First, the Latin American update, Exhibit A for the failed defense of junk food and junk culture:
According to VICE News, thousands of children are riding on top of trains to reach the U.S. border, driven by out-of-control gang violence now engulfing the failed state called El Salvador. It turns out that the gangs were hatched on the mean streets of Los Angeles during the 1980s. For several decades, U.S. foreign policy supported the various juntas and fascist dictators that were corporate friendly to U.S. multinationals. That corrupt policy reached its apex in the 1980s under Reagan, causing a massive influx of refugees to the U.S. The displaced youth ultimately formed the MS13 and Barrio 18 gangs to protect themselves from existing inner-city gangs in L.A. It gets worse. Since many of these youth were illegal aliens, the U.S. government systematically deported 60,000 convicted gang members back to El Salvador where they now essentially run roughshod over the entire failed state. Thus causing the latest wave of forced immigration.
At the end, all empires must turn the guns on their own populace
"George Orwell once offered an excellent explanation for this phenomenon: as the imperial end-game approaches, it becomes a matter of imperial self-preservation to breed a special-purpose ruling class—one that is incapable of understanding that the end-game is approaching"
"So the trend is unmistakable: whereas at its height, the empire destroyed in order to rebuild the world in its own image, as it nears its end, the empire destroys simply for the sake of destruction, leaving piles of corpses and smoldering ruins in its wake"
"How many funerals and wedding parties have been taken out by drone strikes? I don't know that anyone in the US really knows, but I am sure that those whose relatives were killed do remember, and will remember for the next few centuries at least."
"As empires collapse, they turn inward, and subject their own populations to the same ill treatment to which they subjected others. Here, America is unexceptional: the number of Americans being murdered by their own police, with minimal repercussions for those doing the killing, is quite stunning. When Americans wonder who their enemy really is, they need look no further."
