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And like all false gods, the idol cannot be satisfied until it conquers all of the humanity. Until it conquers all of the world.
Because we live inside this idol, we were not able to see its shape. How does an organ know what its host body looks like? And so we spent most of our lives ignorant of how much this idol took place.
We blamed inefficient politics for not getting anything done, we blamed not enough Republicans holding office. When in fact the actual cause of gridlock isn't gridlock at all - it's that we did not notice that nation-state decision-making got sublimated into a global "democracy."
Nor did we notice how much the tentacles of "democracy," primarily financed by the US taxpayer money, had infiltrated every single country in the world. Our spending kept ballooning, but crimes and poverty rose at home; education and health quality plummeted. Our politicians told us that they were spending more than ever on homelessness. That they were spending more than ever on all kinds of social benefits.
When in reality, we were spending all that money on "democracy" - expanding it at home and in every country in the world.
PEPFAR/AIDS is only a tiny bit of spending that we have done in Africa. We have spent far, far more on "democracy" in Africa - especially Somalia. George W. Bush sent 28,000 troops to Somalia to aid them in their struggle for democracy. And also initiated the program which used US taxpayer money to fly enormous numbers of refugees here. And also relaxed rules around remittances in the name of enabling market reforms - which in reality went to funding the terrorists we fought against in Somalia.
Obama was not the cause. Obama merely continued the idolatry of democracy that GHWB, Clinton, and GWB launched.
Did you know that we fought an entire war in Somalia with 28,000 troops? No. How could you? For you are on the "inside" and unable to see the whole of the host. The host does not want to see itself. If it could, then it would see itself for the bloated, obese, grotesque monster that it is, a monster that has ravaged nearly every small country in the world.
What's even worse: the idol demands we back the "least worst" option in every country. In Palestine, the Muslim Brotherhood-aligned group, Hamas, is correctly labeled as terrorists. But in Somalia, the Muslim Brotherhood-aligned group is considered a moderate and democratizing force, because ISIS wants a borderless global theocratic dictatorship under Allah and considers Muslim Brotherhood's recognition of boundaries to be heretic. Same ideology. Different standards. Country by country. All over the world.
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Somalis have been coming to the US as refugees or under TPS since the early 1990s.