Timely ruminations on politics, historical perspectives, and economic impacts.
A civilization is a terrible thing to waste.
Current events examined in their historical context.
Absent perspective, confusion reigns.
While initially focused on current events, as we proceed into the pivotal election year of 2024 the intent is to also explore the historical theory behind these events, from a long-term, civilizational perspective. To comprehend the present, and the predictable future, we must be grounded in the patterns of the past. Relying heavily on the philosophy of history developed by German historian Oswald Spengler a century ago, at this point in America’s development everything revolves around the final battle to give our civilization (the first to span the globe) its final form. This battle involves vanquishing the Dictatorship of Money, the same force described by Lincoln as the Money power (see below).
All analysis here originates from a single perspective: the ongoing struggle to overthrow the Dictatorship of Money which has contolled our lives for too many decades. Not every article addresses this subject, but all share a common perspective.
Every civilization experiences this same battle, with the same outcome.
The Republic died on January 20, 2017 at noon, upon Trump’s inauguration. It is no more. Democracy was a transitional phase. America’s founders understood this (because they had studied history, particularly the Roman experience) and designed a system to postpone the inevitable by incorporating certain safeguards. They realized every form of government is eventually temporary. It just takes a while for these patterns to play out.
What the historican Will Durant refered to as “the odor of a dying democracy” is no fun to experience. The tyrannies associated with a late-stage democracy are numerous. But the situation must get bad before it can get better. Reform requires things requiring reform, of which we now enjoy an embarrassment of riches.
The Trump figure appears in every civilization, at the same point in its development, to take on the Dictatorship of Money which is looting the many for the benefit of the few.
After this looting becomes institutionalized and overbearing over many decades, the situation reaches a breaking point. Augustus (born as Octavian) is the most well-documented example of this type of leader. The role of the Augustus is two-fold: first lead a civil war to triumph over the oligarchic class; then institute a constitutional reform to provide the template for the Empire’s flourishing over the course of the next two centuries.
The Augustinian reformer follows the great warrior leader who first consolidates the emergent Empire.
David is followed by Solomon;
Caesar is followed by Augustus;
Reagan is followed by Trump.
Not much has changed since 1889. The real bosses of the Senate — the monopolists — have a wide & open entrance, while the peoples’ entrance on the upper floor gallery is padlocked closed. “This is a Senate of the monopolists, by the monopolists, and for the monopolists!” The senators toil in obdeience to their money-bag masters lurking behind them.
While America’s future seems bleak today, as we endure the crazy times History has forced upon us, our experience is exceptionally mild by historical standards. Every civilization experiences the same growing pains. Painful though these may be in the short run, the dust eventually settles. Getting to that eventuality may be unpleasant, but it will be attained. Too many have a vested interest in the maintenance of Western (now American) Civilization to squander our birthright. Too much has been invested to passively forfeit.
Lincoln got it:
The Money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
Cole Thomas — The Course of Empire Destruction. 1836
Not left versus right, but affluent versus everyone else.
The realignment of major parties away from blue against red and the older rich versus poor dynamic is America's most undercovered political story. . . . American politics has long been a careful truce in which natural economic tensions were obscured by an elegantly phony two-party structure that kept urban and rural or separate, nurtured a politically unadventurous middle class and tended to the needs of the mega-rich no matter who won. That system is in collapse. Voters are abandoning traditional blue-red political identities and realigning according to more explosive divisions based on education and income.
The relevant metric now isn't left versus right. It's anti-establishment versus pro-establishment. . . . That's the fundamental distinction that defines our political spectrum more than old definitions of left versus right.
I keep encountering this misconception from people who don't follow Canadian politics. That somehow the Trucker convoy was defeated. The Freedom Convoy was the most wildly immediately successful protest in Canadian history, maybe WORLD history. . . . They HAVE to play off the Truckers as a failure. Trudeau had to declare victory then cave on every single individual policy — because they can't let people see what it was: A premonition of the great Class War to come.
All overpasses lining the truckers’ routes to Parliament Hill in Ottowa were lined with enthusiastic supporters. Supplied with food, fuel, and money by the public, the truckers were prepared to remain in Ottowa indefinitely prior to their supression. Photo credit: By Stepan_, CC BY 3.0
Ejoying widespread popular support, the Canadian Truckers Convey struck fear in tryants across the globe. It was ruthlessly supressed and its leaders prosecuted. Imitator initiatives were beginning to spread to America and abroad. The truckers deserve considerable credit for bringing the reign of COVID tyranny to an end earlier than it might otherwise have been.
The Chinese Communist Party impoverishes Americans and threatens our national security by working with elites in the United States across the political, corporate, and cultural establishment. The ties are deliberately opaque and obfuscated.
With [Trump] a revolution has occurred. If you are a high school graduate, you are for him. If you have a graduate degree from Harvard, you are almost certainly against Trump. This is a reversal of the classic class division in America. Historically, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt majority were blue collar workers, and farmers, and people who worked for a living. And the Republicans were the rich guys at the country club. Trump has been part of a long cycle, it’s a long cycle, but he really decisively shifted it. And I always thought it was in part because of the cadence of his language, the way he expresses himself, the core love of America. The fact that he picked MAGA. He didn’t pick Make Trump Great. He picked Make America Great. . . . And you see it in the polling data today. Those are the folks who are most offended by the government coming after you, because they see the government coming after themselves.
. . . It’s a college and graduate school snobbishness. We’re the people who go to the opera and you’re the people who go to country music events, that kind of attitude. You’ve seen recently this explosion of country music protests that has really been remarkably powerful and has been entirely spontaneous.
Isn't this why they hate Donald Trump, by the way? Ridiculously, they accuse him of being a dictator or something. But didn't he do big things? He did very big things. That's why they hate his guts, and he did big things to try and corral the ruling class, and so forth and so on.
The stimulus package that just passed is the biggest wealth transfer from common folks to the super-rich (Wall Street and bankers) in the history of mankind. Done in the name of a virus with $1,200 checks as the cheese in the trap. This will be obvious in short order. (March 29, 2020)
The question is, how did we get to this point? They want you to believe that this is a recent phenomenon. The truth is that the undoing of America has been decades in the making. The globalists, Deep State, swamp, whichever name you call them, have been hard at work to weaken America's sovereignty and standing as world leader. Intent on erecting a new system of world governance where they would be in total control, they are seeking to undermine the fundamental principle of your country, "a government for the people by the people," replacing it instead with a world order of international institutions ultimately puppeteered by a caste of technocrats, oligarchs, and international bankers. . . .
Noor bin Ladin, niece of Osama, on a boat in Geneva Lake, Switzerland protesting in conjunction with a June 2021 Biden/Putin meeting. “I have been a supporter of President Trump since he announced he was running in the early days in 2015. I have watched from afar and I admire this man’s resolve. He must be reelected ... It’s vital for the future of not only America, but Western civilisation as a whole.”
They infiltrated governmental and intelligence agencies, and all realms of society — education, media, entertainment, culture. At their disposal, tools of mass population influence: propaganda, fake news and censorship. They set out to destroy your fundamental values and divide you. They negated God, dissolved the family unit and dissevered us from moral objectivity, effectively leaving a vacuum of degeneracy, cognitive dissonance and absurdity. This social engineering operation took place as we were lulled into a sense of comfort and complacency due to modernity’s technological progress and liberalism’s appeal. In reality we were being driven further down a path of enslavement while they solidified their plans for a covert power grab.
The Money Power Seeks to Create a World System of Financial Control in Private Hands Able to Dominate Every Nation on Earth
[T]he powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. . . .
It must not be felt that these heads of the world's chief central banks were themselves substantive powers in world finance. They were not. Rather, they were the technicians and agents of the dominant investment bankers of their own countries, who had raised them up and were perfectly capable of throwing them down. The substantive financial powers of the world were in the hands of these investment bankers (also called “international” or “merchant” bankers) who remained largely behind the scenes in their own unincorporated private banks. These formed a system of international cooperation and national dominance which was more private, more powerful, and more secret than that of their agents in the central banks.
This dominance of investment bankers was based on their control over the flows of credit and investment funds in their own countries and throughout the world. They could dominate the financial and industrial systems of their own countries by their influence over the flow of current funds though bank loans, the discount rate, and the re-discounting of commercial debts; they could dominate governments by their own control over current government loans and the play of the international exchanges. Almost all of this power was exercised by the personal influence and prestige of men who had demonstrated their ability in the past to bring off successful financial coupes, to keep their word, to remain cool in a crisis, and to share their winning opportunities with their associates.
Most significantly, Trump gets it. He perceived the truth decades before everyone else. MAGA folks (Magaerians? — coined here first.) certainly gets it. Anyone who still believes the primary issue in modern American politics is the tired right vs. left, liberal vs. conservative, alleged white vs. minorities, divide has not comprehended the true fault line separating most of us from the few of us.
The Great Class War has been percolating for decades. All of us without mansions, servants, and jets have been frogs in a pot nearing a boil. Our purpose here is to break down this war’s evolution, meaning, protagonists, and — most importantly — its destiny. Prosecution of this war was one-sided for too long. With the 2016 election of Trump, its victims finally obtained an advocate. Someone to demolish the pyramid of lies constructed over decades. Tyranny resides atop a foundation of lies. Freedom demands Truth.
If you are turned off by Trump's tone and rhetoric, you probably would not have admired Patton during WWII. Trump attended an all-male military academy, not a girls’ finishing school. His job is to win, not worry about the feelings of his opposition — in both parties. If winning expeditiously requires ruthlessly mocking and destroying those opposing him, so be it. That’s what we pay him for. Politics is a contact sport, not for the timid or effeminate. Those voting on the basis of emotions and desire for comity pose a grave danger to social order. Such weak, delusional individuals are astonished when crime goes up after criminals are released from prison.
In an existential war to preserve a civilization, losing is not an option. The alternative is a dozen centuries of toil and warfare by our predecessors goes swirling down the drain. The greater the stakes, the stronger the necessary measures.
Wars are not for the faint of heart. Their impact in terms of lives and treasure is immense. This is as true of the current class war as for any other. While not a shooting war in the traditional sense, it is a full-fledged war nonetheless. A war which will not conclude with an armistice, but only ends when one side is obliterated. Clausewitz described war as politics by other means. It is equally true that politics is war by other means. Obverse and reverse of the same coin.
THE PUBLIC GETS IT — White House Facebook page.
Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is canceling all remaining oil and gas leases issued under the previous administration in the Arctic Refuge. The Administration also took new action proposing to protect more than 13 million acres in the Western Arctic. These new actions to preserve our Arctic lands and wildlife build on President Biden’s historic climate and conservation agenda. ... There is more to do, and our Administration will continue to take bold action to meet the urgency of the climate crisis. —September 6, 2023
The writing has long been on the wall.
Nixon’s 1968 election represented a revolt of the serfs, the “Silent Majority” tired of being financially abused and seeing their sons sent off to die in a foreign adventure. His 49-state blowout reelection, with 60.7 % of the popular vote — confirmation of the emerging political reality — necessitated the oligarchs’ scheme to ensure he was sent packing in disgrace.
Reagan’s 1980 election, after a single term of Democratic rule after Nixon’s removal, represented a new phase in American politics: a direct assault on the corrupt edifice of oligarchic control. While he putavely opposed an overbearing bureacracy, his revolution encompassed far more. Reagan’s reelection, with 525 Electoral College votes and 58.8% of the popular vote, reinforced the oligarchs’ fears. An unsuccessful attempt was made to take him out using the Iran/Contra affair, engineered by the establishment plant, former CIA Director George H.W. Bush — the Mike Pence of his era and patron of Attorney General Barr.
The 2008 election of Obama represented a union between the communist wing of the Democrats and the oligarchs, joining in opposition to growing popular discontent. Within a month of his inauguration, the Tea Party movement was born in response.
On February 19, 2009, Rick Santelli, appearing on CNBC from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, unleashed a rant which represented the start of the second battle in the war Reagan initiated:
SANTELLI: The government is promoting bad behavior. Because we certainly don’t want to put stimulus forth and give people a whopping $8 or $10 in their check, and think that they ought to save it, and in terms of modifications… I’ll tell you what, I have an idea.
You know, the new administration’s big on computers and technology. How about this, President and new administration? Why don’t you put up a website to have people vote on the Internet as a referendum to see if we really want to subsidize the losers’ mortgages; or would we like to at least buy cars and buy houses in foreclosure and give them to people that might have a chance to actually prosper down the road, and reward people that could carry the water instead of drink the water? (Applause, cheering)
TRADER ON FLOOR: That’s a novel idea.
JOE KERNEN: Hey, Rick… Oh, boy. They’re like putty in your hands. Did you hear…?
SANTELLI: No they’re not, Joe. They’re not like putty in our hands. This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor’s mortgage that has an extra bathroom and can’t pay their bills? Raise their hand. (Booing from the floor traders) President Obama, are you listening?
TRADER: How about we all stop paying our mortgage? It’s a moral hazard.
SANTELLI: Don’t get scared, Joe. They’re already scaring you. You know, Cuba used to have mansions and a relatively decent economy. They moved from the individual to the collective. Now, they’re driving ’54 Chevys, maybe the last great car to come out of Detroit.
KERNEN: Hey Rick, how about the notion that, Wilbur [Ross — on-air guest and future Trump Commerce Secretary] pointed out, you can go down to 2% on the mortgage…
SANTELLI: You could go down to -2%. They can’t afford the house.
KERNEN: …and still have 40%, and still have 40% not be able to do it. So why are they in the house? Why are we trying to keep them in the house?
SANTELLI: I know Mr. Summers is a great economist, but boy, I’d love the answer to that one. We’re thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party in July. All you capitalists that want to show up to Lake Michigan, I’m gonna start organizing. (Whistling, cheering) . . . Do you think I want to take a shower every hour? The last place I’m ever gonna live or work is D.C. . . . Listen, all’s I know is, is that there’s only about 5% of the floor population here right now, and I talk loud enough they can all hear me. So if you want to ask them anything, let me know. These guys are pretty straight forward, and my guess is, a pretty good statistical cross-section of America, the silent majority.
REBECCAQUICK: Not so silent majority today. So Rick, are they opposed to the housing thing, to the stimulus package, to everything out there?
SANTELLI: You know, they’re pretty much of the notion that you can’t buy your way into prosperity, and if the multiplier that all of these Washington economists are selling us is over… that we never have to worry about the economy again. The government should spend a trillion dollars an hour because we’ll get $1.5 trillion back.
[Santelli essentially laid out the blueprint for Bidenomics, 12 years later.]
WILBURROSS: Rick, I congratulate you on your new incarnation as a revolutionary leader.
SANTELLI: Somebody needs one. I’ll tell you what, if you read our founding fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson . . . What we’re doing in this country now is making them roll over in their graves.
Santelli’s recognition that “This is America” resonates across decades. It was true with Nixon’s 1968 election, true for Trump in 2016, and remains true. America is not a socialist/communist country, in spite of the best efforts of a minority. Santelli later clarified the reasons for his outburst:
The President's plan addressing issues in the housing market was the topic; but only the tip of the iceberg in fact. The real nerve struck seems to be the pent up emotions felt by millions of Americans regarding spending TRILLIONS of dollars to fix the housing market, the banks, and the economy. SPECIFICALLY WHO WILL PAY....WHO WILL BENEFIT....and above all the government's role in all of this.
The 2008-2009 bailouts of the oligarchs’ banks and corporations might have masked underlying economic decay, but taxpayers were not buying it. It only exacerbated existing tensions.
Santilli’s rant struck a chord, leading to the Tea Party movement. The 2010 midterm election the following year saw Republicans gain 63 House seats, 6 in the Senate, and 6 governorships. Both Democrats and RINOs recognized they had a crisis on their hands. Extreme repressive measures were put in place ever since.
But it was the 2014 midterms which sent shock waves through Washington. In an historical first, a House Majority Leader was defeated in his primary race when Tea Party-backed Dr. David Brat defeated House Majority leader Eric Cantor in the GOP primary.
Brat’s historic upset demands close investigation.
NY Times:
The result delivered a major jolt to the Republican Party — Mr. Cantor had widely been considered the top candidate to succeed Speaker John A. Boehner — and it has the potential to change both the debate in Washington on immigration and, possibly, the midterm elections. . . .
Republicans were so sure that Mr. Cantor would win that most party leaders had been watching for how broad his victory would be. His defeat will reverberate in the capital and could have major implications for any chance of an immigration overhaul. Mr. Cantor, 51, who is in his seventh term, had sought to counter Mr. Brat’s accusations that he was too willing to compromise on immigration. The majority leader, who had raised $5.4 million for the campaign, blanketed Virginia’s Seventh Congressional District with fliers and television advertisements in which he emphasized that he opposed an “amnesty” policy.
Brat spent just $122,700, less than 2.5% of Cantor’s expenditures. He prevailed over Cantor with 55% of the vote, spending $3.40 for each vote received as opposed to Cantor’s $173.94, 51 times greater. As Michael Bloomberg learned after blowing over $1.1 billion in the 2020 Democratic primary, the role of money in winning elections is overrated.
Brat’s eventual election to the House did indeed “change . . . the debate . . . on immigration.” Republicans were prepared to pass comprehensive immigration “reform,” a plan quickly dropped after realizing a popular revolt was underway. The immigration bill had passed the Senate prior to the GOP primary, with the GOP-led House on track to ratify it. Brat’s victory made the GOP realize they all risked Cantor’s fate if they proceeded.
That midterm election (Obama’s second) saw Republicans pick up 13 seats in the House, 9 in the Senate, and 2 governors. This undoubtedly captured Trump’s attention and played a key role in his entry the following year. Trump surely noticed Brat’s ability to win on a shoestring budget, gaining support from conservative talk radio and popular discontent with unfettered immigration — a recipe Trump successfully replicated.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s campaign spent more money on food — $168,000 on steakhouses alone — than Dave Brat did on his entire campaign. But it wasn’t just steak. On April 6, the Cantor campaign spent $790 at Proof, a downtown D.C. restaurant, where the cheapest entree on the menu is a “Napoleon of Crispy Tofu, Wild Mushrooms & Spring Vegetables,” which costs $25. Brat’s biggest food expense was $789 for catering from Honey Baked Ham in Richmond (where boxed lunches go for $8.29 apiece).
A look at each campaign’s spending in late March helps tell the tale. On March 25, Cantor wrote checks for $8,900 for private jet services, $6,700 for food for a fundraising event (the Washington, D.C. catering company’s website is currently touting its “Star Spangled & Sumptuous” menu, featuring chilled roasted salmon with cucumber banchan) and $1,017 for legal consulting from McGuire Woods. Brat’s campaign had no expenses on March 25, but the day before, it spent $87 at WalMart on “office supplies.”
Cantor’s luxurious lifestyle underscores how well the foot soldiers of the elites are compensated, with the rest of us ultimately footing the bills — in many more ways than can be enumerated here in a short essay. The “let them eat cake” mindset of our masters shines through time after time. Whether we are considered baskets of deplorables or listless vessels, the tension has reached an unsustainable level.
The ability to buy elections with campaign expenditures ended with the start of the populist revolt. This was certainly true by 2014. Dr. Brat was the first to recognize this truth. Once the public awakened, it could no longer be conned. Witness how the better part of $100 million bestowed on Ron DeSantis in 2023, by billionaire donors, served only to expedite his demise. Election fraud, replacing money, would henceforth become widespread once the populist movement began.
Democracy’s final chapter
Because the public has finally awoken to the countless assaults on their wealth and freedoms, money no longer buys elections. You can’t fool all the people all the time. Thus the ongoing assaults on civil liberties and wholesale gaslighting of the public.
This is why Your Favorite President, his attorneys, and aides face ruinous litigation for imaginary crimes.
This is why J6 defendants are imprisoned for ridiculous sentences and non-crimes.
This is why social media censorship is pursued with such vigor.
This is why YouTube accounts are demonitized or canceled.
This is why Rumble and Substack are prospering.
This is why the nation was placed into lockdown, masking, and vaccine hell — to condition us to comply.
This is why the military has been emasculated.
This is why Christians are considered threatening by the regime.
This is why Whites are actively discriminated against in affirmative action regimes.
This is why the Biden administration has declared an imaginary epidemic of “white supremacy” as our greatest national domestic threat.
This is why Antifa and BLM mobs were allowed to riot, burn, and loot with impunity.
This is why bail and sentencing “reform” ensures the maximum number of criminals on our streets.
This is why those acting in self-defense are prosecuted.
This is why mobs are allowed to illegally protest outside Supreme Court justices’ homes.
This is why packing the Supreme Court has been suggested.
This is why there is discussion of defunding the Supreme Court, the logical corrolary to defunding the police.
This is why our borders are wide open — to sow domestic chaos.
This is why police are defunded and declared the enemy.
This is why 8% of youth are on ritilan and 13% of adults are on antidepressants.
This is why energy costs are being driven higher — to sow economic chaos.
This is why an army of new IRS agents is being assembled.
This is why ATF agents are busy harrassing and shutting down legitimate gun dealers.
This is why gender confusion is actively being promoted to our youth.
This is why drag queen story hours are suddenly appearing in schools and on military bases.
This is why climate change mythology is shoved down our throats.
This is why a Central Bank Digital Currency system is being proposed.
This is why false-flag screwy white supremacist gangs such as Patriot Front or Nationalist Social Club - 131 are appearing. If the meme calls for mass white supremacists threatening the nation, and there are none, some need to be created to enable promulgating their existence through the usual propaganda outlets.
This is why efforts are made to divide Americans by gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, etc.
This is why the War on Climate has replaced the War on Terror in the nation’s threat hierarchy.
This is why Iran has been provided billions to undermine international order.
This is why the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been depleted.
This is why much of the nation’s arms stockpile has been transferred to Ukraine.1
This is why tens of billions worth of arms were bestowed upon the Taliban.
This is why Bagram Airfield was abandoned to ultimately be transferred to Chinese control.
We could go on, but you get the idea. Maximum chaos is the order of the day. These represent age-old tactics of tyrants to keep their serfs at bay. In this case, a nation comprised increasingly of a majority of permanent debt serfs beholden to the bankers. More than anything, these warning signs represent a regime about to be overthrown, desparate to retain power. The list above is the reason the regime will fail — they went too far, way too far. All that remains is to determine how and when they will be overthrown.
Anyone who thinks the popular sentiment has dissipated since Santelli threw down the gauntlet in 2009 needs to immediately purchase higher quality drugs. Anyone is sleepwalking through history who does not realize the establishment is now terrified of the populace. Anyone paying attention can see extreme measures are now being taken to what will ultimately be a futile attempt to retain power. What began simmering with Nixon reached a boil post Trump 45. The fault lines underlying the 2024 election could not be more distinct. Two locomotives are headed down the tracks, gathering speed as they prepare to crash head-on.
Nothing better served to highight class distinctions that the Great PandemicPlandemic. Rules for thee, not for me. Whether it was a maskless Nancy Pelosi being caught sneaking into her San Francisco hairdresser; Gavin Newsom being caught dining at the French Laundry restaurant; Gretchen Whitmer being caught sneaking off to vacation in Florida, despite cautioning Michigan residents against traveling out of state; or countless instances of wait staff forced to wear masks while serving elites.
We could go on, but you get the idea. Our elites no longer bother to conceal their class assaults and contempt for the rest of us.
JFK was eliminated in an overt Deep State coup, as was RFK. Nixon was removed in a silent coup engineered by Deep State operatives. Reagan survived a similar fate, Trump did not. It should now be clear why each impeachment and arrest only increases Trump’s support. Once the public clues in, it is game over for the oligarchs. Lincoln’s Money power has finally reached the end of its successes, destroying the Republic in the process. As he foresaw. America now prepares to move on to its next phase.
Now that Trump has emerged to reverse far too many decades of oligarchic wealth consolidation, the gloves are off. For too long the creeping civil war was a one-sided affair, prosecuted against the masses without push back. Unlike the abortive Tea Party movement, MAGA has a leader and his lieutenants and troops are continuously enlisting. Any objective observer sees this for what it is. The rest of the world anxiously awaits a resolution of America’s turmoil.
As far as the prosecution of Trump is concerned, this is good for us in today's conditions. Because it shows the rottenness of the American system, which cannot pretend to teach others about democracy. All that is happening with Trump is the persecution of a political rival for political reasons. And this is done in front of the public of the United States and the whole world. — V. Putin
Tyranny assumes multiple forms. Jefferson was concerned with a specific variant. In a 1789 letter to James Madison, he presciently observed:
“The tyranny of the legislatures is the most formidable dread at present, and will be for long years. That of the executive will come in its turn, but it will be a remote period.”
Two words: Nancy Pelosi. Two more: Joseph Biden.
Jefferson’s “remote period” is here, in the form of legislative, executive, and bureaucratic tyrannies. The latter was an unforseen development by our founders. The question is how and when these will be reversed. Jefferson’s and Madison’s solution was the Bill of Rights, adopted in 1791. Today’s dilemma requires a different solution.
The forces in this war are destined to collide on November 5, 2024. As the days count down until that election, we will call balls and strikes and provide play-by-play analysis of events and personalities as they unfold and appear on the field. The crisis America is now experiencing occurs once in every civilization. The plot and resolution are always the same, only the actors differ.
As the next election looms ever closer, History becomes increasingly and exponentially compressed. The reactionary forces attempting to retain the old order will become increasingly desperate and lash out as their demise appears imminent. Unforced errors atop unforced errors, each hastening the elites’ demise. Fake dossiers, impeachments, plandemic, lockdowns, mass censorship, rigged voting, sham hearings, kangaroo courts, FBI raids, indictments. There will be no lack of drama. Buckle up.
45+2 = USA 2.0
Historical context is crucial for interpreting current events. Without an understanding of how past civilizations have navigated the same shoals we now find ourselves crossing, they have no meaning. As 2024 approaches, and we proceed further into that critical year, a greater emphasis will be placed upon the historical element. Particularly the Roman example, about which we possess a more complete picture than for any other civilization.
America’s best days lie ahead. Getting there will be another matter.
To those despondent regarding the outcome of our current troubles, consider the case of Colin Kaepernick. The last season he played in the NFL was in 2016. NFL fans have no more tolerance for Kaepernick’s marxist crap than the rest of the nation can be forced to march into the ovens. This has long been apparent to anyone paying attention. Hence the reason for the extreme measures the Money forces are now deploying in a desparate effort to retain control.
Yet the more extreme the regime’s actions, the more they harm themselves. Each Trump impeachment and indictment only causes his poll numbers to increase. The disastrous Afghan withdrawal, Ukraine proxy war, sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline, or the Hamas attack on Israel all serve to remind voters of the stark contrasts between Trump and the Biden administration of lies. All this and more fuels an unstoppable transformation.
The Dictatorship of Money continues onward, brutalizing all in its path. Like any dictatorship, it endures only as long as the public tolerates its existence.
Readers are encouraged to pursue the links embedded in our articles. They are there for a reason and were located through diligent research. These provide not only evidence relied upon to draw conclusions, but far more detail and nuance than could possibly be incorporated into our articles. They additionally serve to direct you to supplementary information scattered across our other articles.
To be continued…
Douglas Schwartz — August 2023
Hollywood or bust
Civilizations pass through a process of evolution which can be analyzed briefly as follows: each civilization is born in some inexplicable fashion and, after a slow start, enters a period of vigorous expansion, increasing its size and power, both internally and at the expense of its neighbors, until gradually a crisis of organization appears. . . . After[ward] a Golden Age of peace and prosperity [ensues].”
— Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World in Our Time. 1966.
As Kash Patel has noted: “Since we sent 7 years worth of surface to air missile defense systems (just one example) to the Ukraine along with $120 billion, what happens when Israel calls on us for aid?”
