TRASH CULTURE FOREIGN POLICY

        Following in the footsteps again of Bush 1.0 and Bush 2.0, the New Right's Army of God under Neo-Nazi Pete Hegseth attacked a sovereign country and kidnapped its President who is to be tried in an American Kangaroo Court. In the typical gangster fashion which has come to exemplify both domestic and foreign policy in the US, the cowardly attack on Venezuela's Government---like the murder of Venezuelan fishermen and boaters, and the seizure of oil tankers---was carried out under the transparently phony pretext of National Security. 

       With characteristic sadism, the thugs running America's State Security apparatus are circulating photos of President Maduro in chains and blindfolded, a warning to other world leaders who might defy the New Order. There was some tepid criticism from the Democrats who, in this Election Year, likely would not want the public reminded of similar actions carried out by Clinton (in Haiti and Serbia) or Obama (in Libya) or Biden (in Syria). The Republicans, too, don't appreciate parallels drawn between Trump 47 and the Bush Regimes; although Bush Sr. did campaign on a kinder, gentler, America before executing just this kind of operation in Panama. Likewise, Junior campaigned on ending the policy of regime change before imposing such regime changes on Afghanistan and Iraq; just like Trump 47 vowed to end forever wars. Only two actual Conservatives in Congress, Thomas Massie and Marjorie T. Greene have condemned the attack so far; both of whom already have been purged by the New Right for their disloyalty to the New Order. Fortunately for the Conservative-Industrial Complex, they have a servile Corporate Media operating as their propaganda arm, so they needn't walk on eggshells about anything they say or do.

      American Foreign Policy is hypocritically based upon enforcing what the New Right calls "a rules-based order" which basically means that they make the rules and everyone else follows their orders. Our Foreign Policy is really only a reflection of our Domestic Policy. The American people have supported such policies during  the last three decades, because they have come to idolize Success and Power and hold that Might is Right and that the Personal is Political as their cultural maxims and their standards of ethical behavior. Our Society functions along the ethos of the Corporate Board Room, which simply issues decrees that it expects everyone else to follow or face the consequences. It's the ethos of Organized Crime Bosses too; except that Organized Crime bosses occasionally display some acts of human goodness and generally do not view human beings as expendable human capital. Today, we are a culture of bullies, malignant narcissists, and opportunists who treat their so-called 'inferiors' with arrogance and contempt; while fawning slavishly before their so-called 'superiors' until they see an opening to back-stab and replace them. 

      In other words, we're getting the very kind of Government that we deserve; because it reflects our culture. Social Media influencers, Megachurch pastors, arrogant CEOs: these are whom we look up to as our spiritual guides today; those who legislate right and wrong and live the lives that Americans secretly envy and wish to emulate. This is why---when we should be seeking change and reform---we instead see conformity and indifference to the most callous and aberrant behaviors, so long as such actions and thoughts come from those in authority. 

     This is also why we are on the Road to Totalitarianism and have been for some time. We will never return to the sort of Making America Great Again or American Exceptionalism that we claim to uphold unless we, as a people, return to the character of our forefathers who made America great and exceptional. Our problems, again, are not political or economic: they are spiritual problems, and the spiritual rot is eating our culture from the inside out like a cancer.