The Third Worldization of the United States

A few years back, I wrote an article premised on the idea that, despite the stated goals of the United Nations or what have you, the First World is becoming more like the Third World.

Some poorer countries may (or may not) be moving up in the game of world economics, but that doesn't mean that richer ones are simultaneously maintaining their own status.  The goal, according to organizations like the UN, is supposed to be to eradicate world poverty.  But that end is never going to be achieved if, as one nation overcomes poverty for instance, another slides into it.

I don't believe that what's currently going on in the United States is just circumstantial or coincidental.  Donald Trump may not be as racist as many people believe, but he's very much classist.  Trump was  more or less born with a silver spoon in his mouth and, to my understanding, some 70 years later is now richer than ever.  Someone like that you can't normally expect to be sympathetic towards the poor.

TRUMP SUPRISES CONSPIRACY THEORISTS

It's rare that a conspiracy theorist is spot on.  But one of the reasons the genre has persisted throughout the years is because some of their theories are accurate in general.

For example, since at least the 1990s, some prominent conspiracy theorists have been warning that the US government will eventually go after dissidents and others they deem uncomfortably noncomformist, en masse.  Within the context of world history, persecution by the powers-that-be based on politics isn't anything unusual.  But this the United States, a country formed by revolutionaries and one that's supposed to be a historical beacon as far as liberty is concerned.

What the conspiracy theorists, including Alex Jones in particular, didn't foresee was that the President who would really push the nation towards a police state would be Donald Trump.  Trump, up until recently I would presume, was sort of a champion of conspiracy theorists.  He's the candidate you would vote for if you didn't want the globalists to takeover and that kinda shit.  He was supposed to have the conservative interests of the United States at heart, which he does in a way, enforcing the Monroe Doctrine and all, but that's a story for another day.

One thing I always like to remind people when it comes to being US President is that it is in fact a job.  It's just like being a manager at McDonald's, so to speak.  You may come in with your own style or beliefs or whatever, which is more or less expected when an organization employs a new leader.  But the job of the president, manager, etc. is to maintain and forward the goals and objectives which the company has already put in motion, probably from before he or she was even born or considered to be a leader.

Trump, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, etc., they may have their individual styles, but there are certain goals that whoever is running the US government expects to advance regardless of who is in office.  And the timeline in which they want them achieved may even determine who's in office at a given juncture.

Let me give you a basic example of what I mean, from a conspiratorial standpoint.  The Biden Administration was perhaps kinder to immigrants than any iteration of the US federal government that preceded it.  They even had illegals registering for benefits, openly revealing their whereabouts, etc. to govvie.  Then boom, just like that, here comes Trump, grabbing them all up, detaining and deporting immigrants, I'm sure based on a lot of that information which the Biden Administration complied.  Quite a coincidence, right?

AMERICANS GETTING POORER, BY DESIGN

But before I digress, let's get back to the matter at hand.  The Donald seems to be systematically shitting on poorer Americans, and I don't mean through a police state but financially.

First of course were the tariffs.  Initially I, as I would presume many others out there, was under the impression that Trump's actions in those regards was primarily aimed at strengthening the US economy by weakening the affordability of imported products.  That end was apparently achieved to some degree.  The Donald knows more about business than the overwhelming majority of us, so I can't sit here and say that he doesn't know what he's doing.

With that in mind, note that at the end of the day, according the experts, those who are most adversely affected by the tariffs were US consumers, i.e. those on the lower end of the economic spectrum.  That doesn't sound like something the Trump Administration would do if they truly cared about their constituents, intentionally making the cost of living higher than it already was, considering that most Americans were already struggling well before he became President.

Earlier this week, a report came out that federal workers will not be getting paid on time.  Delayed payment of government employees is actually a common occurrence - in Third World countries.  The US economy is rather one that Third Worlders look up to, even dream about and long for, as a place where 'you always get paid on time', especially if you have something like a government job.  But that standard has now been broken, in the name of a "government shutdown".  Well, unlike their Third World counterparts, at least American employees have food banks to fallback on.

Then, what's been reported earlier today is that Food Stamp benefits will not be distributed at the beginning of the (next) month, as is standard.  Furthermore, there's no definitive timetable as to when the system will pick back up.

I'm not necessarily a big fan of welfare, in terms of forming a dependency on it.  Welfare, as idealized, is something you're supposed to use to get on your feet and then move on with your life.  But that said, the Food Stamps' "program helps about 1 in 8 Americans buy groceries", including of course many of the nation's poorer citizens.  One thing I often point out as one of the biggest differences between the United States and Third World countries is that the US government directly supports its citizens financially.  But that standard, as we know it, may now be a thing of the past. 

CONCLUSION

President Trump may not be a globalist in the traditional sense of the word, but a businessman of his stature undoubtedly has an international outlook anyway.  Furthermore, the higher ups in the US government have their own agendas which may not be openly apparent to the general public.  Just ask conspiracy theorists.  But what really caught a lot of independent American thinkers offguard, I would presume, is that they never thought that Trump, who often advertised himself as the opposite, would be the one to bring such things to pass.