First an Arabian Spring and now an American Fall

By now everyone knows about the amazing chain of events in the Middle East that started in Tunisia where a grassroots revolution through civil resistance over widespread governmental corruption leading up to the self immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in the mantra of "Ash Shab Yurid Isqat An Nizam", ousting of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi, continues through Algeria, Lebanon, Mauritania, Sudan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Morocco, Western Sahara, Palestinian National Authority, Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Kuwait, Syria and has likely now ended in Libya with its raging civil war and the dramatic overthrow of its head of state Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar Al Gaddafi that ensued within, together called the Arabian Spring in the East.

I would now like to argue that turning from the Afroriental expression of independence, freedom and democracy, one not exactly like the prepackaged globalized United States marketed product sold abroad colonialistically through Western styled education, health care and human rights then outsourced back to us through budgetary cost benefit analysis and contracting using the low risk and high reward tradeoff principle, we now look to the Americoccidental spectre of a coming American Fall in the West. Politically, a promise of hope and change has lead to just more of the same, leading jokers on the left to Occupy Wall Street like 1929 and clowns on the right to repeat the Boston Tea Party like 1773 in protest, yet no one wants to face the realities of 2011, where from lobbyists to legislators, a nation continues to be overpromise, underestimate and nondeliverable as "Mission Accomplished" becomes "Assignment Incomplete". Add this to the obvious twinning of both economic and defense aims, ways and means into undesirable strategic ends, whose consequences domestic and foreign bring no one closer to its original stated goals, one can now understand how government, not the citizen, has given up on its supposed commitment towards achieving cultural goals through the traditional democratic processes in America.

The politically elite powered triumvirate which is the military industrial complex, and not the White House or its President, may still call the final shots in a direct line, from Wall Street to the Pentagon to the Beltway, but that same old iron triangle establishment of the status quo is slowly bending to the will of, by and for the people though current results do not show it, with every Tea Partier, Street Occupier or some other kind of unaligned independent protesting citizen joining their brave new civil rebellion and their own mantra of "Do Not Tread On Me" against big imperialistic government, excessive taxation with no special representation, treatment or service for the people yet ballouts its special interests using political collusion, correctness and bias, the gap between those legally represented by vested interests in their society and those without any of all of this grows wider and deeper, until one day the rule of law and the power of interest will no longer be.