“Do the American people really want to pay the price for a very small ruling class to rule an empire?”
At the rate things are going their won’t be an America for any to rule let alone a Pres. to Govern.
We’re in a bad place right now...people are rebelling against the Government...and Now against our nations National Security Protections....at least Mabarak, Libya, Assad stayed at the helm of their nation.... our current Leadership is a follower of whatever the International Community determines...and absent otherwise...or leaving for his next vacation or round of golf.
If the people loose their trust of Government...they rebel...if they loose the trust of the Security apparatus intended to protect them ...they are ripe for takeover.
We as a nation cannot continue in this near vacum we are in.....either our leaders shape up or this nation will completely fall.
I sometimes think that is exactly what the world leaders are waiting for...the only thing they use us for is money in their coffers and our military...both which are stretched to the max....and no one has the answers.
Instead of being pessimistic, look at the bright side, that a lot of Americans see what’s going on, and do not like it, and they are the ones who contribute to society, instead of parasitizing from it.
Efforts at socialism always fail because socialist ideas do not pay their own way. They rely on resources outside of their system to subsidize what they do; and even worse, they continually grow until their host can no longer support them, much like a malignant cancer.
Add to this, that elitist socialism, a modern refrain of a division of society between a nobility and a peasantry, can only have any power by limiting *everything* that exists in abundance, so it can ration it to the peasantry or not. Rewarding its subjects and punishing its dissidents.
That is, *anything* in abundance can be used as an alternative currency, to defeat the ability of the elites to control others. And I mean *anything*. In East Germany, even colors other than black, gray and white were reserved to honor the state, as was music.
If the people have anything in abundance, the scheme fails.
American socialists are just as bizarre, wanting to ration everything, including water, food, nature, etc. To keep the people they despise, who they think of as peasants, living in deprivation and dependence. They even strive to ration life itself. And some, the weirdest of the lot, have decided that there are too many peasants for the elites to manage “in the world”, so wish to cull the vast majority of humanity. 90% of them, according to such lights as lizard expert Dr. Eric Pianka, and his minions.
So do not think of socialists as capable or even marginally effective at running things or empire building. Parasites and metastatic cancers cannot exist on their own. Look at the results of their handiwork in Detroit, and even the direction California is headed.
They might crave to turn America into Zimbabwe, but truth be told, without the willing assistance of their hosts, their schemes whither and die.