office was to pardon hundreds of hardened gangsters and criminals, yet to this day he refuses to mention the Jan 6 political prisoners who have been locked up and tortured for four years for supporting him, their families devastated and destroyed.
If you’re going to participate in this farce, I’d recommend talking about how the other side is worse, and keep the attention off your candidate.