Americas Looming Class War By Mark R. Crovelli
(2009-12-30 at 22:52:57 )

Americas Looming Class War by Mark R. Crovelli

In the weeks and years immediately following September 11, 2001, many
Americans succumbed to the attractive yet fictional idea that all people
in the United States share the same interests, goals and values. This
idea of a mystical unity among all Americans took widespread hold as a
natural human reaction to an attack by foreigners on American soil. With
a dangerous cocktail of fear and anger coursing through their veins, and
prodded on by the docile and unquestioning American political-media
establishment, it was easy and emotionally satisfying to imagine that we
were united together in a quasi-spiritual bond against an evil and
maniacal foreign enemy. Members of Americas political class were not
oblivious to the fact that they could exploit this idea for their own
personal gain, and they pounced at the opportunity to pass legislation
aimed at controlling and subduing Americans themselves - in the name of
protecting them, of course. Seeking to distract Americans from the
obvious fact that the U.S. government had both provoked the attack and
failed to stop it, a bellicose vanguard of the political class pounced at
the opportunity to make real their dream of sending American soldiers
into far-away deserts and rocky mountains in order to spread Democracy
To The Savages Of The World.

Everything seemed to be going brilliantly for the dominant political
class at the time. Their plans for a greatly expanded and powerful
domestic state and exhilarating, democracy-promoting foreign adventures
had all become realities. Then, to the dominant political class chagrin,
things started to go badly. First, on the foreign adventure front, it
turned out that the people in the deserts and rocky mountains that
American soldiers were Liberating were not as excited about being ruled
by majorities of other ethnic groups as the American political class had
hoped. Nor were they particularly excited about having tens of thousands
of highly armed foreigners marauding around their countries and dropping
bombs on their neighbors. It had been many years since the American
Karzai had Unified the United States through murder, taxation, and
conquest, and the political class in Washington had forgotten that proud
and independent people are not always thrilled about the idea of having
far away people control their lives. They had also Forgotten that War
Always Involves Death, Suffering, and Destruction, Not Ticker-Tape
Parades, Peace, and Love.

Things then started to go badly for the dominant political class on the
domestic front. The American people had become accustomed in the years
following 1989 to thinking that Their military was virtually invincible,
and Their economy was, and always would be, impervious to depression and
collapse. Those Illusions were suddenly Shattered, however, as the
American Military Struggled to keep a handle on two nearly decade-long
wars, and the excesses of a quasi-private banking cartel that Hurled the
United States into recession. Millions of ordinary Americans lost their
homes, their jobs, and their savings in the ensuing recession, and
American soldiers continued to kill and die in the desert and mountains
abroad. Under these circumstances, Americans were less and less likely to
view their leaders and their neighbors through the lens of Unity. They
were starting to view the political establishment in Washington as a
threat in itself, and as a group of people whose Interests were Not
Aligned with those of Ordinary American Citizens.

The dominant political class had a serious problem on its hands, and its
main figureheads and schemers were summarily ousted from office by a
public that was angry and disillusioned. By tossing out the political
clique that brought them war and recession, the American people thought
they were making a powerful statement against the political class. They
cheered and swooned for the New Leader and his entourage, who were
careful to speak of Hope and a new Unity among the American people and
the brotherhood of man. Once again the American people heard the siren
song of Unity" Among All Americans, and they heeded its call to look
confidently to the new political class to bring them Peace, Prosperity,
and Health Care.

In the months following the New Leaders assumption of the throne, however,
the American people found out that the Unity the new leader was selling
had the Same Stench as the Unity pitched by his predecessor. The
predecessor had spoken of Unity Among The Free People and Nations of the
world in the face of irrational and evil Terrorists - the solution to
which, he argued, was giving the Governing Class Virtually Unlimited
Power To Do Whatever it wanted to the American hoi polloi, and the
Unlimited Power To Invade and Kill Around The Rest Of The World. The New
Leader spoke of Hope" and Peace in the face of Global Challenges - the
solution to which, he argued, was giving the governing class virtually
unlimited power to do whatever it wanted to the American hoi polloi, and
the unlimited power to invade and kill around the rest of the world. The
American people began to realize that there was indeed truth in both
leaders talk of Unity among Americans, although it was not the kind of
unity they had been imagining in the voting booth. It was a unity among
the ordinary class of Americans to submit to what the governing class
told them to do, told them to pay, and whom it told them to kill. And
there was a unity among the governing class in America in its ability to
do whatever it wanted, incarcerate whomever it wanted, take whatever it
wanted, give whatever it wanted, and kill whomever it wanted.

The ordinary American people, having been finally disabused of their
notions of Unity among all Americans, were finally in a position to
understand what Government Is. Government is Always and Everywhere a
Specially Privileged Class of People Who Have The Ability To Do Whatever
They Want To Another Group Of People - And Do It At The Forced Expense
Of The People They Control. Recognizing this, the American people were
in a position to make a choice that would affect the rest of their lives,
and the lives of every subsequent generation of Americans. They would
have to choose whether to submit to the whims and schemes of the
governing class, or to fight for the ability of each individual man to
choose what to do with his own life and his own property.

At this historic juncture, the American people chose...

December 30, 2009

Mark R. Crovelli writes from Denver, Colorado.

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