If you follow current events closely and study history even closer, the unavoidable conclusion is that at 250 years, the U.S.A. is D.O.A. The American democratic republic is neither democratic nor a republic.
The Wall. Washington, D.C.
Without legitimate elections and captive to big monied interests, the central government has become a machine for whom the productive among us work endlessly, feeding the beast like miners captive to the company store. Our debt will never be paid off. It will pass from generation to generation.
This is a conclusion that will be a hard swallow for many who live in the bubble of social media and social credit scoring on their phones, who cheer for the Reds or the Blues and never think deeper than what is on the tiny screens below their noses. But the sooner we all accept the truth of the situation the better off our future will be, because forewarned is forearmed.
Maybe at first DJT was not just self-serving, but if he ever wanted a better life for the common man, that’s a moot point now. He won the top job by riding on the wave of Constitutional conservatives who rallied to his side not once, not twice, but three times. But like Peter, he progressively denied his followers all three of those times. Virtually every non-statist ally has now been ejected from his administration. After the theft of Massie’s seat and Tulsi Gabbard’s shooing, only RFK is left.
(Perhaps also Stephen Miller. It’s hard to say whether he is a true Constitutional idealogue or is as monomaniacal as his boss.)
But the bottom line is this: the Club has taken over. The Ukraine war smolders on and we keep searching for a way believably to claim victory in Iran while scuttling away with our tails between our legs, Hormuz out of our control, gas prices pushing $5.00 a gallon, and our arsenal all but empty. Those fighting for global domination are using the rest of us as cannon fodder whether physically in shooting wars or financially.
What hope is left for the common citizen? What hope for social mobility, for equality of opportunity, for the pursuit of happiness? Only the state and local governments show slivers of light. But the states are a motley crew, even the reddest of them, run mostly it seems by the corrupt senatorial class. What independence and sovereignty the state governments have left to offer their citizens is dubious at best.
Ultimately it all comes down to the individual. It can be argued, as the affairs of man constantly rotate back to the system of masters and slaves, that servitude is the natural state of mankind. That one should accept the way things are and simply find happiness as servants of the realm. But if you have a heart and faith and a real love for your fellow human beings, you will not accept that.
As an American, and more specifically as a Volunteer, you do not have to look far into the past to find inspiration for living as a sovereign individual – the Paul Reveres, the Meriwether Lewises, and iconic Tennesseans like Jackson, and Houston, and Forrest and many others.
It is to those iconic Tennesseans we will now turn. Let us learn something from their examples to keep the citizens of Tennessee and the other states free, faithful, and prosperous. The sure road forward for freedom-loving people is to ride shotgun with those heroes who made America, the country that bucked the chronic trend of history toward totalitarianism.
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