Doug Casey resides in Uruguay, which I believe HTRN also recommended on another thread.
Try to get a congressman to help you with a problem with the IRS or DMV. Bureaucracy indeed!As Americans still legally vote, and it may well be that the voting is not altogether rigged, the US could be regarded as a democracy. Of course, to be accurate, it could also be defined as a bureaucracy – rule by officialdom, and/or a plutocracy – rule by the very rich. Both of these descriptions are undeniably accurate.
To put things in perspective, in 1913, the us.gov portion of US GDP was about 5%. Do you think it is a coincidence that both IRS and Fed were created at the same time?For a definition, we might ask Benito Mussolini, the father of national fascism. He stated, “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power.”
By defining the term, we can conclude that the US is no longer a capitalist country and hasn't been one for a long time. The US began its slide into fascism in a major way around the time that income tax and the Federal Reserve were created – in 1913. These measures were the brainchild of the largest bankers of the day and the Fed still remains under the power of the major banks.
The question is, as in that old pop song, "Should I stay or should I go".Voters, even many of those who are moderate, will support socialist candidates. The first national election that occurs after the crisis has begun will result in an overwhelming victory for socialist and other leftist candidates. The next president will provide a plethora of socialist “solutions” to counter “the damage done by capitalism.”
But such a prediction does not require a crystal ball. This has happened many times before. The Athenian Republic ran into the same problem. The Roman Republic also deteriorated in this manner. As stated by Aristotle, “Republics decline into democracies and democracies decline into despotisms.”
Thomas Paine's quote is timely today:
Doug says Uruguay. Maybe I stay here and make my exit standing.“My country is wherever liberty lives."