I must admit that down here in a quiet corner of Australia most of these progressions in state matters are Academic to me. I certainly see the concept of forever wars, the US has been at war for 80 years, they just move from one geographic location to another, finding another "Enemy" to keep their machine going. As part of the coalition of the willing our government tags along in a minimalist way. Our defense forces are quite small, I believe we have 5000 riflemen at last count, the rest are cooks and band members.
I can see what you talk about,
power groups can coalesce around the beleaguered groups and use their grievances to build a power base and since nothing good comes of it for these minorities they are clearly being used and spat out so to speak. I tend not to think though that there is a grand plan behind all this, just a bunch of very wealthy men and women whose obsession is their wealth, their own little empires and their standing among their peers. Each one bribing politicians as they can to expand their influence. This concept takes a little getting used to but I believe Corporations really do rule the world now. They have wealth and the power far beyond elected officials.
I listened to an informative pod a while back about how the Walton family would send their minions to a town somewhere and negotiate a deal with the local politicians for a new Wallmart. This was the Local deal, not the federal employment subsidies often cited in the media. It was always the same deal and included low cost or free land to build on, no property taxes for 10 years, paid for access roads, sewage etc. Low cost funding and many other perks that would never be available to a small business. All under the banner of "Economic Development subsidies" Wallmart's costs were slashed and the promise in return was Jobs, Jobs, but I'm sure these politicians received gratuities, that's how the world works isn't it.
https://www.goodjobsfirst.org/wp-conten ... tstudy.pdfSo there is just one example of a family of Elites cutting their swath through the American pocket, building an empire by exploiting the population, the dumb masses, the ill-informed consumer. The people shopping there are contributing to their own impoverishment and that of their town but they blithely roll up to fill their carts with useless consumer goods and substandard food product. It's why I have no respect for the average person out there, they are part of the problem, they are mindless robots enabling the very enslavement of their lives.
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All the people using pay-wave and credit cards and online banking think they are so smart but they are merely handing control of their finances over to faceless men in suits who will turn the tables on them one day and lock them down like chickens in a battery farm. It's so obvious but like frogs in a pot they eschew cash in favor of their lazy technologies and pave the way for a cashless society where one wrong word spoken could see your accounts frozen like during the truckers revolt up in Canada. That wasn't even legal but it was got away with, the big banks and the government working in unison to quash any decent. You're not a Jew? Well your safe, unless you're a Gypsy, or a Homosexual, or a political opponent, or a mental health patient...
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At this point the banks own the corporations and the corporations own the banks. They are all inter-owned, have stock in each other, scratch each others back. The cutthroat days of big capitalism are over, they are like the seven sisters now, the globe carved up and profits equally shared.