Going Bananas - News With Views

By Sid Secular

December 6, 2024

The US emerged from WWII as the top banana. Entering the war late, undamaged by the fighting and bombing domestically, except for the sacrificial lambs left to be liquidated at Pearl Harbor in the false flag firestorm meant to fire up the public for war, FDR could use the war as a means to get out out of the Great Depression by manufacturing whatever wherewithal our allies needed. The US also insisted in being paid in gold for whatever it supplied — a golden opportunity to stock up on gold. The switch from making war materiel to building homes, cars and TVs was not materially difficult, so we were poised to provide ourselves and the Western world with all manner of consumer goods. Thus, for many decades the US reigned as top banana.

We went bananas buying second cars and second homes, and engaged in conspicuous consumption. We brought the era of classic movies to an end with TVs in every bedroom playing silly sitcoms and game shows with viewers ogling the already rich entertainment stars vying over prizes which constituted conspicuous consumption. The US is still sort of top banana, except that the peel of the banana is turning brown with the “browning” of the population, and the appeal of the US as a beacon of hope and democracy and doing the right/righteous thing is being peeled away by the deep state to reveal a government rotten at the core.

As time marched on, the US devolved from being the world greatest creditor nation to becoming the world’s foremost debtor nation. In fact, were it not for the residual image of its past laurels, it is likely the US would already have collapsed under its unprecedented debt-and-deficit burden. Culturally, males in our society were becoming soft “bananas” without the toughness required to enforce traditional cultural norms.

The term, “banana republic”, was coined on 1904 to refer to those economically unstable countries that rely on just one product that they sell to the rest of the world, with no backup plan should that product fail. Sooner or later, a disease claims that product, a new product comes along that wins the favor of consumers, or other countries come along to compete with our banana republic to reduce its market share, and the country crashes economically as a result. Thus, where once the US supplied the world with most of its manufactured goods, American manufacturing facilities have long since moved to countries where the cost of operation are far lower than in the US. Today, the foremost US export product, by far, is debt. US Treasury bonds are held by all the world’s countries, and the present debt is at a record level.

If even a small portion of these treasuries are redeemed at once, the US economy would quickly collapse — and yet the debt is increasing by 3 billion dollars a day. This is a situation that cannot or will not be corrected if your favorite candidate wins the next election. So we can now be called a banana republic.

Only a very few who “go bananas” over this situation receive any attention, and then it is short-lived. If we see a banana peel in front of us, hopefully we can sidestep it. However the pathway ahead is covered with banana peels, but the populace pays more attention on individual agendas than where they are walking. We’ve reached that apathetic state that typically won’t turn around. The position of the top bananas is not perennial, and new and better top bananas will hopefully arise, but it may take several generations to do so. In the interim, it may be wise to consider uprooting yourself and moving to a more favorable grove where the groove is more conducive to freedom and the denizens are less prone to grovel.

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