Extract: It can be said that what is divine? Divine is that the power against you will eventually work for you. Although Franklin D. Roosevelt and the allies of the New Deal did not want to make the United States an empire, although McCarthy and the opponents of the New Deal did not want to create an empire for the United States, although the supporters and opponents of the Vietnam War did not think of the United States as an empire, their joint efforts pushed the United States step by step to the path of the empire. When the New Deal prompted the United States to turn left, it brought the United States closer to the empire; when Cold-War Liberalism prompted the United States to turn right, it brought the United States closer to the empire; when the neoconservatives prompted the United States further turn to the right, it made the United States more like an empire than ever before.