The two decades since 9/11 have witnessed the radicalization of American politics to a remarkable degree. The two political parties have slid to the far right in a mutual embrace of militarized corporatism promoting forever wars. At the same time income and wealth inequality has exploded to historic levels, the manufacturing sector outsourced, the agricultural sector industrialized, the immigrant blamed for the disappearance of jobs, unions and worker rights degraded to almost nothing, the Muslim world widely regarded as promoting terrorism, much of the Muslim world destroyed by US corporate greed embodied in foreign policy, and the election of a fascist demagogue as a result of all the above- but for which Russia is blamed, and with whom we are now in a proxy war; and because China has been the primary economic beneficiary of failed American neoliberal policy and is beating the US at its own historic game of state capitalism, China now must also die.
Wow! Say what?
This is called late stage American predatory capitalism which, as Marx foretold, would result in cannibalism: America eating itself to death, but blaming everyone else for its savage appetite. This is extraordinary unprecedented political malignant narcissism.
And most importantly, even though all this is completely obvious, our political, military and corporate elites refuse to admit a word of it. Because they are responsible for it.
