The Sixth Annual Neoliberal Darwin Awards
“I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.”
By Gregg Wall (11-23-2024)
There's not much going well for the West these days... especially the Greed first - Neolib - Necro economic paradigm for which the West stands. Many Western capitals are mired in catastrophic debt, debt accumulated bailing out our illustrious Western economies, bankers, billionaires, businesses, funding for-profit wars, and tax breaks for multinationals & the wealthy. The best example of this is the U.S. w/ $40 trillion in national debt.
The American/Western empire is challenged as never before: externally, grossly overextended with somewhere between 700 and 800 military bases around the globe (what the American taxpayer gets out of this no politician dares attempt to explain) … and internally, the empire is dominated by cowardice in the congress, corporate greed, military monopolies, psychopaths that are mired in corruption, & a DOD that cannot be audited.
Western political leadership is as morally bankrupt & rudderless as they are worthless... see the series of heads of state who have been voted out of office (as 45 years of corporatism, globalization, laissez-faire, neoliberalism, and political centrism are revealed to be an unmitigated disaster). There’s a deep malaise that has spread across the West, as America, Germany, and Japan stumble. The tariffs that both Biden and Trump said would return the American economy & jobs home have failed to do so.
In brief, there’s no end to the top tier candidates for this year’s Neoliberal Darwin Award winner. But two candidates really stood out.
First, there’s Israel, which under Bibi Netanyahu’s leadership has revealed itself to be - for all the world to see - a fascist state. The relentless bombing of Gaza and the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians, inside Bibi’s death camp, has burned up decades of goodwill. Arrest warrants have been issued for Bibi and former minister of defense, Yoav Gallant, by the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
UN resolution for ceasefire, and a UN report identifying Israel's war crimes are front page news… the U.S. standing pat by its ally finds itself increasingly isolated. The genocide, now nearly fourteen months in, shows no sign of abating or winding down. This as Israel murders thousands in Lebanon (as it deploys an all too familiar gruesome Gaza strategy). Bibi sticking to the line that it must defend itself, when no nation in the Middle East is presently a threat to Israel, least of all prisoners… unarmed women and children… in a Gaza concentration camp. The Biden administration has made excuse after excuse, told lie after lie, strung along the American public with ceasefire promises, only to see the Palestinian body count climb higher and higher with thousands buried under the rubble. The death camp looks like pictures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The cruelty necessary to carry out such actions exhibits a truly depraved and psychotic mindset.
Bibi’s lust to retain power and megalomania knows no end… and aside from the colonial land & resource grab, that’s what this entire episode is about: keeping Bibi out of prison and on the throne. Netanyahu’s antisemitism, his willingness to slaughter Israelis and use the Jewish population to propel the nation forward in war crimes, is now legendary. The brightest spot in Israel these days is the Israeli Press, particularly Haaretz, which puts the NY Times and the Washington Post to shame (especially when it comes to calling out America’s and Israel’s sick and wicked leadership).
But the destruction in Israel & Palestine, by the Zionist cause, have only been matched by the destruction AIPAC, Bibi, and Biden have rendered to the United States’ credibility & reputation and in particular, this year’s second Neoliberal Darwin Award winner: The Democratic Party.
Four years of failed leadership went up in flames earlier this month, as Trump and the GOP crushed the Dems in this year's election. The GOP swept the trifecta, and the establishment is pulling out the same old bag of tricks to explain the Dem party’s defeat: blaming Russia, Kam’s nonexistent shift left, Arab and minority voters. And then, to see Dems and Libs gloat online about the GOP coming to power as payback for failure to support Dems on November 5th… is too much. This party, along with the GOP, is truly irredeemable.
Dems and Biden, of course, completely blew it. Starting with Biden’s first hundred days and a failure to push through his BBB mandate. But instead, the president signed into law billions and trillions in corporate welfare and funding for Biden’s defense budgets, Ukraine War, war with Russia, America’s overextended empire, the new Cold War with China, and Bibi’s Gaza genocide. Absolutely sickening as climate catastrophes, homelessness, poverty go unaddressed within the United States. This, at the same time essential Americans are getting stomped by corporate greed, price gouging utilities, a housing crisis, a health care affordability crisis, and what can only be described as a recession for the bottom 60%. A country flooded and in flames, seemingly endlessly.
And Kam and the Dems rolled out the celebrities, did the talk shows, burned through apparently $1.5 billion, practically ran a campaign devoid of content & policy, and then had the audacity to ask for more money, after they were soundly trounced. The Dems deserved to lose. If this is what America can expect from these two parties going forward, then the American people should march on the nation’s capital & disband this government.
And to pour battery acid onto the nation’s wounds, with roughly sixty to seventy days left in his presidency, there’s Biden and his administration – too senile to run for a second term – calling audibles in the White House: arming and running cover for Killer Bibi and granting long-range missiles to Clown Wonder, Zelensky, so he can start up WW3 with the world’s largest nuclear power.
The best Hollywood fiction writers couldn’t have written this script.
Western leadership… no longer capable of defending their actions, economy, empire, or the charade that is political duopoly… have resorted to attacks on the press, campus protest, threaten social media, and congress is passing legislation that amounts to a direct assault upon the right to speak freely & protest. Israel has murdered scores of journalists.
No, things are not going well for the West, at all. One hundred - plus nations are reportedly ready to arrest Bibi Netanyahu and his ex-defense minister, Gallant. America’s disgust with Democratic party leadership, its revulsion over corruption in congress are at all-time highs, so that Dems lost a great many voters, versus 2020.
Citizens are restive, their economic prospects are dim & worse for their children. Voting out one set of crooks means voting in another party of bootlickers, celebs, corporate lackeys, and oligarchs (under duopoly, kleptocracy, and with an avalanche of money flowing into elections). And the fossil fuels climate crisis has been, conveniently, pushed off the front pages by the establishment & corporate media.
Greed, Wall St, and the War lobby seemingly incapable of reform. And presently, one has to wonder if any of us will be around for next year’s Neoliberal Darwin Awards.
Copyright JM Hamilton Publishing 2024
