Chalmers ideal wish

Ah, the left. You gotta love ‘em.

Chalmers Johnson has made a name for himself as a documenter of the evils of American Empire. The Military Industrial Complex^tm in particular is his meat and potatoes. After all, without jackbooted babykilling peasant torturing stormtroopers what kind of evil empire would we be?

As distinct from other peoples, most Americans do not recognize — or do not want to recognize — that the United States dominates the world through its military power. ~commondreams.org

This, in a nutshell, is everything you can learn from Chalmers Johnson. Without reading another paragraph one can deduce nearly everything Chalmers has to say on the subject of America.

Starting with the progressive version of American exceptionalism, Johnson summarizes his disdain and summary evaluation of the ignorance and passivity of the American people. “As distinct from other peoples,” America just won’t go along with the Communist/Marxist/Progressive vision of America as the impediment to world peace and socialist utopia, “…or do not want to recognize…”.

Chalmers both dismisses and demeans the American people by insisting that his delusional visions of the world constructed around the rigid framework of Marxist propaganda must be subscribed to in order for intelligence and perception to be bestowed upon them. Obviously we are all idiots for not seeing that America is an empire bent on dominating the world.

“The United States dominates the world through its military power.”

Typical.

Chalmers ideal wish is for this evil empire to crumble. For his vision of utopia to prevail over the dominating fear-based dictatorship of capitalist power and set free the proletariat to acheive their ultimate potential.

Can We End the American Empire Before It Ends Us?

…I believe that there is only one solution to the crisis we face. The American people must make the decision to dismantle both the empire that has been created in their name and the huge (still growing) military establishment that undergirds it. It is a task at least comparable to that undertaken by the British government when, after World War II, it liquidated the British Empire. By doing so, Britain avoided the fate of the Roman Republic — becoming a domestic tyranny and losing its democracy, as would have been required if it had continued to try to dominate much of the world by force.

For the U.S., the decision to mount such a campaign of imperial liquidation may already come too late, given the vast and deeply entrenched interests of the military-industrial complex. To succeed, such an endeavor might virtually require a revolutionary mobilization of the American citizenry, one at least comparable to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. ~alternet.org

Unlike any other ‘empire’ before it, America does not impose it’s will on the world through military force. We are in fact much too nice to be an empire. In equating and trying to spin the United States into a global dominator in the image of what the Nazi’s would have been is both stupid and irresponsible. The simple fact that some people will actually believe Chalmer’s twisted premise should be enough for him to get some kind of balanced perspective.

But this is impossible. The left has an ideology and a utopia to create and nothing like the facts should get in the way of that. Popular uprising is part and parcel of the Marxian rhetoric so it is not surprising that Chalmers see this as part of the solution of his fabricated dilemna.

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