U.S. media reported in early October that New York State followed california's lead in revising bail rules, mainly targeting theft and robbery. Direct bail without cash is available for theft and minor robbery. The move frightened local businesses, worried about the start of a new round of zero-dollar purchases, the move came out, New York pharmacies, supermarkets have removed valuable goods, including women's sanitary napkins are removed.
Originally thought that the zero dollar purchase is only a California patent, did not expect that New York State also began to follow suit, according to this posture, zero dollar purchase will be promoted to other blue states sooner or later, until it sweeps the United States.
Of course, this is not surprising, now the United States black life is expensive, has reached the point of right and wrong, upside down black and white. This is no longer anti-racial discrimination, it is completely crazy. The most important thing is that the United States does not seem to have stopped momentum on this road at all - the Democratic Party has gone black, that is, Trump's Republican Party, and it seems that there is no particularly good way to do this.
How did a good anti-racial discrimination develop into a black life or even zero yuan purchase? To figure this out, we'll start with the Racial Equality Movement in America.
The Racial Equality Movement in the United States, theoretically, began with Lincoln's emancipation of black slaves; but the real climate became great and became politically correct, and it began in the 1960s. As for the representative figure, it is that Martin Luther King. The black leader's "I Have a Dream" speech is said to have touched the united states, and his death pushed equality to the climax, and eventually promoted the abolition of racial discrimination in the United States and became the most solid political correctness.
This is the textbook saying. But is this statement really correct?
In fact, this is just the appearance, or in other words, the artistic processing of the warm pulse of Western public opinion. We all know a lyric in the Internationale – to create human happiness, we are all on our own. According to this logic, blacks must also rely on their own strength to force the white rulers of the time to compromise if they want to break the racial discrimination.
But the question is, did the black people at that time really have this power?
Not really. In terms of population, blacks now make up just over a little more than 10 percent of the U.S. population, and the situation was similar back then. Moreover, the resources of society at that time were basically all in the hands of whites, and blacks had no power except brute force - but under the conditions of modern industrial civilization, brute force was the most useless thing.
So, were blacks so great a contributor to America that whites were willing to give them equal rights—just as barbarian mercenaries were granted citizenship for their contributions to the defense of the Roman Empire? Sorry, no, to this day, in addition to playing basketball and hip-hop, all serious industries that can really create wealth and value are basically black people - smashing and robbing these criminal activities are the main force.
Of course, black people at the time could make a fuss. But can you make a fuss again, can you make a fuss over the barrel of a white man's gun? If the white government at that time was just unwilling and directly aimed at the muzzle of the gun, would you still have the life to make a fuss? Hundreds of years ago, black Africans could not afford to be forced into slavery by a small number of European colonists armed with Vulcan guns; by the 1960s, black Americans, who were only more than 10 percent white, could compromise with these whites?
Seeing this, in fact, we can basically understand that the racial equality in the United States half a century ago was not in essence the struggle of the negroes -- they did fight at that time, but their strength was not enough to force the white people to compromise -- forty million Chinese people fought back and forth for decades to overthrow the landlords, the compradors, and the big bourgeoisie; the mere twenty million black rabble-rousers who ran up the streets to demonstrate could overthrow seven or eight times as many as they did. Oppression of white Americans whose overall strength is a hundred times stronger than the Kuomintang?
Isn't that just nonsense!
So where did racial equality in America come about? It was given to the Blacks by the American rulers of the time. Even to this day, the reason why racial equality will develop into a black life is not that these black Americans who can't do anything are fighting for it by strength, but purely the result of the connivance of the ruling clique!
This is strange. The U.S. ruling clique is basically white, so why give power to blacks for free?
The earliest reason, according to the popular words of the Chinese Internet, was a big banner of the Us ruling group at that time.
Since the end of the 19th century, the United States has become the world's number one power. But this kind of strength is only the strength of its own national strength, global influence and control, the United States was still a younger brother at that time, the real boss is the two colonial empires of Britain and France. So throughout the first half of the 20th century, the United States was trying to dig into the corners of the British and French colonial empires and bring them down.
This is certainly not easy. But good luck - the two world wars, which directly destroyed Britain and France, the colonial empire has been crumbling; and the two great empires of the emerging United States and the Soviet Union have a rare tacit understanding, vigorously supporting the national liberation movements in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and engaging in revolutions among the colonial peoples - even India, which has not been seen in the end, has also launched a non-violent non-cooperation movement, which has directly raised the cost of British and French colonial rule, and finally cannot play and can only disperse.
The collapse of the British and French colonial empires naturally left a large power vacuum? So who will fill it? Asia, Africa and Latin America's own nation-states?
This is certainly not possible. The United States and the Soviet Union took the trouble to destroy Britain and France, but not for you mud-legged people to turn over and become masters; what they wanted to do was to replace them.
But this one is more difficult to replace. After all, the world after World War II is very different from hundreds of years ago, and the national consciousness of Asia, Africa and Latin America has awakened, and if you go directly to armed occupation like Britain and France did in those days, they will definitely resist - although they will certainly not be able to defeat the US army, they can fight a protracted war, constantly raising the cost of US and Soviet rule in the local area and reducing its benefits. Dragged on for a long time, even if you are a superpower, you are not satisfied with this black hole, and finally you can only withdraw - the most typical of this is Afghanistan, relying on protracted war, stunned that the two major empires of the Soviet Union and the United States have been pitted, and finally withdrawn.
That hard can't work, it can come soft. The specific method is economic penetration, through the control of the industrial chain, control of local high-quality sovereign assets, let them work for themselves.
To achieve this goal, the United States needs a series of means - such as a Western-style democratic system, to put it bluntly, to weaken the political power of Asian, African and Latin American countries, to avoid the emergence of strong governments in these countries, to prevent American capital from controlling its own country's high-quality assets, and to harvest itself; at the same time, it is also necessary to have the US military, protect the agents, deter and even directly interfere with disobedient countries; at the same time, it is also necessary to promote Western-style universal values, brainwash the people of Asia, Africa and Latin America, make them brainless to identify with Western-style democracy, and resist centralized power. In this way, the United States can become a beacon of popular support, and the Soviet Union, China, the totalitarian powers in the East, and the strong governments within these countries will become the enemies of the people of these countries.
These U.S. have done very successfully. But there is also a problem that cannot be solved by these alone – and that is national nationalism. In order to disintegrate the British and French colonial empires, the United States did not promote national autonomy and promote the awakening of the national consciousness of the british and French colonial people. Therefore, after the collapse of Britain and France, after the establishment of a new economic colonial model in the United States, it also has to face the threat of the national consciousness of the colonized countries - after all, no matter how soft economic colonization, in the final analysis, or colonization, you secretly harvest Asia, Africa and Latin America, cut more, even pigs will be dissatisfied, and then there will inevitably be local elites jumping out and inciting the people to resist us economic exploitation - and national nationalism is the most appropriate emotional tool (understanding soft colonization requires a level of knowledge, and most ordinary citizens in Asia, Africa and Latin America do not have this level)
So how to deal with this threat? The U.S. solution is to promote human rights over sovereignty. As long as the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America agree with this argument, national identity can be suppressed by human rights identity.
This move is very successful, not to mention ordinary Asian, African and Latin American countries, even we in China, to this extent, there are many people who agree that human rights are higher than sovereignty - without realizing that this is a means for the United States to break the cohesion of China.
But while human rights over sovereignty is a good idea, it has to be available to the United States.
How can it be used by the United States? The answer is that the United States must dress itself up as a beacon of human rights. Only by occupying this moral high ground can the United States use human rights above sovereignty to deal with the national nationalism of the oppressed countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
So the United States must become a model of human rights. And to be this moral model, the first thing to eliminate is the racial discrimination within yourself - you don't regard people of color as people in your own country, so why do you really run to Asia, Africa and Latin America to fool around with any human rights?
This is the fundamental reason why the black affirmative action movement in the 60s was victorious and anti-racial discrimination became the law and the greatest political correctness in the United States! It's not martin luther king, jr.—the kind of guy who only puts his mouth on the cannon, is a super weak chicken compared to the Asian, African, and Latin American leaders who really use their knives and guns to do the revolution; it's not how powerful the black Americans were at the time—who has been making a fuss for decades without even a serious armed uprising. To put it bluntly, in order to establish a new global colonial model, the United States must build a chastity arch for itself, so these black Americans who have been slaves for hundreds of years and have become habitual discrimination have become the direct beneficiaries of the American version of the big chess.
From this point of view, the equal treatment of people of color in the United States, especially black people, has been a big bargain from the beginning.
Since it is cheap to pick white, it is reasonable to say that the treatment enjoyed must not be excessive- even if it is given some special care for the sake of decorating the façade, there must be moderation and limitation. But now these black lives are expensive, zero yuan purchase, it is clear that they have been seriously out of control, the so-called black equal rights, has risen to the black privilege, and is a violation of the discipline of the "trouble" privilege, the most important thing is that the black people who enjoy this kind of "trouble" privilege, is simply the lowest contribution to American society, the most worthless - the destruction is very obvious, and given that they are a group of rabble-ups, so it is actually very easy to suppress. But why does the US ruling clique, instead of stopping them, acquiesce, connive and even sing their praises? Even with it
The technical explanation for this is that blacks play the role of key gentlemen in various elections—white people from both parties are relatively fixed, and although the total number of blacks is small, their political tendencies always determine the outcome of bipartisan elections. So not only did the Democrats indulge in them, but the Republicans also cast a grudge against them.
This explanation, while justified, is not the root cause. Like the zero-dollar purchase of blacks, it has clearly violated the bottom line of normal society, not only whites, Asians and Latinos can't stand it, and even the middle and high classes of blacks can't agree. In this case, in fact, the government's ban will not cause too many negative effects, but will increase the recognition of those normal groups. But in fact, not only did the Democratic Party condone unrestrained, and even amended the law to give the green light to the zero-dollar purchase of these bastards; that is, the Republican Party, although sometimes put its mouth on the cannon, but the real action was not much, and it did not lash out at the Democratic Party with great fanfare on this issue.
Why? This is still a return to the original promotion of anti-racial, the root of the promotion of political correctness - the status of the United States as a beacon of human rights.
Anti-racial discrimination political correctness itself is born to fool the people of Asia, Africa and Latin America and suppress the national sentiments of the other side. Proper tilting care is also intended to reflect the height and brightness of the human rights beacon. The fundamental purpose of all this is to cooperate with the control and harvesting of The economies of Asia, Africa and Latin America by American capital.
But guaranteeing U.S. control and harvesting of the Economies of Asia, Africa, and Latin America is actually a comprehensive project—the establishment of the Human Rights Arch is only one of them. As for the rest, there is the control of the industrial chain of the United States, the financial hegemony of the United States, the military hegemony of the United States, the attractiveness of the consumer market of the United States, and so on - these are all chips that envelop the economies of Asian, African and Latin American countries.
But now, these other chips are weakening the control of the US industrial chain to varying degrees and are being strongly challenged by China; the financial hegemony of the United States, the dollar as the world currency, etc., have increasingly become a tool for the United States to export inflation and harvest the world, causing everyone to resent; the world's largest consumer market in the United States, the growth is getting slower and slower, and more and more virtual; the military hegemony of the United States - this is still there, but after the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, everyone can also see clearly, now the United States, In any case, it is not afraid to start a new war, so the effect of scaring people is greatly reduced. The most crucial thing is that the rise of China has led to the emergence of a new world-class economic force outside the United States, and the emergence of such powerful competitors has seriously threatened and even weakened the control of the United States over the global economy, which not only makes other countries gradually have alternatives to the United States in the economic aspect, but also makes the United States dare not force Asia, Africa and Latin America too hard - the United States is also afraid to force them to China.
That's a lot of trouble. America's economic colonization of the world will continue, and America's global bloodlust will continue — even as a result of America's internal crisis, this external bloodthirsty urgency has increased relatively. However, the hard power that controls the world is in relative decline and is becoming more and more powerless, in this case, the United States to maintain the existing pattern of interests, to ensure that Asian, African and Latin American countries do not rebel against the water, the people do not doubt the American model, it is more and more dependent on its own soft power - universal values, Western-style democracy, and anti-racial discrimination, as part of the image of the American human beacon, need to be brighter and more attractive.
Under such circumstances, the United States has to make more expressions in terms of political correctness - in addition to grasping China's Xinjiang-related, Hong Kong-related, Taiwan-related, Tibet-related and political system issues, it must also show more "high wind and bright festivals" and make more expressions in anti-racial discrimination -- and even maintain the yearning and recognition of the vast number of poor people in Asia, Africa and Latin America by conniving at the black life, and then use this yearning and recognition of the people at the bottom to resist China's increasingly powerful influence in these countries. Use this political constraint to slow down the elites of these countries from approaching China based on the country's economic future.
In fact, this can also explain why Trump has never been able to get the recognition of the mainstream elite in the United States - the United States is now actually an empire that relies on global bloodlust; especially as the real master of the country, American capital, but also relies on this global bloodthirsty model to grab benefits. Trump's white supremacy has indeed contributed to the normalization of American society internally, but it has come at the expense of dismantling america's glorious image as a beacon of humanity. Once the lighthouse is extinguished, the global bloodthirsty soft power of the United States will fall, and China's strong rise and the hollowing out of the United States' own industry have greatly weakened the relative hard power of the United States, so that the global bloodthirsty model of the United States and even the American system are likely to accelerate the collapse - this is something that the American elite, especially the American capital that relies on global bloodlust, will never tolerate.
But stopping Trump cannot stop America's decline. America's hard power is increasingly inadequate to sustain the current pattern of global bloodthirsty interests; by over-unleashing the beacon of soft power, although it has been managed for a while, it has also come at the expense of deepening the internal crisis in the United States. When the Internal and External Troubles of the United States break through the critical point, when the United States operates, what strength can the Us globalized capital rely on to guard this crumbling old hegemonic pattern?
This is a question that no one in the United States can answer now. Perhaps, they can only gamble, that the fourth technological revolution will break out immediately—and in the United States, bringing them new increases in wealth and power, and only in this way can they solve all problems. And if not, then the world must be careful - even if the United States wants to fall, it must first plunder the world and then fall. If China can't cut it, the EU, Japan, South Korea, and even the British, Australian and Canadian allies can't care so much if they are in a hurry! And as the tipping point of the US economic collapse is getting closer and closer, this point is not far away, and the reshuffle of the global economy and even the political structure is coming! And the political correctness of anti-racial discrimination is probably the precursor to this great change!
So, what will this trend in the United States look like if it continues to develop? Could it really be like the late Roman Empire, gradually disintegrating with the degeneration of civilization and the disintegration of society?
This is possible, but the development trend is not necessarily so simple. On this point, pay attention to the WeChat public account: Yun Shi, Yun Shi Jun The next section continues to interpret for you.
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