In a recent poll young Americans were pessimistic about their future, describing the US as a declining empire led by bad people. “Young voters overwhelmingly believe that almost all politicians are corrupt and that the country will end up worse off than when they were born,” according to new polling from Democratic firm Blueprint obtained exclusively by Semafor.

They are not wrong, and it’s surprising how fast the American empire is melting, almost like the Wicked-Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz when Dorthy doused her with water.

And as far as bad people, the Biden Administration is chock full of them. Maybe the Israeli genocide in Gaza caused glitch in the Matrix? Or that the Biden administration has reset the doomsday clock to 90 seconds to midnight through their deranged Ukrainian proxy war? Or that this type of delusional thinking is virtually universal among US foreign policy elite? 

And Trump seems to have been educated by the deep state on the realities of the American empire. The best thing about his 2016 presidential campaign was his harsh and all too accurate criticism of the neocon loons and their deranged foreign policies but Russia-gate and two impeachment attempts later he seems to have gotten the message. His new hat might as well be spelled MAEGA for make American empire great again.

So the young-un’s are right to be concerned. The only problem is that the maniacs mismanaging the American empire did not get the memo, or if they did they are disregarding it and doubling-down.

Here’s President Biden’s recent interview with Time. “Is America still able to play the role of world power that it played in World War Two, and in the Cold War?” Biden: “Yes, we’re planning even more. We are, we are the world power.”

See what I mean?

Furthermore, the powers-that be are past any sort of accountability and I’m increasingly concerned that they will resort to violence inherent in the latest police crack-down on the college protests. Then there’s the creeping censorship, surveillance and heavy-handed authoritarianism. In the latest manifestation, on June 3^rd the State Department forced former Marine intelligence officer, Chief UN weapons inspector, journalist and author Scott Ritter off a plane headed to Russia by way of Istanbul and confiscated his passport. His crime? Ritter has been an activist who calls for dialogue, negotiation and diplomacy to avoid wars. He’s a fervent critic of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, and was planning on speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, in Russia.

What gives me hope is that more and more young Americans are seeing through the propaganda narrative of the US as a “bright shining city on the hill”, spreading democracy and freedom. The US empire needs us to consent to nonstop militarism and war, so it propagandizes us into thinking this is normal and anyone who questions them is un-American or some kind of freak. It appears that young Americans have now grasped that instead the US is a murderous empire directly aiding Israeli genocide in Gaza while risking a nuclear war with Russia so that a small segment of plutocrats can maintain power.

How much loyalty should young Americans, or any Americans have for such an empire?

In the months ahead we’re about to find out.