The Rise & Fall of the United States of America

12Dec08

    

 

     Ok, it’s a dramatic headline.

     But I feel that such a massive and complex thesis can be narrowed down to a simple cause and effect equation.

     America began with such dazzling promise. A nation built on the premise of hope and opportunity, and forever growing as immigrants flocked to the shores in search of a better life. Industry thrived. Despite the turmoil occuring abroad she was never quick to anger. If anything, she was a beautiful pacifist, more concerned with being a part of the solution than the problem.

     However, there was a looming problem. There existed certain individuals within her government who, through their intricate connections to the Federal Reserve (the very entity that the British Empire used to enslave America through debt) sought to entice her into war, with the sole purpose of making untold fortunes. They were traitors. Servants of the Reserve Bank. Technically agents of the British Empire! So sure enough, she was thrust into war, learning a new kind of sacrifice and comradery. She grew stronger. War had made her stronger. 

     Talent unlike the world had ever seen began blooming and branching out overseas, to show the world that she was in fact the real deal. She was beautiful, Nearly majestic. However, the traitors did not like the direction in which this Rising Star was taking the world. America’s current trajectory did not cater to the agendas of this silent elite. After much deliberation, they decided that something needed to be done. 

     Again, war pulled her in. This time she would make her mark, proving that she was ready to lead the world that marvelled over her. Her automotive industry thrived. All of her industries did. Her citizens were finding that the revenue being accumilated provided them with endless possibilities. Dreams were beginning to become reality. This newfound power and glory gave rise to men who sought to be a part of this Greater Promise. Unfortunately some of those men had agendas that were truly incompatible with the freedom and liberty that their forefathers promised. She soon became strangled by these imposters. Her vast land, resources, wealth and might were now in the hands of a select few who cared not for her values, but only for her usefulness as a vehicle for conquest and manipulation. The early era of humility was now being replaced with imperialism.

     The stronger the elites became, the more havoc they wrought through their own expansion. They needed to expand or die. The classic catch-22 of Capitalism. It was a suicide mission.

     In the decades to come, she would acquire much. More wealth, a stronger army and an even more sinister network of rulers whose sole purpose was to steer her into the path of  ruthlessness. She acquired many enemies around the world. Many of these enemies once admired her. She became a schizoid power; on one hand promoting peace and harmony and on the other threatening peaceful nations, toppling democratically elected governments and using an intricate financial system to promote unbridled wealth amongst its upper class.

     Meanwhile, housing boomed. The markets surged. She was in a state of financial hyperdrive. Many of her citizens became drunk with money. She was becoming the poster-child for the obese greedy businessman, albiet with style. Sadly, the lower-classes grew and grew, using the streets as their home, becoming a morbid part of the nation’s physical landscape. It was embarrassing to those who truly loved what she really was, and knew what she truly used to be.

     In the 21st century she was reaching her peak. On a fateful morning, she was attacked. The perpetrators were none other than the very traitors who wanted another war. This time, the act of war was not from outside, but from within.  Her armies were now spread thinly across the globe on nearly every continent. She was universally hated. Her government was not a government at all, but rather a junta of conspirators and special interest groups with sinister agendas. The Project for the New American Century was launched. Laws were changed. Citizens no longer felt free. The threat of Federal Agents kicking in doors was omnipresent. Dissent was more or less squashed. The agenda was self-evident in the wars they waged on oil rich nations, and at home. Civil liberties were trodden on. Wire-tapping became commonplace. Fear now reigned. The traitors got just what they wanted. Total domination.

     So many of the citizens were in debt and living beyond their means that the economy could not be sustained at the level it was at for much longer. Her banks began failing. Her automotive industry collapsed. Her national debt was becoming as high as her own Gross Domestic Product. The wars she was waging was adding to this debt on a monthly basis. Her leaders had run out of ideas. The people were tired and dissillusioned. Fearful and weakened. Confused.

     The time had come to look in the mirror.

     Her competitors appeared to be doing much better than she was doing. China, Russia, India and Europe were becoming considerably more credible and influential than she had ever been in the last ten years. The decline was obvious. All of her solutions reaked of desperation and panic. 

     In her death throes her citizens elected a charismatic and inspirational African-American senator, Barack Obama. A kind she used to consider a slave. A kind who only had a job if it involved cleaning up a white man’s mess. Ironically, that’s exactly what this new President-elect would begin to do, and with a determination not seen since Abraham Lincoln. 

     As her competitors crossed the finish line, she staggered, badly wounded and bleeding from many deep cuts. She was effectively bleeding to death. Her currency was being rejected by the rest of the world as it declined in value. It was an ominous sign. Her people stocked up on food, ammunition and water as they wondered what had become of their nation’s promise and supremacy. America had been stolen. Manipulated. Bankrupted. It was the most horrific assault on innocence in the history of the world. A dream shattered, with the lives of nearly 300 million people. Many of her citizens were armed, angry and frightened. They waited for a miracle that never came. As war began to rage in certain parts of the world, the world itself became aware that America could no longer deliver in the sense that she could during the previous times. Both in a symbolic and practical sense. Victory could not be assured this time. 

     So she waned, and tried to reassure. But events were unfolding quickly, and deliberately.

     Such a slow death could not have been made any worse by this fact. An inability to respond the desired way, coupled with a sense of Destiny about her painful and humiliating fall. 

     This “New Rome” had reached the zenith of her power many years ago. The failure to realize the ways in which the world around her had changed was instrumental in bringing about her downfall.

     But the man leading her was not convinced it was all over. He still saw hope. He saw the beauty. The promise. The chance to transform her into a vessel of inspiration for humanity.

     It remains to be seen how he intends to rid America of the true evil, that are the Federal Reserve that perpetuate the nation’s debt and misery, and who continue to steer her in the wrong direction. They are stranded on a concrete island riddled with trouble. They cling to hope, and wait. 

     ‘Yes We Can’ has perhaps never been a more relevant war cry. 

  

     -BJH

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