Two factions. One oligarchy.

Self-described "conservative" critics of U.S. foreign policy are for some reason loath to use the correct term, imperialist, and use the antisocialist fascist epithet "globalist" to describe U.S. military aggression abroad.

Neocon "full spectrum dominance" is an imperialist doctrine: military and economic domination of every person who lives on Earth by an oligarchic hegemon. Bannonist fascists, for whom the term "globalist" derides in particular the supremacy of global institutions over national ones – most notably the United Nations – also strive for domination by an oligarchic hegemon.

The Clinton Wall Street-finance neocon faction of the American oligarchy uses the lie that the U.S. fights "autocracies" to spread "freedom, democracy, and human rights" to manufacture consent for U.S. imperialism among workers who manipulate abstractions for a living and to criminalize dissent.

The Bannon fracking-prisons fascist faction uses anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-"woke" scapegoating to promote victimhood and resentment among workers who manipulate physical things for a living to garner support for "strong borders" and authoritarianism at home.

Social-psychological traits like empathy and resolving conflict with words, both desirable among office workers, are promoted by the Clinton finance-bombing faction of the oligarchy. Physical toughness and a readiness to settle conflict violently, useful in mining and fossil fuel extraction camps on contested lands, are promoted by the Bannon fracking-SWAT team faction.

Both factions cultivate conformity and train their audiences to submit to corporate rule by and for the benefit of the oligarchy: neocons by promising meritocratic ascent up the corporate ladder, fascists by promising redistribution of jobs and wealth from conniving immigrants and Blacks to downtrodden whites.

Americans thus are being pitted against each other over nonsense as both factions of the U.S. military-intelligence-Wall Street-corporations-police-prisons-media deep state own the U.S. and the American public loses either way.

Conservatives thinking they have a bead on what is wrong with the U.S. and throw around the word "globalist" merely demonstrate that they have been captured by the fascists and have no idea what is actually going on around them.

The irony is that the U.S. does not dominate the world economically anymore and never will again.

The post-WWII era is gone forever, and the U.S., which could have been a force for good, used its position as the only industrial power left standing after WWII to continue its vicious, white-supremacist brutalization of the weak to plunder every society in every corner of the Earth to feed the money-obsessed insanity of the psychopathic oligarchs who rule it.

May 31, 2023 Bill Appledorf