IN this post I argue not only that the US Empire is in decline, but that it will be replaced - with or without elections - with a model more amenable to survival.
This is because the policies of Liberalism it espouses are the politics of national suicide.
We inhabit a moment of profound change in world affairs whose consequences will rewrite the mythology under whose power we have been propagandised for a century.
In brief:
The Liberal state is no longer legitimate. It is a despotism which cannot offer the basic guarantees on which the right to rule relies. There is a right to revolution when the state is illegitimate.
The Imperial economy is based on a criminal enterprise.
Change is coming. It is a matter of survival - for the US Empire itself.
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