Biden warns of oligarchy as the US declines. Like Ike's military-industrial complex warning, it shall be ignored. America's last decent chance is gone

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{AP 15 January} Biden warns in farewell address that an ‘oligarchy’ of ultrarich in US threatens future of democracy

President Biden’s valedictory address, with its cautionary warning of oligarchical encroachment, merits comparison with President Eisenhower’s prescient ‘military industrial complex’ omen in his departing speech in 1961. Just as with Ike, this admonition shall also fall on mostly deaf ears.

In my 47 years, I have observed the United States’ transformation from the globe’s preeminent bastion of prosperity and liberty—albeit one not unburdened by rather serious contemporary issues or by its historical transgression, yet always moving in the right directions—to a nation in inexorable decline. One characterised by growing impoverishment, frightful violence, intellectual regression, social retrogression, and authoritarian tendencies. In layman’s terms, the American lot have gone quite mad.

Poor old Mr Biden, I submit, tried his best to stop the rot, but there is no turning back. Beginning on 11 September 2001 and with each passing day since—accelerating greatly with the onset of COVID-19 in 2020—the nation has embarked upon an unrelenting descent into Third World status, a hell on earth. President Joe Biden was America’s last chance at salvaging anything decent. I am not ascribing infallibility to the man, for he has made mistakes (most notably acquiescing to his backstabbing VP and party, and then having to watch his usurpers fall flat on their faces in the general election). No matter, he remains a man of integrity and competence who served admirably despite having to contend with a proudly ignorant, hate-filled, superstition-filled, self-entitled, morally degenerate electorate.

Let these knaves stew in their own broth, as they so richly deserve! Thank you, President Joe Biden—along with Jimmy Carter (who departed office when I was but a toddler) the most noble and upstanding US President of my days. - Arthur Newhook, 15 January 2025

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