Ron Paul versus the American Imperium

Ron Paul versus the American Imperium

Suicidal Attributes of Ideological Regimes or … Must History Repeat Itself?

by Joseph Andrew Settanni


It is both frightening and tremendously sad that readings about the ancient Peloponnesian Wars have now become so shockingly vital toward correctly understanding current history, as it affects the USA.

Both ancient Athens (in its contest with Sparta) and today’s America share too many destructive features to go unnoticed; and, more than that observation, human nature itself refuses or cannot change its ways, which is why, in essence, history must repeat itself concerning the lust for tyranny as adamant belief in God fades; men in their hubris, therefore, time and again, do wish to fashion their own terrene gods inclusive of the State as an ersatz deity, supported by its own kind of religion, in a secular format qua ideology.

Of course, admittedly, there are true differences and, logically, should be between the historic, Near East, Greek city-state and, on the other hand, the contemporary North American colossus of this era. But, nonetheless, the terrifying, quite chilling, and significant similarities are much more telling, and, thus, so incredibly indicative of what really needs to be known. How might this be stressed as to a focus?

Both had explicitly based their imperialistic desires upon the anthropocentric democratic ideology for the purpose of spreading their politico-cultural way of life through military and other means; both never doubted their inherent political right, on either the domestic or international level, to aggressively pursue and arrogantly maintain an imperium.

Democracy as a Form of Tyranny

This was no matter how so greatly reckless that highly corruptive policy can end up becoming, as it is often monomaniacally pursued; both, moreover, practiced a form of defiant self-righteousness in their pursuit of foreign aggression with no viable end in sight, especially today, e. g., in the minds of those known as the neoconservatives and their liberal and many leftist allies.

Athens and America, in parallel kinds of tyrannical quests, are possessed by a decadent leadership elite, an arrogant ruling class, ardently determined to sustain and, whenever felt necessary, augment the existence of the vast imperium in the very name of spreading democracy around the world. Another justifiable parallel may be easily seen in the quite similar doings, e. g., of the French Revolutionary Empire of the very late 18th and early 19th century.

Of course, the once spreading tyranny of Athens, France, and, now, America gets called democratic liberation or the championing of true democracy as the power and influence of the imperium is further disseminated by propaganda, fire, and sword; it is still statism, by whatever conventional or convenient euphemism, extended outward toward foreign affairs and, in general, international conduct.

Of course, the ideological radicalism of this policy wishes to be acknowledged as being the only normal way of dealing with foreign affairs, meaning as then just being a natural extension of the general will (Rousseau) of domestic democratic ideology.

In the warped minds of these democratic imperialists, the rest of the world is to be perceived, either directly or indirectly, as an enlarged USA; cosmopolitanism, a freelance internationalism gone mad in the direct spirit of neoconservatism, is to be totally matched to and mixed with democratism in then better argumentative support of the imperium. How, however, is this verily manifested empirically?

With troops stationed in over 90 countries around the world and active areas of fighting (aka wars) still going on in several locations, the USA empirically qualifies as an empire with its own imperial ambitions. The parallels with Athens would not exist, of course, if this nation had stayed within the proper political scope of just being a constitutional republic, as is known to Ron Paul and others, satisfied only with defending its borders and allies, if and when justifiably needed.

One sees that the imperialist urge goes well with the democratic ideological frenzy to do good in the name of spreading the greatness of the reified people, the democracy, far and wide.

In addition, the modern welfare-warfare State (the insane deification of humanitarianism and altruism), mandates aggression, however, because collectivism at home breeds the cognate desire for a collectivist approach toward foreign policy abroad. It is a so fully reciprocating politico-economic phenomenon as it has been, in fact, historically observed, many times, in the course of human history.
Thus, both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Empire were, e. g., imperial powers appropriately incorporating the aforementioned features, as were, also, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan.

Distinctly adverse to the nature of all moderate governments, statism in a country, therefore, always justifies itself to itself and necessarily, by its own inherent logic, seeks expansion for its own assumed or expressed needs; and, typically, favoring dictatorship for its best manifestation.

Through a reading of history, it is easily seen that actual free governments are not the norm; they are really a true aberration, an abnormality, concerning attempts at political order, meaning government qua governance, not simply a ruling power holding predominant sway over a territory, nation or, in the case of America, an empire.

What exists today is, to all intents and purposes, a post-Constitutional rulership of this country through mainly bureaucratic fiat and executive orders; as a horrid consequence, the power establishment seems to act autonomously as if there are no real legal limits that exist, except the Machiavellian willingness to autocratically act, of course, in an imperial manner, which Ron Paul objects to, of course.

American democratism, ever powered onward by the statism of the welfare-warfare State, grasps at its collectivist ideology, as a propagandistic justification for imperial ambitions, exercised aggressively for the ever greater glory of the celebrated imperium; all this is in plain conformity with neoconservatism and its ideological support of the Iron Triangle: Big Government, Big Business, and Big Labor; they are the interrelated and reciprocating parts, therefore, of the American State; and, all that is rigorously opposed by the thinking of the traditionalist right, not just by Dr. Paul.

But, as with Athens in its struggle against Sparta during the Peloponnesian Wars, although the power lust cannot be practically satiated, the practical limits of the imperium can and do become empirically rather overextended, meaning beyond the ability of the nation-state in question to continue indefinitely with a series of foreign military adventures, as with this country’s questionable aggression.

Athens fell, Rome fell, the French Revolutionary Empire collapsed; the British Empire eventually faded away; the Soviet Empire basically imploded; it is inevitable, therefore, that the existence of the USA and its imperium cannot be sustained forever.

In terms of the proverbial seeds of destruction bringing on the predictable harvest of desolation as a merited logical consequence, the American welfare-warfare State, the incarnation of the Hobbesian Leviathan, is so actively seeking its doom and devastation.

Daily, an increasingly bloated Federal bureaucracy is dependent upon the multiplication of a national debt the magnitude of which seeks no rational measurement any longer; the Occupy Wall Street rabble are honored openly and extravagantly by many prominent national and other political leaders.

Welfare services and goods, as with, e. g., the Food Stamp Program, keep expanding; proletarianization ensures the horrid growth of the equivalent of “bread and circus” for the New Rome, the New Weimar Republic, with its legalized abortion, infanticide (aka partial-birth abortion), euthanasia, (liberalized) divorce, pornography, STDs, drug culture, (artificial) contraception, sodomite “marriages”, Feminism, and much else emblematic of the (necessarily decadent) Open Society urgently wanted by freethinkers everywhere.

The sad Weimarization of American politics, society, and culture, with its vile spiraling downward effect of degeneracy and decadence, is an important and substantial reality that is, of course, almost always denied.

These above cited moral and spiritual disorders, representing absolute social, political, and cultural failures, are surely the suicidal attributes of ideological regimes integrally determined to self-destruct; what exists is anthropocentric narcissism, on a gross and grandiose scale of nihilistic excess, leading eventually to but one predictable end: death; death of the people; termination of the extremism of imperium, which is definitely far from being a moderate government in any way, shape, condition, or form thereof.

Demography is, however, more than just mere (as repetitiously and truly repeated) destiny; it is the plainly and overtly physical manifestation of a clearly demonic death-wish mentality that has forcefully gripped the conscience of the American people; and, moreover, this is clearly with a powerful Satanic fury, a compulsive passion, completely unseen in all of previous, recorded human history.

Is that really true? Or, is it just a mere exaggeration ignorantly posturing as the claimed truth? In the USA, when the illegal immigrant birth rate is not counted, native-born American citizens are not reproducing at the needed ratio to even provide the minimum required for a domestic replacement population; the rate is known to be below the (absolutely) required 2.1%. What does this mean, therefore, in practical terms?

Many millions of might-have-been grandparents have no grandchildren and never will; and, this established trend will unquestionably increase because other children, as later being adults, will refuse to reproduce. Self-extermination, which just ought to be rationally expected, is the final natural result, as, e. g., the social civil liberty of a once free government recedes, sooner or later, into a lost past.

Furthermore, those who defiantly refuse to be governed by the will of God must be ruled by the mere will of men; for the American experiment in self-government had been legally based upon the limits of a free republican constitution, not, in effect, an imperial autocracy as what exists today; ultimately, there is no static or permanent middle ground, however, between a true government of law and a tyrannical regime, once the unabated lust for imperialism so arises.

Corruption, injustice, cruelty, oppression, suppression, and, in the end, tyranny must naturally come into being along with its virulent nihilism, cynicism, and relational self-contempt, of course. Liberty must then be crushed as a pragmatic need.
The “superficial” existentialist narcissism of individuals cannot be absolutely sustained, through the workings of nominalism, because the human mind gets continuously further warped toward inverting such gross and obsessive phenomenological self-love into a collective self-hate and loathing; every seeming mandate for individualism, on the micro level, advances into, ideologically transposes itself, into a macro collectivism, suitable for when the State replaces God in Man’s worship of himself.

But, self-enslavement to (mortal) sin is the worst form of slavery because it is self-imposed, which is why, for instance, Judas could never forgive himself for betraying Jesus.

The American people, as has been above well noted, meaning the vast majority of them have willingly chosen the evil path of death increasingly; the harsh harvest of iniquity (aka the wages of sin) must, thus, be logically reaped. As a parallel consequence, the imperium’s maintenance ever insatiably demands, thus, continuing and expected human sacrifices on both foreign battlefields and at home.

History, therefore, necessarily gets repeated, again and again, according to the suicidal attributes of all such ideological regimes dedicated, as they are, to the Satanic attainment of power on earth, not the Kingdom of Heaven. Every regime dedicated to the endless expansion of democracy has, furthermore, ended up invariably digging its own grave, “American exceptionalism” notwithstanding.

Conclusion

As with them all, it is historically known that the American imperium must, sooner or later, fall. For as Alexander Hamilton had wisely said, “Real liberty is not found in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy, or some other form of dictatorship.”

This is easily contrasted with the incessantly idiotic words of Al Smith that do, forever, echo in the ears of all ardent democrats, as to more democracy being the cure for the problems of it, so the only real medicine for tyranny is, thus, more of the same, by that odd prescription.

The only Republican candidate, for 2012, seeking the presidential nomination who, not surprisingly, both adamantly and openly opposes the evil imperium is Ron Paul; all the others, in sharp contrast, are establishment-oriented hacks who would rather preside over the destruction and downfall of this nation rather than to reject the roots of statism in the second decade of the 21st century.

Rush Limbaugh’s tremendous revilement and profound detestation, e. g., of the only anti-imperialistic contender for the office of US Chief Executive, thus, loudly proclaims the salient point without question.

The election campaign year of 2012 may, therefore, very well be the most pivotal in contemporary American history and, moreover, have an enormous massive impact for generations to come, as was definitely true of 1964.