Let’s cut through the noise. Your betters are telling you that your government can tax your income, tax your property, and tax the goods and services you buy, and use your money to expand government and its control over you and make you pay for the military adventures around the world that keep the world safe for corporate power, but that your government cannot tax the multinational and transnational corporations that shipped your high-paying manufacturing jobs overseas and hollowed out your working class communities.
The globalists control the legacy media. The propaganda they pump out about tariffs—which were a major component of the American System at its inception, before progressives got control over the institutions of the American Republic—is designed to continue the managed decline of the United States. Why would they do this? They’re globalists. They don’t want an international system of cooperative free nations. They want a transnational planetary order ruled by transnational corporations and world banks.
The global oligarchy is taking the West to a post-democracy/post-freedom world neofeudalism that will increasingly resemble the People’s Republic of China in the state management of populations—a tiny class of ruling elites with a vast technocratic apparatus managing every aspect of your life and you family.
Look at what’s happening in Europe. There’s the canary in the coal mine. The corporate elite and their political functionaries have flooded Europe with barbarian hordes—the barbarian is inside the gates—who bring with them a clerical fascism that resists assimilation with Western norms and values—and the governments of those countries insist they don’t assimilate.
They’re replacing indigenous populations of Europe and fracturing the national solidarity that formed the basis of free and open society. If you object to the project, then you’re condemned as a bigot and face arrest and imprisonment. Stand up for science and you’re censored, ostracized, even jailed. The Democrats under Biden were preparing the United States for the same project, opening the southern border and flooding the country with foreigners and establishing a regime of thought control.
Trump and the populist movement is at war with globalism. Trump closed the southern border to save American communities and jobs and protect national and cultural integrity. He imposed tariffs on multinational and transnational corporates to generate external sources of revenues and force the reshoring of manufacturing to begin the long process of rebuilding our nation and staving off the sovereign debt crisis that would put us in receivership to world banks. He has partnered not with the rent-seekers but with the entrepreneurs who are producing real value by advancing the frontiers of science and technology. You would think that the American media would celebrate Trump’s pro-America agenda. But it’s not the American media. The MSM is the propaganda arm of globalism.
For those who have known me for any length of time and who had any conversations with me about this matter, you know that I have always opposed globalism. I have for decades openly criticized the associations and organizations that advance and entrench the transnationalist agenda—the Trilateral Commission, the WTO, the IMF, the EU, NAFTA, NATO, and all the rest of it.
What happened to those who used to voice my concerns? Remember Michael Moore’s documentary Roger and Me? Remember when Bernie Sanders told Americans that corporations used foreign labor to smash the organizations and drive down the wages of American workers? Remember when the producers of PBS aired the Global Assembly Line documentary? What happened?
What passes for the left today is a captured mass reorganized to promote a culture antithetical to the one that made the Untied States the greatest country on earth. The left that holds hands with the clerical fascists are functionaries of the globalists. See what you see. Hear what you hear. They call us fascists because they are. It’s all projection.
Recall one of George Orwell’s most chilling lines from Nineteen Eighty-Four. O’Brien, a key figure of the totalitarian regime, tells Winston Smith in the Ministry of Love (Miniluv in Newspeak, i.e., the Ministry of Torture): “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.” And then that last line, as chilling as the first: “He loved Big Brother.” Who loved Big Brother? Winston. They broke him.
Don’t let them break you. We’re on the road to serfdom. But that’s only one possible future. Human agency makes the future. The People have it in their power to make a different one. But they must know what’s going on. They must know what time it is.
Thomas Paine, in Common Sense (1776), wrote: “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” Paine’s goal was to dismantle the old aristocracy. The man was a fierce advocate for equality (before the law) and republicanism, viewing the aristocracy as an unjust arrangement that put privilege over merit. In Common Sense, he attacked the British monarchy and aristocracy, arguing that they oppressed people through outdated traditions and unearned power. His vision was to establish a world where governance came from the consent of the governed, not the whims of the elite. Later, in Rights of Man, he criticized aristocratic systems across Europe and championed a new order based on natural rights and reason. He saw the American Revolution as humanity’s chances to sweep away that old order.
His words resonate today. But perhaps beginning the world over again is not exactly what we seek. Since Paine’s day, a new aristocracy has displaced the republic based on natural rights and reason. We don’t need to begin the world over again as much as we need to reclaim that republic Paine and his brethren established. We need to return to those founding principles, principles rooted in Enlightenment ideals and shaped by thinkers like James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, ideals emphasizing quality, liberty, and self-governance.
At their core, these principles express the belief that all individuals possess inherent, unalienable rights—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (or property)—as articulated in the Declaration of Independence. The US Constitution further established popular sovereignty, where power derives from the People, not an aristocracy or monarch, alongside a system of checks and balances to prevent the return or rise of tyranny. Individual freedom, limited government, and the rule of law are central this vision: ensuring that government power is limited and justice applies equally. These ideas reflect a rejection of oppressive hierarchies, aiming to create a nation where citizens could shape their own destiny.
freedom and reason 