Constitutionalism, Nationalism & the Dismantling of Democracy, Part Five: Empire, Empire, Empire!

Empire & imperialism have always been at the heart of the American project as defined in the Constitution. Yet freedom only for those who qualified as ‘American,’ & exclusion or death for those who didn’t, has always severely limited America’s search for greatness despite their own belief in their own exceptionalism.

Black power activist Stokely Carmichael.

‘Black power means that black people see themselves as part of a new force, sometimes called the Third World; that we see our struggle as closely related to liberation struggles around the world.’

Stokely Carmichael & Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power (1967)(1).

Ugly, human…

In an interesting, thought provoking article former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Jeanne Kirkpatrick wrote,

‘Marxism incorporates, at the verbal level and the intellectual level, the values of liberal democracy in its assault on liberal democracy and this is precisely why it entraps so many Western intellectuals who are themselves serious liberal democrats. Thus the slightest…