If the USA's domestic policies are to be based upon social stratification, corporate give-aways, militarism and racist police-state measures of suppression, these are the measures and policies we will export.
Our domestic polity was organized in the Constitution of 1789, which does not even contain the slightest reference to democracy or any universal right to vote. In fact, in their own writings, in the Federalist Papers, the founders expressed limitless contempt for "mere democracy". They were a propertied elite, and naturally enough it is that class of people they believed should have all power within the new state.
Only during the Civil War of 1861-5, and during the New Deal period between 1932 and about 1937 have there been any mass movement capable of launching challenges to this cozy arrangement. No one observing our polity and its actions from either the outside or the inside should ever forget this.
And while today's events -- notably Bush's failed wars in the middle east and central Asia -- are producing heavy strains on the system, they are as yet not in any sense sufficient to provoke another episode of domestic reform, those which must first occur before we can see changes in our international posture.
The primary election results indicate already that only "centrists", incapable of challenging the plutocracy can possibly be elected in the coming General Election in November. These people, Clinton, Obama and McCain are never going to be able to put together the people and policies needful to overturn our militarized corporate state and deal with even the basic economic rationalization of the USA which is so very needful.
We shall continue to require inputs of cheap materials and labor in order to deal with the massive imbalances and inefficiencies which characterize our moribund and corrupt system.
- This means that any efforts by President Hugo Chavez Frias or any other Venezuelan politician to find common ground with the post-Bush USA are bound to founder, for the same reasons they now fail: That is so long as Venezuela is determined not to surrender.
The signal that matters might be otherwise will not be some mere change of personnel in the US State Department or the Central Intelligence Agency but will instead be an immense, made all the more traumatic by long postponment, internal process. One based upon such measures as the abandonment of tax breaks for the already wealthy, the nationalization of health care, other forms of insurance, the oil and some other large industry, a massive build-down of the subversive and military forces and a restoration of our industrial base. And here we must ever mention the disgraceful "Drug War" itself nothing but a maskirovka, permitting at once imperial adventures abroad and the social suppression of an inconveniently progressive racial minority at home.
We need most of all to see economically and socially rational measures put in place to deal with the corruption which has resulted in a massive subsidization of all sorts of inefficient corporate models which cannot exist even within the capitalist sytem without their manipulation of state policies.
For instance we spend two or three times the funds per capita as the other industrial countries on health care with two results: A long, slow rise in our mortality/morbidity statistics and a great reservoir of funding to enrich tiny elites and to allow them to corrupt the political process to their personal advantage. Such shortfalls in the macro-economy can only be made up by the finances extracted in one way or another from others.
Common prudence would indicate that Venezuela should take measures such as aiding the FARC-EP, by whatever measures might be expedient, to take state power, to remove Colombia as a base for North American subversion, already more-or-less triumphant in Mexico and Central America, from extending itself still further to the south.
I differ with President Chavez only in saying this should be done more openly, explaining to all nations the reasons why it is a regrettable necessity: It is not just once or twice that the North American empire has conspired actively In the suppression of a peoples' God-given right to govern themselves. And when that happens such oppressed people have indeed the right of rebellion.
Obama, Clinton or McCain will not move to end this nation's murderous rampages at home or abroad because they cannot.
From the imperial capital
Chris Herz
cdherz44@yahoo.com
Venezuela is facing the most difficult period of its history with honest reporters crippled by sectarianism on top of rampant corruption within the administration and beyond, aided and abetted by criminal forces in the US and Spanish governments which cannot accept the sovereignty of the Venezuelan people to decide over their own future.
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