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Isn’t It Time To Recolonize America, Seeing As It’s Profoundly Incapable of Governing Itself?
A damning report and a manifesto for change from the former colonizing power.
The United States of America is to all intents and purposes, a failed state.
Despite the time and efforts in trying to teach the nation ( for nearly 248 years) the merits of elected representation, it has failed continually to master the rudiments of democracy.
Not only has it had a civil war, in which hundreds of thousands were killed on the question of whether or not to remain a slave holding country, it has also sought to suppress its citizens of African descent, by denying them the right to vote, to exist and to live wherever they please.
And even when the hard fought rights to vote and citizenship were won by the sons and daughters of Africa, the United States found novel means to take these rights away from them.
Mass incarceration, redlining, segregation and gentrification have destroyed the lives of millions of Black people.
And what about its financial and economic institutions?
It has failed abysmally to do the bidding of its people.
The levers of power are concentrated in the hands of a very tiny people: even though its…