What purpose does the United States serve in the world order going forward?
This is a serious question, because the answer to it will give us the clue to winning the war.
The world aches for global socialism, we are told. This will bring world peace (at last) and world harmony to a degree never known in human history. Great inequities will be rebalanced. The measure of social justice in the world will increase substantially. The potentials in all peoples will be realized to a degree barely imaginable in today's world. Above all, the Earth and its environments will be saved from catastrophic climate change.
If an election for World President were to be held right this instance, either using a global popular vote, or some global Electoral College, it would be certain that in a contest between Xi and Trump, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party would defeat the current President of the United States in a landslide. One should not make too much of this, however. as every Republican President would have lost going back to at least Nixon.
In the Postmodern era Socialism seems to have the upper hand because it relies on image over substance. It is about remaking the world through the power of the collective human imagination. This power is manifest in the world through political action.
Socialism is intoxicating because it will promise to fulfill all of your yearnings, and solve all your beefs with the world. It is a system designed to discover and shape those yearnings and beefs within society at large and to harness that energy through politics.
Marxist theory tells us that each new stage of world history arises from a synthesis between opposing dialectical forces described sometimes as the thesis and the antithesis.
The most famous example, going back to Hegel, is that of Napoleon as Emperor was a synthesis of the old French monarchy and the French Republic. By combing the old and new into a new stability, he was thus the fulfillment of the French Revolution.
Marxist theory has been the core of western thinking for over a century and a half. By the end of World War II, it was known by all great minds of the West that the Cold War would resolve itself by a fusion of Soviet Communism and American Capitalism.
The synthesis would result in a world civilization at some point. Influenced by Marxists, but without being a Marxist himself, Franklin Roosevelt did much to establish the groundwork for this eventual synthesis of the Soviet and the American systems at some future date when the world would ready for that level of stability.
In the year 2020, we are deep into the synthesis of a global civilization, which began around 1991. The Iraq War was the catalyst event that allowed a new post Cold War framework of cooperation to emerge around the world.
The world order was initially led by the United States, who had been the apparent victor in the Cold War. The order thus had an American flag at its front, and carried explicit American values in its mission.
By Marxist doctrine, however, one can see that the world order could not simply be an American-led coalition of nations with America always first among equals.
The stable resolution requires a true synthesis. It requires the adoption of a vision that surpasses both of the two warring sides of the old order. Nor would it suffice to have any two pair of nations or empires face off against each other over a long period of time. Such a system could never be global.
In June 1992 world leaders reached a consensus that in the new phase of history (global civilization), the warring factions of the new stable world order would Earth vs. Man.
The global civilization itself would be a merger of certain aspects of American capitalism and certain aspects of Soviet Communism. The laboratory for this synthesis was China, which has been adopted by consensus of world leaders as the model for the globalized world.
As a laboratory for the new society, China thus became an antithesis to the legacy post-1991 thesis of America being at the front of the world order. In the minds of world leaders, the synthesis between Laboratory China and Legacy America is being fulfilled as I write this. The result will be the true birth of the new global world order.
The global order post 2020 will have aspects that are recognizably American (and British), in the way that a face a grandchild may have facial features of the grandparent. It will use English as standard language. The globalized culture will be a descendant of American Pop Culture and its accompanying secular consumerism. It will have a liberalized world trade economy based around a unified global banking system which uses the institutions established by the western nations.
In this vision, certain aspects of America, however, will not survive into the new global order because they have become outdated. They are incompatible with certain foundational principles of the global world order. Care to guess what these things are that America is supposed to give up, when it merges into the harmonious new world as a cooperative world citizen at last?
If we are going to save the American Republic and the Constitution going forward, we need to have a reason that we articulate that says that the above vision offered by the Globalist Marxists and their many millions of acolytes is dead wrong.
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