A Nefarious Plot by Steve Deace

Author:Steve Deace [Deace, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Published: 2015-12-21T16:00:00+00:00

C H A P T E R 6

Decay

Some of you reading this are old enough to remember those annual May Day Parades held by the now defunct Soviet Union many moons ago.

Each year on May 1, the Soviets would trot out endless waves of military might—both men and machinery. The intent was a show of force toward you in the West. It was propaganda devised to reinforce the myth of Soviet superiority.

Oh, sure, for a few decades following World War II it wasn’t a myth at all. The Soviet Union really was our evil empire. But as we entered into the dawn of the technological age in the 1970s, Soviet power was fading. Your leaders were just too gutless to realize it at the time. Confirmation should’ve been the fact the Soviets couldn’t conquer backwards Afghanistan at all, let alone in fifteen minutes. Yet each May as we peddled our wares in that parade, your softheaded leaders were quaking in their loafers, convinced we were still a superpower. But we were a superpower in name only.

Years of intrigue and chicanery within the Politburo oligarchy left us self-cannibalized, without a generation of despots waiting in the wings to take the previous one’s place. We did such a good job of stacking the deck with feckless statists they devoured each other. After all, there can only be two Dark Lords of the Sith at one time (a master and an apprentice).

Men far past their prime rose to power and died soon after. The Soviets only had three heads of state from 1924 to 1982, but then had three different leaders from 1982 to 1985. That took its toll on the Soviet leadership structure.

Plus, you eventually elected a president who called our bluff. He didn’t believe we were all we were cracked up to be, and he fully unleashed your economic power simultaneously with an arms race to try and win the Cold War once and for all.

We had to further self-cannibalize ourselves to try and keep up, and it pushed our resources to the brink. The Soviet economic system didn’t allow for innovation from an entrepreneurial class incentivized to take risk in the hopes of making a profit, so the creation of new wealth and further capitalizing our existing assets wasn’t an option. We were flat broke after we ran out of other people’s money to spend.

While your Silicon Valley went to work revolutionizing the world, the Soviet Union was still stuck trying to monetize the same command economy it had since the 1950s. The USSR had become a rotary dial telephone in a personal computer world.

Thus, those May Day Parades became much harder to pull off. We were literally painting scrap metal and trotting it out there as a modern war machine. On the outside we still looked ominous, which is why your liberals were afraid your president was spending you into oblivion and needlessly provoking us at the same time. They were still buying into our propaganda. But your president knew better, and kept your boot to our throat.

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