The clash of titans is coming. The battle between two divergent views of governance is impending and what form that confrontation will take is being developed as I write. The traditional clash will be a violent military one that ultimately will involve the use of nuclear weapons. The other, and hopefully more likely, is an economic one. The former lays the whole world shattered and in some large swaths of land, inhabitable. The latter if lost, subjugation of people through dictated ways of living.
President Biden was correct that we are in a battle for how humans choose to live their lives. The west supposedly promotes democracy defined as free thinking and personal responsibility while autocrats think that conformance with central planning, by force if necessary, is a better way. My bias is toward that which I know but it’s a time to question everything. After all, isn’t the best form of governance a benevolent King?
The last two democrat administrations have moved much closer to the autocratic approach. The allure of power over a people is an aphrodisiac for those who capture the votes and they are reluctant to go back to being real people. Once ensconced, they feather the bed making it difficult to unseat them. While chasing the autocratic model under the guise of, “we’re doing this for the children”, they ignore the peril in which they place themselves and us pawns.
Autocrats in China, Iran, Russia and North Korea see the groundwork being laid for them. They view current actions by “leaders” here and in other western countries as preparation of the people for command-and-control form of governance. Once the Rubicon of forcing a medicine on people was crossed, there were no other barriers that couldn’t be crossed. Coming in behind that will be easy once the stranglehold on the economy is perpetrated. How you might ask?
The first volley was Saudi Arabia considering taking the yuan for payment. If the “full faith and backing of the USA” for dollars is usurped, it will be kryptonite to our economy. The value of everything will diminish. Pensions, 401ks, hedge funds et al will have purchasing power slashed. Reordering the economy around new values of currency will take years. The commensurate “attack” will be on cyber. Think the cloud now becomes acid rain as it is corrupted and normal transactions like getting money out of your ATM are disrupted. Cash will be king though you may need the proverbial Weimar wheelbarrow.
The final straw will be a “white Knight” who will use the controlled media (versus the complicit one we have now) to appear as our savior. Of course, he (the choose your own pronoun will be banned and woman will not be considered) will turn out to just another dictator and the big one will have its victor.
Its an insidious slide and the people we have in leadership positions may very well be leading us down the path they so often claim as deplorable elsewhere. The same people that brought us Russiagate, transitory inflation, Covid came from a wet market, Hunter’s laptop was disinformation, calling US citizens treasonous, etc.
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