Why has the US fallen?

It's pretty clear at this point that the US is in decline and losing. But who is the US losing to? It's the classic question of why empires fall. In the case of the US, I know quite a few of the reasons.

The US is suffering from a death by 1,000 cuts, from enemies both foreign and domestic.

Obviously Soviet infiltration during the Cold War was highly damaging to the US. The Cold War officially started in 1947 under Truman as President, but really it had been going on for awhile. Hollywood famously had the blacklist in the 1940s where Marxists and communists weren't supposed to be involved in films. Yet, even during that time some of the most successful films were written by communists. During WW2 US propaganda promoted the Soviet Union communists as good for fighting the fascist and socialist Germans, and even before that the Marxists were able to start getting a strong foothold in the US. Marxism, communism, and socialism are different terms for the same basic philosophy that aims at the destruction of property, religion, and the family. We can see all three of these things happening over the last century in the US.

This type of infiltration takes many forms. Obviously military secrets were stolen and sent to the Soviet Union by spies. The KGB were often successful. Obviously there were assassinations. These are the exciting things movies are made about and the news promotes. It's much more than this though. The OSS was the precursor to the CIA. There's an OSS manual you can find and read on simple sabotage. It teaches how to take a job in a country you're working to destroy and then just not do the job, ship things to the wrong places, lose paperwork, drop things in machines that will break them, etc. With a strategy and tactics like these, it's impossible to tell if someone is working as a foreign agent or is just incompetent. To counteract it you have to be paranoid and intolerant, which also leads to destruction. Either way the strategy works to help bring down the society it's used against. 

The Soviet Union eventually fell apart, but a lot of damage was already done. Then there's only a brief period before another major cold war ramped up with China, which I've been calling Cold War 2. The leader of China, Mao, died in 1976. China did economic reforms in 1978. Deng Xiaoping called this socialism with Chinese characteristics, introducing a more free market capitalism in the system. China's economy grew quickly after this. By the 1990s they were doing well enough that they started to wonder if they could beat the US in a war. Two Chinese military officers, Wang Xiangsui and Ziao Liang, studied the possibility and came to the conclusion that no one could defeat the US directly, but the US could be defeated indirectly by infiltrating and influencing the US media, academia, news, sports, business, schools, politics, etc. You can use the US systems against itself. Get the media to get US citizens to fight each other. Fund protests. Buy up farmland and food companies to control US food, which you can then limit or contaminate. Do classic bribery and blackmail of politicians. Give them or a relative of theirs an organ when they need it and they owe you forever. Get professors to be anti-US, sports teams to be anti-US, movies and tv shows to be anti-US. Buy private schools and educate the next generation of US citizens to be anti-US. The CIA released this plan, and in 1999 it was published with the title 'Unrestricted Warfare' in English. The strategy has worked immensely well and has been highly effective.

There are more than a few reasons this strategy has been so effective against the US. One is that in 2001 the terrorist attacks in the US pulled all American attention to the Middle East. This let China implement it's strategies without very many people noticing or caring.

The US is also infiltrated by all other major countries as well from Russia, to Iran, to Israel, to Saudi Arabia, just as the US military intelligence agencies work to infiltrate all of these other countries. It's a real mess that no one can ever really understand or untangle. It appears that Israel controls much of the US Congress, and China controls much of US business, media, food, schools, and sports.

Many of these things align. That's how big things get done. It's just like pushing a car. A few weeks ago I saw two guys try to push a car up a slight incline. They moved it a little, but not too much. I joined them, and the three of us had to lean into it pretty hard at first, then when it started moving it was pretty easy. I wouldn't have been able to push it by myself, they couldn't move it with just the two of them, but together we could. It's the same thing. All of these forces aligned against America combine. The resistance is difficult at first, but once momentum is started then it gets easier. Charlie Munger calls this the Lallapalooza Effect. It's how big things rise, and how they fall. 

Marxism, communism, socialism, anarchism, and even fascism as a branch of socialism are all quite popular in the US, and they are all very much against the principles of the Founding Fathers in creating the US. A noticeable portion of college professors in the US, especially in the so-called social sciences, are openly Marxist, and a significant portion are less openly Marxist. Being in teaching positions allows them to corrupt the next generation of Americans, and you see a noticeable decline in the US from generation to generation in support for private property, family, and religion, so the Marxist teachers have been obviously successful in attacking these ideas.

The 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 did initial damage with killing thousands of people, costing a ton of money, creating a ton of fear. Before that Americans didn't realize Islam is a real threat. It obviously is and Sharia Law is not compatible with American principles, which are Christian based. Once everyone realized it, then people wanted something done. However, the US was already corrupt enough that things didn't go well. One thing is that it became a war on terrorism. Just on the obvious surface this doesn't work. It's like declaring a war on skipping. It's a thing anyone can decide to do at any time, most people just choose not to most of the time. This is a deep philosophical and religious loss of the fight from the beginning. Then the US passed laws like the Patriot Act, which allowed the US government to spy on US citizens with approval from the secret courts. Then the US attacked countries in the Middle East that didn't seem to really make sense. Then the US did a continual war for two decades that it eventually lost. The US now has mass Muslim infiltration in institutions, and has cities that have been completely taken over and are controlled by Muslims in multiple states. This is another issue the US can't win because of the paradox of tolerance, in that if the US tolerates the Muslims then as the Muslims take over they will be intolerant, but if the US doesn't tolerate them then the US is intolerant. So either way it ends with an intolerant society. It's plain to see how Christianity and Islam fit together like a lock and key. Jesus let his enemies kill him, and Muhammad killed his enemies. It's a dangerous fit.

The US had also previously trained and equipped many of the groups in the Middle East to fight against the Soviet Union in the past. So to a certain extent the US was fighting itself. Even during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan the US was sending aid to Pakistan, which then passed it on to fighters in Afghanistan, so the US was helping to equip the people it was fighting a war against. The US was directly engaged in war with the Taliban while also funding the Taliban. Years later the US helped Al-Qaeda take over Syria to massacre Christian groups, after decades of US soldiers dying while fighting against Al-Qaeda.

The US has even largely infiltrated itself. The first FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover, famously used the FBI to blackmail American politicians for decades. President Truman formed the CIA in 1947. By 1963 he wrote a newspaper article saying the CIA had gotten out of control. The article came out the month after the JFK assassination. This is the classic issue that Juvenal from ancient Rome points out, "Who will guard the guards?" Apparently, no one.

The issues in the US aren't limited to a few agencies though. Erich Fromm points out in his 1941 book that when people feel lonely and powerless they have certain tendencies. They want to conform to a group, or they become destructive, or they become submissive or dominant and authoritarian. It's noticeable in the US that over the last few decades a massive number of people feel more lonely and powerless. Even as technology has made it easier to connect with people and do things. John B. Calhoun's experiments with rats show that a lack of a socially meaningful role leads to things like eating disorders and self-harm and infanticide and eventually what he calls universal autism or universal psychosis, a break from being able to have a healthy relationship socially or even with the physical world, is obviously happening in the US at an increasing rate. These issues are a societal breakdown of physical, social, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

The physical health of Americans has been under attack for a long time. The Flexner Report came out in 1910. It pushed for the power consolidation of the medical industry so that the government could control standards. As government agencies are created, government always being corrupt because of the inherent evil in human nature, those agencies often become captured by companies that are able to influence these agencies. In this case, all of that works against healthy solutions to health problems. The US ended up being pretty good at emergency medicine because the US is good at drugs and surgery. But, the US is horrible at overall health and long-term health.

A blaringly obvious example of this is with vaccines. Big pharma was getting sued so much for vaccine injuries that in 1986 a law was passed specifically to exempt drug companies for liability from vaccine injuries. Then a special court system was established just for vaccine injuries. All of these special things were done for two reasons. One, vaccines are that damaging. Two, the drug companies were able to capture the regulatory agencies that were created to consolidate power in the medical industry.

The drug companies have no liability even if they end up genetically modifying people without telling them, as long as it was part of a vaccine. After WW2 there was a competition for German scientists between the Soviet Union and the US. NASA was largely built in the US by former Nazi scientists as part of Operation Paperclip. Less well-known is the bioweapons research. Some people know the Nazis did a lot of medical experiments. Fewer people know about the experiments of Japanese Unit 731. Just reading the reports is disturbing. Instead of prosecuting these horrendous crimes, the US covered them up. The US gave them pardons in exchange for getting the research. Instead of pursuing justice and punishing evil, the US made a deal with evil, granted it immunity, welcomed it in. This is a common theme in human history, and why Genesis 6:5 and 8:21 say humans are inherently evil.

Bioweapons research has continued without slowing down. Just a few years ago governments around the world put their people into house arrest and other severe restrictions over Covid, which was openly created by the US and Chinese governments working together through universities doing gain-of-function research to create bioweapons. This one they were so open about that they published how they were succeeding in Nature Magazine in 2015 called 'A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence', the same year Ivermectin won the Noble Prize as a miracle medicine. Then, in response to the government created disease the governments then forced people to take an experimental MRNA vaccine that may genetically modify humans and probably killed more people than the disease. These things are just a continuation of the WW2 bioweapons programs where the lab is the world and the mice are the humans.

At one time it was hard to learn about these things. Now it's easy with the internet. Eventually governments will be able to control the internet enough that it will be hard to learn about these things again. It's also shown that you don't particularly have to hide things very well. If governments speak the truth quietly and yell the falsehood loudly, people want to and will believe the lie.

Another interesting grand scheme to take down the US that is being done is the Cloward-Piven strategy. It's been highly effective. Two Colombia University professors, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, came up with the plan. The basic idea is to overload the welfare system to collapse the economy of the US. With the mass importation of immigrants across open borders in the US this has been effective. The open borders have also allowed large amounts of criminals and terrorists to enter the US, for a large drug trade across the border, for significant weapons trading, and for slave trading, including child sex slaves in both directions between the US and Mexico, and to any country in the world after that.

Many other influential people in America have been anti-America. One of the most important is Saul Alinsky. He came up with what is commonly called community organizing. President Barrack Hussein Obama was a community organizer. Hillary Clinton wrote her college senior thesis on Alinsky. In his book 'Rules for Radicals' Alinsky includes a quote at the beginning from himself praising Lucifer. He advocates destroying everything having to do with the organization of the United States, to cause chaos and destruction, and that morality and ethics aren't real and are only weaknesses to be exploited. This is one of the leading philosophers and intellectuals of many US politicians over the last few decades.

Some of these things should seem insane to a sane person, but they are reality. This is the way humans are, this is the way the world is. It's become harder for people in the US to see insanity as being insane. One reason is that the US closed the insane asylums in 1986 and just released all of the insane people onto the streets. With nowhere to go many insane people in the US just live homeless on the streets or in the woods, wandering around stealing things, doing drugs when they can get them. The US also heavily uses the idea of insanity to protect criminals and keep them in the public to do more crimes and create more harm. This is called the insanity plea. It's possible to plead insanity after a murder, go to prison for a few years, get out, and go do more crimes. The US justice system has become an injustice system designed to protect criminals and to create and persecute innocent victims. As Adam Smith said, "Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." A court system that releases murderers wants more murders. This is worse in some areas. For instance, Gotham, the corrupt city that the superhero Batman fights crime in, is based on the real New York City.

How does a society become so corrupt? One, it's in human nature. So you don't have to make things bad, you just have to take away the things that make the society good. If you simply take away the idea of responsibility and accountability, human nature naturally reveals itself to be evil. This can be on an individual level or in a family, in a county or a city, a state or a country. Smart people can generate the plans of destruction, then others can carry out those plans without understanding the plan, the history, the effect, the philosophy, or really anything. They are automatons in what psychologist Stanley Milgram calls an agentic state, just going through the motions and doing what they are supposed to do, whether it makes sense or not. People become ideologically possessed and are unable to understand anything outside of what they already believe. You'll find them repeating the slogans they've been taught.

A good example of a philosopher who helped plan the destruction of the United States is Herbert Marcuse. In 1965 he released his article 'Repressive Tolerance'. It explains how any tolerant society can be destroyed. He essentially applies the paradox of tolerance to the purposeful destruction of society. The group that wants to destroy the society simply has to be intolerant of whoever they are against, and then when anything is done to them they plead for tolerance. So, over time, their ideas are tolerated more and the other ideas are tolerated less, eventually leading to the destruction of the tolerant society and the creation of an intolerant society.

This is just one of many philosophers of destruction. Paulo Freire helped promote getting critical theory into schools, which is that everything is about power and overthrowing whatever group is seen as having power. You can see how that is an off-branch of Marxism, where the idea is for the oppressed to overthrow the oppressors. It's a cycle of destruction with no end goal because there's always someone in power, which means they need to be toppled. The goal is a continual revolution, continual destruction and rebellion. However, because the means are violent and intolerant, often the continual revolution stops with an authoritarian dictatorship of some kind. 

There's a large number of branches from critical theory attacking all parts of society. Because critical theory sees everything as a political battle for power, nothing is off limits, and everything is a battleground to be destroyed. Children are often attacked because: one, they are weak physically and mentally; two, if they are able to control the minds of kids they are able to control the future of society; and three, destroyers like to destroy good things, so it's more dramatic to destroy kids.

A good example of an educator getting critical pedagogy into US schools is George Counts. These ideas grow out of the Frankfurt School of thought, which based a lot of their ideas on Marx and Freud. Controlling the unconscious forces in people, overthrowing society, destroying religion, family, and private property. Everything is about power and getting power, all values are subjective, all truth is relative. You can see how it merges with postmodern ideas and you get social construct theory, where they think that reality is made up by consensus. That's how they argue crazy things like men are women and women are men, because everything is imaginary and can just be pretended and that makes it real. This is the ultimate revolution, the ultimate rebellion, because it seeks to destroy not just society, but all knowledge, all truth, and even reality itself. With the federal government consolidating power over schools by creating the Department of Education in the 1970s, it allowed these ideas to be pushed through all schools to indoctrinate all of the kids at once. Schools in the US have gotten worse ever since the creation of the US Department of Education.

Once you take away the idea of objective values it has massive effects downstream. One of the biggest is the idea of human life being sacred. Christianity has this in the idea of all people being created in the image of God. Once you take that away, the only reason to value human life is if you feel like it or if it's useful to you. This is what has led to mass infanticide in the US. From 1997 to 2017 the estimates that I read are that over 24 million babies were aborted, about 28 percent of the whole generation. That's a society that not only doesn't consider human life sacred, but seems to be doing some kind of human sacrifice ritual, the classic killing of children in the name of some personal advantage or benefit. Without the idea of the sacredness of human life you can't have the idea of universal human rights, and things like infanticide and genocide become normal.

Margaret Sanger founded the first birth control clinic in the US in New York in 1916. Sanger implemented eugenics to try to eliminate the people she didn't want in society. Sanger wrote a famous letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, of the Proctor and Gamble family, about what they called The Negro Project on 10 December 1939 saying, "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." Albert Lasker, one of the greatest advertisers in history as owner of the firm Lord and Thomas, proposed changing the name from Birth Control Federation of America to Planned Parenthood to make it sound better. After the Supreme Court case of Roe vs Wade in 1973 Planned Parenthood was able to get into the abortion business and has had a lot of success.

There were some bad years that occurred for the US in the early 1900s. The worst was 1913. That year the 16th Amendment to the Constitution was passed allowing the feds to take income taxes. This was originally an unconstitutional tax implemented during the American Civil War. An income tax disincentives making money through wages. It literally punishes people for working. Even worse, it's a graduated income tax, which is a policy right out of the 'Communist Manifesto'. This punishes people for getting raises and promotions.

That same year the 17th Amendment to the US Constitution was passed that made federal senators chosen by direct popular election. Before that the state legislatures chose the federal senators. The US is designed as a republics of republics. A union of state governments. Each state could function completely on its own as an independent country, theoretically. The Founding Fathers were a unique collection of geniuses that implemented multiple checks and balances between government branches and levels. In the Bill of Rights the 10th Amendment says, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." How does a state have any power or check against the federal government? One way is in lawsuits and court cases. Another way that's never been done in US history, which has the longest active constitution in the world, is an Article 5 convention of states. Another way was that the federal senators didn't just represent the public, because they were selected by the state congress they represented the states and helped to preserve state's rights. With the passing of the 17th Amendment that part of the American system of government was broken.

Also in 1913, the Federal Reserve System was created. Central banking had been debated in the US since the founding of the country. The Fed was supposed to make the economy more stable. To stop cycles of booms and busts. After the Fed was created in 1913 there was the boom of the 1920s, then the bust of the 1930s. The US economy has been up and down ever since. So, the Federal Reserve has proven to be a major failure that doesn't do its function, yet it continues to exist. It doesn't answer to any branch of the US government, which means it's a break away from the American system of checks and balances. And, every time that it fails to do the job it was created to do, limit busts, it's given more power and yet continues to fail.

There's a good book from 1924 called 'Taxation: The People's Business' by banker and Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon. He points out that as the tax rate increases people are more incentivized to avoid taxes, and will do that in various ways. Rich people have more options. One option that has helped take down America is the creation of the lobbying industry. It's damaging from domestic interests, and it opens up the country to foreign influence from other nations, one of the main dangers George Washington warned against in his farewell address.

How it works is that rich people donate money to politicians. This can be directly or indirectly, legally or illegally. Often it's direct campaign donations. Sometimes it's a non-profit of the rich person donating to the non-profit of the politician, which then pays the politician a salary for doing nothing. Or they higher the politician for speaking engagements with huge fees. Or, they gift them expensive art, which the politician can then sell, or take a loan against and use the cash. Or, the politician is given insider stock information to make money on. There are many ways it's done.

The politician is being paid in exchange for something. Sometimes it's the politician giving out inside information. Or, the politician can stop an investigation into a company, or start one on a competitor. Or have the politician talk to an government agency about approving a project or permit, or talk to a judge or prosecutor about dropping charges.

The lobbying industry exists so that people with money can influence the laws. This is real power. The corruption of the congress, through legal and illegal means, is something that by itself can destroy a republic. The three classic means of influence in politics are bribery, blackmail, and the threat of harm and death. All three continually occur, but bribery is the only one that has a massive industry to openly and legally carry out operations. This is a main reason that laws in the United States are so large. Everyone wants their thing to happen, their piece of the pie. So everyone in the House of Representatives and the Senate inserts their own little set of budget approvals and legal changes, what the lobbying firms and donors have told them to do, plus their own pet projects, and since everyone is getting what they want they don't even have to read the rest, and the whole thing gets passed. This is how the big corrupt leviathan beast of government works in the United States.

The rich people and organizations pay politicians to make loopholes in the laws for themselves, they create laws to reduce and restrict competition, they get their friends and employees appointed to the regulatory agencies to crush competitors and to approve themselves. Then they hire lawyers and accountants to jump through the loopholes that they paid to have created, and which non-elites can't afford to use. Then, because the US congress doesn't have term limits, once you own a politician you can benefit for decades.

There's a movie that came out in 1992 staring Eddie Murphy called 'The Distinguished Gentleman'. It shows how the main thing in congress is getting paid by lobbyists. These two things are perfect bookends. You read just the first two chapters of 'Taxation' by Andrew Mellon where he warns against raising taxes. You realize that taxes in the 1930s jumped up, then again in the 1940s, then again in the 1960s. Then you watch 'The Distinguished Gentleman' and realize that the high tax rates helped create a massive lobbying industry that has control of the United States. Once this is created, how would you ever get rid of it? Is the lobbying industry going to lobby for its own destruction? No. Can a politician afford to run political campaigns to get elected without massive donations? No. Can foreign countries then take over the lobbying industry and control the United States? Yes. Would these foreign countries ever want to give up control of the United States? No.

It's not just at the elite level that the US has problems. As John Adams wrote in a letter to Benjamin Rush on 23 July 1806, "Nor do I see any reason to distinguish Emperors, Kings Consuls or Presidents from the rest of Mankind. They are as good, in general, in proportion to their members as their subjects, and if worthless Men are Sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe because worthless Men are at the tail and in the middle." Meaning, if there are corrupt people at the elite level, it means there are corrupt people at the middle and low levels of the society too.

Many of these cultural errors come from foundational philosophical errors. For instance, the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been massively influential since the Enlightenment in politics, economics, and education. He had five children and abandoned each of them at birth. He makes the case that humans are inherently good and made bad by their environment. In a letter in 1763 to Christophe de Beaumont he states, "Let us take it as an incontestable maxim that the first movements of nature are always right: there is no original perversity in the human heart." This is opposed to the Bible where God says in Genesis 6:5 and 8:21 that humans are inherently evil. 

These two directly opposed views lead in opposite directions. For Rousseau, for humans to be good you just need to remove the things that make them bad and good will just happen on its own. Good doesn't even really require work or discipline, it's just natural. The Biblical perspective is that people are bad and need to be made good through discipline, rules, laws, and the world needs to be repaired in the Jewish sense of tikkun olam. In the Christian view people need to receive grace through Jesus taking their sin upon himself, and since they are forgiven they forgive others. All three of these are very different things.

The American Founding Fathers saw both sides. In 'Federalist 51' James Madison wrote, "But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.", and in 'Federalist 55' he wrote, "As there is a degree of depravity in mankind, which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust: so there are other qualities in human nature, which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence. Republican government presupposes the existence of these qualities in a higher degree than any other form."

Over the last couple hundred years the philosophical influence of Rousseau has grown to be pervasive in the US. With that philosophy you don't work to repair the world and make it a better place, you don't repent of your sins and seek forgiveness, with the philosophy of Rousseau you simply seek to destroy whatever has made things bad. That doesn't work. One reason is that the natural state of humanity is poor and brutish. If you destroy wealth and civilization, the things that have moved humanity away from being poor and brutish, then the natural state humans will return to is being poor and brutish. The other reason is that it's easy to destroy and hard to build. You can see this in small children, they learn how to knock down a stack of blocks before they learn to build one. As Thomas Sowell says in his article 'Random Thoughts for December 2002', "Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain."

Sometimes ideas just spread on their own. However, as technology has advanced the ability to influence people through mass communication has become more powerful. A nephew of Sigmund Freud helped make propaganda, public relations, and managing public opinion into a science, Edward Bernays. He helped big companies sell products. He helped the US overthrow foreign governments. He wrote 'Crystallizing Public Opinion' in 1923, 'Propaganda' in 1928, 'Public Relations' in 1945, and 'The Engineering of Consent' in 1955.

It's easy to see how well this works. Big pharma is the most obvious. They release a drug that may help with a problem, but it could also cause a dozen other problems, and it could make the original problem worse. Go see your doctor, get the prescription, and buy it. Then, a few years later so many people were injured by the drug that there are major lawsuits. Insurance, courts, laws, and big pharma are so arranged that they still make money. This cycle continues forever. Drugs are made to stop the side effects from other drugs, but those cause other side effects, and sometimes make the original problem worse, so people have to take more drugs. It's an amazing business. There are special laws protecting the drug companies. They've still paid the largest criminal fines in history. Yet, people keep sucking down drugs like treats. Big pharma is an industry that has done great at crystallizing public opinion, propaganda, and public relations. Destroying the health and minds of America, one drug commercial at a time.

Politics is just as bad. The media promotes some wars and conflicts and completely buries others. 

The media promotes some genocides and hides others. The media lies about crime and health studies. Often the studies are themselves fake and corrupt. The truth isn't even a consideration, only crystallizing public opinion, pushing propaganda, and public relations.

The propaganda is so strong that there are things in American history that almost the whole world thinks which are the reverse of the truth. I've had conversations while in Greece and Japan with people that think Republicans had slaves and the Democrats freed them. This is literally the reverse of true. The Democrats were pro-slavery. The Confederacy was Democrats. The KKK was started by Democrats after the war and killed blacks and Republicans. Because... the Republican Party was started specifically to end slavery. It's the anti-slavery party. When I've talked with people in other countries in the world they are surprised. When I've talked with Americans about it, they usually don't care. If the public doesn't care that it doesn't know history, that it's been lied to about history, then that public cannot support a true republic.

Some of the issues destroying America are idealistic slippery slopes. Liberty and equality are great examples. The United States has been uniquely idealistic and successful in many ways. The territory of Wyoming was the first government in the world to give women full voting rights in 1869. However, the anti-suffragist movement was led by women and at least as large as the suffragist movement for decades. The anti-suffragists predicted that women having the vote would lead to the destruction of the family and the erosion of the society.

In her 1897 book 'Woman and the Republic' Helen Kendrick Johnson says, "The American Republic depends finally for its existence and its greatness upon the virtue and ability of American womanhood. If our ideals are mistaken or unworthy, then there will be ultimately no republic for men to govern or defend. When women are Buddhists, the men build up an empire of India. When women are Mohammedans, the men construct an Empire of Turkey. When women are Christians, men can conceive and bring into being a Republic like the United States. Woman is to implant the faith, man is to cause the Nation's faith to show itself in works. More and more these duties overlap, but they cannot become interchangeable while sex continues to divide the race into the two halves of what should become a perfect whole. Woman Suffrage aims to sweep away this natural distinction, and make humanity a mass of individuals with an indiscriminate sphere. The attack is now bold and now subtle, now malicious and now mistaken; but it is at all times an attack." She also notes how communism and socialism call for the destruction of the family and that's a major force in driving the suffragist movement. She notes how aristocratic elements also support suffrage. In a 1913 postscript to the book she explains how the destructive forces of the movement have progressed around the world.

Gender equality has now morphed into depraved gender confusion and pedophilia. Both are forms of psychosis and child abuse. The fact that a large portion of the US supports these things means that a large portion of the US has become depraved, psychotic, and abusive. Women's sports were created so that women could do sports, because they can't beat men. Now men calling themselves women are taking over women's sports.

Philosophically this is supported by social construct theory. The basic idea is that if people agree to think a certain thing then that thing is true. It's a type of magic. Of course, it doesn't work. It's a confusion of the symbol and the referent that it refers to. We can agree to start calling tables elephants and elephants tables. That would work fine because the symbol, in this case a word, is socially constructed. We just need to agree to it and both understand it, and it works. However, if we think that calling a table an elephant actually makes the table into an elephant, then we are having a psychotic break with reality.

This is how people can be confused about their gender. This is how someone can be delusional enough to be pro-trans and pro-Palestinian at the same time, even though Islam is anti-trans. Queers and Muslims are both against the United States, so the only thing that unites them is the idea that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. When the Muslims can get more control in areas they'll be able to wipe out the queers. It's the same with feminists and Muslims. These are incompatible ideas, so if someone supports both of them they are delusional in some way. This is obvious in the case of feminists who are pro-trans. It's women saying they support men taking over and beating women in women's sports. So it's women who say they are for women who are for men against women. It's insane. The transgender movement is essentially a self-harm movement.

Social construct theory is how you end up with the delusion of vegan cats and dogs. People start to pretend that pretending is real, that make-belief is true. This is how insanity leads to things like, "Words are violence." Then the propaganda machine spins up and spreads the delusion. It can spread like a contagion and result in mass delusion.

Once people have been deluded into thinking that words are violence then free speech isn't possible. Anyone can assault or kill anyone for anything they say. Promoting the idea that words are violence is calling for the end of freedom and the start of violence leading to totalitarianism. It eliminates the possibility of discussion and debate, and only leaves one option for resolving any disputes, actual violence.

These types of ideas of social justice actually mean revenge. That's the driving force, the motivation. Something bad has happened in the past, so in the name of social justice they will do something bad now. This idea of grand revenge is the same motivation as school shooters. It's the same motivation as Cain in 'Cain and Able'. Cain takes out his revenge on Able, but his real motivation is that he wanted approval from God and didn't get it, so by killing Able he took revenge on God. School shooters want revenge against God, or the universe for their existence, or society, so they destroy something that God and society likes to cause pain. It's the destruction of the good for being good.

Joost Meerloo was a Dutch psychiatrist that survived the Nazi occupation in World War 2. He talks in his books about delusion and mass delusion. He also talks about suicide and mass suicide, and how WW2 was a type of mass suicide delusion. He talks about how to break someone in interrogations. Everyone breaks. There are different ways to do brainwashing, but one of the most straightforward works well, which is pressure and repetition. We see this combined with propaganda in mass scale too. Covid is a great example. First, huge pressure and repetition that Covid is going to kill everyone. Then, huge pressure and repetition to isolate, shut down businesses, go on house arrest, avoid people, turn in neighbors and friends for violations. Then, huge pressure and repetition that the experimental vaccines are "Safe and effective.", when they were very clearly neither. These open lies work over and over, partly because people have been trained to conform to authority their entire lives. He has a great chapter in his book 'Rape of the Mind' explaining how schools destroy student's minds.

This idea that the sky is falling and everyone is going to die works over and over again. Global warming and climate change are great examples. The leaders of the movement say that all of the ice is going to melt, all of the coasts all over the world are going to flood, they fly on private jets to fancy resorts to have secret meetings with fancy clothes and fancy dinners, they get people to donate money to charities to help somehow, they tell other people to not use planes or cars, then they use all of the money they were given to buy ocean front homes for themselves. It's a scam. And it works. And it will continue to work. These aren't even good theoretical problems, much less practical problems. If all of the ice melted then there would be a lot more useable land that's currently covered in snow in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Russia, etc. They say to stop producing CO2. To do this it means humans would have to stop breathing. For the true believers that aren't scammers, it's a death cult. If we have more CO2 we have more plants. That's not ruining the planet. But, people believe it.

Since these fake problems are pushed to heavily by media propaganda the real problems often go unnoticed even though they are so prominent. In his 1961 farewell address President Eisenhower warned about the military-industrial complex having influence on and control of the government. It could be called the military-industrial-congressional complex. There's a movie called 'War Dogs' about how easy it is to get into making money off of war.

He's not the only one to point out the corruption in the American military industry. One of the most highly decorated US Marines in history is Major General Smedley Butler. He fought in wars all over the world. He won the Medal of Honor twice. He wrote a book in 1935 called 'War is a Racket'. He explains how war is usually motivated by corruption and how to fix it. We haven't fixed it.

US Army Colonel David Hackworth is one of the most decorated soldiers in US history. The Purple Heart is an award for being wounded in battle, he has eight of them. He's written in his books about how horribly the US military operates, largely because of US politics. He didn't like it so much that he moved out of the United States for a few years. In his book 'Hazardous Duty' he also offers suggestions on how to fix some things. We haven't done those either. Remember how this ties in with propaganda. There's a movie called 'Wag the Dog' about how propaganda about wars can start wars.

It's so ridiculous at this point the US funds both sides of most wars. A lot of that funding is done through USAID, the United States Agency for International Development. Essentially a giant money laundering scheme, much of it done through NGOs, Non-Governmental Organizations, which are essentially government organizations that can hide things and say they aren't the government. DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, uncovered a lot of fraud in US funding. Trillions of dollars are missing. No one cares.

The 1960s were detrimental to the US psychologically. Just the assassinations alone were deeply traumatic. JFK was assassinated in 1963. Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965. Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were both assassinated in 1968. These were all martyrs, killed for beliefs that they wouldn't yield on. It's often considered that the people of that generation went crazy because of all of the drugs that they did, and that may be somewhat true. However, the loss of hope and the futility felt with these assassinations was more powerful. Carl Richter showed in his 1957 paper 'On the Phenomenon of Sudden Death in Animals and Man' that hope is necessary to put forth enough effort to live. Without hope there is only death.

The Charlie Kirk assassination is the only one since 1968 that has had the same impact as a martyr dying for righteous belief. His assassination was the strongest argument against his main idea, that people in the United States can talk and have debates about ideas without resorting to violence.

Affirmative action also started in the 1960s, which calls for race quotas. So the dream of a society that didn't judge on race died with the start of those race quotas. That morphed into DEI, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Which is part of intersectionality, meaning the larger number of oppressed groups you can be a part of then the more benefits you should get. This is the idea of handicapping the successful for being successful. This is sold as fairness and equality. For instance, Title IX says there can't be gender discrimination in federally funded schools in the US. This sounds good. However, it says men and women are the same, which they aren't. So it's a little delusional, and in the end is largely supported by a destructive tendency. Men are successful, destroy men. White people are successful, destroy white people. Straight people are successful, destroy straight people. Families are successful, destroy families. This can be applied to groups and to individuals. It's a type of jealousy and resentment. The same type of motivation as school shooters and Cain in killing Able. Kurt Vonnegut wrote a short story about a dystopia of handicapping people called 'Harrison Bergeron' in 1961. Half of the United States would now support that oppressive and totalitarian governmental control.

Many people have proposed that ancient Rome went insane because of poisoning from lead pipes, and that's part of the problem in the US too. And it is. There are lead pipes, there is PFAS, there are massive amounts of drugs including hormones put into the water system, there are pesticides sprayed on crops, and crops that are genetically modified to produce pesticides, which are poisons, directly from within the plant. The food industry is corrupt and has paid for corrupt studies from universities and captured regulatory agencies in the government to make corrupt food in schools and corrupt food pyramids to damage the health of the people.

Muslims have now taken over multiple cities in the US, including multiple cities just in the state of Michigan, where they blast the call to pray over loud speakers five times per day. Christianity becomes weakened by secularism, and that's ripe fruit for the taking by Islam. It's a paradox of tolerance that there's no obvious answer for. The answer would have been to be careful with immigration in the past. John Locke points out that Muslims are dangerous to non-Muslim nations, as does history itself. Ideally the immigration process to the US would be easier and cheaper, but the people that come in would have to actually support American values, ideals, and the Constitution.

Before the Hart-Celler Act in 1965 the US chose which people from which countries it wanted to have as immigrants. This means the US could chose people that would integrate into the US culture. People that had American ideals. People that could and wanted to support the US Constitution. After the Hart-Celler Act this started to reverse. The US started importing people that hate the US, hate American values, and hate the US Constitution.

In the US government both parties are often part of the corruption, so it functions more like a one party government with two fake rivals that are sometimes real rivals. This is similar to kayfabe in big time wrestling, where things are somewhat fake and somewhat real at the same time. The Republicans are corrupt, and the Democrats are evil. For instance, neither party will release the Epstein files.

The politicians hide things in massive laws. In paper 62 of 'The Federalist Papers' James Madison says, "It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulged, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is to day can guess what it will be to morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?" The laws in the US are so massive that no one can possibly even know a decent summary of them all, and they change so often that no one can keep up. Even lawyers and judges can't know or keep up. This breaks the rule of law.

The suicide rate in the US among kids has been growing. This is correlated with social media and connects with the insights of John B. Calhoun. The psychiatrist and philosopher Viktor Frankl also talks in his books about the loss of meaning in life and how this leads to suicide. When a society has lost its traditions people look elsewhere for meaning. Conformity looks like it will work, but it doesn't. So people need to find a personal meaning in creating something, experiencing something, encountering someone, or changing their attitude toward the things they can't change. The society has failed at being able to discover this personal meaning on a large scale.

There's an interesting set of book titles that sheds some light on what has happened. 'The Closing of the American Mind' by Allan Bloom came out in 1987, 'The Coddling of the American Mind' by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt came out in 2018, and 'The Canceling of the American Mind' by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott came out in 2023. You could say that what's been lost has been the American mind, which has been closed, then coddled, and then canceled.

There's always a yearning for justice in society. And since perfect justice can't be achieved, and the things we're looking at and talking about here are specifically against justice, then people push back against that injustice. The Founding Fathers recognized this truth. In 'Federalist 51' James Madison states, "Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit."

Religious belief has been eroded in the United States, and that's an issue the Founding Fathers would recognize as well. George Washington said in his 1796 farewell address, "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports." In a letter to the Massachusetts Militia on 11 October 1798 John Adams stated, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." The Virginia Declaration of Rights, written by the Godfather of the Bill of Rights, George Mason, reads, "Section 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other."

John Locke was an important philosophical influence on the Founding Fathers in forming the United States. In his 1689 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding' he says, "Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all."

Many people in the US feel lonely and powerless. Psychologist Erich Fromm points out in his 1941 book 'Escape from Freedom' that when people feel alone and powerless they react in bad ways. People become authoritarian or submissive, they become conforming, they become destructive, they withdraw from the world, or they inflate their ego. These are on display in massive form. Covid is a great example of dominance, submission, conformity, withdrawal, and ego. The BLM, Black Lives Matter, riots are a great example of destruction.

The psychologist Albert Bandura has written about the eight ways that humans naturally morally disengage: moral justification, sanitizing language, exonerative social comparison, diffusion of responsibility, displacement of responsibility, minimizing the injurious effects, attribution of blame, and dehumanizing. Propaganda and social media enhance all of these. There's a specific gaslighting strategy that you can see play out in the US media everyday called DARVO: deny, attack, reverse victim and offender. This is a system of mass moral disengagement. "Accusation in a mirror" is also purposefully used, to accuse the other person or group of what you're guilty of. Sometimes it's used unintentionally as psychological projection.

All of these seek to make crimes okay or even good. Now the US has massive catch and release programs with criminals. They are continually released to commit more and worse crimes. This even happens with rape and murder. The murder of Iryna Zarutska is a good example, and it's notable how the media worked to cover it up.

The US is obviously headed toward bankruptcy. Billionaire Ray Dalio has been warning about it for years. The US chose to take its economic philosophy from Maynard Keynes, which says the economy can always be saved by pumping in more money. This obviously leads to massive inflation and the unaffordability of everything from houses to cars to food. This greatly expands each time there's emergency debt taken on by the US to fund some emergency such as a war or a recession. It's like trying to get out of a hole by digging deeper. There are government backed mortgages and government backed student debt. This creates massive disasters in these industries. It inflates and distorts the market. It helps some politicians get elected and some people make fortunes, but it destroys the society in the process. Of course that's later, so the people that made the disaster don't care.

Also, almost no one in the US farms, so the food supply is very fragile.

There have been some notably famous examples of people trying to withdraw from society and being targeted by the government for it, which has led to string of very bad things. There was the entrapment and then killings at Ruby Ridge by the ATF and FBI in 1992. Then, to draw attention away from that, in 1993 the ATF and FBI killed a bunch of kids at a religious group in Waco, Texas. Because of those two incidents, in 1995 Timothy McVeigh did the Oklahoma City bombing. That bombing was part of the inspiration for the Columbine High School shooting massacre in 1999. That has had many copycat school shootings since.

Sometimes in the US it's the government attacking itself and blaming it on someone else. For instance, the January 6 United States Capitol attack in 2021 had hundreds of people working undercover for the FBI in on it. In 1962 the Department of Defense and the CIA planned Operation Northwoods to carry out attacks against the US as a false flag to start a war with Cuba. JFK rejected the proposal. The CIA carried out MKUltra to experiment on people with drugs, brainwashing, mind control, abuse, and torture, without telling them they were being experimented on, like the government is the scientist and the people are the mice. They did Project Bluebird and Project Artichoke to see if they could hypnotize people to carry out assassinations. There were odd experiments by psychologist Henry Murray at Harvard that may have helped make Ted Kaczynski into the Unabomber. Project 112 was a series of biological and weapons tests conducted covertly on the public at bus stops and in subways. Other weapons experiments on the US people by the US government include Operation Sea-Spray and Operation LAC. 

These are just the things the government is willing to admit and release publicly. Imagine what is considered classified. Imagine what they are doing now.

On March 8 and May 23, 1977 there is a report titled, 'Biological Testing Involving Human Subjects' by The Department of Defense. The subtitle is, 'Hearings before the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources United States Senate Ninety-Fifth Congress First Session on Examination of Serious Deficiencies in the Defense Departments Efforts to Protect the Human Subjects of Drug Research'. It lists hundreds of chemical, biological, and radiological weapons experiments the government carried out, including on the public. And that was just for a small period of time. It would be foolish to assume they slowed down since, they just haven't told the public what they're doing anymore.

In 1994 the United States General Accounting Office gave testimony before the Legislation and National Security Subcommittee, Committee on Government Operations, and House of Representatives on 'Human Experimentation An Overview on Cold War Era Programs', a statement by Frank C. Conahan, Assistant Comptroller General, National Security and International Affairs Division. They admit hundreds of thousands of US troops were exposed to radiation in experiments, and that 80 organizations were involved with MKUltra.

The federal government has control of things like that, and basically anything else that it wants to have control over. They took a lot of central control from the Commerce Clause in the US Constitution, which should only apply to the trading of goods over state lines. The US Supreme Court has ruled in a series of cases that the federal government can control anything it wants. This breaks the US system of local government authority, especially the US emphasis on state rights. The landmark case that is in obvious violation of the US Constitution is Wickard v. Filburn in 1942. The guy wasn't trading wheat across state lines, which is when the Commerce Clause would actually kick in. He wasn't even trading it in the state. He was growing extra wheat on his farm for his own use. The government decided the government controls that. So, everything you do, even on your own property, can be controlled by the federal government any time they decide to. That's a massive centralization of power and destroys the idea of the federal structure of checks and balances between levels of government that the United States was founded upon.

Zoning has also had a weird impact on the US owing to a probably corrupt Supreme Court ruling in Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co. in 1926. The US probably would've been better if the Supreme Court hadn't overruled the federal circuit court judge. It's at this same time that Herbert Hoover as the Secretary of Commerce starts the growth of the administrative state, which grows into the deep state.

Power is a function of dependency. To help centralize power the government has centralized a lot of the finances, so that villages, townships, cities, and counties get money from the state, and the state gets money from the feds. Then, if anyone isn't doing what they are told, the money can be shut off as a punishment. The grant industry of central government dependency in the US is huge.

This idea of central control is growing with the use of technology. Obviously the US government uses large tech companies to spy on massive numbers of people, and even does this openly. Now it's looking at technology to monitor everyone with everything they do so that government will be able to control people on a mass scale never seen before in history. Hannah Arendt made the case that the totalitarian governments of the early 1900s were the first new type of political system invented since ancient Greece. Advanced technology will allow totalitarianism to come to full fruition.

With big business and government tied together in a type of crony capitalism designed to destroy market capitalism, we see the damage in industries like healthcare and education from LBJs Great Society movement of the 1960s, business starts to become less about business and more about politics. This is the idea of "Too big to fail". Essentially, the government can use current or future taxpayer money from taxes or debt and inflation to give money to businesses. You can see how this corporatism works both ways, an unholy alliance of big business and government. For generations now many of the smartest people coming out of college realize that this is the way to make large portions of money with limited risk. Instead of building a big business with a good product and good customer service, you can work on the political side of things. Get government contracts, get government grants, get government bailouts. This type of society produces fewer entrepreneurs solving problems, which is what the US was built on, and more politicians pretending to be business people leaching off of the public that pays in taxes and inflation.

When Trump was elected President in 2016 Hillary Clinton called the election into question and the "Not my President" movement started against Trump. Elections are a type of revolution. The peaceful turnover of power from one controlling government power to another is a unique thing in human history. Normally change occurs through war. So the US has been doing well over its history of peaceful changes of power. The large campaign saying Trump wasn't the real President is essentially a declaration of civil war with two opposing governments. That didn't materialize, but there was a reaction against it by the other side in the next election. It's not obvious that escalation will stop. Then there probably was large election fraud when Biden was elected President with noticeable dementia in 2020. Without faith in elections there is no peaceful option open for the exchange of power, it will logically result in either war or the splitting of the United States into pieces at some point, possibly both.

What can be done and where can we get hope? We need healthy people. As Juvenal says, "You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body." A convention of states based on Article 5 in the Constitution to put in congressional term limits, and that congress people can't rerun for office if the budget isn't balanced, would help a lot. Implement Butler's and Hackworth's recommendations to limit the mess of US wars and the military-industrial-congressional complex. Ban countries and companies controlled by foreign countries from owning things in the US like farmland, sports teams, media companies, and schools. Limit immigration to people that like American ideals and the Constitution. Make drug companies liable for damages, actually liable. Make it illegal for the same people to jump back and forth between working for regulatory agencies and the companies they regulate to reduce regulatory capture. Block propaganda ads, such as from big pharma. Ban all political donations from anyone and everyone representing the interests of foreign countries. Disband federal control of public schools and give control back to the local school districts by ending the Department of Education. Let locals actually be in charge and allow differences in schools. Repeal the 16th Amendment. Repeal the 17th Amendment. End the Fed. The people need to value health, family, virtue, religion, private property, charity, stopping government welfare, stopping corruption, and stopping immigration hostile to the United States. 

How do you heal from 1,000 cuts? Stop cutting, be healthy and heal. How do you stop enemies foreign and domestic? Stop funding them, find them guilty of crimes, and lock them up. The question is, are the American people strong enough to do these things?

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