EN — LARRY ROMANOFF — Life in a Failed State — Part 1 — September 27, 2022

Life in a Failed State,

Part 1

By Larry Romanoff, September 27, 2022

The United States of Inequality

So Long, Middle Class

Poverty, The Great Equaliser

The Richest Country’s Empty Plates

Homes and Homelessness

Jobs and Labor

 

Introduction

 

In an earlier essay on the 1917 Jewish revolution in Russia,[1] I related this quote: “The [Jews] systematically exterminated the  clergy, the wealthy, the business class, the intelligent educated class, all the high-achieving segments of the population, leaving Russia with a population of ignorant workers, peasants, and a powerful Jewish ruling elite.”

 

This is precisely the situation - and the intent - with the US today. The methods are different, but the final result will be the same. It is dispiriting that, while the signs are everywhere to be seen, few seem sufficiently interested or astute to connect the dots. In reading these combined essays on this topic, it will greatly assist your understanding if you keep in mind that the events and circumstances described herein were all deliberately created and implemented. None of what you will be reading about, was an accident of fate or due to "economic circumstances beyond control". All was contrived for the above transitional purpose, and that transition is perhaps 80% completed in the US today. Read, and form your own judgment.

 

The United States of Inequality

 

EN — LARRY ROMANOFF — God Save the Queen. Or, Maybe not — January 14, 2022

 

God Save the Queen. Or, Maybe not

 

By Larry Romanoff for PRAVDA, January 14, 2022

Westerners seem to hold a fondness for monarchies; pleasant remembrances of times past, the pleasures of the "court", colloquial recollections of quaint beheadings and the capriciousness of rulings, and envious mention of the 'King's prerogative' on a wedding night. Altogether a generally uncritical recollection.

We tend to think of the British monarchy today, or possibly the smaller incarnations existing in Monaco, the Netherlands or Belgium, rulers who tend now to be not only civilised but also marginalised. But monarchies were not always thus, and rather too many disappeared in the smoke of revolutions because entire populations revolted against the frequent and unpredictable brutality of the rulers, the callous and cynical lack of concern for the populace, and general bad management.

Monarchies and Dictatorships

 

Monarchies and dictatorships are functionally very similar, differing primarily in the method of succession planning, both being a form of government where one person holds absolute power, the exercise of which was not always predictable. Both Monarchies and dictatorships tended to pass power to the next relative in line. The primary difference between the two is that monarchies often claimed a 'divine right' to rule, having been conveniently selected by God, whereas a dictator, sadly but still unashamedly, passed power onto his son. But the only real difference, certainly in the public imagination, is that dictators just didn't have the class of monarchs. There truly is something special about these hard-to-get divine appointments.

 

But our recollections are little more than us having what we might call a convenient and selective memory. We recall what we choose. For downright brutal inhumanity, monarchies have never had much to be proud of. King Leopold of Belgium killed 10-15 million people without hesitation. A Transylvanian prince, eager to explain something to his subjects in a way they could understand, had his soldiers gather 20,000 subjects and chop one arm and one leg off each one. Monarchies were equally as inhuman as were the worst of dictators, and the British were arguably the worst of the lot.

 

The British Royal Family