Corruption, cruelty, and chaos. Those are the three words that describes Trump's presidency in both his terms. A commenter once suggested this in the comments of one of my papers. I see it in a billboard in my home region of Saint Cloud, MN. It is so mindboggling that many were praying that Trump was a bug during his first term. I hate to tell you this, but he isn't a bug, but a symptom and inevitable conclusion of all hierarchy-based politics, including authoritarian leftism. Whenever you give independent power to any sort of institution (even in a representative democracy), this is the conclusion. I will talk about the result of such right-wing politics. I have already given the three S's of conservatism which are their promises, now I will talk about the C's which are the result.
The first one I will start with is corruption. The inevitable result of hierarchies that begin to think they are too big to fail.
Corruption
During the rule of the Romans, as the empire grew to cover the Mediterranean and beyond, corruption became a pervasive issue. As your empire grows, you will need assistance from local governors to administer your territories. Decentralization is always somewhat inevitable even in giant states like the Romans, the US of A, even the Soviet Union and China had/have to do so to some extent while maintaining collective control. You need people who think like you do, but also, will help you maintain control. This control though, is always very perilous and hierarchies have their own personal ambitions.
The Romans were one of the first empires to do a consensus which is integral for goliaths to keep control of their empires. Something the Roman governors would often do is keep certain people out of the census so that way they can be hidden from imperial taxation and the said governors would be able to tax the locals their own. This would in many ways, be a precursor to feudalism in Europe as the local lords often had their own personal ambitions aside from the king. In New York City, before Mamdani came to power, it was common for many private contractors to overcharge the government in their little "public-private partnerships" which gives bloated salaries to such administrators of projects *. In the Soviet Union, it was common for many managers to underreport resource productivity so they could get better salaries from the central planners.
*I just learned a new feature of computers. Finally. Please let me know if the links actually work from your end so I can improve.
Instances of statist corruption are inherent in all independent states. It doesn't matter if it is capitalism, socialism, feudalism, slavery, any economic system which is in place, the independent state must go! We must replace it with a new form of governance. One that doesn't involve an independent power which must be shared with everyone. But beyond that, there is also private corruption.
In the 1990s, there was a boom in the tech industry, and the internet was this huge fad that was supposed to bring wealth and prosperity to everyone. Certain tech giants were pouring massive money into these projects absolutely convinced that they were going to turn a profit because neoclassical economic theory said so. What happened was that growth was outpacing demand and a great portion of this growth was financed by debt. This created an economic bubble that would eventually burst and many hardworking people would lose their jobs. This repeated itself during the 2008 financial crisis and now, we are in an economic bubble that is seventeen times bigger than the dot com crash. We are already seeing massive job losses and the poverty which will ensue will be catastrophic. I personally was laid off last year because of corporate greed and rather than take the losses as this was objectively their fault, I DO!!!!! I TAKE THE LOSS!!!!! I don't have the power, they do. Don't spin this on me.
In the said dot com crash, many executives were designing themselves lavish facilities and giving themselves bloated salaries. Rich people often do so to impress others rather than actually enriching their own lives which Thorstein Veblen called 'conspicuous consumption'. Wealth is often more like a scoreboard than the need to be the most well off which one can do on a $200k a year salary. Entrepreneurs are often just overrated neofeudal lords who are both meritorious and thus should be rewarded (logical fallacy) or got lucky from the birth lottery. Most wealthy people were either born wealthy or came up during times of great prosperity and thus were able to act. They are incapable of seeing that nobless oblige is part of the social contract. Also, studies suggest that the greater the inequality, the more likely the hierarchies are to make mistakes (which are often linked to corruption) and cause societal decay.
Corruption, if left unaddressed, can cause societal decay as people no longer trust the institutions. This is when people will turn to other solutions to the crisis at hand. At first, there can be denial as this is the very first time sometimes ever, or in a very long time, that society is in a downward spiral. I talked about this before in the prequal, but the most effective hierarchies will usually work to cement their rule by making sure there is no alternative by secreting ideology such as Christianity in the west or Legalism in China which can be a great pressure valve for populist sentiment. The population will go to blame some artificially designed out-group (in the American sense, black or brown people (race) or trans people (LGBTQ)) as to why their institutions are failing them. Not really realizing that the corruption is right there in front of them. Eventually things get worse and under capitalism for example, you are gutting your workforce which can be bad for the economy (a part we will return to later). So, what changes?
Ah ha! The left and social justice fighters come into the picture! In response to the massive inequality which was the result of the rise of capitalism and the industrial revolution, some workers blamed the Irish while others would collectively organize for better circumstances. Trade unions was what they were called and eventually, they became so popular that this is why economic prosperity was spread to everyone in the fifties (that and a destroyed Europe). Not just trade unions either, the government came in and regulated workplaces and expanded welfare programs by taxing the rich. Making them pay for their corruption. Before I get into the next section though, there is something I have to say though which is a primer.
These positive changes didn't come without a fight. The ruling classes (or any hierarchy for that matter) never simply hand over power like many of the original utopian socialists thought would happen. I have talked about this before in a previous paper, but capitalism is no longer about wealth but power. Purposeful poverty, which will come later, usually comes after the smear campaigns against social justice movements. Capitalists themselves are either buddy-buddy with media owners or simply own the media (Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post for example) and will often put out smear campaigns against anything they don't like. In the 1970s, there were what was called "big labor" which overhyped corrupt union representatives to the point where people believed unions were bad which is called the illusory truth effect. Even before unions became widespread, it was still common for capitalists to utilize such measures to spread bad opinion. Eventually though, the truth comes out.
In the 1920s before Germany went full nazi, trade unions were spreading like wildfire. LGBT people were out and about with their weirdness, and the working class was one shade of red or another. What is worse is that the Russian revolution happened just a bit ago which caused mass panic amongst the capitalist owning class. They knew that if they didn't take action, this instance could happen here. One response was by FDR creating the New Deal which allowed a little bit of socialism and derailing the radical left movement which ended up working. The other response? It is time to talk about that.
Cruelty
"Fascism is capitalism in decay." -Vlad Lenin
In Germany, the situation was dire for them in the 1920s. They knew that the traditional smear campaigns weren't working so they were looking for a solution to this crisis. They found one in a strange but charismatic Austrian man named Adolf Hitler. So, they funded his campaign in secret meetings and Hitler rose to the chancellorship because of his connections. Htiler was a true Machiavellian and knew how to ride the waves of populist discontent to ultimate power. He fooled the masses into voting for him and launched the greatest humanitarian crisis and genocide of all time. All of this would inevitably backfire but why would the capitalist class fund something so horrible? Because there is common interest between hierarchies to keep power and because they have enough wealth already, they can withstand any potential consequences.
Here in modern day America, back in 2015, Bernie Sanders declared his run for presidency. He openly identified as a socialist and the wealthy knew it was only a matter of time before the progressive cause would eventually become popular. So, they turned their fortunes to a weird but charismatic outcast named Donald Trump. Trump announced his presidential run right after Bernie and went on to win the presidency when no one thought it would happen here. I remember during first term, I never thought it could get worse as he was building concentration camps and had such open contempt for democracy. But I was wrong. During his second term, he is now sending his ICE thugs to terrorize people, threatening imperialism and constantly on the brink of war, and worse yet, is openly defiant of the constitution and breaks the rules CONSTANTLY. This was all inevitable and the wealthy understood the potential consequences, but it is of little concern as they have money.
Whenever the ruling classes are faced with potential goliath collapse, they resort to last-ditch options like violence, genocide, and authoritarianism. Remember what I said earlier about labor unions facing resistance? Many capitalists would hire what were called Pinkertons which were guys who would beat up striking workers and union activists. It didn't help that America was already a very violent society going all the way back to the colonial era. When FDR became president, there was a secret plot to establish a fascist dictator by the wealthy and have Smedley Butler lead to coup. The crusades were in many ways, a violent distraction from the structural issues within the church and a way for lords to win favor with their people. Don't even start with the way Jewish people were thrown under the bus as a result of this constant cycle of cruelty.
Cruelty is usually just a short-cut for the hierarchies to win/force the favor of the people. Starting wars, public executions, sacrificing an out-group, these are ways to curdle the authoritarian impulse that people are often raised into accepting (enlarged amygdales). Naked displays of power are what they are. They buy or force loyalty, but they also come with a price. It either ends with the people either revolting against them, or the upper classes become so damn stupid that they buy their own bullshit.
Chaos
War and genocide can both be very draining of resources. When America declared war on Iraq, it basically used a credit card to fund the war effort without raising taxes which would have pissed off the base. This was a terrible decision but because of the victimhood complex, which was developed from 9/11, there was little thought as to whether going to war was a good idea. The war was so costly even with a credit card there is some evidence it may have contributed to the 2008 financial crisis. The war itself was wanted to established American hegemony over the region and intimidate anyone who went against its interests, it had nothing to do with terrorism and the irony is, we actually created more terrorism rather than less. Outright imperialism has been condemned so a new form has taken place, one that is dark and insidious.
Neoimperialism, like imperialism, is when a country tries to establish hegemony over another but this time through economic means. It is dark and insidious because while there is no political imperialism from an invasion, there is a corruption of politics which silently and lethally takes over the system. In 1823, President James Monroe published a policy known as the Monroe Doctrine which basically says that the western hemisphere was America's and any foreign interference from other colonial powers would be treated as an invasion. It wasn't until the 20th century when this became more blatant and eventually, America was able to establish hegemony by funding local interests and strangling progressive governments which present a threat to their interests. This system has been so effective that this is what caused the immigration crisis from Latin America and rather than reflect as to why this is happening, many white Americans are acting like orangutans who hate being questioned. The consequences of Trumpism are becoming more and more apparently and I think this is enough to cause the end of both American hegemony and Reaganite conservatism.
Corruption is what inevitably happens when you have both a growth-fetish, status-obsession, and structural conservatism which justifies these hierarchies be it aristocratic or meritocratic. Eventually down the line, the children and grandchildren of some unifying leader like the DuPont or Murdaugh families become spoiled brats who are entitled to what they have. If you ever even remotely question their power, they will resort to cruel methods to show that they are the big game in town. Eventually though, said hierarchies mess up the process so bad that either the goliaths fall on their own or the masses rise up and take them down (this is called a revolution). Chaos is the inevitable outcome of every dominance-based hierarchy most notably within right-wing politics. Chaos is however, not limited to such.
In Mao's China, what happened was that he wanted to prevent another Russian civil war from happening within China's borders. America was openly talking about bombing China and the time to act was then so the Chinese joined the action against the Americans and South Koreans. They lost a million men and threw so much vital resources which could have helped heal the country from their brutal civil war and WWII. They also intervened against Vietnam during their incursions. That is not when shit hit the fan just yet. Mao and his sycophants didn't know nothing about agriculture and employed the stupid and unproven Lysenkoism methods as well as industrialized at an impractical rate. This caused massive famine and set the upstart communist nation back to where they were forced to open their borders to capitalist investment.
Look, hierarchies come and go but they're all the same. They get rich, powerful and thus stupid while the rest of us suffer the consequences. It doesn't matter if it is a king, capitalist, or feudal lord, we at the bottom are made to suffer so they don't have to give up their T-bone steaks or their personal islands and handsome salaries. You know Stalin and Mao were both pedos like Trump and Epstein, right? They're literally all the same. So why not instead move towards a system which shares power and make it fluid? That's what purpose.
Eco-Innovations:
I have started dedicating a section of my paper to talking about innovative ideas about ecological technology. In this one, I have come across giant concrete orbs which will be used to store renewable energy at the bottom of the ocean. They store a good amount of energy, and we won't have to use land on the surface but at the bottom of the ocean. My one concern is how it will affect biodiversity at the bottom depending on where they put these orbs. But this still present another option for a better future.