Four Sorrows

Here are some words of wisdom from someone else I find compelling:

Chalmers Johnson, in Sorrows of Empire wrote:

“Four sorrows … are certain to be visited on the United States.

Their cumulative effect guarantees that the U.S. will cease to resemble the country outlined in the Constitution of 1787.

First, there will be a state of perpetual war, leading to more terrorism against Americans wherever they may be and a spreading reliance on nuclear weapons among smaller nations as they try to ward off the imperial juggernaut.

Second is a loss of democracy and Constitutional rights as the presidency eclipses Congress and is itself transformed from a co-equal ‘executive branch’ of government into a military junta.

Third is the replacement of truth by propaganda, disinformation, and the glorification of war, power, and the military legions.

Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.”

Most people in the U.S. do not see this coming. They consider conversations about it to be "conspiracy theory." Not much I can do about that, other that to suggest to people that they listen and think. I do not choose to look at Canada and Croatia and Mexico simply because they are nice places to live, I look at them as prospective places for escape when the chickens of this country's failed policies start coming home to roost in earnest. We're already deeply into the third element, rocketing toward bankruptcy at breakneck speed.