by Lawrence Wilson, MD

THE END OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE OR DOMINANCE

THE AMERICAN STEALTH EMPIRE

America, by her foreign aid, in large part, and by having a large military scattered around the world, has maintained a type of empire. It is not a colonial empire, in that its members are not “colonies” of America who directly owe allegiance to America. However, it is a type of subtle empire controlled through foreign aid money backed by military might that could be and was used, at times, to enforce the “contracts” with the nations.

This is diminishing somewhat as the money runs out, and as the will to control others in this way runs out, too. Also, the people in the nations of the world, many, at least, sense that something is wrong, that they are not controlling their own destiny, and that America is somehow to blame. They are correct to a degree. However, they are wrong if they think they can do better on their own, I believe.

Benign aspects of empire and tyranny. Without the strong arm of the American military, for example, lesser tyrants tend to arise who are much worse. In this regard, the American empire is somewhat like the British empire, which was relatively benign to the subjects compared to earlier empires such as the Roman empire.

Even here, the Romans ruled with an iron fist, but there was water and there was food, which was not the case with many of the local warlords who had ruled before Rome conquered them easily with its overwhelming technical and military superiority.

This is the history of empires on earth, and the world is changing as the American empire crumbles before our eyes, quickly now in the Middle East, for example, and slowly everywhere else.

WHY EMPIRES CRUMBLE

Empires end or crumble for just a few reasons:

1. Lack of money. Perhaps the most common is that the rulers become greedy and arrogant, and forget about basics like generating capital to support the empire. In the present situation, the American rulers exported production from the United States to supposedly help others, which is the truth, but in doing so they hollowed out the manufacturing base of America. As a result, the money has run out in an alarming way.

Without vast sums of money to bribe and control foreign leaders and populations, and to support a large military operation around the globe, the empire naturally collapses. It happened in Rome, it happened in Great Britain, and it is happening in America, too.

2. Lack of political will. The people of America and their leaders are simply less interested in geopolitics and world domination. It is derided in the schools, not taught accurately at all, and the youth have little interest in it as a result. Their consciousness is changing to a more environmentally friendly, chummy “Facebook” type of consciousness and wielding power is not as appealing. It is a game that is not over, but the young want little to do with it and would rather play with their ipods and ipads.

3. Declining health and intelligence of the ruling nation. This is also occurring quickly in America and in Europe, in particular. The people literally and figuratively become fat and sassy, lazy, stupid and often idiotic and sick from eating poorer food that is “rich”, but not nutritious.

They also begin to relax or even ignore ignore rigorous sexual and other hygienic measures, so sexually-transmitted disease and many others ravage the population. Drugs help control them, but drugs are toxic and costly, and tend to ruin one’s health in other ways.

The leisure that comes with power and wealth distracts the people with silly movies, stupid books that are untrue, wasted and costly college educations that teach communism and socialism (both false doctrines), and this also saps the people’s strength, courage, determination and even their will to live, let alone control others.

This scenario played out very much in ancient Rome, with some variation, and is playing out in America and Europe today in an enormous way.

WHO WRITES AND TALKS ABOUT THESE PROBLEMS?

The end of the American era is the essence of the world geo-political change taking place today. You can read more about it by looking up the name of Richard Maybury on the internet. He writes a financial and political newsletter that is now focusing on this subject almost exclusively, and has done so for some years. Others also write and speak about it.

For example some of the Tea Party groups and other conservative columnists and politicians. An excellent author who understands it well is Mark Steyn, who wrote, After America – Armageddon and other excellent books. Sadly, these brilliant writers are ignored on college campuses and in the halls of power, for the most part.

THE US CONSTITUTION SHOULD HAVE PREVENTED THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AMERICAN EMPIRE, BUT WAS IGNORED BEGINNING ABOUT ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO

The US federal Constitution and the state constitutions were set up to prevent abuses of power of all kinds. They are brilliant documents, but due to various factor, they have been twisted and ignored by the US Supreme Court, especially, and by jurors, attorneys and judges across the nation. This continues to be a serious problem.

The worst violation of the American Constitution, without a doubt, was the establishment of the Federal Reserve system in 1913 to replace a simple gold and silver-based currency. This allowed the US government to print endless amounts of paper money, also called fiat money. This means worthless paper money that is then forced on the population. Their gold was confiscated, meanwhile, another outright violation of the Constitution.

So today, billions and billions of worthless paper dollars can and are being printed and spent on foreign aid and military intervention without the people really understanding the cost, and how it is all financed. This singlehandedly creates empires, always.

The best book on this subject is The Creature From Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin. This is a terrific book for anyone who wishes to understand money and history. It should be required reading for all high school children in America and other nations, and would have prevented the American demise and many wars, including the first and second World Wars, all of which were driven by fiat money.

All nations have fiat money. In fairness, most other “advanced” nations on earth have done the same thing in creating paper money. America, however, grew to dominate because she had a gold standard during the 19^th century. America was armed with a Constitution that should have prevented the problem of paper money. Unfortunately, she could not resist the temptation to abandon her Constitution and instead intervene politically in other nations.

In addition to her Constitution, America had and fortunately still has many hundreds of documents written by her wise founders that discuss the problem of empire-building. In particular, Thomas Jefferson wrote Five Principles Of Sound Government that directly address the subject. This should also be required reading in high school and college, and of course laws schools, the worst “higher” education in America. (see http://myfoundingfathersquotes.com/the-five-principles-of-good-government-according-to-thomas-jefferson/)

Others great men such as George Washington, George Wythe and many other founders also understood the temptation of empire building. They were thoroughly familiar with empires and their dangers, having studied Rome and others. They warned against empire-building strenuously.

FAIRNESS TO AMERICA

I disagree somewhat with a total condemnation of America, as many authors embrace. To be fair, America has been the most benign empire in earth history. America’s control has been one of at least mouthing slogans of self-rule, democracy (which is not the same as a republic, but this is not taught any more), fairness, human rights and so on. America’s role in World War I and II brought down horrendous dictators and emperors in Japan, Germany and even Russia. So it is not without merit. However, America still wields a heavy hand around the globe and people do not like it one bit in Europe, Asia, Africa and especially in the Middle East, the current scene of obvious unrest. This type of empire is now crumbling fast.

REPLACING THE AMERICAN-LED EMPIRE

The question arise as to what will replace the older American empire of the 20^th century. It may not be pretty, at least for a while. Richard Maybury reminds us that present-day Iraq, Russia and other fallen nations are better than before, but not much. In some cases, they are worse. New thugs arise who take over and may be even more brutal. Islamic extremists may take over many Middle East nations, as occurred in Iran, and make conditions even more horrendous for women, for example, than they were under the Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979.

As a result, this is a tumultuous time to live in and a more dangerous time if one lives in a nation such as those in the Middle East that are undergoing revolts and breakups.

Another possibility exists. The United States could regain her predominance in the world and reimpose a type of more benign empire that would actually stabilize things. This is possible because 1) America’s Constitution, while beaten down and trashed, still is in force, 2) The Tea Party and similar movements are gaining momentum and want America to retrace and return to her original revolutionary principles of small, efficient government and no foreign entanglements, 3) the American people are resilient and if the correct policies are put into place, manufacturing and prosperity could return to the United States to some degree, at least, 4) the American military, at least for the moment, are still ahead of all others and could impose a type of peace on the planet.

If this were to occur, much chaos could be avoided, and perhaps much bloodshed as well. Sadly, it will not happen with Mr. Obama as president, as he is just too weak and incompetent. He does not understand the threats to the United States, nor does he understand history very well. But with another leader and a Republican Congress, it is possible. Time will tell.

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