America Reached Its Zenith In 2006

(Excerpted from “The Fall of Western Civilization,” first published 2250)

Islamic Radical Fundamentalists were dancing in their mosques with the results of the so-called “midterm elections” in November 2006, held in the last great democracy, the United States of America. Although the rank and file suicide bomber in the Islamic movement may not have realized it, their leaders knew they had found the secret to defeating the most powerful country in the world at the time: They would let the voters of the democracy destroy their own country from within.

Besides being a formidable military power at the beginning of the 21st Century, the USA was the preeminent consumer economy in the world. By gobbling up oil that bubbled up from the sands of the Middle East deserts, America alone contributed as much as half of the wealth the Muslim Middle-Eastern countries had amassed at the time. But Americans were addicted not only to cheap oil, the American consumer gobbled up cheap goods from all over the world. The consumer powerhouse even imported cheap labor in the form of illegal immigrants from what was then called Latin America. The so-called “American Dream,” a phrase that originally meant a combination of hard work, patriotism, success and belonging in the middle of the 20th Century, became synonymous with a lavish middle-class consumer lifestyle by the beginning of the 21st Century. Anything that interfered with that dream was viewed with disdain. Principle, obligation. patriotism, ethics, commitment, sacrifice, and a sense creating a brighter future–all these things would be quickly abandoned by the American consumers if they became frustrated. We now know that such unbridled consumerism marks the final stages of any democracy.

After those midterm elections in the USA, the leaders of the Islamic Radical Fundamentalists finally understood that they could further their dream of world domination by exploiting the American mentality of consumerism first.

Islamist leaders had been surprised by the ferocity of America’s response following the relatively minor but demoralizing frontal attacks by the Islamic Fundamentalists against the USA on September 11, 2001. Instead of rolling over and playing nice, as the Islamists had expected the Americans would do, the Republican-led government of the USA at the time counter-attacked with a vengeance, sending the Islamists reeling in the countries of Afghanistan and Iraq. Gradually, the Islamists replaced their frontal attack mentality with one of a coordinated rear-guard disruptive intervention. They tested this method in Spain, where a few timely bombs swayed an entire national election that pulled that country out of the sphere of influence of the USA. Wary of a backlash to another direct attack within the USA, the Islamists leaders were able to quiet most of their highly restless armies, short-sighted extremists who were bent on attacking the US directly. Instead they focused on disrupting the Iraqi War effort which was led by the Republican administration of the US. The assumption was that the American consumer would have no stomach for a long war of principle and would demand that their government back out.

Their plan worked flawlessly. The American Democrat political party played by the Islamists’ playbook almost as if the two were allies. The Democrats appealed to the frustration of the American consumer against war, promising to “bring the troops home.” The result was that voters bought the notion that leaving Iraq to the Iraqis would be best for their pocketbook. This political turnaround was even more ironic in light of the fact that the American economy was booming at the time of the election.

The Islamic Radical Fundamentalists, the spiritual leadership of which was headquartered in non-Arab Iran, immediately declared victory, but the American consumer ignored the obvious observation. The Islamists saw the success of their new war plan, so they regrouped with anticipation of their ultimate success in overcoming the West. To the extent that they could control the zealots among their ranks, they avoided directly attacking the USA until they would consolidate their power in the Middle East. They embarked on a program to further weaken America by exploiting the Americans’ complacency and greed.

The apparent retrenchment of the militant Muslims following the fateful elections of 2006 convinced American consumers they had made the “right choice” by rejecting direct confrontation with the Islamists.

The American economy continued to boom. More Democrats were swept into power during the American presidential election of 2008 on the promise of peace and prosperity. They gained control of the White House together with a solid hold on Congress, running on one principle: that they could benefit the middle-class majority and the downtrodden underclass through multiculturalism and taxing people they called “The Rich” to pay for politically popular programs like national healthcare. America went on a spending blitz of consumption that eclipsed even its own earlier gluttony.

To finance the insatiable American appetite, Iran played up to the accommodating Democrat administration with cheap oil. The Americans were duped into withdrawing their troops completely from Iraq, and Iran installed a puppet government there which further flooded the international markets with cheap oil.

Even with a booming international economy and increasing taxes in the USA, Americans could not pay for all they wanted, and their government borrowed more and more to finance their profligacy. American debt got more and more expensive with many previously willing creditor nations getting more and more nervous, demanding higher and higher interest payments. Some historians would later say the signs of the financial weightiness of the liberal public policy were evident in the rejection of American debt by the Arab nations, but the flight of the creative minds from the USA to countries with lower taxation also played a role in declining tax receipts.

In the meantime, the floodgates of human importation were full open in the USA. All admonitions by the reeling politically conservative remnant in the USA to protect the country’s borders were rejected by the American consuming populous. Wave after wave of illegal immigration flooded through the southern border, bringing more cheap labor and more Democrat-voting new citizens (through endless amnesty programs which were rammed into law by the benefiting Democrat party).

In late 2012, just after the American presidential election in which the Democrat party incumbent won reelection by a landslide, it was estimated that the population of illegal immigrants in the USA had swelled to 50 million, a four-fold increase in just six years.

Among those illegal immigrants crowding the cities of the USA were as many as 100,000 Islamic warriors, awaiting orders from their leaders within the nuclear-armed Iran. The final attack was perfectly coordinated by, of all things, commercial cell phones. By this time, Americans had become so “rights-conscious,” that they rejected any notion of monitoring cell phone usage. So the Islamic fundamentalist leaders in the Middle East were easily able to use the publicly financed open communications channels to steer their dispersed army.

America had become complacent in the peace it thought it had negotiated with the Islamic Radical Fundamentalists. It had been over a decade since the attack on September 11, 2001, and when that day was recalled at all in the US, it was with a sense of shame. The prevailing multicultural opinion, promoted by the most liberal of Western society’s elements, became that the previous conservative government of the USA had brought that attack upon its own population through an inappropriate sense of patriotism and morality. The new political thinking had corrected this “error” by embracing the concepts of universal harmony and government control over public displays of morality in the form of any religious symbols (except that widespread appeasement was given to adherents to Islam, a group with which the American government wanted no confrontation).

On January 1, 2013, just as the dangerously obese average American male was sitting down to watch endless sporting events on his multiple High Definition televisions, news reports began to erupt describing a nuclear missile attack on Tel Aviv and several smaller towns inside Israel. Within minutes of these first surreal images from the Mediterranean came the ghastly reports that two dozen small nuclear weapons had just obliterated the sporting venues at the largest cities across USA.

Despite the widespread nature of the attacks, initial casualty estimates for the US were relatively light, with an estimated death toll of only about 1 million in the first wave of explosions. As the day wore on, hundreds of smaller explosions of conventional weapons rocked virtually every medium-sized town across America, killing perhaps tens of thousands more. Horrified surviving Americans tried desperately to learn the fate of loved ones scattered across their country, but the communications and broadcast centers which had worked so well for the Islamic army had now been largely severed by the attacks.

The following day, January 2, 2013, in an act of obvious coordination with the Islamists, Latino political leaders in the American states of California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and South Florida declared their territories to be independent of the United States. Armed militias, comprised largely of seemingly ordinary citizens, surrounded federal facilities and forced the surrender of representatives of the national government.

In the ensuing weeks, civilized American society virtually ceased to exist. All confidence in organized government collapsed. The rule of law evaporated. The people who owned guns, which were mostly criminals since the ownership of guns had been outlawed by the ruling Democrat political party, made their own laws.

The situation in Israel was even worse. With the Israeli government destroyed, its armed forces nearly knocked out, and the backing of the now chaotic USA completely withered, Palestinians swarmed into the vulnerable Israeli populace and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Jews per day.

Within days of the initial attacks in Israel and the US, the unruly Muslim population in Europe began relentless rioting across the continent. The Western economy, built entirely upon consumerism, collapsed completely. With a history of decades of decadence and dependence on governments to provide the conditions for cheap goods, the consumer-oriented populations of the West were ill-equipped to resist the ideologically driven Islamists in their midst.

By the summer of 2013, the only way to guaranty one’s personal safety in America or Europe was to accede to the demands of the roving bands of fanatical Islamists. The result was that less than a quarter of a million Radical Islamic Fundamentalists were able to subjugate almost three quarters of a billion Americans and Europeans.

Following the economic and political collapse of America and Europe, democracies across the world waned in favor of the political stability of authoritarian central governments. However, Radical Islamic Fundamentalism enjoyed only a brief period in the spotlight of world government. Its ruthless approach to governance yielded relatively quickly to the overwhelming might of our enlightened a-religious approach, bringing about what some in the West now archaically refer to as The Pax Chinese–a nostalgic reference to the Pax Romana which was engendered by the strong governmental and military presence of that much earlier Western civilization, the Romans. (See the text, “Ancient Western History—A Prelude To Eastern Emergence.”)