The State of Our Nation No One’s Talking About: Tyranny Is Rising as Freedom Falls
John & Nisha Whitehead
“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Day by day, tyranny is rising as freedom falls.
The U.S. military is being used to patrol subway stations and police the U.S.-Mexico border, supposedly in the name of national security.
The financial sector is being used to carry out broad surveillance of Americans’ private financial data, while the entertainment sector is being tapped to inform on video game enthusiasts with a penchant for violent, potentially extremist content, all in an alleged effort to uncover individuals subscribing to anti-government sentiments
Public and private venues are being equipped with sophisticated surveillance technologies, including biometric and facial recognition software, to track Americans wherever they go and whatever they do. Space satellites with powerful overhead surveillance cameras will render privacy null and void.
This is the state of our nation that no is talking about—not the politicians, not the courts, and not Congress: the government’s power grabs are growing bolder, while the rights of the citizenry continue to be trampled underfoot.
Hitler is hiding in the shadows, while the citizenry—the only ones powerful enough to stem the authoritarian tide that threatens to lay siege to our constitutional republic—remain easily distracted and conveniently diverted by political theatrics and news cycles that change every few days.
This sorry truth has persisted no matter which party has controlled Congress or the White House.
These are dangerous times.
Yet while the presidential candidates talk at length about the dangers posed by the opposition party, the U.S. government still poses the gravest threat to our freedoms and way of life.
Police shootings of unarmed individuals, invasive surveillance, roadside blood draws, roadside strip searches, SWAT team raids gone awry, the military industrial complex’s costly wars, pork barrel spending, pre-crime laws, civil asset forfeiture, fusion centers, militarization, armed drones, smart policing carried out by AI robots, courts that march in lockstep with the police state, schools that function as indoctrination centers, bureaucrats that keep the Deep State in power: these are just a few of the ways in which the police state continues to flex its muscles in a show of force intended to intimidate anyone still clinging to the antiquated notion that the government answers to “we the people.”
Consider for yourself the state of our nation:
Americans have little protection against police abuse. The police and other government agents have been generally empowered to probe, poke, pinch, taser, search, seize, strip and generally manhandle anyone they see fit in almost any circumstance, all with the general blessing of the courts. It is no longer unusual to hear about incidents in which police shoot unarmed individuals first and ask questions later. What is increasingly common, however, is the news that the officers involved in these incidents get off with little more than a slap on the hands.
Americans are little more than pocketbooks to fund the police state. If there is any absolute maxim by which the federal government seems to operate, it is that the American taxpayer always gets ripped off. This is true, whether you’re talking about taxpayers being forced to fund high-priced weaponry that will be used against us, endless wars that do little for our safety or our freedoms, or bloated government agencies with their secret budgets, covert agendas and clandestine activities.
Americans are no longer innocent until proven guilty. We once operated under the assumption that you were innocent until proven guilty. Due in large part to rapid advances in technology and a heightened surveillance culture, the burden of proof has been shifted so that the right to be considered innocent until proven guilty has been usurped by a new norm in which all citizens are suspects. Indeed, the government—in cahoots with the corporate state—has erected the ultimate suspect society. In such an environment, we are all potentially guilty of some wrongdoing or other.
Americans no longer have a right to self-defense. While the courts continue to disagree over the exact nature of the rights protected by the Second Amendment, the government itself has made its position extremely clear. When it comes to gun rights in particular, and the rights of the citizenry overall, the U.S. government has adopted a “do what I say, not what I do” mindset.
Nowhere is this double standard more evident than in the government’s attempts to arm itself to the teeth, all the while viewing as suspect anyone who dares to legally own a gun, let alone use one in self-defense. Indeed, while it still technically remains legal to own a firearm in America, possessing one can now get you pulled over, searched, arrested, subjected to all manner of surveillance, treated as a suspect without ever having committed a crime, shot at, and killed.
Americans no longer have a right to private property. If government agents can invade your home, break down your doors, kill your dog, damage your furnishings and terrorize your family, your property is no longer private and secure—it belongs to the government. Likewise, if government officials can fine and arrest you for growing vegetables in your front yard, praying with friends in your living room, installing solar panels on your roof, and raising chickens in your backyard, you’re no longer the owner of your property.
Americans no longer have a say about what their children are exposed to in school. Incredibly, the government continues to insist that parents essentially forfeit their rights when they send their children to a public school. This growing tension over whether young people, especially those in the public schools, are essentially wards of the state, to do with as government officials deem appropriate, in defiance of the children’s constitutional rights and those of their parents, is at the heart of almost every debate over educational programming, school discipline, and the extent to which parents have any say over their children’s wellbeing in and out of school.
Americans are powerless in the face of militarized police forces. With local police agencies acquiring military-grade weaponry, training and equipment better suited for the battlefield, Americans are finding their once-peaceful communities transformed into military outposts patrolled by a standing military army.
Americans no longer have a right to bodily integrity. The debate over bodily integrity covers broad territory, ranging from abortion and euthanasia to forced blood draws, biometric surveillance and basic healthcare. Forced vaccinations, forced cavity searches, forced colonoscopies, forced blood draws, forced breath-alcohol tests, forced DNA extractions, forced eye scans, forced inclusion in biometric databases: these are just a few ways in which Americans continue to be reminded that we have no control over what happens to our bodies during an encounter with government officials.
Americans no longer have a right to the expectation of privacy. Despite the staggering number of revelations about government spying on Americans’ phone calls, Facebook posts, Twitter tweets, Google searches, emails, bookstore and grocery purchases, bank statements, commuter toll records, etc., Congress, the president and the courts have done little to nothing to counteract these abuses. Instead, they seem determined to accustom us to life in this electronic concentration camp.
Americans no longer have a representative government. We have moved beyond the era of representative government and entered the age of authoritarianism, where all citizens are suspects, security trumps freedom, and so-called elected officials represent the interests of the corporate power elite. This topsy-turvy travesty of law and government has become America’s new normal.
Americans can no longer rely on the courts to mete out justice. The U.S. Supreme Court was intended to be an institution established to intervene and protect the people against the government and its agents when they overstep their bounds. Yet through their deference to police power, preference for security over freedom, and evisceration of our most basic rights for the sake of order and expediency, the justices of the Supreme Court have become the architects of the American police state in which we now live, while the lower courts have appointed themselves courts of order, concerned primarily with advancing the government’s agenda, no matter how unjust or illegal.
I haven’t even touched on the corporate state, the military industrial complex, SWAT team raids, invasive surveillance technology, zero tolerance policies in the schools, overcriminalization, or privatized prisons, to name just a few, but what I have touched on should be enough to show that the landscape of our freedoms has already changed dramatically from what it once was and will no doubt continue to deteriorate unless Americans can find a way to wrest back control of their government and reclaim their freedoms.
This steady slide towards tyranny, meted out by militarized local and federal police and legalistic bureaucrats, has been carried forward by each successive president over the past seventy-plus years regardless of their political affiliation.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
We are walking a dangerous path right now.
Having allowed the government to expand and exceed our reach, we find ourselves on the losing end of a tug-of-war over control of our country and our lives. And for as long as we let them, government officials will continue to trample on our rights, always justifying their actions as being for the good of the people.
Yet the government can only go as far as “we the people” allow. Therein lies the problem.
The pickle we find ourselves in speaks volumes about the nature of the government beast we have been saddled with and how it views the rights and sovereignty of “we the people.”
Now you don’t hear a lot about sovereignty anymore. Sovereignty is a dusty, antiquated term that harkens back to an age when kings and emperors ruled with absolute power over a populace that had no rights. Americans turned the idea of sovereignty on its head when they declared their independence from Great Britain and rejected the absolute authority of King George III. In doing so, Americans claimed for themselves the right to self-government and established themselves as the ultimate authority and power.
In other words, in America, “we the people”— sovereign citizens—call the shots.
So when the government acts, it is supposed to do so at our bidding and on our behalf, because we are the rulers.
That’s not exactly how it turned out, though, is it?
In the 200-plus years since we boldly embarked on this experiment in self-government, we have been steadily losing ground to the government’s brazen power grabs, foisted upon us in the so-called name of national security.
We have relinquished control over the most intimate aspects of our lives to government officials who, while they may occupy seats of authority, are neither wiser, smarter, more in tune with our needs, more knowledgeable about our problems, nor more aware of what is really in our best interests.
The government has knocked us off our rightful throne. It has usurped our rightful authority. It has staged the ultimate coup. Its agents no longer even pretend that they answer to “we the people.”
Worst of all, “we the people” have become desensitized to this constant undermining of our freedoms.
How do we reconcile the Founders’ vision of the government as an entity whose only purpose is to serve the people with the police state’s insistence that the government is the supreme authority, that its power trumps that of the people themselves, and that it may exercise that power in any way it sees fit (that includes government agents crashing through doors, mass arrests, ethnic cleansing, racial profiling, indefinite detentions without due process, and internment camps)?
They cannot be reconciled. They are polar opposites.
We are fast approaching a moment of reckoning where we will be forced to choose between the vision of what America was intended to be (a model for self-governance where power is vested in the people) and the reality of what it has become (a police state where power is vested in the government).
We are repeating the mistakes of history—namely, allowing a totalitarian state to reign over us.
Former concentration camp inmate Hannah Arendt warned against this when she wrote:
“No matter what the specifically national tradition or the particular spiritual source of its ideology, totalitarian government always transformed classes into masses, supplanted the party system, not by one-party dictatorships, but by mass movement, shifted the center of power from the army to the police, and established a foreign policy openly directed toward world domination.”
So where does that leave us?
Aldous Huxley predicted that eventually the government would find a way of “making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.”
The answer? Get un-brainwashed, as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries,
Stop allowing yourself to be distracted and diverted.
Learn your rights.
Stand up for the founding principles.
Make your voice and your vote count for more than just political posturing.
Never cease to vociferously protest the erosion of your freedoms at the local and national level.
Most of all, do these things today.
Originally published via The Rutherford Institute
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His book Battlefield America: The War on the American People (SelectBooks, 2015) is available online at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at [email protected]. Nisha Whitehead is the Executive Director of The Rutherford Institute. Information about The Rutherford Institute is available at www.rutherford.org.
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John! Nisha! Please … please give an example of one nation that is not a USAmerican vassal that gives a rat’s ass about your “plight” Think about it. Please.
The collapse of your shithole country is delighting billions. Don’t you get that?
Too bad, USAmerica. You had it all … and look what you’ve done with it. The final straw is the way you lately unflinchingly defend baby killers.
OG please there are other voices that need to be heard (read) like Ramzy Baroud or M. K. Badrakumar.
For all their many merits, the Whiteheads have nothing new to offer. We all know that the USofAs is a fascist country that intends to crush its citizens for the benefit of a handful of ugly, perverted billionaires.
Imperial citizens do not understand any view besides their own. Look at the comments even on this site. You might as well talk to a wall.
The Cancel Culture, 1948: We Dont Talk About Uncle Henry
““Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries. — Hannah Arendt,“
“The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951, was Hannah Arendt’s first major work, where she describes and analyzes Nazism and Stalinism as the major totalitarian political movements of the first half of the 20th century.”
Yet the “unpredictable” result of victory by Stalin’s Red Army over Hitler’s Wehrmacht was thirty glorious years (les trentes annees glorieuses) of peace, socialism and progress in a united Europe. Even in rabidly anti-socialist war-mongering U$A there was some social progress eg the end of Apart-hate.
Then in the late 1970s The Empire Strikes Back, with Ronny Raygun and Maggie Snatcher bringing Star Wars and The Gospel of Greed.
It seems to me that our present social insanity in the EU$A will lead to conflict from which a saner Multi Polar World will temporarily emerge.
“All things arise from strife” — Heralclitus.
This article in entirely true and in the same time is saying nothing knew if one carefully examine US historical record.
For example:
The U.S. police and three letter security agencies became a power enforcement tools for ruling elites. FBI even was explicitly created as Political Police against socialists, communists and workers Unions like IWW.
It is true but it did not happened just in XX/XXI century as Police was a creation of Second Amendment when in XIX century oligarchs/big land owners became sick and tired of paying for private militias used for intimidation terrorizing businesses, social/political institutions or people including voters as well as trade unions and striking workers. They wanted system enforcement costs shifted onto oppressed,
Today a crowd of phony defenders of a second Amendment quote 250 millions guns in America that supposedly stands between liberty and tyranny while most of them are family heirlooms never used and owners are untrained to use them. Most likely they use guns not to prevent loss of freedoms but on family members instead as statistics prove.
The small group of gun fanatics own the rest but they are exactly those who push totalitarianism, did not lift a finger to prevent implementation of totalitarian policies instead promoting militarism. Most are only capable of intimidating unarmed neighbors during disputes..
While security, spying technology and capabilities exploded in unprecedented ways the objective of enforcing totalitarianism was always the same. The militia in the past and now police state, as always did, prevent any form of representation of people in government. It the past American armed militia guards were killing election candidates, checking votes destroying them and beating up voters who voted wrong while now they just control candidates allowed on a ballot with the same result: usurpation of people’s sovereign power by power elites. In U.S. power ruled from the beginning. Nothing changed.
Similar situation was with financial system that controlled transactions as money was controlled by local banks that created money (drafts) and controlled how they were used. It is true that they did not control all transactions but they could invalidate trades or just fold and steal people’s money they had to pay in taxes. Fed simply extended such control. Digital currency is a form of individual bank draft that could be used only as Banks wished invalid for any other purposes. Like today in the past banks controlled local economies.
The massive censorship rampant today was a norm from the beginning of US as First Amendment was not about people’s freedom of speech but a license for elites to lie and manipulate popular opinion with impunity. Freedom of speech was handled by killing holders of different opinion or ruining them financially often with use of kangaroo courts run by cronies of local powers. Only equal power and stand could have something like a fair trial. For the rest courts always were simply reinforcing rule of powerful.
During short fleeting historical moment when US powerful elites were threatened by Soviet Union and its support for workers revolution in U.S. a slew of now long gone privileges were bestowed on Americans under deceptive label of civil and political rights that were giveth and then taketh so we are now mourning rights we’ve never had as no longer needed elites’ deception evaporates returning to what they were in the first place. .
Unfortunately authors lamenting of losing something Americans never had; freedoms while their remedies are missing essential ingredient; Revolution that can’t be found on a voting ballot and can’t be won at voting both. Even Jefferson knew that pitchforks are needed as he wrote
The only way to stop begging for privileges and assert freedoms is to rule, is to refuse to delegate or surrender sovereign power to rule in any shape or form to elites that always serve their own interests.
Never has our future been more unpredictable
It is not unpredictable – but the opposite – the fact is that people nowadays are very very predictable. Technocracy produces human-like-machines. We have to shatter this paradigm of predictability to become free again (perhaps shatter some computers and smartphones on the process).
Loss of spirit and spontaneity. We need to be more direct, not play the b.s. games of going through the courts as though that’s the answer: important, but the judiciary will respond to public opinion so it’s up to people to get more bold, more brazen and more creative in order to help shape cultural outlook.
Things are now bottoming out to a point where we are being played beyond a point of reasonable doubt.
The people will revolt en mass when the means to crush their oppressors becomes available.
I’m sure it’s just an oversight; but it’s a doozy. In the list of ways the government may disrupt bodily integrity, the one that started it all was omitted: peeing in a cup. Oh, that’s right: the government is limited in looking for drugs in piss, saith the Court – but not to worry: every business in the country has that unlimited privilege. So, what Uncle Sam can’t do to us, his kissin’ cousins can. All bases covered.
What an incisive article to pique the mind. John and Nisha Whitehead have kept trying to awaken the Plebs with these thought-provoking articles and essays for a very long time, as have others. Fortunately OffG has been brilliant at sharing the articles. Thank you …
I keep asking myself the same question/s … how did we all, in our respective countries, allow things to become so bad, despite ALL the warnings and information shared so generously?
You’re asking that/those question/s from your point of view, which many on here share.
They are not worried about us…………………… At the minute!.
They can get this stuff done without our consent…………………At the minute !.
Plus what else can you do at the moment.
Your own life style and mind is bad. The physical realities have become better.
Today mental ill persons have treatments and pills which improve their lives considerably.
Just 2 -3 decades ago they were exposed to electro chock, pills that made them zombies, depressed people who committed suicides can today have an almost normal life..
Eye deceases which only 20 years ago made people blind, can now be withheld with medical treatment.
Modern comfort has become much much better. But people’s inner life is miserable.
They raised the heat of the boiling pot (containing us frogs) gradually, and pretended to concede now and then. Eugene Debs, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the Unabomber said as much.
In the mid 1980s I was once told that we in Britain were 5 years behind California and 3 years behind New York, whether that was true I wasn’t entirely sure, and if it was, I would guess that the revolutionary advances in communication modes has somewhat reduced that gap. Some things do spring to mind though. Here we don’t have the Fentanyl/Xylazine (Tranq) plague yet, but we do have Spice and other equally debilitating cheap synthetics. I believe Heroin is still widely available on out streets, whereas I understand it has been widely supplanted by Fentanyl in the US. Urban decay here is proceeding apace with our formerly bustling Town centres now mainly ghost towns, with many shops/pubs gone forever. We don’t have the huge homeless encampments yet as I see reported in SF and other US Cities or the likes of Kensington Philadelphia (worth a peek on yt). But we do have beggers/ purportedly homeless outside most supermarkets, usually neat ATMs or in areas having a high footfall eg: near to the bus station or shopping precinct entrances. In terms of Law enforcement, the Police here have largely disappeared from our streets and reporting a crime and the receipt of corresponding enforcement is a bit of a lottery. OK if lots of blood are spilt, there’s a body, or serious weapons are used, but otherwise, you’ll get a Log Number and/or you might get a visit in a day or two, for say a burglary. Some things are exactly the same though, that are mainly to do with the western modern narrative: IE: Putin is Hitler/mass murdering psycho, Israel has the right to do what it wants, without question, there are no Nazis in Ukraine and never have been, they’re just particularly Loyal citizens, All jabs are good, without exception and our Pharmaceutical and Agricultural institutions are the greatest altruists since forever. Everything the BBC and the mainstream press say is the absolute truth, while the rest are a nest of Vipers intent on poisoning your mind.
Like making bombs, making narcotics is getting simpler, with more variations. With the right knowledge of chemistry, it is going on in flats, abandoned containers (outside factories or in remote places.
US is a special case. Due to its continual imperialism, it gets a steady inward flow of narcotics (even on special submarines) and people (cheap labour). As the President of Columbia said recently, Andean peoples have been using coca without harm for centuries. It is capitalism that converts it into poison.
Oh my, more patriotic horseshit. Um, no. The “Revolutionary War” against the British was in support of the FIRST iteration of the United States, also known as the Continental Congress and its Articles of Confederacy.
Then, long after the war was won, two things happened: the (now beloved) Federalists rose up like a den of snakes. They convened a meeting in Philadelphia supposedly to “revamp” the Articles of Confideration but then surprise switcheroo, pulled out the Constitution and thus began the United States version 2.0, the psycho tyranny that we’ve had ever since.
Said Constitution was such shit, btw, that the people revolted, and thus the psychos were forced to add some amendments. Obviously, they had no interest in protecting free speech or self-defense or any of that stuff in your article (privacy, freedom from unwarranted searches, etc) or they would’ve included it in the Constitution.
The other thing that happened long after the war was over was George Washington amassed an enormous army (far bigger than the Revolutionary War army he led) to go attack his own citizens. This is usually known as the Whiskey Rebellion.
United States ver. 2.0 has always been a disaster, bub. It’s just they memory holed the whole thing so you’re now dumb enough to believe that it has existed since the first shot in Lexington in 1775.
‘Freedom’s just another word for everything left to lose’
https://youtu.be/k34boxNrqL8 Chase those crazy baldheads out of town. You the people are running away from yourself man. You the people must have done something wrong. Chase those crazy baldheads out of town.
“We once operated under the assumption that people were innocent until proven guilty.”
Yes. But after that we found out the people were not innocent, we have proven the people guilty!
What have happened since that assumption time? My Lai massacres, Fallujah massacres, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Iraq bombing, Libya bombing, Syria occupation up to date, $hundreds of billions to arm Ukraine, election frauds, false riots, false movements, not to talk about the drug trade from Afghanistan, rape of Dresden, nuke Hiroshima, m.m.
Who carried all these things out. The Government? You are kidding me! No politicians sat in these bombers nor made the torture nor their chambers. YOU did!
What to do? These evil sheeple have to come under some leash. A Corona passport, a dirty vaxx to control your horny bloodlust, and a Digital ID to control your wallet and your movements to stop your lack of self control and your atrocities against your fellowman.
Was Edward Snowden finally lucky to end up in Russia over the woke OBiden dystopia?
“Emanuel Pastreich
Independent Candidate for President
How interesting the total silence of my fellow candidates for president concerning the obvious murder of whistleblower John Barnett, former employee of the “merchant of death” multinational corporation Boeing.”
The whistleblower was scheduled to testify against Boeing in court March 16, but instead found shot– a “suicide” of course.
https://emanuelprez.substack.com/p/imprison-the-ceo-of-boeing-dave-calhoun
There is a very simple and time-tested solution to this problem: revolution. No system this complex has every been reformed in any context, whether political, biological or physical. It’s beyond repair. We can’t vote or think or opt our way out of it. The primary purpose of the turn the media/government apparatus took in March 2020 was to prevent revolution. All of the press coverage given to the network-theoretic basis of viral spread — the omni-present “R0” values casually dropped into cartoons for toddlers — was, in reality, about limiting the spread of information, not virions.
“Social distancing” was the innovation; the vaccine was beside the point. Revolutions are born and begin to boil and burn in bars and backyard barbecues. The five-foot/two-meter rule was an experiment to see how fast communication dropped off with distance. The masks, to determine the silencing coefficient of muzzles. And BLM, to define a heuristic which combines all of these measurements into an actionable riot suppression score.
And it all worked — far, far beyond the wildest dreams of the spreadsheet jockeys who dreamed it up. We no longer meet at bars or barbecues. There’s no music in the cafes at night or revolutions in the air. The five feet of social distance has dilated to five light-years. Communication is not person-to-person anymore; it’s virtual, high-latency, conducted via information-free emojis and inscrutable internet jive, and will soon enough be undetectably transformed in-flight by a large-language model AI.
There is actually still time left for a proper tear-it-all-down revolution, but it’s simply not going to happen while the internet still functions.
Well said. Most have never heard of the reserve army of labor – they wouldn’t believe that poverty and homelessness are by design. To think that life could be wonderful for everyone instead of this brutal prison camp – humanity doesn’t need multi-millionaires and billionaires. Unfortunately, people are scared and brainwashed. The same patriots who cheered for the Canadian truckers convoy also booed the idea of a workers revolution. They may as well prostrate themselves, get prisoner numbers tattooed on their arms and kiss their bosses’ asses.
Western governments are furious that Russian voters got it wrong;
They insist Russian voters rerun the election until they get it right !
There’s an even simpler formula for living free, and if the majority would adopt this way of being we’d have a free society: Develop your inner moral compass and stop delivering yourself over to a so-called higher authority.
Well, one potential path is people in an individual state voting to secede from the Union.
That way, Federal Law will no longer apply to you and you can form your own, new, independent ‘country’, either alone, or in partnership with neighbouring states whose people feel the same way that you do.
The USA is going the way of the Soviet Union and there are plenty of States whose people no longer feel that the USA upholds their value system. Starting with Texas, Florida etc.
I strongly advise US citizens to band together to demand a referendum in their state on secession from the USA.
Whos going to finance this individual state independence? That’s where the Feds trumped the states, look to Texas, as the test ground breakaway state.
There are a number of secession efforts in process, not only from the federal stranglehold, but from states also, like in eastern Oregon and Idaho. Plenty of US citizens are well aware of what needs to be done. But that’s like trying to tell British citizens to get rid of their Kings, Queens, Princes, and Princesses, i.e., stop being ruled by fairy tales. Well, maybe not, I’d place my bets on US efforts. Fairy tales are really hard to break. Things ARE going to change because change is inevitable. How long it takes is the question.
A third of Americans don’t vote because they recognise the false dichotomy on offer. Lenin warned over a century ago that the Labour Party in Britain and the Democrats in the US would always betray the working class. Next year may see a scrapping of the facade altogether, in favour of open dictatorship, better known as PROJECT 2025. People think it will never happen – until it does.
We already have a dictatorship, it’s just not from one person, and it never will be. We the sheeple are dictated to by they the rich, simple. So I don’t know what Project 2025 is, but it’s been going on for a long time. And people know it’s happened, most just don’t fucking care or are resigned to the fact (in their minds) that there ain’t shit they can do about it.
It is the ideology of Reformism, that is make Capitalism kinder, nicer more humane that has the DNA of betrayal. This approach has had over 70 years to show its mettle, leading to the impotence of Sanders and the Corbyn camp in UK. The Labour Party in Britain has had genuine revolutionaries in its membership and it would be dogmatic to rule that possibility out forever.
Genuine Marxists in the USA are calling for a Labor Party in the US, as no mass party exists to represent workers interest.
Muricunts are sub-human garbage.
Spoken like a plutocrat. The owners thank you for that.
And comments like these are posted, while some of mine are not. Hmmm….
AND, Americans have ‘forgotten’ that the USA is a REPUBLIC, (“If you can keep it”; Ben Franklin) – NOT a ‘democracy’ (see US Constitution Art IV, sec 4; et al)
Actually, the USA is a plutarchy, always has been. Republic simply means democracy by representative government, i.e., indirect democracy, and an elected president, instead of a monarch. The people get to democratically choose their representatives, and they get to choose between Trump and Biden. Never has worked out too well for the people. As opposed to direct democracy, which is what most people are referring to when bring up the fact that technically the US is a republic. There are direct democracy processes in the U.S. in over half the states via state referendums or initiatives, and at city and county levels. They would never allow that at the national level. But in the end almost everywhere, money talks, bullshit walks.
It really starts in elementary school with the rather fanciful (and utterly unrealistic) view of US history that’s peddled to school children. This is the only explanation for the wierd ideas about the colonies and the fight for independence.
So finding out about the true nature of the US shouldn’t take until the 21st century or adulthood or whatever. There’s still quite a lot of good stuff going on here but at the same time “it is what it is — and (more importantly) what it always has been”. So how come it took so long for people to figure this out?
I would give the Statue of Liberty back to France and say, GOOD LUCK!
I’d keep the Statue of Liberty, but get rid of the plaque with the Emma Lazarus poem.
If you like your slave servitude, you can keep your slave servitude, I forgot to add that.
Shame the French didn’t send the USA a Statue of Fraternite – it’s the characteristic that US Foreign Policy has been most lacking for generations…..