Will the Real Merciless Savages Please Stand Up?

Colonialism is the the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, often occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically. The United States has done this since almost its inception with regard to Indigenous nations. That particular instance of colonialism is ongoing--happening to this very day. It is not merely historical.

"The First Thanksgiving" by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1899.

I began my expertise on colonialism in 2003 at Stetson University. You can read my undergraduate thesis on colonialism in the United States here. There are a myriad of policies associated with the United States' colonialism, such as the suppression of transgender people, genocide, and cultural genocide. All ways of forcibly imposing a grotesque, narrow, and unimaginative worldview on all of life, including, yes, the natural environment. 

I want to be clear about something, however. The United States is not unique in enacting this evil upon the world. Canada and Australia have done much the same to Indigenous people, as well.

What makes the United States such an existential threat--and a threat to all of reality--is that the United States became the global superpower after the Cold War, enabling this political neurosis to be unleashed across the globe, and now threatens, with Space Force and oligarch Elon Musk's plan for Mars, the very universe. It's an evil inversion: People who have been called "merciless Indian savages," even within the United States' founding documents, turn out to be much more civilized than the faux Christians conquering and pillaging the world. 

Philosopher Vlad Vexler indicated that Donald Trump is not an aberration, and he isn't. As I have shown, Trump and his regime is now a monstrous fascist foot in the face of all of humanity, which grew from colonial seeds 250 years ago.

When put this way, perhaps my little fledgling undergraduate thesis that concluded decolonization (which I didn't envision how that would look for for you) may have just been too early, too prescient, and way too correct.