Alastair Crooke : Counter-Revolution – Do You Know What Time It Is?

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In the U.S., the run-up to momentous elections is underway. The Democrats are in a fix: The party has long since turned its back on its old blue-collar constituency, engaging instead with an urban ‘creative class’ in an exalted, world-shaping ‘social engineering’ project of moral redress, in alliance with Silicon Valley and the Permanent Nomenklatura. But that experiment has run off into the weeds, becoming ever more extreme and absurd. Push-back is building.

Predictably enough, the Democratic campaign is not gaining traction. Team Biden has low, low approval ratings. But Biden family pressure insists that Biden must persevere with his candidature, and not yield to another. Either way – Biden staying or going – there is no ready solution to the Party’s conundrum of a non-performing, non-platform.

The electoral landscape is a mess. Heavy ‘lawfare’ artillery is intended to break the Trump defences and drive him off the field, whilst an attrition of disclosures of Biden family malfeasance are intended wear down and implode the Biden bubble. The Democratic Establishment is spooked too by the flanking manoeuvre of the R. F. Kennedy candidature, which is snowballing rapidly.

Put simply, the Democratic wokish ideology of historical redress is separating the U.S. into two nations living in one land. Divided not so much by ‘Red or Blue’, or class, but defined by irreconcilable ‘ways of being’. The old categories: Left, Right, Democrat or GOP are being dissolved by a Cultural War that respects no categories, crossing the boundaries of class and party affiliation. Indeed, even ethnic minorities have been alienated by the zealots wanting to sexualise children at age 5 years, and by the pushing of the trans agenda on to school children.

Ukraine has served as the solvent to the old order and has become the Albatross hanging around the neck of the Biden Admin: How to spin the looming Ukraine debacle as somehow ‘mission achieved’. Can that be done? Because the escape route of a ceasefire and a frozen line of contact is unacceptable to Moscow. In short, ‘Biden’s war’ cannot continue as it is, but nor can it do ‘other’ without facing humiliation. The myth of American power, NATO competence and the reputation of U.S. weaponry hangs in the balance.

The economic narrative (‘everything is fine’) is poised, for somewhat unconnected reasons, to turn sour too. Debt – finally – is becoming the sword suspended above the economy’s neck. Credit is being tightly squeezed. And next month, the BRICS-SCO bloc will take the first strategic steps to disentangle up to 40 countries from the dollar. Who then will buy Yellen’s $ 1.1 trillion Treasuries – now and in the future – that is needed to fund U.S. government expenditure?

These events ostensibly are disconnected, but in reality, they form a self-reinforcing loop. One leading to a ‘run on the political bank’ – that is to say, the U.S.’ credibility itself.

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Just to add some observations from karlof1, a frequent commenter at MoA:

Crooke's focus this time is what's happening on the right, although as he states above, the traditional distinctions are all muddled with much boiling down to basics, like the Four Freedoms, and fundamental human rights issues, particularly the rights of children, which Belarus in its recent Human Rights Report smashed upside Uncle Sam's head. Crooke has linked to and cited this 2+ year-old essay before, which IMO is an essential read, "'Conservatism' is no Longer Enough". Here's a very important excerpt [abridged]:

First, we need to set goals. It is not enough just to smash all the bad things. Mindless chaos or anarchy is no way to achieve justice. One of conservatism’s huge errors for the last several decades has been to think big concepts like justice and fairness don’t matter.

Authentic Americans still want to have decent lives. They want to work, worship, raise a family, and participate in public affairs without being treated as insolent upstarts in their own country. Therefore, we need a conception of a stable political regime that allows for the good life.

The U.S. Constitution no longer works...How do we distinguish the parts that are salvageable from the parts that are hopeless?...Having a coherent plan—thinking through what American citizenship used to mean, what made it noble and made the country worthy of patriotic love, and how to rebuild its best elements—requires input from people, and institutions, who have given these matters a lot of thought.

The essay's failure is to examine why America has failed its people--there's not one word about money, finance or Wall Street to be found. And if we were to read something written from the Liberal side, it would also likely omit those three items. But as we well know here at MoA, The Money Power is the cause of the failure.

A point I’ve made since 2000 is us commonfolk have more in common than differences and must talk to each other civilly to establish common ground. One of the key points I make is the Culture Wars are aimed at all of us to divide us so ruling over us is facilitated.

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The essay's failure is to examine why America has failed its people--there's not one word about money, finance or Wall Street to be found.

This is a very valid criticism and I agree. There's a reason why 'Fix the money, fix the world' has become something of a mantra in some circles. Of course, that saying goes too far because nothing will ever 'fix the world' completely, but fixing the money is a really good place to start in fixing many of our current problems and is too often overlooked simply because we are not in the practice of thinking critically about money and about how the financial world really operates and who it is set up to serve.