My biggest frustration with Lefty Twitter these days is they don’t know what they’re facing.
They think it’s Trump. Or Marjorie Greene. Or the Texas Legislature. Or Fox News.
It’s none of those things. These perceived enemies are merely front-line targets. Take them out and there are others behind them.
The Republican Party isn’t in disarray. It isn’t incoherent. It’s very coherent. I’ve already identified where most of its foot soldiers come from.
But the Great Awakening is just one element in a broader coalition. It’s a coalition familiar to any Latin American, from Mexico to Argentina. It’s a coalition that was Made in the USA and imposed on their home nations by Americans. We’ve been at it for two centuries, ever since John Quincy Adams wrote, and James Monroe endorsed, what became known as the Monroe Doctrine.
Kids are taught that the Monroe Doctrine told Europe to keep its hands off the Americas. It did. But it didn’t say the USA wouldn’t keep its hands off the rest of the Americas. We have been doing it ever since. Nearly every nation in this hemisphere has seen an American invasion, either directly or by proxy. Most have had governments imposed on them, and they’ve all been driven by three basic elements:
- Militarists – These governments have been led by generals. Armies and police can impose whatever order they want, especially if they have a bigger army, like ours, behind them.
- Oligarchs – A few rich men can organize an economy however American sponsors want. It’s about controlling the land on behalf of some activity. The phrase “banana republic” comes from American control over Central American countries on behalf of United Fruit. We have also used oligarchs to control minerals, and oil, even tourism.
- Religion – This is how you control a people. You tell them this is what God wants, and you may not question it. The more extreme the religion, the better it works. You put the other race down, the other sex down, and tell them it's God's will.
Militarists, oligarchs, and religious extremists have kept Latin America down for two centuries, with American help. The only thing that’s new in our time is how this model has been imported back to our own shores.
Police, extractive industries, and extreme religions. Where they dominate, they dominate absolutely. That’s what is going on now in Texas, throughout the South, even in the Midwest and West. The names of the religions and leaders may differ, but it’s always the same hymn.
The good news is these forces no longer dominate the U.S. economy. The tech economy is built on human capital. The tech economy needs brains. Not muscles, not land. Tech needs fully functioning, educated, empowered brains, the more the better. That’s where value comes from. We use the cloud to engineer around the need for labor or specific resources. We push the boundaries of science. We deliver breakthroughs on a global scale, more every day. Change is accelerating. The old models can’t keep up.
The war between Trumpistan and Techlandia isn’t a political war. It’s an economic war. It’s a war Techlandia is fated to win. But it’s a war that still must be fought. It must be understood as a war and fought as a war.
The key to victory is knowing who the enemy is.
