American Rome

The Romans in their Decadence - Thomas Couture, 1847

Washington D. C. is to the American empire as Rome was to the Roman Empire. All over these empires ordinary people are working, going about their business and getting on with their lives. In the American Rome, the politicians and their toadies are busy feathering their nests with as much golden goose down as they can get their hands on. They are doing this by siphoning off a portion of the government money they spend on every single one of their government projects. It might be in the form of sweetheart deals, bribes, kickbacks or valuable prizes like jet planes or a country estate.

Most of the money the government spends is conjured out of thin air. Oh, there is some income from taxes, but does that even cover the interest that is owed on the national debt? It doesn't matter, all that magic money is causing inflation. Inflation doesn't really bother the rich because their holdings are invested in the real world, like real estate or profit making businesses, like the oil and armaments industry. Inflation causes the value of the dollar to go down, but that just means the price tag on the rich folk's holdings goes up. But anyone who understands basic economics realizes that increase in 'value' is just an illusion. The real value has not changed, it's just that the value of the money used to assess the value of the real thing has gone down.

It's the poor who suffer, and by the poor, I mean everyone with less than a million bucks worth of real stuff. The longer inflation goes on, the more people are squeezed out of the bottom and onto the streets. But the fat cats in the American Rome don't care because the poor have been beat down so far they don't have the energy to fight back or even to vote. All their energy is spent on survival.

So what we have is the same strategy pursued by the Mafia and Latin American dictatorships - squeeze the poor and then squeeze them some more. Be careful though, squeeze them too much and you get a revolution like you got in Venezuela and Nicaragua. 

The vast majority of the population has no real understanding, nor any real curiosity about what the government is doing. The pigs in Washington D. C. have built a media empire that tells the people something like a fairytale that keeps the majority of them complacent. They tell the people that Biden, the most corrupt son-of-a-bitch of them all, is bringing down inflation and building back better and fighting that evil Russian, and the people just lap it up.

If you want change, something needs to be done about the lock the pigs have on the media. I don't know how you are going to do that. A supreme court ruling might help, or if some of the billionaires in charge of these media empires have a change of heart, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Inspired by Tucker Carlson