The New American Nightmare

Guest Post by Doug Casey

An International Man lives and does business wherever he finds conditions most advantageous, regardless of arbitrary borders. He’s diversified globally, with passports from multiple countries, assets in several jurisdictions, and his residence in yet another. He doesn’t depend absolutely on any country and regards all of them as competitors for his capital and expertise.

Living as an international man has always been an interesting possibility. But few Americans opted for it, since the U.S. used to reward those who settled in and put down roots. In fact, it rewarded them better than any other country in the world, so there was no pressing reason to become an international man.

Things change, however, and being rooted like a plant – at least if you have a choice – is a suboptimal strategy if you wish to not only survive, but prosper. Throughout history, almost every place has at some point become dangerous for those who were stuck there. It may be America’s turn.

For those who can take up the life of an international man, it’s no longer just an interesting lifestyle decision. It has become, at a minimum, an asset saver, and it could be a lifesaver. That said, I understand the hesitation you may feel about taking action; pulling up one’s roots (or at least grafting some of them to a new location) can be almost as traumatic to a man as to a vegetable.

As any intelligent observer surveys the world’s economic and political landscape, he has to be disturbed – even dismayed and a bit frightened – by the gravity and number of problems that mark the horizon. We’re confronted by economic depression, looming financial chaos, serious currency inflation, onerous taxation, crippling regulation, a developing police state, and, worst of all, the prospect of a major war. It seems almost unbelievable that all these things could affect the U.S., which historically has been the land of the free.

How did we get here? An argument can be made that things went bad because of miscalculation, accident, inattention, and the like. Those elements have had a role, but it is minor. Potential catastrophe across the board can’t be the result of happenstance. When things go wrong on a grand scale, it’s not just bad luck or inadvertence. It’s because of serious character flaws in one or many – or even all – of the players.

So is there a root cause of all the problems I’ve cited? If we can find it, it may tell us how we personally can best respond to the problems.

In this article, I’m going to argue that the U.S. government, in particular, has been overrun by the wrong kind of person. It’s a trend that’s been in motion for many years but has now reached a point of no return. In other words, a type of moral rot has become so prevalent that it’s institutional in nature. There is not going to be, therefore, any serious change in the direction in which the U.S. is headed until a genuine crisis topples the existing order. Until then, the trend will accelerate.

The reason is that a certain class of people – sociopaths – are now fully in control of major American institutions. Their beliefs and attitudes are insinuated throughout the economic, political, intellectual, and psychological/spiritual fabric of the U.S.

What does this mean to you, as an individual? It depends on your character. Are you the kind of person who supports “my country, right or wrong,” as did most Germans in the 1930s and 1940s? Or the kind who dodges the duty to be a helpmate to murderers? The type of passenger who goes down with the ship? Or the type who puts on his vest and looks for a lifeboat? The type of individual who supports the merchants who offer the fairest deal? Or the type who is gulled by splashy TV commercials?

What the ascendancy of sociopaths means isn’t an academic question. Throughout history, the question has been a matter of life and death. That’s one reason America grew; every American (or any ex-colonial) has forebears who confronted the issue and decided to uproot themselves to go somewhere with better prospects. The losers were those who delayed thinking about the question until the last minute.

I have often described myself, and those I prefer to associate with, as gamma rats. You may recall the ethologist’s characterization of the social interaction of rats as being between a few alpha rats and many beta rats, the alpha rats being dominant and the beta rats submissive. In addition, a small percentage are gamma rats that stake out prime territory and mates, like the alphas, but are not interested in dominating the betas. The people most inclined to leave for the wide world outside and seek fortune elsewhere are typically gamma personalities.

You may be thinking that what happened in places like Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, and scores of other countries in recent history could not, for some reason, happen in the U.S.. Actually, there’s no reason it won’t at this point. All the institutions that made America exceptional – including a belief in capitalism, individualism, self-reliance, and the restraints of the Constitution – are now only historical artifacts.

On the other hand, the distribution of sociopaths is completely uniform across both space and time. Per capita, there were no more evil people in Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany, Mao’s China, Amin’s Uganda, Ceausescu’s Romania, or Pol Pot’s Cambodia than there are today in the U.S. All you need is favorable conditions for them to bloom, much as mushrooms do after a rainstorm.

Conditions for them in the U.S. are becoming quite favorable. Have you ever wondered where the 50,000 people employed by the TSA to inspect and degrade you came from? Most of them are middle-aged. Did they have jobs before they started doing something that any normal person would consider demeaning? Most did, but they were attracted to – not repelled by – a job where they wear a costume and abuse their fellow citizens all day.

Few of them can imagine that they’re shepherding in a police state as they play their roles in security theater. (A reinforced door on the pilots’ cabin is probably all that’s actually needed, although the most effective solution would be to hold each airline responsible for its own security and for the harm done if it fails to protect passengers and third parties.) But the 50,000 newly employed are exactly the same type of people who joined the Gestapo – eager to help in the project of controlling everyone. Nobody was drafted into the Gestapo.

What’s going on here is an instance of Pareto’s Law. That’s the 80-20 rule that tells us, for example, that 80% of your sales come from 20% of your salesmen or that 20% of the population are responsible for 80% of the crime.

As I see it, 80% of people are basically decent; their basic instincts are to live by the Boy Scout virtues. 20% of people, however, are what you might call potential trouble sources, inclined toward doing the wrong thing when the opportunity presents itself. They might now be shoe clerks, mailmen, or waitresses – they seem perfectly benign in normal times. They play baseball on weekends and pet the family dog. However, given the chance, they will sign up for the Gestapo, the Stasi, the KGB, the TSA, Homeland Security, or whatever. Many seem well intentioned, but are likely to favor force as the solution to any problem.

But it doesn’t end there, because 20% of that 20% are really bad actors. They are drawn to government and other positions where they can work their will on other people and, because they’re enthusiastic about government, they rise to leadership positions. They remake the culture of the organizations they run in their own image. Gradually, non-sociopaths can no longer stand being there. They leave. Soon the whole barrel is full of bad apples. That’s what’s happening today in the U.S.

It’s a pity that Bush, when he was in office, made such a big deal of evil. He discredited the concept. He made Boobus americanus think it only existed in a distant axis, in places like North Korea, Iraq and Iran, which were and still are irrelevant backwaters and arbitrarily chosen enemies. Bush trivialized the concept of evil and made it seem banal because he was such a fool. All the while, real evil, very immediate and powerful, was growing right around him, and he lacked the awareness to see he was fertilizing it by turning the U.S. into a national security state after 9/11.

Now, I believe, it’s out of control. The U.S. is already in a truly major depression and on the edge of financial chaos and a currency meltdown. The sociopaths in government will react by redoubling the pace toward a police state domestically and starting a major war abroad. To me, this is completely predictable. It’s what sociopaths do.

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P2
P2

He forgot the sociopaths in mega & global business/industry that work hand in hand with the sociopaths in government.

starfcker
starfcker

Great comment P2. What went wrong? The emergence of said International men. An oligarchy with no allegiance to anything or anyone other than money. An oligarchy that puts themselves above the laws and moral standards of any country. Fuck Doug Casey and his type. I wouldn’t be surprised to see them end up swinging from a rope one day

BL
BL

+1000 P2 and Star!
These things need to be said.

Steve
Steve

“Fuck Doug Casey”? He’s the one telling you about the rats, not one of them. The slime balls and psychos are telling you everything is great.

22winmag - Yankee by birth-Southern by choice
22winmag - Yankee by birth-Southern by choice

I’m on the fence about that.

The ones telling you about rats are usually the ones who give you shitty softball advice and shitty conclusions at the end of their finger pointing festival.

e.d. ott
e.d. ott

Casey is all about personal financial alternatives.
The problem I have with his “International Man” BS is how he advocates bugging out to some other proclaimed safe haven, if or when, SHTF in his current hidey hole. He ignores the fact that in the age of electronic banking surveillance HE might have multiple safe hiding places for his personal wealth but many others don’t have the option to run off to some fucking Private Idaho – we’re going to be stuck picking up leftover pieces of our homes while refugee assholes like him may, or may not, afford to escape unscathed with their lives and trinkets.
International Man, my ass.
He’s a f*cking carpetbagger passing off questionable wealth advice on how to become a refugee – and good luck keeping that passport.

David Erickson
David Erickson

Ah, it’s my old brain dead friend starfcker. I see your IQ hasn’t increased any since the last time we exchanged comments. I’d say Doug Casey pretty much nailed it with this post.

starfcker
starfcker

Still dreaming of room temperature, buddy

TampaRed
TampaRed

truthfully,i’m not sure if i agree or disagree w/star’s comment–
it sounds good but i have to admit that if i had the $ i’d have at least 1/3,possibly 1/2 of my assets out of this country–
the trend is not good–

22winmag - Yankee by birth-Southern by choice
22winmag - Yankee by birth-Southern by choice

swinging from a rope one day…

…next to all the other assholes who put on fake moustaches and fled to Argentina when shit got rough in the USSA.

Probably don’t even have to track them down to deliver justice.

The locals Argentinians will likely take care of the carpetbaggers themselves.

gary gray
gary gray

“…no allegiance to anything or anyone…”

You’re suggesting allegiance to a leadership slammed with sociopaths is a good thing?

“…puts themselves above the laws and moral standards…”

You just made that up. Knock it off.

P2
P2
Brian
Brian

Psycho’s always bubble up to the top. It’s the same in gov as it is in business. Backstabbers, rats, intrigue conjurers, double crossers, amongst many other negative tools are the psycho’s calling card.

I see it in business as the founders die or retire, the sharks take over and start a death spiral. They kill innovation and progress and replace it with ass kissers and good Ol boy systems. Pretty soon in big companies they start buying other companies in an effort to infuse the innovation they’ve lost. Only it just kills the smaller company, while prolonging the big one a little while longer, much like a vampire.

While business attracts a lot of psycho’s bent on the acquisition of money and some power. Government attracts the worst of them. It’s the big leagues. Where you can control a whole state or nation and influence or destroy the world. When the worst of the worst get control you get Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc….

22winmag - Yankee by birth-Southern by choice
22winmag - Yankee by birth-Southern by choice

That’s why the American INSURGENCY does not need any leaders.

Just like the Yellow Vests- leaders would be a fucking liability.

It doesn’t take leaders to tell you what is right and wrong when you see German paratroopers, or UN paratroopers, or FOREIGN FUCKS dropping from the skies into your backyard. Nor does it take leader to decide who is and who isn’t committing treason. It’s up to the individual to decide that anyway. The genuine insurgent just opens fire and runs like hell to fight again tomorrow. No leadership or chain of command required.

Psychos do bubble to the top, and a good soldier knows what to do with an out of control, psycho leader. Hint: pull pin, sneak up quietly, roll into tent.

e.d. ott
e.d. ott

Blue helmets make excellent targets. So do their “leetle friends”.
The likes of Casey probably aren’t going to stick around to help people buy ammo with their trinkets, but they’ll be right back after the smoke dies down to tell everyone how cheap the real estate will be after everyone else paid for it in blood.

gilberts
gilberts

My spouse is an international accountant and has kept books for some pretty big companies. Their revelations have been amazing. Currently, they’re with a telecom. They’re one of those business-eating companies, hoping to somehow succeed if they buy the right company. It hasn’t worked out well for them. Telecoms is one of those industries being disrupted by new tech, like Skype, that makes picking up the phone today’s buggy whip.
One of their revelations is the bigger the company, the more likely they are to be hemorrhaging cash from bad leadership and stupid, thoughtless employees. They pay off creditors two or three times over (that money will never come back), their execs loot the company and receive huge bonuses no matter how in the red the business is under their crack leadership, while the rank-and-file go without a Christmas party or bonus for doing all the work. They try to offshore, only to see their savings devoured by stupid, lazy, crooked overseas workers, then have to return the work back to the US at a loss, and the leadership authorizes vouchers that are questionable at best, like when execs go to strip clubs or bars on the company dime. At one point, the company was flying their COO from the West Coast to the East Coast, where they provided a free fully-furnished apartment for the week, only to fly him back home on weekends. When he was let go, they gave him 3 years’ severance, then someone hired him back as a contractor a couple months later. Talk about a soft landing!
I don’t understand how the shareholders can permit these shenanigans, since it’s their money on the line, but somehow this continues until the company goes bust.
If I were in charge, I would be sorely tempted to hire a new MBA grad and let him run the business and see if he could do any worse. At least he would be cheaper than a pin-striped pirate from the latest sunken company. My explanation would be simple- At least the kid hasn’t failed yet and that makes him a better bet than a lot of corporate execs out there.

Want a plan to save the business? Nobody gets a bonus til’ the company is actually in the black.

James the Wanderer

An MBA from Harvard is certification that you can screw anything up big time, with the graphs and figures to justify that leap into the abyss. Once you demolish your first company into a flaming wreck, it’s time to jump ship and ruin another. Notice how they never stick around until / after the crash – it’s always someone else’s fault and “no one could have seen it coming”. Right, they certainly didn’t – despite having all that education and access to real information from accounting.
The only thing more dangerous to a successful operation than a Harvard MBA is two Harvard MBAs.

Thunderbird
Thunderbird

The one who knows meets the one who doesn’t care and is asked what do you know that is new?… because I want to go with you.

Virtue is no longer fashionable. Vice is the vision. We are a nation going from riches to rags; from virtue to vice.

Never thought I would see such will-less-ness in so many young people in that they are willing to abandon age old values in society to follow the unforgiving road to hell.

Only a few have the togetherness in their being to break out of the mesmerism of the herd to venture out into the world as an international man. The writer of this article is in the minority of individuals who can see the total picture.

It has always been this way. One does not have to be rich to travel the world and make their place in it. It is the sly one that makes his place in it.

I tip my hat to you sir for your truth.

BB
BB

Police State here we come. That’s been the plan all along. Most of these people are in Secret societies and they are subversive to the core. They want a one world government with a cashless economy so they can control every aspect of our behavior. Their beliefs are Luciferian . In other words they are Devil worshipers whether they realize it or not. They are bringing an army in this nation they will use against white Americans. Their will be war both at home and overseas. This is all in their writing.

22winmag - Yankee by birth-Southern by choice
22winmag - Yankee by birth-Southern by choice

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the dick.”

-22winmag

People will straighten out real quick when corpses really begin to litter the streets and food becomes hard to come by. Better yet, watching your family members, friends, or acquaintances get thrown out in the street by tax collectors or raped and pillaged by roaming gangs will really set individual’s minds straight overnight.

Anybody wearing a government issued uniform, driving a government issued vehicle, and anyone who is clearly gang thug or working for the other side becomes an instant high value target to starving, pissed off Americans with little, if anything, left to loose.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I have found this article to be accurate. Modern governmental systems select for sociopaths. The system was set up by sociopaths for sociopaths. They find the money to be not enough, pissing it away on trivialities and luxuries and squandering it on toys and games. They spend their days torturing the help until they are helpless and hopeless, enjoying it all the while like cats play with mice. When they finally retire, they continue to either chase dollars elsewhere or make people miserable where ever they settle.

Thunderbird
Thunderbird

I disagree with you. Our government was set up for moral people. Immoral people are now running our government high positions. Of my reading of constitutional history our constitution has been the best ever produced in the history of man in relation to nation states. It relates facts to values and comes up with positive ways to govern by the people for the people with representatives that express the Will of the people.

Administrative Law is ruining our nation. It is a form of law with no moral foundation. It is a law of facts without values; human values, that causes disharmony and unintended consequences. It has nothing to do with constitutional law.

22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor
22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor

Administrative law and voters.

The double whammy of death.

22winmag - Yankee by birth-Southern by choice
22winmag - Yankee by birth-Southern by choice

Let’s not forget how the Ceausescus ended up!

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Now that’s my idea of a CHEAP and EFFECTIVE WALL against out of control politicians!

Especially the ones who allow unrestrained immigration and have divided loyalties.

Llpoh
Llpoh

It is impossible for a US citizen to become an International Person:

1) The US taxes you on your income, and on your wealth, wherever you are. It is the only nation to do so, save Eritrea to a certain lesser extent, and you cannot get around it

2) you by law must divulge all your financial assets/bank accounts held overseas. Failure to do so results in a fine of 50% of the balance those accounts per each year they are not reported

3) US law requires that other nations report on you and your accounts, in event you do not comply. If the nations fail to do so, the US will withhold, by memory, 35% of all money transfers to that nation.

4) if you renounce US citizenship, all of your US assets will be deemed to have been liquidated and capital gains tax applied to all such at the time of your renunciation. If you do not lodge and exit tax return, and pay the fine/tax, your renunciation will be void until such time as you do, and you will remain liable for all the general reporting of a US citizen.

Thunderbird
Thunderbird

Llpoh,

What do you know about traveling down the road less traveled? From your comment nothing.

Llpoh
Llpoh

T – Casey defines the International Man as one who does business world-wide. It is not my definition. That is very very difficult these days. My international tax lawyer says it is impossible to do so and not commit tax crime, such is the complexity and enormity of tax laws that apply. And he is serious when he says that.

I have zero idea what you mean by that comment if you are not suggesting that one does not have to do business. But even then, you need bank accounts if you are going to live and perhaps work overseas.

Llpoh
Llpoh

If you are going to own a business overseas, the following also applies to you:

1) you must lodge Form 3520 yearly. It takes 100 hrs to complete – equal to tens of thousands cost per year
2) you must get all of your accts translated to US dollars.
3) you must pay dividend tax on undistributed profit – unlike US generated profit. As it is undistributed where it is earned, no tax credits apply, meaning it gets double taxed when the dividends are actually taken.
4) if you are purchasing a capital item, the cost is translated into US dollars at the time of purchase, and the time of disposal. That means you are subject to tax whenever the exchange rate of the local currency goes up, even though you have made zero profit locally. For instance, you by a factory for $500k Australian, when the Australian dollar = US 0.50. Five years later you sell for $500k Australian, but the exchange rate is now dollar for dollar, and you owe tax on US$250,000, even though you made zero profit in the local currency. Of course the correct and fair way would be to translate any local profit into US currency, but that does not happen.

The US has established all this to ensure that US citizens cannot leave, and must remain tax slaves forever.

As said, it is the only country on earth that does this.

Didius Julianus
Didius Julianus

Are you considering biting the bullet and not retaining the US citizenship? It sometimes looks like an attractive option as another overseas person.

Thunderbird
Thunderbird

Llpoh,

If you follow administrative law you are a tax slave. If you don’t you are a free man. One cannot be a free man living in america. A sly man can live as a free man outside the US. You yourself prefer to live as a tax slave in or out of the country because for you administrative law works in your favor. It is the law of the material man.

Administrative law as it is, is an oppressive law. It gets more oppressive as time goes on because that is the nature of this law. This form of law was set up by sociopaths to control the herd. Roosevelt had the critters in congress set this law up in the 1930s and eventually had all the States adopt it with the Administrative Procedures Act.

One day people are going to wake up and reject this form of law and the lawyers & judges that practice it. This form of law is why the criminal justice system is broken and the government has become dis-functional. It is only a matter of time before the people wise up to it and reject it.

gilberts
gilberts

Bush was a twit. That Axis of Evil speech, for instance, was a mistake. Nobody proofread it before he delivered it and nobody knew he was going to throw that shit out there, causing a policy shift and closing doors that didn’t need to be closed. Did you know after 9/11 Iranians actually held vigils for America? Iran supported us til’ that point. Not that I like Iran, but it’s worth remembering we didn’t need to count them as enemies.

I don’t think your average TSA doucher is a knowing enemy of all we hold dear, but a low-IQ idiot who probably couldn’t hold a normal job where they must advance on their own merit. The ones where I live are actually rather normal and humane, even if they are idiots in dorky-looking uniforms. I know from personal experience they can be very helpful when they want to be. TSA goons are glorified security guards. As a former professional security guard, and someone who qualified armed guards, former soldier, and former traveling security for govt VIPs, I can tell professionalism in a security operation when I see it. Airports are not high security, professional operations. I’ve even managed to get through security without hassle, only to learn upon landing in Europe I had accidentally traveled with at least 1 cigar cutter, mini Swiss Army knife, and two lighters in my suit vest pockets. As someone who could tune a metal detector portal to be sensitive to a single stick of gum, I think TSA is a pathetic joke. They’re morons.

But I don’t think those morons are really a threat to the US. The govt, on the other hand, is a threat to the US in my opinion. Not all of them; a lot of govt workers are lazy, stupid, unquestioning, thoughtless idiots of the first order. I know from personal experience many of them are only present and still awake because they draw a paycheck that way. I’ve seen one with 30 years’ govt service outright sleep at his desk, knowing nobody would do the work to assemble the mountain of paperwork to fire him.

I’ve also seen lazy, stupid small town govt workers who never left town and got into govt and rose through the ranks to become nothing. They never grew up and are literally adult high school students. Now, they run stuff. They even maintain long-standing vendettas with govt contractors who actually do all the work under their supervision that date back to their days together in high school. I heard from one friend of mine about an idiot secretary GS 7 or something who was promoted to be in charge of security for an organization because it was time to promote her and they didn’t know what else to do with her. She’s in a corner office somewhere now, calling shots she can’t understand for an organization she can’t lead.

I knew another sitting in a comms security position who was such a bad manager, she ran off all her employees (at least 3 in 3 years. One volunteered for Afghanistan to escape her!), but she couldn’t remember or do anything without them, so she was routinely lost and stumbling through her job. She tried to palm all her duties off on others. When she managed to get someone on the hook for something, she was blatant in trying to get them to acknowledge in writing what their responsibilities were, just in case it came up later. It was sad. When she lost emails and paperwork, she threatened people with fines and penalties, only to look stupid when they showed her the original emails and attachments and the precise time they were sent. She was stupid and strangely vicious. She also looked like an ass when her cell phone went off in secure areas where it wasn’t permitted.

The real threat are the leaders. I think the Congress and the perfumed prince SESers and the in-and-out govt leaders who pop in for a few years at various govt agencies, then hop back out for an administration, or two, to make money at their companies/industries of choice are much more dangerous. Govt workers are drones, but these people are real shitbags. As senior govt assholes, they can get away with literal murder. THEY are the threat. Your average govt worker is just a meathead going along to get along. The real sickos, in my opinion, are those industry dickbags who get themselves appointed to oversee EPA, FDA, and Agriculture so they can weaken food and drug safety laws, prevent actual testing of drugs and pesticides, and generally make our air, water, soil, and food as unsafe and profitable as possible. THOSE PEOPLE are monsters. If/When things change, I hope they’re put up against the wall first.

not sure

Not sure if I should stay or go; actually, I’m staying as there is no viable option I have to consider for relocating anywhere, except maybe to another neighborhood. Would I if I could? Probably not, as my roots are in America and I would rather remain in the USA than sit as a stranger in another country watching my real home slip off the cliff.
But I do agree with the warning of the article, there is a bad moon rising. The promises Trump made were truly worthy of rallying around, but as he appears that he will drain the swamp by following the rules of the swamp mean that no purging of the FBI, DOJ and any other agency you can name will happen; it will instead be business as usual, with any investigation dropped, in the interest of preserving the integrity of the agency. This means the downward trend since we were offered “hope and change” will just continue as it always has. Once Trump is gone, whether in 1, 2 or even 4 years, depending on which scenario you prefer, there will be no other like him and the policies trumpeted by the Obama administration will shift into high gear.
But we can still rise up and reset the government, right? No, I don’t think that will happen, as we have been lulled into a semi-permanent position of waiting for something to happen that never does. Every day we are besieged with an avalanche of doom porn that says soon the rebellion will begin, but it never does. I’m beginning to see the doom porn is just a way of manipulating the population into a never ending waiting room of activists who are waiting for their number to be called, but it never happens. So we keep reading the news magazines, sipping our coffee from the vending machine and waiting for our call to pounce that never comes. If what I believe is happening, it is genius in its application of keeping the opposition in a constant state of suspended animation, while the globalist juggernaut continues to roll on.

David Erickson
David Erickson

I don’t understand some of the above comments. Doug Casey is not recommending leaving the country to anyone. He is simply saying that it should be kept in mind as on option, and he is right about that. I have no intention now of leaving, other than possibly going to some other part of what is now the USA if this country ever manages a peaceful secession into two or more separate countries (which is highly unlikely). But if things get bad enough, leaving may be the only realistic option for staying alive (which is one of the main reasons that the wall is such a bad idea). And he is certainly correct that most people in this country have ancestors that came here from other places because things were bad in their home countries. All of the above commenters who implied that anyone leaving this country is a traitor, are you also implying that some of your ancestors were traitors to their home countries? Were the Jews that left Germany in the 1930s traitors to Germany?

Thunderbird
Thunderbird

@David Erickson,

Many people left Europe after WW2 and came to america to escape communism that invaded their countries; thanks to Roosevelt at the Yalta accords that caused their leaving. And many came to america at that time from the soviet system to change america into a soviet system.

The international man Doug Casey is talking about; I believe, is a different animal than most. It is a man that is centered in his own being and can adapt to different cultures. He has skills that can butter his bread so to speak; he is a traveler, and finds remarkable men that will help him in his business pursuits where ever these pursuits lead him. He is a man of the world.

America is a place; not a nation. The United States is a national entity that became an empire like the Roman empire. It is still a young empire. We have yet to find out how long it will last.

The government set up by it’s forefathers is long gone and we see only the shell. The body has rotted along with the head. The Senate which was originally set up to represent the various States now represent the giant corporations; like the East India Company, that uses the military to go into diverse places and subdue the governments of these places so they can take the resources. The East India Company had it’s own army & navy. Our modern corporations uses the US military for it’s strong arm.

The Judiciary now uses administrative law; created by congress in the 1930s under President Roosevelt and adapted by all the States under the Administrative Procedures Act, to regulate all functions of society and control the population. It also runs the criminal justice system like a tyrant that only acts by facts and not values; human values. The foundation of this law system is based on money values; not human values. It has no foundation on morals of any kind.

The executive branch carries out the dictates of the corporate controlled senate using administrative; not constitutional law, as it’s pretext for action.

And there we have it; a government by the corporation for the corporation. So the people have lost it’s government to the corporations.

So becoming an international man is a viable option for those who want to live free.

When this empire does break up; as all empires eventually do, I will want to live in Texas. But this breakup could take many more years so all we can do is stay alert and avoid the unintended consequences of the current dis-functional government.

David Erickson
David Erickson

Thunderbird, good comment. Thanks for the input. I don’t follow Doug Casey closely, but from what I do know about him I believe that you are right, that he considers himself to be an international man, without allegiance to any country in particular. I also know that he spends a lot of his time at some libertarian place in Argentina. And I don’t agree with everything he says, but he is definitely right sometimes, and I believe this post is one of those times. I think that his advice in this post is good advice for anyone concerned about the direction this country is going (which should be everyone). And he is certainly accurate about the condition of this country right now.

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