But Washington's lust for ever-increasing power would not let the country stand back and concentrate on the well-being of its people. Another kind of war made the U.S. merry-go-round continue its masquerade of bringing 'civilization' to the world, making the world one huge playground for the power-hungry corporations. The West continued their propaganda about fighting for the free world, as if it were still World War II. And millions and millions of people still believe in this age-old myth the U.S. is standing up for freedom and democracy.
Imperial war on the people
The greed of the U.S. leaders would not let them pay any attention to the well-being of its people, and the visible consequences of this neglect were going to increase with each new administration, in particular with Ronald Reagan and onwards, under Republican and Democratic presidents alike. Conditions for the home population became increasingly filled with hardship to ultimately end up with the long-planned neocon policy which surfaced with George W. Bush: the people had no rights whatsoever and the only thing that mattered was complete power over the planet. This was the one and only goal and the people were to be the slaves to help bring this about. This ridiculously incompetent president was obviously chosen as the candidate for the Republican Party in order to let the mentally sick men and women behind the stage pull their strings unhampered by any realistic and humane obstacles.
'The tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free' are now huddled into ghettos and slums and are no more even dreaming of breathing free. U.S. citizens have been sold out by the ego-maniac rulers to the funding of wars that will empower only the powerful and destroy the lives of the poor. Those who don't get killed in the wars or get more or less bodily or mentally damaged for the rest of their lives, survive in the utmost misery and insecurity, unable to get healthcare when they are seriously ill, unable to get a valid education in the most prosperous of all countries on earth, deprived of any kind of security that most civilized nations take for granted, unable to climb out of the miserable poverty they have either grown up in or recently sunk into because of the enormous costs of unending wars. While the CEOs are getting obscenely wealthy, the wars are obviously paid for by the people. Cutting back taxes for the super-rich means of course that essential social services for the rest of the population are cut back so drastically as to place the majority of the population in an impasse where they live and die unheeded, uneducated and unaided even concerning vitally important needs.
U.S. citizens don't have access to a decent life, to a feeling of security and care, the kind of life that Europeans more or less take for granted. European countries are far from perfect of course and there are people who die of cold or excessive heat or hunger in France, where I live, or who don't even have a roof over their heads to our infinite shame. But that slums should even exist and the absence of social services should be the norm in the richest country in the world is such an infamy that even the most soul deaf and uncaring person in a position of authority should stand up and scream for justice.
But the world is made up of governments who take care only of their own greed and hunger for power. In Europe the governments put up with our social safety nets only because it would cause their own demise if they were to fight against this well-established system. However, under today's neoliberal sell-out system this safety net is shrinking and there is no telling how far the people will let the Corporation puppets juggle with our lives before we take to the streets everywhere and interrupt politics as usual.
Another evil that is brought to us by the Corporations that seem to own the world is the degradation of the environment. The world is being rendered increasingly unlivable by global warming and environmental decay from deforestation, toxic products infiltrating the soil and the waters and genetically modified products that render formerly healthy plants sterile. All of this is due to the unspeakable greed of the men and women in powerful positions who care only for instant profit. We don't even have an inkling of what the planet is going to be like a few decades from now or how much more deadly and uncontrollable the climactic conditions are going to become for each year with no decisive action taken to limit the damage being done.
The United States is fast moving into the league of poor nations in terms of level of education, health care, job security and standards of living for the average family, including decent working conditions and time off for the family and for a life worth living.
The double-faced war
The face of war has changed once more. Or rather, it's a two-faced war that's being fought. One face is turned towards obliterating or taking over countries like Iraq and Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan that stand in the way of the Empire and its infinite needs for carbon fuels. Another face of the war is being fought against the people, people everywhere, but in the first place against the very people of the United States of America. Undermining the security and the well-being of the people is on the agenda of this new world order, the agenda of the Empire. Lowering the level of education, good education being only for the children of the so-called elite, that is to say the predators, is one of their major policies. And the means to keep this world order going is permanent war.
The people have to be held down, manacled and powerless so as not to interfere in the Big Boys' game of Monopoly with the world. Rendering the people harmless is one of the major goals of the Empire. Then the Big Corporations can go ahead and ruin the planet to their heart's content.
The only hitch is the fact that we'll all be falling off the cliff together. The system is rotten and there is nobody but We the people who can save the planet from total destruction. While wars make for unheard-of wealth for the Arms Industry and lots of other corporations that are tagging along, they are also, in their various disguises, the way to destroy human life. First there is a long period when war seems to be the merchandise of choice for the people in power. Everything feeds on war. War is the very kernel of the present system. War makes the world go round. Until the day when it stops.
And obviously the added boon of wars is that an enemy is created. People who have already been downgraded to helpless victims of the system are now fed the illusion that we have a 'war on terror'. Even though the ridiculous term has finally been abandoned it is still a war on the Other, specifically on Muslims. The fear of the Other has to be kept alive so as to tame the ignorant people. Keeping hate and fear going is the very essence of the Washington Consensus, the Globalized Neoliberal World Order.
This world order is in for a breakdown
The day people realize that they have had enough, that they are being made into helpless pawns in a monstrously vicious game of masters and slaves, that day the governments will have to finally come to see that they can not stand alone in a complex world of interdependence. Nobody can rule a world without the support of the masses.
The power of the fear-mongers and multi-national corporations will be broken and war will no more be the force that the predators feed on.
