Collectivism In The US

If the public pronouncements of elected national leaders and their hired help mean anything it's that the US is slithering toward a neo-Soviet society. 

The latest examples of this are statements by POTUS Joe Biden and his incompetent spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre. 

On April 23, at a White House ceremony honoring teachers of the year, the man with the codes that open the nuclear "football" said this:  “There’s no such thing as someone else’s child,” Biden said. “No such thing as someone else’s child. Our nation’s children are all our children.”

Later, on May 13, at a festival organized by the  Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in New York at the Hilton Midtown, the inept and confused Biden press mouthpiece said: "I’ve met a lot of parents of trans kids in the past couple of months who have told me these devastating stories, whether they’re in Texas or Oklahoma or wherever they are, saying how they now have to seriously consider leaving their state to protect their child. That’s something that we have to call out and continue to be very clear about. These are kids. These are our kids. They belong to all of us."

The collectivization of the US has been a work-in-progress for perhaps its entire existence. Following the Revolutionary War, or what should be known as another battle in the War of the Three Kingdoms, the geographic expansion of the US resulted in a nascent empire where, just as in the case of the Soviet empire, all the land newly stolen from the inhabitants became a collective property of the original thirteen colonies, now states. As time went by some of that land was sold or transferred to private interests but huge portions of it remain in the federal portfolio. As statehood was granted to US territories, the new states received allotments of property but the largest land owner today is still the federal government, an essential quality of the Soviet system. Subordinate governments, state, county, city and township, holding title to significant portions of the landscape, regulate its dispersal and use in a manner no different in essence than the Russian collectivist experiment.

The US is generally portrayed as having a free market capitalist economy. This is certainly not true in the early years of the 21st century, if it ever was. Now, instead of allowing businesses to sink or swim by their own efforts, the federal establishment decides which will succeed or fail according to its own preferences. At the moment, billions of dollars are being showered on the computer chip industry, already one of the more successful endeavors on earth. Billions more are being transferred to a corrupt Ukrainian regime that is a decaying vestige of the Russian empire it now fights. 

These malinvestments, and many more, will be the financial millstone on the neck of a US population that no longer produces enough real wealth to justify the enpixelation of trillions of invisible, abstract dollars. Companies that create tangible assets, oil companies, lumber companies, electrical utilities and manufacturers are hamstrung by  increasing and contradictory government policies. This causes them to inevitably jump in bed with the government, managers on both sides of the public/private sphere switching allegiances back and forth. 

Whatever may have been the original spark that kicked over the US engine, it has now been smothered by the Neo-Soviet, central planning fiasco.