Has the American Experiment Failed?
Over the course of my life I have watched the dissolution of American society. Thinking about the causes, one that really stands out is the hate that feminists and the liberal-left have infused into public policy and societal institutions.
Feminists destroyed men, women, the relations between them, the family, and the white birth rate. I regard white ethnicities as endangered species, and feminists are responsible.
Feminists don’t have all of the women. Brittany Hugoboom, editor of Evie Magazine, wrote for the Good Life newsletter “How They Broke The Boys.”
In my day boys were brought up to have confidence. They were going to have family, work, and social responsibilities, and they needed the confidence to deal with them. Under the feminists this preparation was terminated. Boys were something that grew into toxic masculinity and had to be suppressed. And they were. Women are now a majority in the legal, medical, educational, and media professions and are approaching a majority in the world of corporate executives. Women have assumed the male’s role and abandoned their own. Women are trained as male replacements in the work force, not for motherhood.
I think the liberal-left got into hate because denunciation of existing society was their approach to achieving reforms. Over time denunciation tends to turn to hatred.
Karl Marx and Lenin had paved the way for the feminists and liberal-left. In my 1973 peer-reviewed university press book, Marx’s Theory of Exchange, Alienation and Crisis, I let Marx and Lenin explain the transition from argument and debate to the murderous use of words.
Marx wrote that criticism “is a weapon. Its object is an enemy it wants not to refute but to destroy. . . . Criticism is no longer an end in itself but simply a means. Its essential pathos is indignation. Its essential task, denunciation.“ Marx goes on to say that criticism is hand-to-hand combat, “and in such a combat the point is not whether the opponent is noble, equal, or interesting, the point is to strike him.”
Lenin found in Marx’s statements full support for the stand he took when charged by his own party with “conduct impermissible in a Party member.” At his trial Lenin unflinchingly admitted that his choice of obnoxious phrases was “calculated to evoke in the reader hatred, aversion, and contempt . . . calculated not to convince but to break up the ranks of the opponent, not to correct the mistake of the opponent but to destroy him, to wipe his organization off the face of the earth. . . , Against such political enemies I then conducted a fight of extermination.”
The language and its purpose as stated by Marx and Lenin is the language and purpose of the feminists, the liberals, the left, and the whore media. It is the use of language to destroy society.
Recently, someone sent me a book, American Nations by Colin Woodard. It is a history of what the author says are eleven rival American regional cultures. Possibly, there are interesting insights in the book, but by the time I got to page 7, “Tidewater,” and page 9, “The Deep South,” the hatred had bubbled up: “the Deep South spread apartheid and authoritarianism across the Southern lowlands.” By the time I reached page 18, Woodard is endorsing multiculturalism and a Tower of Babel and denying that there is any such thing as an ethnic-based nation.
Woodard tells us about “Deep Southern and Tidewater slave lords.” Who were these slave lords? I have never heard of them. The South, like the rest of the United States inherited slave labor as the agricultural labor force. Neither the US nor the South are responsible for slavery. The new world, colonists discovered, was full of resources and no work force. The work force was supplied by the black King of Dahomey, about whom books have been written, including Dahomey and the Slave Trade by the socialist Karl Polanyi. The black King of Dahomey conducted slave wars, as did other black African tribes.
Dahomey dominated, because the king had the wits to trade black slaves to Arabs for firearms, which gave him an advantage in the slave wars. Every black slave that arrived in what became the United States was a captive of the King of Dahomey and was enslaved by him, not by Woodard’s fictional “Southern slave lords.”
As the American frontier was closed slavery as the agricultural work force would have died out. But as long as new immigrants could move west and take land from the Indians, they had no incentive to work as hired agricultural labor. The South had no responsibility for this dynamic. The entire slavery issue has been orchestrated to generate hatred of white people.
It is extraordinary that Woodard does not know this history. Possibly he doesn’t want to know it, because it puts a clamp on his encouragement of hatred toward the South and its “monuments to white supremacists in the public squares of the Tidewater, Deep South, and Greater Appalachia.” Woodard despises the people who fought for their existence against Lincoln’s invasion of the Confederacy. The monuments to their resistance have been removed and destroyed, but a history that has been erased is still used to demonize Southern Americans.
In the last pages of the book Woodard says, what we now know to be totally false, that Biden won the 2020 election but President Trump refused to admit defeat and declared without evidence–the evidence was massive, indeed overwhelming–that “the election results were phony, tried to intimidate and threaten local and state officials to overturn the results, and on January 6, 2020, encouraged a mob to attack the U.S. Capitol building. Shortly after the Confederate flag-bearing mob failed to kill Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.”
Indeed, really? Anyone capable of writhing this ignorant hate-filled rant is lost to the American purpose. For Woodard as for the feminists and liberal-left, language is a weapon whose purpose is to destroy an enemy. It is these evil people destroying enemies, like Israel in Gaza, who are destroying America.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/11/20/has-the-american-experiment-failed/