Anti-EMPIRE Clubs/League/Movement championing the Green Party in 2012.
Today there is a massive (and perhaps intentional) misreading of the angst, anger, and frustration of the American public.
In this post-2006 Democratic mid-term election victory/mandate and failure, post-2008 Obama election mandate and failure, post-financial 9/15/08 "shock-doctrine' and economic failure, post-Scott Brown election shock and coming failure, and post-Tea Party movement and coming failure, average Americans are in a state of vast disappointment, frustration, induced-fear, and serious concern over the direction and very survival of their country.
According to the latest polls at least 58% believe the country is headed on the "wrong track', and all the supposed pundits are doing nothing but reporting that the American public is frustrated, arguing among themselves about whether the angry independents are really left-center or right-center, and trying to understand what are the "hot issues'.
What no one in the media (including the internet's supposedly alternative media) is recognizing is that the American public senses that their country has been taken over by something beyond their control --- and they are right. It has been taken over by a guileful and disguised EMPIRE, which none among the pampered elite in the media, and political structure (of either money corrupted party), want to disclose to the angry public.
The anger and angst is universal and undifferentiated from far left to far right, and has taken form in the gut manner of the "Tea Party' predominantly on the reactionary right. Most of this frustration and activist anger is reflective of the anger of early American colonialists, for whom the movement is named, and is similar to the pre-revolutionary anger aimed at the British Empire's "royal governors' and laws that taxed tea, stamps, and other necessities without any representation. Among this modern "Tea Party' mob the populist intensity is great but the understanding of what they are rebelling against is slim, since they do not understand that the true oppressor and target of their rage should be the integrated Empire itself ---- something that America's founders better understood.
The frustration on the left is less intense but based on a far superior historical and ideological understanding and focus of the impact of Empire, particularly among the leading academics and intellectuals among both principled progressives and anti-war libertarians. Currently, the broader generic left and libertarian right's attention and focus is divided and distracted (perhaps intentionally by the Empire) on a plethora of "symptomatic issues' like; health care, economic inequality, civil rights, anti-war, environmentalism, judicial fairness, Gitmo, whales, clear cutting, ". ad nauseam, which thus saps the movement from focusing on the singular and seminal cause of all these symptom "issues', problems, and "sorrows' ---- which is Empire itself.
The first truly independent third party which refuses to take money from the corporate/financial/militarist Empire, which publicly commits itself to actually confront that Empire, and which secures the support of the growing Anti-Empire movement in America will easily displace the dying inertia of both the existing Republican and Democratic wings of the disgraced corporate Empire's phony parties, and secure a massive lead in political support from all average Americans.
The existing corrupt political system of the two arrogant, elitist, and unresponsive corporate Empire-controlled parties will collapse much more quickly than the out-of-touch and elite pundits can imagine --- just as the Soviet Empire collapsed faster than the CIA and secret national intelligence state imagined.
The path toward this collapse is already happening, and will accelerate greatly as a new "Anti-Empire' movement captures the attention and loyalty of most average Americans who have been by-passed, disenfranchised, and deserted by the current corrupt and ruling-elite corporate-financial Empire. This overt and fast growing "Anti-Empire' movement is springing quickly from the same empathetic academic, intellectual, and artistic elements that birthed the "Anti-Imperialism' and "populist progressive' movements of the late 19th century --- when corporate, banking, financial, and "trust' interests first tired to take over control of our American political democracy.
The "Tea Party' has already tapped into the energy of anger that will swell the Anti-Empire movement, but the Tea Party movement has not yet recognized that the basis of their populism is actually Anti-Empire anger. In fact, the Tea Party still thinks that their appeal is only anti-government, and does not realize that, like the American Revolution, the battle is one of democratic self-government precisely against Empire in all its indivisible corruption of political, economic, financial, and military power --- of which the economic is the most cancerous element in the tumor of Empire.
The Green Party, and its more intelligent leaders, already understand the primacy of the economic/financial core tumor of Empire, and realize that all the deceits and oppressions of the corrupted political and military sphere of the current "Vichy' government swell from the economic death-spiral of the Empire. Thus the Green Party already fore-swears all corporatist financial bribes, adheres to a consistent platform that aligns with the majoritarian views of all average Americans, and can best leverage and benefit from a wide-spread and energetic populist "Anti-Empire' centered movement.
Naturally, the Green Party can not simply sit back and expect this growing "Anti-Empire' popularity and election winning opportunity to be the successful third party of 21st century America to fall in its lap. First the Green Party needs to forcefully grasp the mantle of Anti-Empire leadership, then expose and educate all average Americans about the real nature of Empire as the seminal cause of all our separate "issues', "sorrows', and problems (both foreign and domestic), and then clearly define non-violent programs to un-plug America from its empire illusions and regain the path of America's peaceful, progressive, and inclusive journey to sustainable and equitable prosperity for all.
The role of all Americans who already sense and understand the opposite dark path of Empire's inevitable death-spiral for all countries that it infects is to develop the educational and motivational "Anti-Empire' clubs, leagues, and movement that will feed and support the birth of a Green Anti-Empire Party for the survival of the country that we love.
Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine
