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The US Government has considered itself a leader in the world - the
pre-eminent democracy, a world power unparalleled by any other both in
economics and military might. If the Constitution is abandoned, to be
replaced by an essential dictatorship by the wealthy and powerful, how
might this leadership erode, and what will be the outcome? Each
government, around the world, will face the coming changes both as an
individual country and in partnership with other countries. Third world
countries will have the fewest adjustments in this regard, having been
used for their resources or global strategic position. They will
understand that they must struggle alone, and will not be surprised when
their handouts and support promised are cut off, as they will be.
Countries that have become a nuclear power will be treated with harsh
warnings, but will scarcely pay attention as they themselves will be
focused inward to their restless and starving populace.
Industrial countries, which have come to rely upon each other in trade and
as partners during conflicts, will dither to a disappointed silence as
promise after promise between partnering countries are broken. Finally,
each will focus inward toward its own populace. World economics will
become national economics, then local economics, then family economics, as
times get worse. Thus a partisan US Government, protecting the elite in
enclaves, will be overlooked and ignored by the citizens of the world, and
eventually by its own citizenry. Like winter and summer, seasons that
cannot be changed but must be suffered or lived through, the citizenry
will treat a government that does not care about it as irrelevant. Taxes
that are collected by force will be paid, but enthusiasm for programs
clearly not in their interest will be ignored. The citizenry will make its
own plans, and not include the government in these plans, so that
eventually the elite are ensconced in their enclaves and the citizenry
have made their arrangements elsewhere, and they function like island
societies in an ocean, apart and essentially unaware of each other.
Is this what the elite wish? They wish for a devoted citizenry, looking to
them for leadership and following programs outlined for them like sheep
following the shepherd. Without a devoted citizenry, the elite will be
left to their resources, which will diminish. This will make them anxious,
but when communications break down, the only citizens they can bother will
be those hapless souls living close at hand, who will become serfs or
slaves or worse during the ensuing frantic breakdown in social standards.
The elite, to the end, will try to entice the citizenry to work for them,
near them, depending upon them in some manner or another. The citizenry,
disenchanted, will decline, and slip away. Leaders who do not deserve the
leadership position they hold, who have assumed it by fraud and force and
sleight of hand, are treated as irrelevant.