The future of humanity may be lost if Public Enemy No. 1 is not stopped in its tracks. While it is the world's most powerful enemy, it has an Achilles Heel that can be targeted legally, peacefully, and successfully, but only if Americans unite to form a U.S. Democracy Corps.

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No doubt this article's title seems to be an odd me'lange, but I promise to connect the dots. My primary focus will be its last three subjects, but since certain issues affecting 2020 also have implications for the second and third subjects, I can't ignore 2020.

2020

2020 is winding down engulfed in uncertainty over the near future in the face of a new incoming U.S. President (for simplicity's sake, I will assume Biden emerges the victor), and the origin and course of the pandemic that is getting a second wind.

The U.S. Presidency

I have claimed for years that the two dominant political parties are two sides of the same corrupted coin. After all, both parties are at the beck and call of corporate America. Yet there are always some shades of difference, most notably in the extent of widespread misery, destruction, and death experienced under different administrations. If you agree as I do with Einstein that war is an act of murder, then all U.S. presidents from the outset, save two in office only a month or so, have been surrogate murderers. They obviously vary in how much surrogate murdering they have done and less obviously in their feelings about it. I doubt if any president's feelings can match those President Obama reportedly expressed to his inner sanctum of drone plotters; namely, "I am really good at killing people." [1] Maybe it was his troubled conscience speaking assuming he has one.

Some differences between the Obama and the Trump administrations are already on the record. Except for the one incident that resulted in the drone killing of the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Quds Force, a reputed threat to the U.S., Trump hasn't given the drone hawks the green light. [2] Additionally Obama's vice-president, Biden, reportedly "championed drone strikes and Special Forces operations as an alternative to the heavy deployment of ground troops,' and bragged that "we didn't lose a single life" and that the war "served as a prescription for how to deal with the world as we go forward." [3] A prescription, no less from a diehard war hawk! A most ominous forewarning of what might be ahead with his administration that could be a replica or worse of the Obama administration.

Two Powder Kegs

China and the U.S. are currently embroiled in two disputes that amount to powder kegs possibly presaging Armageddon.

One involves the Covid-19 pandemic. Speculation about its true origin and purpose have been circulating for months. There has been, for instance, a lawsuit filed with the International Criminal Court alleging that the virus was being developed as a biological weapon at the Wuhan laboratory in China. [4] A member of the British Parliament has made the same allegation. [5] Giving the two more credence is the report by a highly qualified Chinese virologist working in Hong Kong, Dr Li-Meng, who has fled to the U.S. for fear of retaliation by the Chinese government after "she claimed that she discovered a cover-up operation during her investigation and said that the Chinese government knew about the spread of the virus before publicly acknowledging it. She further asserted that the virus is an artificial one created by the China Military Institute. [6] She seems confident of her discovery and intends to publish her scientific findings. [7]

If it turns out that the virus was indeed being developed as a biological weapon, the pressing question becomes what will be the response of the new administration in the U.S.?

The other powder keg involves the continuing dispute between the two nations over the sovereignty of Taiwan. The U.S. had imperialistically and legally over-reached a few years ago and is committed to go to war should China unequivocally claim as its own the disputed territory. While Biden's position on the matter is murky, the legal obligation would seem to force his hand if China provokes it. [8] The most sensible and harmonious resolution, which has never been a strength of America's foreign policy, would be to repeal the binding law, or more characteristically, simply ignore it.

The U.S. Democracy Corps

My String of Failed Reforms

I have utterly failed numerous times to mobilize and organize Americans peacefully and legally to end the malevolent rule by the power elite that have been ruling and ruining America from its outset and through endless imperialistic and militaristic interventions are risking the very future of humanity predictably sometime later this century. Not at all surprisingly, the power elite are the only ones in America profiting from Covid-19. [9]

My first version of a U.S. Democracy Corps (USDC) a few years ago was a dismal failure and for two reasons. [10] I should have sought to coalesce existing organizations and groups rather than target individuals. And I had no financial backers.

Multi billionaire Bill Gates has said it would take a lot of money to change human behavior, and I fed that quote back to him when I futilely beseeched him and Warren Buffett to back the establishment of DemocracyPow!er, that would combine a central planning and coordinating unit, a virtual, on-line "U.S. Chamber of Democracy," with the political muscle of a massive coalition of Americans mobilized into a "People's Reignbow Coalition." [11] I never got a reply from the two multibillionaires after sending them complimentary copies of my book and a subsequent follow-up. They apparently had no intention of opposing the corpocracy which had forged them. And I never got a reply from the Reverend Jessie Jackson whom I had proposed leading the coalition. [12] I learned later that he was apparently "shaking down" corporations for his own interests. [13]

Heeding Don Quixote's creed that "the quest must continue, no matter how far, no matter how impossible," I have launched a new version of the USDC [14]. It would consist of millions of discontented Americans organized into about 12 alliances of unorganized and already organized Americans with similar grievances and activist efforts. As for funding, I have I think gotten smarter. I am searching for "outliers" among the wealthy power elite, individuals who are wealthy with a social conscience. I have already found one, a wealthy lawyer who founded America's largest injury law firm (bannering the slogan, "Dedicated to protecting the people, not the powerful," and who recently underwrote an expensive, but successful campaign to raise the minimum wage of Floridians. [15] I dismiss any cynics who would regard his firm as "ambulance chasers," especially since most lawyers are functionaries of and paid by the corpocracy. I plan to ask David Swanson if he would be willing to lead the USDC if it materialized. I regard him as the "goliath" of peace activists, having cofounded World Beyond War and shepherding it into a world-wide network of chapters and affiliates. [16]

Achilles Heel

Power is the capacity to control resources to achieve desired ends. That capacity is far less an intrinsic attribute of any human being and much more a consequence of extrinsic sources of favorable situations and circumstances. I call these extrinsic sources "props." The power elites within corporate America and government America trade these props to sustain and grow their power. Over the years I have researched these props and identified 25 of them [17]. An obvious example of a prop corporate America's power elite give government America is campaign financing. Just as obvious an example in the reverse are the many handouts such as corporate subsidies and "go-past jail cards."

It is one thing to know about these props and entirely a quantum difference to leverage them into being "knocked down." With that in mind I proposed in my latest book numerous ways to knock them down. [18] For example, one approach to knocking down the prop, "banksers and bad capitalism" would be to bring the Public Banking Institute (PBI) into the USDC. When I first learned about the PBI a few years ago it was barely on the horizon but has since been gaining considerable momentum. According to its website, "Across the nation, more than 25 initiatives for public banks are actively being pursued, by progressives and conservatives, 30 of 50 states have proposed legislation in support of publicly owned banks, and over 50 organizations are promoting public banks." [19] Although the PBI is a single-issue initiative, the underworld of private banking harms every aspect of the lives of the less powerful. [20] If the BPI joined a growing Corps there ought to be mutual benefits to both. Like the Floridian outlier I will contact PBI soon.

The Distant Future

Some sage has said "build the future, not predict it." I demur. The stakes for humanity's future are too alarmingly high to not try doing both. My proposed USDC is an effort to build the future. As for predicting it, I have now made two stabs at it. I would like to retract the first made in 2011 where I confidently claimed that the book published then is not a doomsday one. [21] In writing my newest book, after thoroughly reading many authoritative experts' assessments, I concluded that one or the other of four forms of doomsday would probably happen later this century if America's power elite were not stopped from their "killing the future" with their daily stream of ruinous actions. [22] The four are Armageddon, biological warfare, ecocide, and evolutionary apocalypse. To be fatalistic or passive about them is tantamount to a death wish for future generations.

Building the Future

Ending the corpocracy does not by itself automatically create a real democracy. One of the alliances I proposed for the USDC would take the lead in building a "People's America." While I leave creation of it up to the USDC once established, I want to express my vision of the salient features of a real democracy for America: a) at peace with itself and the world, b) politicians who are public rather than corporate servants, c) laws with teeth for the benefit of the common good, d) where the "living field" is leveled with power more evenly distributed among the populace without becoming an anarchy, e) where all Americans have the same universal rights, f) where all Americans can reach their fullest potential as human beings, and g) where there is a new Declaration of Independenceof the Power Elite. I know this list reads like a wish list, but anything conceivable is possible.

In Closing

I ask readers of this article to consider which of the following options best speaks for them about this article: a) much ado about nothing, b) must get worse before getting better, c) beyond our control, d) the USDC won't fly, or e) count me in to help. If your choice is the last one, please contact me (democracypower[at]att.net) if you know of any wealthy outliers who individually or collectively could fund a contract with one or more organizations and/or to make any other suggestions.

Incidentally, I have absolutely no financial stake in this endeavor, but I would consider if asked being an unpaid consultant.

Notes

1. Halperin, M. & Heilemann, J. Double Down: Game Change. Penguin Books, 2013.

2. Cohen, Z. et al. U.S. Drone Strike Ordered by Trump Kills Top Iranian Commander in Baghdad

CNN, January 4, 2020.

3. Yang, K. Joe Biden's Record on China and Taiwan. The Diplomat, March 6, 2020.

4. Quinn, M. Conservative Lawyer Sues Chinese Government Over Coronavirus Outbreak. CBS News, March 19, 2020.

5. McGrath, C. Coronavirus Horror: Pandemic COULD be Biological Weapon Gone Wrong, Claims MP. Express, June 25, 2020.

6. Sarkar, K. 'Covid-19 Made in Wuhan Lab Controlled by China Govt', Claims Virologist, Offers Evidence. Hindustan Times, New Delhi, September 14, 2020.

7. Ibid.

8. Kuzmzrov, J. Beware of the Hawk: What to Expect from the Biden Administration on Foreign Policy. Covert Magazine. November 8, 2020.

9. Kelly, J. Billionaires Are Getting Richer During The COVID-19 Pandemic While Most Americans Suffer. Forbes, April 27, 2020.

10. Brumback, G.B. Achilles Heel of Public Enemy No. 1. KDP Independent Publishing, 2020. 37-39.

11. Brumback, G.B. "911!" KDP Independent Publishing, 2019. 110-111.

12. Ibid. 87.

13. Timmerman, K.R. Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson. Regnery Publishing, 2003.

14. Op. Cit. Note 10.

15. Aboraya, A. John Morgan To Florida Legislature: Thwart Minimum Wage, 'I'll Sue the State, And I'll Win.' WUSF Public Media. November 4, 2020.

16. worldbeyondwar.org

17. Op. Cit. Note 10. 46-70.

18. Ibid. 73-88

19. publicbankinginstitute.org

20. Brumback, G.B. The Underworld of Banksters. OpEdNews, April 26; Dissident Voice, May 2; and Uncommon Thought Journal, May 18, 2018.

21. Brumback, G.B. The Devil's Marriage: Break Up the Corpocracy or Leave Democracy in the Lurch. Author House, 2011. 2.

22. Op. Cit. Note 10. 28-32.

Authors Website: http://www.911rescueamerica.com

Authors Bio:

Retired organizational psychologist.

Author of "911!", The Devil's Marriage: Break Up the Corpocracy or Leave Democracy in the Lur ch; America's Oldest Professions: Warring and Spying; and Corporate Reckoning Ahead.

I may be aged but I am still an indefatigable foe of America's power elite who are ruining our nation and the world. If they wrongdoing and evildoing are not stopped there will be no humanity later this century. My newest book, "911!" explains why America needs rescued from the death grip of the power elite and proposes a detail plan for rescuing America and creating a new People's America.