How, and Why, to Save America
America, our once glorious Republic, seems to be circling the drain, on its' declining way to join history's other failed republics. The stakes in this moment are astronomical; either continue on this decline and end up in some form of enslaved dictatorship. Or reverse course, and we can gather the tools to actually build our own golden age.
There is a way out of this trap, but the first step is for us to think our way out of it. If we must also fight our way out of it, either culturally, politically, or militarily, none of those efforts will succeed if we have not first thought out way out of it. Moreover, if we do think our way out of this trap, we might not have to do any other real fighting. This plan offers that way to think our way out of American decline and stand a real chance at a golden future.
Before we can understand and implement the plan to save America, we must first examine the process which has brought us to this desperate moment in history, a moment where America obviously needs saving. Since the decline and near fall of the American Republic is a large, multifaceted story, it will be best to start at the beginning and look at it one step at a time. Once we have looked at what was done to us, it will be much easier to comprehend what a precious treasure we are losing, and how (and why) we can revive our dying treasure of Liberty. In overly broad strokes, (in depth analysis on each of the major subjects will be linked as appropriate) the narrative of America's decline goes like this.
The first dysfunction in our republic was when we did not wholeheartedly embrace the “all” part of liberty and justice for all. No link is needed to prove this. While this has been a debilitating and shameful problem, it did not prevent many positive aspects of Liberty from manifesting in our public life. In fact, the ongoing efforts of many people to overcome this flaw have been some of the most inspiring chapters in our national story. When we get to the section of this essay dealing with remedies, the first stipulation will be that we must sincerely commit to that “all” part this time around, or nothing else can possibly work.
The second major dysfunction (there were only two) was caused by the advent of the telegraph in 1844. This electronic communication medium became the means by which the wealthy gained effective control of the free press, a problem the founders of our nation had not anticipated. They reasoned that if the national government could not make any law prohibiting a free press then the press would, as a whole, remain free. Because of the resulting competitive marketplace of ideas, the truth would always find its way to the minds of the people.
With the coming of the telegraph, some few wealthy newspaper owners could lay telegraph lines from city to city, for instance between Washington and New York. This gave them such a competitive advantage (vital news of legislative actions days before any other newspaper) that their circulation swelled. Then they could sell more advertising, which allowed them to charge less for the daily paper. More current news, and more of it, for a penny a copy versus older news, and less of it, for ten cents a copy. The reading public made the obvious choice and the Penney Newspapers soon dominated the market.
Most of the papers that survived that market shakeout were either owned by rich people (therefore advocating for their interests) or were dependent on wire services the newspapers subscribed to, which sent to them telegraphed news reports. This resulted in very few points of view in newspapers coast to coast. Additionally, almost all the newspapers had to sell advertising to compete, so they became dependent on advertising which meant they all tended to defend the interests of the wealthy.
Consequently the press, while free of governmental controls, had ceased, by approximately 1880, being a loyal watchdog for the people's interests. Curiously, the press never bothered informing the people of this fact. This hidden dysfunction then enabled all the usurpations and abuses which followed, because the free press no longer worked to identify threats to the people's Liberty, nor to explain to the people why such threats were important.
A long train of abuses and usurpations followed, each one symbiotically contributing to a cultural decline which paved the way for the next abuse or usurpation. There were three major usurpations, with a number of minor ones, which totally changed our form of government over the course of eight decades without the people even realizing it. The first of these major usurpations was the proclamation of corporate personhood, by the Supreme Court, in 1886. (Santa Clara County v Southern Pacific Railroad, 118 US 394)
The concept of corporate personhood paved the way for the monopoly and trust era of American business, also known as the Robber Barron or Gilded Age. That was because when corporations gained the status of persons, that status was used as a pretext to give them the protections guaranteed to persons under the 14th Amendment. Thus, almost all state level regulation of corporations became unconstitutional. In that way, the powers of economic self government were usurped from our communities. Read about this change here. Sorry, these blog links are not live (I can't figure out how to make them live), so copy and paste to your browser, or just highlight and hit go to link, or whatever works for you. But these links do fill in vital information.
https://lifeinafascistcountry.blogspot.com/2025/02/corporate-personhood.html
With suddenly unbridled corporations (and heretofore unheard of interstate corporations !) running roughshod over the people, and state governments no longer having the powers to protect their citizens from corporate abuse, the people began to feel local and state governments to be incompetent, and therefore feel a need for the federal government to protect them. This is the first instance of one usurpation perverting the culture and paving the way for another series of abuses and usurpations.
The popular demand for federal intervention resulted in the Progressive Era, which gave us all sorts of minor abuses and usurpations, such as the Food and Drug Act of 1905, the Federal Reserve, the IRS, direct election of senators, and prohibition of alcohol. The only undeniably good change to come out of that era was women's suffrage.
The worst aspect of the Progressive era was the adoption of a generally elitist attitude on the part of the federal government and its bureaucracies. With the bias toward the powerful in the press, and the advent of corporate dominance, it was reasoned (by leaders like Walter Lippmann and Woodrow Wilson) that the common person was no longer capable of understanding the complexities of modern government.
In fact, they were essentially correct, but not for the reasons they thought. With the transfer of powers from the local to the federal governments, the issues, and how they were framed and decided, evolved into something the ordinary person, in the small town or local neighborhood, could not understand. Affairs of state are beyond their ken when those affairs are conducted at such a distance and on such a scale. Montesquieu, Jefferson, De Toqueville and Chesterton all warned about this problem.
It is not that the people had suddenly become brainless scarecrows, but that it is only when real issues of government are decided locally that the common person can feel competence and mastery in dealing with them. By removing the powers of government from local hands, in response to the ravages caused by corporations being seen as persons, the most basic dynamic of democracy was scuttled, the former active citizens becoming mere subjects. The resulting apathy frustrated would be reformers, like the young Walter Lippmann, which eventually caused him to despair of democracy altogether.
Therefore, the anointed ones reasoned, the decisions of government should be handed over to trained experts who would administer government and better defend the interests of the masses than the people could themselves. This view was enthusiastically embraced by leaders and the now empowered federal bureaucrats. It was equally embraced by most journalists, who now saw their mission changed, from one of informing a self governing citizenry, to one of manufacturing consent (for the people's own good) among an increasingly ignorant, supine and sheep like populace. Again, usurpations changed the culture into one more accepting of even more usurpations
With all the progressive changes in force, and corporate personhood still unnoticed and unchallenged, the whole structure came crashing down in the Great Depression of 1929-1941. Predictably, since the press was increasingly the monopolized tool of the wealthy, ending corporate personhood was never even considered as a solution to economic woes. Rather, in a series of unconstitutional and illegal moves, FDR used the economic crisis to run a fascist coup from 1933 to 1937. This second major usurpation of powers from the states and localities to the federal government took almost all the powers, and responsibilities of social self government from the people.
https://lifeinafascistcountry.blogspot.com/2025/02/fdr-was-fascistic-traitor.html
Among those changes, Social Security, which FDR first established in a popular political move to win the 1936 election, had a much more detrimental effect on our culture than is generally recognized. Here is a link that will explain how.
https://lifeinafascistcountry.blogspot.com/2025/02/social-security.html
With all these usurpations and abuses hidden from our minds by a treasonous free press, and those engines of cultural destruction operating at full throttle, the changes were consolidated in our minds as we endured the remainder of the Great Depression and came through World War 2. At the end of that war we emerged as a nation completely different than the one the people thought they had. Since we still had elections and the other trappings of democracy, no one noticed. What's more, since we had just triumphed in the biggest war ever waged, we assumed our system was functioning well, especially since the still trusted (but secretly corrupted) media was not telling us any different. Usurpations had mutilated the culture, laying the groundwork for even more usurpations and abuses.
Shortly after the end of World War 2, the last of the major usurpations was affected, which was the taking of the powers of moral self government from we, the people, in our communities. This was done by a Supreme Court ruling, (Everson v Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1) in 1947 wherein the Court opined at length that the 1st Amendment was suddenly seen as contained within the 14th Amendment, because of its' requirement that all privileges and immunities must apply to all citizens. Suddenly the idea of a separation of church and state was to be applied to the states, as was a prohibition on any kind of restriction on speech or press.
The people weren't informed about these changes until thirteen years later (that pesky corporate controlled press again) when it was suddenly sprung on us to throw prayer out of schools in the early 1960's. While this monumental change was generally accepted, with only small whimpers of objection, it amounted to yet another usurpation of power from the states and localities to the federal government. This time they took from us the powers of moral self government. This usurpation amounted to a uniquely perfect crime, because the victims of this crime consider themselves to be its beneficiaries. Read in detail how this change was affected, and why it is so destructive to American free self government.
https://lifeinafascistcountry.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-first-amendment-was-stolen.html
Let's review what has been done to us politically, and how it has warped us culturally. In a process that stretched from 1886 to 1963, with a treasonous free press keeping it all quiet, the powers of economic, social, and moral self government were taken from we, the people, in our communities. This has greatly changed the dynamics of political power in our nation, transforming it from a locally self governing republic into something more akin to a continental size fascist oligarchy. Far worse, in making these changes, in removing actual self government from us as citizens of communities, it has almost completely killed the most important dynamic of Liberty, the one thing that made our republic work well when it did work well. That forgotten blessing of Liberty is the fervent, morality inducing, consciousness of self government living in the hearts of a free people.
The dire philosophical consequence of these changes becomes clear when we resort to the thoughts of the esteemed Thomas Jefferson, recorded in a couple of private letters to friends.
“Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens, and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite the public agents to corruption, plunder, and waste. And I do verily believe, that if the principle were to prevail, of a common law being in force in the United States…, it would become the most corrupt government on the earth…” This is from a letter to Gideon Granger, 1800.4.
In the same vein in another letter to William T. Barry, 1822, Jefferson wrote:
“If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.”5.
Perhaps in echo to Jefferson, another great student of democratic republican government laid out his thoughts. In Democracy in America, Alexis DeTocqueville wrote:
“However, the strength of free peoples resides in the local community. Local institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they put it within the people’s reach, they teach people to appreciate its peaceful enjoyment and accustom them to make use of it. Without local institutions a nation may give itself a free government, but it has not got the spirit of liberty. Passing passions, momentary interest, or chance circumstances may give it the external shape of independence, but the despotic tendencies which have been driven into the interior of the body social will sooner or later break out on the surface.”6.
DeToqueville is obliquely referring to what can be thought of as the greatest blessing of liberty, which is the kind of moralizing synergy that a system of Local Community Moral Self Government tends to generate. As the founders noted, and warned, it requires a moral citizenry to maintain our system free self government. The other side of that coin, the corollary, is also vitally true. Only a truly free and self governing people living in that system of LCMSG tends to realize and resonate with the reasons to be moral.
That almost completely lost and forgotten dynamic is that when people are truly free and self governing (and that can happen only in local community) the very fact of their self governance sets in motion a positive synergy which tends to produce a moral, aroused citizenry. There will be more on this subject in the post about LCMSG. At this point it will just be noted that as we, as a nation, have lost that vital moralizing synergy, the problems of immorality have come to loom ever larger.
The cultural decline that has resulted from this long train of usurpations and abuses has brought us to this point where America is poised on a cliff of doom and ruin. We are caught in a negative, downward spiraling synergy of a declining morality leading to more authoritarian government which leads to even more moral decline which leads to even more authoritarian government. The way out of this downward spiral is to refound out republic on the same sound basis of Local Community Moral Self Government that we used the first time.
Consider the following prediction from Alexis DeTocqueville published in 1835.
DeTocqueville's Warning
“Thus, I think that the type of oppression threatening democracy will not be like anything there has been in the world before; our contemporaries would not be able to find any example of it in their memories. I, too, am having difficulty finding a word which will exactly convey the whole idea I have formed; the old words despotism and tyranny are not suitable. This is a new phenomenon which I must, therefore, attempt to define since I can find no name for it.
I wish to imagine under what new features despotism might appear in the world: I see an innumerable crowd of men, all alike and equal, turned in upon themselves in a restless search for those petty, vulgar pleasures with which they fill their souls. Each of them, living apart, is almost unaware of the destiny of all the rest. His children and personal friends are for him the whole of the human race; as for the remainder of his fellow citizens, he stands alongside them but does not see them;, he touches them without feeling them; he exists only in himself and for himself; if he still retains his family circle, at any rate he may be said to have lost his country.
Above these men stands an immense and protective power which alone is responsible for looking after their enjoyments and watching over their destiny. It is absolute, meticulous, ordered, provident, and kindly disposed. It would be like a fatherly authority, if, father like, its aim were to prepare men for manhood, but it seeks only to keep them in perpetual childhood; it prefers its citizens to enjoy themselves provided they have only enjoyment in mind. It works readily for their happiness but it wishes to be the only provider and judge of it. It provides their security, anticipates and guarantees their needs, supplies their pleasures, directs their principal concerns, manages their industry, regulates their estates, divides their inheritances. Why can it not remove from them entirely the bother of thinking and the troubles of life?
Thus, it reduces daily the value and frequency of the exercise of free choice; it restricts the activity of free will within a narrower range and gradually removes autonomy itself from each citizen. Equality has prepared men for all this, inclining them to tolerate all these things and often even to see them as a blessing.
Thus, the ruling power, having taken each citizen one by one into its powerful grasp and having molded him to its own liking, spreads it arms over the whole of society, covering the surface of social life with a network of petty, complicated, detailed, and uniform rules through which even the most original minds and the most energetic spirits cannot reach the light in order to rise above the crowd. It does not break men’s wills but it does soften, bend, and control them; rarely does it force men to act but it constantly opposes what actions they perform; it does not destroy the start of anything but it stands in its way; it does not tyrannize but it inhibits, represses, drains, snuffs out, dulls so much effort that finally it reduces each nation to nothing more than a flock of timid and hardworking animals with the government as shepherd.”5.
The society DeTocqueville describes seems to be the one in which we find ourselves. The assertion here is that this woeful state of affairs is the direct and inevitable outgrowth of the three major usurpations of the powers of economic, social, and moral self-determination (especially the moral) from our communities, These usurpations have resulted in an atomized, unworkable definition of liberty being imposed on us. This atomized, alienated, powerless mindset of the modern American must be contrasted with the involved, connected, and sincere citizen that used to be the norm in America, and would (it is here asserted) tend to be produced if these powers of self-government were restored to the states and localities.
Before going into the remedies to our problems, which is a feasible plan to restore our republic to its original architecture, it must be emphasized that such a refounding must start by thoroughly rejecting our first major dysfunction, which is racism. Additionally, there is a way to use the electronic media to overcome the second dysfunction , which was the corruption of the press by big business interests. We can't, however, get ahead of our narrative, so let us first consider what kind of society we can expect to live in if we restore to ourselves proper constitutional order.
https://lifeinafascistcountry.blogspot.com/2025/02/lcmsg.html
With that picture of LCMSG firmly planted in our minds, we begin to form an answer to the question of, “Why save America?” The answer is because Liberty, on the American plan is what will transform us into the kind of people, and citizenry, who can rise above all challenges, and actually find our way to a better world. However, before we jump into the final section of this treatise, that of how to make the changes required to refound our Republic, one more detour to another linked essay is called for, this one to further motivate us about the “why” of LCMSG. We will now examine the usually ignored and unnoticed perils of elitism. This because it is elitism which is the beating dark heart of all the other forms of government, from Marxism to socialism to monarchy to aristocracy to oligarchy to plain old fashioned dictatorship. Some form of elitism is what we will be stuck with if we don't get back to Liberty. We should comprehend how inherently evil that dynamic is.
https://lifeinafascistcountry.blogspot.com/2025/02/elitism.html
Leaving elitism behind, hopefully, please God, forever, we can now get to the best part; how we might actually put our glorious Republic back together. The first step is to commit to doing this together, as the American people. Whether your predecessors were living on this land before Europeans got here, or they came from China yesterday. If they were from Vietnam, Congo, Brazil, India, Poland, Polynesia, Nigeria, Spain, Ireland or Mongolia. If your people came over on the Mayflower or were brought in a slave ship, or even if they got here by swimming the Rio Grande. If they, and you, came seeking the blessings of freedom, then it is time we all came together, as equal Americans, and agree to put our Republic back on the sound basis of Local Community Moral Self Government.
In all that follows, where ever you came from in search of Liberty, allow the words, thoughts and principles put forth by the American Founders become your thoughts, let them take deep root in your heart. As Benjamin Franklin warned, if we don't hang together, we will most certainly hang separately.
Refounding the American Republic
The first step in re-founding our nation is restoring the First Amendment. Legally, this will be easy to accomplish if we, the people, want to. If we are convinced that America has always been a good idea, and that this re-founding is a good idea, fixing the misuse of the First Amendment will be relatively easy. Congress can fix the Court's blunder by using a long dormant check contained in the Constitution. In Article III, Section 2, the second sentence of the second paragraph of the Constitution says;
“In all other cases before mentioned the supreme court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations, as the congress shall make.”
What this clearly means is that Congress can make exceptions to the appellate jurisdiction of the Court. Once again, it will take the people united coming to the determination that change should be made and then demanding representatives and senators act on that determination (or electing new ones). The change could then take place overnight, and the states would naturally come in to fill the vacuum, picking up the scepter of moral self-government. In that way, the issues of church and state, freedom of speech and press, and freedom of assembly would rise no further than the supreme courts of the various states. Or the Supreme Court could simply reverse the wrong headed blunder they made in Everson v Board of Education and save us the trouble.
Once we actually start to refound this nation, starting with these moral issues makes sense for two reasons. First, this initial change will be fairly easy to accomplish once the political will exists. Second, once we make these changes some of the social and political aspects of a free society will start to take organic root. As these powers devolve to the states, we will rediscover that our states provide a more accessible and conciliatory arena for our political disputes. We will be able to make laws on these subjects without making questionable presumptions on our constitutions since the states have far more latitude, fewer limits, in the making of laws than does the federal government. We are likely to find more nuanced compromises on some of the burning issues and not so easily enter into the current mode of completely disregarding the concerns of those on the other side as we work to jam our values down their throats.
What's more, on a social level, returning these moral issues to the states will reinvigorate a couple of social institutions of a free society. First will be the kind of civic societies we used to have. We could expect, in a nation that had restored the powers of moral self-government to the states and localities, for these civic societies, clubs and organizations to arise and function to keep tabs on what locals and other places are doing and organize to defend folks from fanatic extremism.
Additionally, as the cultural outlines of the newly re-founded nation become clear, we will probably enter into a time of folks relocating to live in communities within which they find a better personal fit. Even though this process of moving to some better place will probably never end (it goes on today), since new generations with new desires for life continue to be born, after a while it will slow down. In the end, almost by definition, we will be in a nation with more harmony, certainly between neighbors in community and probably between communities. There will simply be much less to fight about.
Even further, by allowing stark cultural differences between communities and allowing individuals to migrate between them, we will cause the idea of “the consent of the governed,” to gain some real traction in the hearts and minds of the people. We will thereby greatly increase the legitimacy and hence stability of government. This renewed sense of the legitimacy of government will grow organically because we will all have much more of a hand in our own governance and not be stuck merely accepting what was done by those in the past. We, as individuals, will be much more able to consent (or not) to our own governance.
The next item on the agenda of re-founding our nation will be to end corporate personhood and any affiliated, peripheral, legal doctrines which have worked to take the powers of economic self-determination away from people in their communities. This will be a more problematic change than the changes around moral self-government for a number of reasons.
First of all, since the change to corporate personhood was murkier than the twisting of the First Amendment, the remedy to the problem is not so easy to identify. Assuming, once again, that the vast majority of the people desire this change to take place, there would be a number of ways we might proceed.
For one thing, we could possibly use that same check in Article III, Section 2 quoted earlier. It gives congress power to “.... make exceptions. . .and... regulations...” to the court's appellate jurisdiction, which could be a way to return the powers of corporate chartering and regulation to the states. Another way might be by some new statute, or even some new Amendment to the Constitution, which rescinds the doctrine of corporate personhood. Whatever means we would employ, we would still want to proceed with calm deliberation and patience.
Unlike the case with the powers of moral self-government, the business world might not immediately, in a healthy way, fill the vacuum created by states once again exercising the powers of corporate regulation. A thriving economy needs a stable investment environment so any major change like this, once the concept gets accepted, should affect changes in planned phases . We will not want to recklessly destroy community benefiting businesses while we are otherwise engaged in trying to clean up the mess. In other words, the economy is a living thing and should be modified with great care and compassion.
What's more, in order to empower states and communities to once again regulate corporations, we will, as a nation, probably have to withdraw from most, if not all, of the international trade agreements we have entered into. This is because most of them, and certainly the big one, GATT, have abrogated such regulation, taking those powers away from our federal congress and even the federal courts. These agreements have handed corporate regulation over to anonymous international boards set up to adjudicate disputes in secret and whose rulings cannot be appealed. Any withdrawal from these treaties will probably require at least six months advance notice.
As we start to make this change, we can expect the voices of commerce to howl mightily that the path we are following will destroy civilization. They will fight against it like cornered wild animals. Ending corporate personhood promises to be one of the monumental battles of the ages.
When we do make these changes, however, those same economic actors will calm down, find new ways to make a profit, and learn to share in the resulting cultural benefits along with the rest of us. In other words, with enough clear eyed determination, we can actually return the powers of economic self-determination to our communities and eventually even most of the rich folks will come to appreciate it.
The third area of major reforms that must be undertaken in the re-founding of our republic is the area of all those social and related programs from the time of FDR, and the socialism that came after him, and even the mistakes from earlier Progressive era. This is a huge morass of issues that have little or no relation to each other and thus defy some kind of single remedy. Most of them have little or no constitutional basis and, even the ones which were constitutionally established, such as the IRS, or direct election of senators, violate some core principles of American governmental philosophy and should be revisited.
Confronted as we are by this huge morass, this tangled ball of spaghetti, our own Gordian knot so to speak, we must first decide how to proceed. There is a saying that the best way to eat an elephant, if one must deal with that problem, is one bite at a time. Using that logic in dealing with this Gordian knot of issues, it will be wise to proceed with a continuing resolution in Congress.
Such a resolution will require an honest listing of all the functions the federal government has taken on without having proper constitutional delegation. Along with the list, the resolution will call on Congress to either devolve each of the functions of government back to the states, propose and ratify some new amendment to the Constitution to delegate that function to the federal government, or to find some such delegation of power in the existing body or amendments of the Constitution. It must also stipulate that a finding of delegation like that must rely on an originalist, plain reading of the Constitution and not be concocted out of the penumbra or supposedly hidden meaning of old words. Additionally, we must not allow the underhanded use of either the commerce clause or the general welfare clause as a way to cover everything imaginable, in other words as a rationale for totalitarian government. It is delusional to assert that the founders meant to establish that kind of government with those words.
As each new session of congress met and took up that same resolution, the huge morass of issues will get smaller. In most cases, the remedy will consist of safely and, perhaps in a phased way, returning some function of government to the states or localities. On some few issues, we might determine that it would be better to enshrine that function at the federal level via a new constitutional amendment. Over time, we would approach unto the goal of the continuing resolution, which is to get to where the activities of the federal government comply completely with the words written in the Constitution. This would be a glorious work even if we never completed it perfectly, and a tremendous gift to bestow on our descendants.
Throughout the process of restoring LCMSG, the forces and interests which have benefited so much from us losing our free and self governing republic will ferociously fight against our every move. They will object to losing their power over us. Make no mistake, their resistance will be formidable and their arguments, while false, will be difficult for people to see through.
The first argument will be ridicule, and that will be reinforced by asserting that our modern lives and conveniences, our high tech society, are dependent on maintaining both centralized government and centralized big corporations. While that seems, at first blush, to be a strong point, on further examination it collapses.
The reason is that our high tech civilization is not really the product of either big government or big corporations, but rather it is the result of the ongoing industrial revolution. While that revolution has been greatly aided by the American Patent office, that office was established and working productively long before the era of big business or big government. In fact, a strong case can be made that big government interference with the patent office (corrupt politicians making sure that some patents are extended much longer than they should be) has inhibited our technological growth. The same case can, and is, made that big business has long had a practice of buying up patents which might cause existing products to lose customers, and hiding them away from public use.
Another strong example of the idea that it is technology, not big government or big business, which has enabled our modern advantages, is that of summer fruit being sold in our groceries during winter. A local paper made the point that this benefit is possible only because of the big GATT treaty. The response is- bananas.
That's right bananas, which also come from the tropics, and have been available for decades during our long northern winters, without those trade treaties. The reason we can now purchase mangoes, starfruit, melons, kiwifruit, and other tropical or summer delights during our winters is not because of the trade treaties, but because jet travel has become inexpensive enough to make those summer fruits affordable. Bananas ripen much more slowly, and because of that have traditionally been transported by banana boats for good profit. It was the new technology, not big government or big business or big international treaties that made summer fruits available in winter. It is the ongoing technological revolution that enables our modern lifestyles, and not the dubious benefits of either big business or big government.
The Open Media
This bring us to the major obstacle we have to overcome to get our Republic founded again. That obstacle is the second malfunction, the fact that we still have a media controlled by the big money interests. While the process of putting our Republic back together makes sense, and it should be workable, the fact is that it has no chance as long as we still have no free marketplace of ideas. With their control of the media, big tech, education, publishing and virtually any other source of information, not only can we not win the debate, the truth is we can never even get the debate started. Their control of the media is virtually total, which is how we got into this mess in the first place.
The solution to this impasse is to do what was done in Ancient Athens in time of crisis, and that is to establish a public forum so these ideas can be discussed, even if the rich and powerful don't want that discussion to take place. The way we can establish this long needed free marketplace of ideas is called the Open Media Amendment, and is explained in this last linked post
https://lifeinafascistcountry.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-open-media.html
So there we have it, the plan that explains how, and why, we can save America. The first thing we have to do is establish the Open Media by way of ratifying one new constitutional amendment. This will be the battle of the ages, which will require each of us to hold on to this revolutionary idea in the face of relentless bombardment from the worst, most effective brainwashing and indoctrination machine the world has ever known. We would be wise to not even consider entering this battle until and unless we are fully persuaded that we want to be free and self governing citizens again.
Especially when the alternative they will offer is to remain as essentially fat, tame, and docile house cats. That seems to be a good, easy, albeit boring and purposeless life, but it is a much easier life than the life of a free citizen. The only real drawback to that life as a dependent house cat of the fascist oligarchy is when it is recognized that the ultimate destination of that life is to become either a slave or a batch of taco meat. If that doesn't appeal to you, then consider taking on the role, powers and challenges of being a free citizen. Set your heart and mind to it and realize the battle begins by getting an Open Media Amendment ratified.
Once we establish the Open Media, empowering ourselves with a true public forum, the battle will be just getting started. The Open Media will not be just about reestablishing LCMSG. It can't be, because everyone will be able to bring up whatever subject they want. But those of us who want to be free again would be able to use it to that purpose. Then, every other reform detailed here could be carried out, one reform at a time. But we will have to vigorously insist on getting this agenda carried, every step of the way.
Then we could get the First Amendment back to its original use, enabling us to live much more moral lives, and to teach morality to the young in our schools. Then we could end corporate personhood, enabling us to put the corporate beast back on a short leash of community accountability. Then we could restore almost all the powers and responsibilities of government back to local control, and return our Constitution to actually meaning what it says.
With all those changes, we would almost undoubtedly transform ourselves from being passive sheeple and back into being active, engaged and moral citizens. In that mode, with all the people groups of the world together, for the first time, as free and self governing Americans, we will start to harvest the delightful fruit of Liberty. We will have much more social harmony, prosperity, understanding and peace, domestically and with the world in general.
Most importantly, with that structure of Local Community Moral Self Government revived and fully functioning, we will find that we really do, as a people, have an ever rising social and spiritual consciousness. When that is combined with an ongoing Open Media, we could feasibly be looking at the genesis of a Golden Age, in American, and probably in the whole planet. That would be the fruit of our quest for freedom, and it is much more attractive than the slave ship earth future offered by the non freedom alternatives.
In conclusion we, the people, can now proceed, informed about the steps necessary to restore our republic. What's more, let us be motivated to take on this glorious work because we now understand the great blessing American Liberty will be, once it is restored, to our souls, spirit, and culture. Now, let us consider how perfectly appropriate this revolutionary movement is by recalling some of the words from what is probably the most important political document ever written. Our founding document, the Declaration of Independence.
It starts, “When in the course of human events. . .”
Blah, blah blah. Skip some of it to get to the good parts.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: - that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; ...”
Skip some more to get to the really powerful and for our purposes, pertinent section
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security.”
This essay has revealed the long train of abuses and usurpations we have been subjected to. What's more, it is pretty clear that they “evince a design to reduce them (us) under absolute despotism.” In other words, it shows there is a conspiracy in motion to enslave us. Yes, that is undeniably what it means, and it was signed by some truly great men.
So it says we have a right and duty to throw off such government. Happily, because this is the United States of America, the alternative government we reach for after throwing this one off doesn't have to be something new and untested. Rather, we have merely to return to, refound, the architecture and dynamics of the government we were originally founded on.
It says we have a duty to make this change. This is, of course, a duty we owe first of all to ourselves, each other, and our descendants, but it goes much further than that. Since our nation is so rich and so powerful, our duty to control our government is a duty we owe to all our fellow human beings.
What’s more, our off-the-leash government has led to an off the leash commercial empire, and a totally out of control industrial revolution. That has caused a huge amount of human suffering while rendering humanity into a virtual cancer on the face of the planet. Consequently, our duty also extends to the plants and animals, nature, the planet as a whole, and even to the Creator of all nature. We have an absolute, urgent duty to get control of our government, our corporations, and the hideous technological beast they have spawned.
We thus have a right and a duty to reverse the downfall of our republic, and we now have the knowledge of how to do that, and an understanding of why it is so important.
May our Creator grant us the requisite courage, wisdom, faith, mutual regard, understanding, respect and love to answer this challenge. May God continue to bless the United States of America and grant us to once again become a blessing to the entire planet.
E Pluribus Unum
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