The coming end of an Empire. Markus Eder

      I am writing this political essay with a somewhat divided heart. Socially, I am a conservative man, whose views on the handling of crime, on family, abortion and same sex marriage are close to those of the US-Republican Party, whose neoliberal adherents I am going to attack in this essay.

      I am also well aware, that there will be many people in the United States of America, who will ask themselves why I, a German, is writing an essay of that kind.

      The answer to these questions is twofold. First of all, I think, that the neoliberal creed, as it presently rules in America, has already brought much damage not only to America itself but economically, environmentally and socially, to the rest of the world, too. The consequences of this damaging neoliberal creed are therefore no mere internal affair of the United States but of interest to the world as a whole. Secondly, the highly problematic neoliberal sections of US- American society, who are in many cases not really social conservatives but just short-sighted, money greedy individuals, will, in my opinion, bring in the future still far greater damage on America and the rest of the world than they already have done in the last two decades.

      Although I am very well aware, that despite this reasoning of mine, I will in all probability nevertheless incur the hatred of xenophobic and nationalist US-American circles, I see, for the reasons given above, no alternative to bringing my views to the attention of the world through the publication of this essay.