#250yearsofusa

noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;

sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras,

hoc opus, hic labor est.“

Vergil

The descent to Avernus is easy;

night and day the door of gloomy Dis stands open;

but to recall one's steps and pass out to the upper air,

this is the task, this is the toil.“

🇺🇸 250 Years of the USA: The Myth of Freedom & The Pinnacle of Crony Capitalism

Two and a half centuries ago, a nation was founded on the promise of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

📜 But as the United States marks its 250th anniversary, a rigorous look at socioeconomic data reveals a starkly different reality.

The "American Dream" was never an open invitation—it was a carefully constructed narrative that masked a system built by economic elites, for economic elites. Today, this system has reached its absolute pinnacle of corruption and Crony Capitalism (Kumpel-Kapitalismus).

🏛️ The Foundation: Freedom for the Landed Elite

The myth that America was founded as a beacon of universal freedom is mathematically and historically false.

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The 1787 Reality: The US Constitution was drafted by 55 white men. The majority were wealthy merchants, lawyers, and plantation owners .

The Voting Pool: In the first presidential election (1788–1789), only about 6% of the population was eligible to vote. Property ownership was a strict legal requirement.

The Structural Shield: Landmark historical analysis by economic historian Charles A. Beard (An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States) proved that the Constitution was deliberately designed as an economic document to protect private property rights and investment assets of the ruling class against democratic majorities.

🚂 The Gilded Age & The Robber Barons

The late 19th century solidified the rule of the corporate elite, establishing a blueprint for modern oligarchy.

Monopoly Rule: Tycoons like John D. Rockefeller (Standard Oil) and Andrew Carnegie (Carnegie Steel) accumulated wealth that surpassed entire state budgets.

The "Laissez-Faire" Facade: While corporate barons preached "free markets" and zero state intervention, they used the US military and private mercenary groups (like the Pinkerton Agency) to violently crush labor unions.

Purchased Laws: Historians document that during this era, the US Senate was openly referred to as the "Millionaires' Club," where corporate trusts literally bought legislative seats to secure subsidies and tariffs.

🎪 The White House as a Private Playground for Billionaires

If anyone still doubts that the modern American state has been completely captured by the plutocracy, the celebration of the US Semiquincentennial (250th anniversary) provides the final, undeniable proof.

For the first time in 250 years, the White House has been effectively transformed from a historic monument of the people into a commercial entertainment venue for a billionaire president and his corporate lackeys.

Under the guise of the state-sponsored "Freedom 250" initiative—which aggressively sidelined the original, non-partisan congressional commission—the executive branch has institutionalized a shocking fusion of state power and private profit.

The South Lawn Cage Match: In a move that reads like dark satire, a massive Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) cage was constructed directly on the historic South Lawn of the White House.

This commercial spectacle was timed precisely to coincide with Donald Trump’s 80th birthday. While corporate executives like UFC's Dana White bankrolled the event, they received invaluable global advertising using the official seat of government as their personal studio.

Corporate Vandalism of National Monuments: Under the banner of "spectacle over substance," historical landmarks are being treated like cheap theme park attractions. The temporary dyeing of the iconic Lincoln

Memorial Reflecting Pool into an artificial bright blue triggered massive backlash and lawsuits from preservationists who cited severe violations of national heritage laws.

"Bread and Circuses" at Public Expense: While crucial scientific infrastructure—like the $368 million ocean data network (OOI)—is dismantled under the pretext of "budget cuts," the state apparatus coordinates a record-breaking 40-minute mega-firework show featuring over 860,000 shells.

It is the ultimate modern manifestation of Roman panem et circenses: distracting a highly polarized, struggling population with deafening noise and flashing lights while the elite rewrites the laws behind closed doors.

📉 The Modern Plutocracy: "Socialism for the Rich"

Fast forward to the 21st century, and the system has perfected the art of privatizing profits and socializing losses.

The 2008 Financial Crisis: When Wall Street crashed the global economy through predatory speculation, the US government injected over $700 billion in taxpayer money via the TARP program to bail out mega-banks deemed "Too Big to Fail."

The Wealth Gap (2026 Data): According to federal economic indicators, the top 1% of Americans now hold more wealth than the entire bottom 90% combined.

The Price of Democracy: The landmark 2010 Supreme Court ruling Citizens United v. FEC legalized unlimited corporate spending in elections. Political scientists Martin Gilens (Princeton) and Benjamin Page (Northwestern) published a definitive study proving that the US political system is an oligarchy, not a democracy. Their data showed that the preferences of the average American citizen have a "near-zero, statistically non-significant impact" on public policy, while economic elites almost always get what they want

🗣️ Critical Voices from Academia

"We have a system of socialism for the rich and rugged, pitiless capitalism for the poor."

— Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning Economis

"The American political system has been hijacked by concentrated wealth. We are no longer experiencing a malfunctioning democracy; we are looking at a highly functioning plutocracy where the state is merely an instrument for corporate asset acquisition."

— Dr. Noam Chomsky, Linguist and Social Critic

🔮 The Unfinished Struggle

For 250 years, the myth of the "Land of the Free" has served as a brilliant marketing campaign to keep the working class compliant. The historical data is clear: absolute market freedom is a fairy tale. The state has always intervened—but primarily as a tool to guarantee the privileges, subsidies, and immunity of the economic elite.

The true history of America is not found in the boardrooms of the barons, but in the relentless, bloody resistance of the labor movements, civil rights activists, and scientists fighting to wrest the promise of freedom away from the hands of the plutocrats. ✊💥

„One simply has to respectfully congratulate the American billionaire elite on flawlessly pulling off a 250-year masterclass in gaslighting, successfully convincing millions of hard-working citizens that basic human rights like universal healthcare or a social safety net are a dangerous slide into soul-crushing Communism, while they themselves—without a shred of irony—happily enjoy the most luxurious form of state-sponsored corporate Socialism by pocketing trillions in public subsidies, exclusive military contracts, and taxpayer-funded bailouts.“ 🦅💸🎆