The United States: Politically Subverted?

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. - Sun Tzu

Grand strategy is a term familiar to generals and statesmen; it conjures up visions of smoke-filled rooms and military officers crouched over world maps moving armies like chess pieces. Yet there is another kind of grand strategy - one familiar to politicians and philosophers: It is the grand strategy of political subversion.

Political subversion is typically when you demoralize, destabilize, and economically and societally shatter a nation in order to put the pieces back together in a configuration more amenable to the subverter. Contrary to popular conception, it is not a formless art conducted in the shadows; in free societies, it can easily be carried out in the open.

It has been the goal of authoritarian countries like Russia and China during the entire post-World War II order to facilitate (not necessarily orchestrate) the ideological subversion of the United States. Why? Because both countries acknowledge freedom and capitalism to be superior to dictatorship and command economy; but neither want to relinquish authoritarian control over their peoples. Thus both states have used world bodies, and particularly the United Nations, as a means to erode the sovereignty of America in the world and Americans' influence over their own government; all while ultimately seeking to undermine those economic and military strengths that made America so formidable. The "communists" have sought to achieve this through political ideology.

The subverters of America, as it was founded, can be subsumed under the rubric of the political left. What are the goals of the political left? To capture the Democrat party; to neuter, destroy or co-opt the Republican party; to turn the United States into a single party socialist democracy; and to implement a "global transformation" from a capitalist order to an internationalist-fascist "new world order" where America can be sucked dry like marrow from a bone.

Why do I say "fascist"? Because fascism feigns to acknowledge "property," but it commands how it is utilized (usually in the name of the "greater good").

A note is in order. Some believe communism and capitalism to be anathema to one another. However, this is an illusion. Communist countries throughout history always used capitalist devices such as currency, banking, and trade to run their economies. The crucial difference between communist countries and free market capitalist countries is control. A country can be capitalist, in other words, it can use capital for economic transactions, yet the state can control the labor, the wages, and the goods and services available to the "worker." A free market capitalist country must have the characteristics of private property and other individual rights, such as free speech and personal freedom. In essence, all nominally communist countries are fascist; and to anticipate an objection, there are no truly "internationalist" regimes - only regimes that are more or less openly nationalistic in their respective forms of propaganda.

Russia and China have indirectly formed ideological alliances with leftists in the United States, who unknowingly (and rarely, knowingly) cooperate with their designs. Why do leftists in the United States cooperate with the plans of these "communist" countries? Because leftists believe that the collapse of "capitalism" is inevitable. To bring about the left's imagined socialist utopia (or dystopia as some of us would have it), the strongest capitalist country, the United States, must be destroyed.

The United States is too powerful a country (ironically due to the same capitalist system that the leftists condemn) to attack directly. Indeed, this is not only pointless but counterproductive. As Sun Tzu noted, "In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is the inferior way."

Thus deception is key for the leftists. There is no lie a leftist won't tell to accomplish his goal of the complete destruction of the old, whether the old be "civilization" itself. In fact, the bigger the lie the better, as Goebbels and Hitler recommended. Nietzsche cleared the way for utter ruthlessness in politics, surpassing even that of the often-misunderstood Machiavelli (who saw ruthlessness as a virtue for the Prince in order to ensure the survival of the principality). Georges Sorel, another influential leftist, saw "myths" to be particularly useful in bringing about political "change"; a potent post-Nietszchean insight.

Indeed, after the Frankfurt School arrived and set up shop at Columbia after World War II, critical theory, historical revisionism, and post-modernism taught that all aspects of the culture were negotiable and truth was a purely subjective matter. The floodgates were thrown open for the type of unabashed lying we see today in our culture. The left has thus enacted the Gramscian grand strategy of capturing the institutions of popular culture and promoting democracy (while relegating the Constitution to nothing more than a dusty museum piece). The Frankfurt School scattered like a prism the leftist cultural marxist agenda by veiling the leftist program for economic destruction and cultural hijacking into dozens of fracturing agendas: Gay rights, women's rights, civil rights, animal rights, world peace, environmentalism, the list goes on and on.

It is key to recognize that the United States has been declining as a world power for decades; and this is despite its potentially high levels of skilled labor, population growth, natural resources, technological prowess, industrial capacity, real economic growth, and military expenditures. Instead, America has been weakened due to a campaign carried out by the political left to demoralize Americans culturally while creating as much economic inefficiency and chaos as possible.

The left has targeted America's work force by: (a) raising corporate taxes to the highest in the world, forcing companies overseas; (b) draining the treasury for public education, and then producing minds ill-suited for superior performance in a high-tech, industrialized economy; (c) effectively importing tens of millions of underskilled illegal aliens, who undercut wages and deplete (morally repugnant) social welfare programs; (d) fostering an entitlement mentality that deteriorates productivity, especially for manual laborers; (e) promoting unions, which generally create more inefficient and more costly laborers by design; and (f) incentivizing joblessness and laziness through mandatory unemployment insurance and public welfare programs, which are routinely abused and create a drain on the economy.

The left has sought to curb population growth in the United States by (a) promoting the practice of abortion, through groups like "Planned Parenthood" (a leftist organization that veils its agenda though its deceptive label); (b) promoting gay, lesbian, and transgender causes; including gay marriage and adoption of children and (c) overpopulation alarmism (recently tied into the "global warming" agenda through the suggestion of incentivizing the practice of forgoing children through children's credits, similar to carbon credits).

Relatedly, the left has sought to destroy healthy families by (a) providing incentives for divorce (b) promoting the idea that women should work rather than raise children, leaving children in the hands of state-run child care centers (c) making it easy for children to be removed from families for numerous reasons, even if unfounded (d) the sexualization of youth, which is linked to early rebelliousness (d) the promotion of lawlessness and drug use and (e) the subsidization and even encouragement of single mothers, no matter how many children she has out of wedlock.

The left has targeted America's use of its natural resources by (a) enacting laws to prevent drilling for oil and natural gas by American companies (not Chinese ones, apparently); (b) the creation of strict environmental regulations, to the point that no oil refinery has been built in the United States since the 1970s (c) the fear-mongering over nuclear power, even though countries like France receive much of their power from uranium (d) global warming and climate change hysteria, which impacts all fossil fuels, from coal (one of America's most abundant resources, and one that Obama specifically targeted) to shale to oil and natural gas and (e) the creation of giant wildlife reserves where many of the best natural resources are located.

The left has greatly reduced America's potential technological prowess by (a) providing extremely substandard mathematical and scientific education to American students; and (b) compromising secrets to countries like China (supercomputer technology, for example, which was compromised directly by President Clinton).

Industrial capacity in America has been greatly reduced by the left due to (a) numerous environmental regulations; (b) punitive lawsuits, replacing the legal concept of caveat emptor with a nanny state mentality; (c) economic zoning and restrictions; and (d) the promotion of tedious and expensive trade unions, all making American companies less competitive abroad.

The U.S.' economic growth has been impressive, but not nearly as impressive once you factor in that (a) seventy percent of the American economy is consumption (b) consumption is mainly debt-driven, the average household having about $100,000 in personal debt (c) the Fed's inflation of the money supply makes the economic numbers bigger (on the stock market for example), but the numbers may not reflect actual added productivity, or additional goods or services provided (in fact, money supply is so huge a factor once can almost chart one to one charts of money supply and stock market gains side by side); and (d) the national debt, much-financed by China and Japan, is in the order of trillions, and financial obligations of the U.S. government, all told, on the order of several tens of trillions of dollars.

Military expenditures since 1970 have been robust in terms of actual dollars, but not nearly as much so in terms of percent of GDP (the early Cold War era was nearly twice as high). Nevertheless, the U.S. military is well-funded. But it is also overstretched. The U.S. has military bases across the globe, and is currently engaged in two tedious wars. The drain on the military is real. How is the poliltical left involved? Nearly every Democrat voted to authorize the war in Afghanistan, and the great majority voted for Bush to carry out war in Iraq. Of course, the Democrats now feign that the war was all Bush's idea and fault. They can thus have their cake and eat it too: They can stretch the military thin and erode its morale; all the while pretending that they are the "party of peace."

One litmus test to gauge how much the U.S. has been weakened due to the policies of the Democrats is to assess the United States' raw war-making capability. This is a rough statistic America's ideological enemies abroad would be interested in. The Correlates of War data-set, second edition, carries such data up to 2001. The statistic that we would be interested in to assess how much the U.S. has been damaged by Democrat policies is the Composite Index of National Capability (CINC).

Upon investigation, the U.S.' CINC declined from .3838 in 1945 to a startling .149 in 2001. The CINC is derived from a number of statistics, including: Energy consumption, iron and steel production, military expenditure, military personnel, total population, and urban population. It is an imperfect statistic, yet one that buttresses my overall point nicely: The U.S. has been subverted from within.