Really good substack Steve. If even half of this is true (and it seems likely it is) the US is no longer a representative democracy. Rather it seems like an echo of the late stage Roman Republic, and is controlled by a military industrial complex (exactly what Ike warned about) and security apparatus concerned about power and profit, and…
Really good substack Steve. If even half of this is true (and it seems likely it is) the US is no longer a representative democracy. Rather it seems like an echo of the late stage Roman Republic, and is controlled by a military industrial complex (exactly what Ike warned about) and security apparatus concerned about power and profit, and answerable to no one. Increasingly "left wing" in culture, it's "right wing" in high level governance. Whatever the American Republic has become makes the old labels obsolete and gives reason for us all to mourn.
Really good substack Steve. If even half of this is true (and it seems likely it is) the US is no longer a representative democracy. Rather it seems like an echo of the late stage Roman Republic, and is controlled by a military industrial complex (exactly what Ike warned about) and security apparatus concerned about power and profit, and answerable to no one. Increasingly "left wing" in culture, it's "right wing" in high level governance. Whatever the American Republic has become makes the old labels obsolete and gives reason for us all to mourn.