Tyranny crept in on little cat feet. You may have been too busy – or frightened – to have noticed what happened to our nation and to our attitudes over the past 60 years. So, ummnnh, let’s see… 2021 minus 60 years, well, that would be, ahh… 1961! All right! I got it. Don’t ask, it’s a white supremacist thing. Nineteen-sixty-one: Kennedy was president; the United States had achieved its pinnacle of average standard of living for all races and classes of people. Black families were making economic progress at a higher rate than whites. We were starting to tickle the edge of space and gearing up scientifically, technologically and educationally to defeat the Soviet Union. People everywhere respected, envied, the United States’ obviously superior political and economic system: Freedom… even Americans themselves!
There were rumblings, for sure. It was fairly obvious that Kennedy’s election was the result of vote fraud in Chicago among other cities, but particularly the Mayor Daley machine that delivered Illinois to Kennedy. Kennedy won by a “national” margin of about ONE VOTE per precinct. Nixon, to his credit, decided to not challenge or call for recounts, even in Illinois, believing that doing so would be bad for the country, a foreign concept in 2021.
Kennedy squelched the “Bay of Pigs” invasion of Communist Cuba by denying U. S. air support for the C.I.A. –trained and encouraged army of anti-Castro Cubans. It was a project hatched under Eisenhower, possibly without Eisenhower’s own awareness. An unholy alliance of the Mafia and shadowy C.I.A. operatives, the invasion was inherited by Kennedy, who was already skeptical of the latitude of operations arrogated by that secretive agency. To Kennedy’s credit, he took responsibility, publicly, for the failure of the “invasion.” It is widely perceived that the same unholy alliance that wanted to re-establish pre-Castro Cuba ultimately had Kennedy assassinated in 1963. The slide from America’s pinnacle had begun.
Lyndon Johnson, a racist, shepherded Kennedy’s Civil Rights Act through Congress, relying on substantial Republican support and widespread sympathy for Kennedy. More significantly, he acquiesced to another C.I.A. scheme in French Indo-China where, following the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in May of 1954, French colonialism in Southeast Asia ended. The U. S. had helped France fight the Viet Minh communists to no avail. Truman’s policy of “containment” of international Communism was threatened. Viet Nam was divided into North and South and U. S. “advisors” attempted to build up South Vietnam’s resistance to takeover by the North, viewing South Korea as a shining model. The C.I.A., as an armed tool of the State Department, basically set policy for America’s role, there, ultimately engineering the assassination of South Vietnam Premiere, Ngo Dinh Diem and his much disliked brother and sister-in-law.
Theories have swirled about Kennedy’s assassination being linked to his supposed desire to pull away from involvement in South Vietnam, but facts don’t support such a course. Anti-Castro Cubans, Mafia leaders and the C.I.A. are the more likely perpetrators. Once Kennedy was eliminated (There were about 16,000 American troops assisting ARVN efforts against the Viet Cong when Kennedy died.) Johnson fell for the ridiculous “Gulf of Tonkin” incident report and committed major ground forces to the Vietnam “Conflict.”
With daily broadcast of bad news from Vietnam and revelation of the “Pentagon Papers,” Americans began to lose faith in our government and our military, while the existence of a “Deep State” within our own government became apparent. Politics, and the future of the United States had become clouded.
The Press and the Democrats took down Richard Nixon. In the process they had even Republicans believing that the crimes Nixon had apparently done in covering up stupid political stuff were so threatening to our Constitutional Republic that he had to go. Maybe, but there was a lot of theatre. Numerous characters saw their careers secured by working to expose the President or working to sabotage him. Some were right… about the career part. But “the press” has never been the same. No longer are journalism majors directed to learn how to report the truth; now they all intend to change the world from their digital pulpits from which they preach about others than the God of Truth. Fake news is a mark of pride, today, if the result fulfills intention.
The loss of a free press and of free speech is a key stepping stone to tyranny. An “agenda-press” will protect crimes by people whose philosophy comforts it, while it works to erode and corrode those with whom it disagrees… truth be damned. Readers, watchers, listeners are misled through misinformation, and by the rat-a-tat-tat repetition of lies spread by philosophers the organs of information agree with. Soon whole beliefs are addled and worse philosophers and philosophies, become “mainstream.”
Public employee unionism, especially applied to the education industries, public and private, has in recent decades, gained control of teacher qualification and certification, all with 90+% leftist attitudes. Students seeking a path out of poverty, often a path away from failed families, are fully malleable by prevailing philosophies in schools of education. They all seem to want to change the world, as well. Trusting parents are trusting the wrong institutions to reinforce their philosophies of life, truth, honesty, religion and responsibility.
Since the 2000 elections the concept of government by litigation has grown beyond rational bounds. When the Supreme Court ended the charade of selective recounts in Florida the politics of hate gelled into a real means of acquiring power: first, destroy the opponent(s) personally, then destroy his or her followers and supporters. “The politics of personal destruction.” It’s not an “American” thing.
For whatever reason, Republicans posted two weak candidates in a row against Barack Hussein Obama. McCain had a shot in 2008 with Palin as V.P., but her conservatism was carefully constrained by McCain’s handlers. Then the financial crisis hit. What a fortuitous coincidence for the Obama campaign. Eight or ten key money people demanded settlement simultaneously and dominoes began to tumble. President Bush was out of his league, deferring completely to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, a product of Wall Street and Goldman Sachs. As the FED and emergency legislation started a flood of hollow dollars to bail out the very investment banks that precipitated the crisis, McCain appeared helpless while Obama remained simply concerned, saying little. Goldman Sachs got a goodly share. Others did less well, places like Lehman Brothers, and AIG, the re-insurance company. General Motors took plenty, as did Chrysler, but Ford declined.
As a result of it all, McCain lost respect, Obama got elected to “transform” the United States, and the financial system became more tightly controlled by – or integrated into – the federal government. The near-collapse was global, exposing the dangerous (to self-government) interconnectedness of banking, particularly of central banks. The ease of controlling populations is multiplied by control of their personal money and finances. Legislation that reacted to the 2006-2007-2008 banking crisis, like Dodd-Frank, define certain financial institutions as “too big to fail.” American taxpayers, indeed, American short-term financial health altogether is now tied to propping up what are essentially international institutions. The loss of financial sovereignty is a keystone to collapsing national sovereignty, the worst element of tyranny when that nation is the United States.
It should be growing clearer how seemingly unrelated events provide facilities for imposing Fascism or worse should a government be controlled by people who believe that top-down imposition is the best way to organize a nation or a people. Constitutional limitations interfere with that form of thinking. The American Constitution serves as an obstacle to global, transnational tyranny of every type, but its strength depends on leadership that agrees with its principles. The Constitution, itself, provides very limited tools to counter the political power of anti-American leadership. It is one of the contingencies of self government that the founders could not conceive of: that the electorate would be so twisted in its thinking that it would elect – and re-elect repeatedly – representatives who were decidedly UN-Constitutional, or anti-Constitutional – which is to be anti-American – in their thinking.
Obviously the effects of two or more generations of public education could sway enough voters to misunderstand their roles in self-government, and to misunderstand the roles of the institutions of government to be not defenders of individual rights and responsibilities and of private property, but rather dispensers of welfare in various forms so as to provide comfort to citizens. In order to provide that much welfare the government entities must take the money from those who have earned it and to whom it belongs. If people are constantly being taught, or encouraged to think that it’s not FAIR for some people to have more wealth, the political will to take more from “the rich” is easy to find and hard to oppose. Undreamed of debt, weakening the nation’s ability to defend itself or to perform its Constitutional duties, becomes a threat to everyone. As resources begin to fail, more government, and more tyrannical government will appear to be the only answer for literal survival of large fractions of the population.
Government types have encouraged media conglomerates to tilt, then embellish and finally create “news” that has political value and, now, actual control value of nearly the whole country. This has been the greatest “end-run” around representative government and inalienable rights, ever. A generation of Americans has been convinced that its country is so imperfect as to be indefensible. In effect, patriotism for the United States has been made negative, something espoused only by ”white supremacists” and other sorts of obvious racists. Even the U. S. flag is viewed negatively by some – those who are in agreement with Black Lives Matter, that the whole American culture, history and success must be torn asunder and replaced with communism, the direct route to tyranny. For shame.
The Biden regime openly colludes with Google, Facebook, Twitter and others to censor ideas and speech it doesn’t want heard. For the government to be involved with that corrupt and twisted role, assumed by those companies, is utterly unconstitutional, but the Congress is unable to convince itself that the political advantage those organs provide is not worth the damage to the Republic. With representatives like those, who needs tyrants? There are, potentially, institutions and limits that could be created to prevent this form of Fascism from becoming rooted, but we have yet to find the courage to create them. At the present time there are about a dozen courageous members of both houses combined, and 523 sheep who are most involved with re-election and not with the defense of America or even with citizenship. For shame.
The engineered diseases that result from COVID-19 have exposed the weak-mindedness of a large number of Americans , and the tendency toward Fascism of many of the rest, mostly government types and other authoritarians, even in private business. A supposedly “free” people has been exposed as unable to make thoughtful judgments about where personal sovereignty ends and government control begins. In the American Constitutional system the individual citizen is sovereign, relinquishing only enough freedom as to enable the “federal,” not “national” government to provide what individuals and local governments, even state governments, cannot. The system is virtually backwards, or upside-down, today. The supposedly federal government has arrogated powers to dictate everything from lightbulb design to grade-school curriculum, even the meaning of words and content of religious faith. Forcing free citizens to wear masks or receive injections of barely understood concoctions falsely called “vaccines,” while lying publicly about the nature of and origin of the latest, new, viral disease, was a relatively small step.
That same government has succeeded in dividing Americans against one another over relative rates of conformity to false premises – even to restricting everyday freedoms for failing to conform to federal “Covid” dictates. America, awake!… please.
Major corporations are in league with proto-tyrants in subverting Constitutional limitations and in subverting freedom, itself. While an individual artist baker or web designer is punished by the courts for refusing to employ his or her artistry for morally or religiously objectionable activities, airlines, sports team, employers of 100 or more and many others, are empowered to refuse service or entry to those refusing the injection of phony and proven remarkably harmful, “vaccines.” It’s how Hitler built the Wehrmacht.
“And you tell me, over and over and over again, my friends, that you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction…”