Can Anything Change?

Washington appears uninterested in any meaningful change - and the daily events prove it.

One of the strangest stories circling the internet last night was the Shawn Ryan podcast about the Cybertruck explosion at the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. I would encourage you who haven’t listened to do so. It is a strange case of government intelligence gone wrong, as well as purportedly nefarious actors from China and Iran. All of this has an air of untrustworthiness to it by the actors in government. As I have stated so many times before, the distrust that is engendered in every action comes from the reality that nothing we know is the whole story or the truth. Is it possible that the drones over New Jersey and the East Coast are Gravitic Propulsion Systems that are being used as a show of force by China? Possibly. But the American citizen will never really know because Washington believes its job is to make sure that we know only enough to fear not paying our taxes and ending up in jail at the hands of our misbehaviors. And therein lies the issue. Watch any action by the government over the last several years, and what you find is that nothing on its face is true, and worse, the story that is told as the final narrative of the situation is intentionally deceitful.

If you or I lied as much as the government does about far less consequential things, we would be in jail. Their entire construct is a house of lies, but one, even unintentional or unknown misstep by ourselves, and our lives are ruined. Sadly, that has become the objective for Washington. The old lessons from Machiavelli and the Magna Carta about power and the government’s responsibilities to its people have all been proven true. If left unrestrained, they exercise power absolutely, and corruption becomes the norm. It’s difficult for the average person to believe. The government should be looking out for our best interests; that’s what we were told in our near-comatose-inducing civics classes. But as in all things about America, what we are told about how things are is never what it is - including the myths about a government by the people, for the people. We have a government that despises the people and is exclusively working for themselves. We play along, believing that our behavior is what holds the whole thing together. Meanwhile, we can’t get a straight answer about what’s happening off of our eastern seaboard or what happened in a limousine in Dallas 62 years ago.

Sure, we have consequential elections like the one we just went through, but when the elected all show up in Washington, one of the only people who has any conviction, Thomas Massie, is vilified by the crowd that supposedly supports a great America. As Mr. Massie put it in a post on X - “Today 433 members of the house will be sworn in, I’m the only one being sworn at.”

President Trump is a hero to many, but what the hero worshipers fail to realize is that he is only one man, who has been set up against an army of hundreds of thousands who have one objective in their world: destroy Trump. When Thomas Massie tries to rally the troops to help clarify the objective and defeat Speaker Mike Johnson, the Washington world spins up, and we end up with nothing meaningful and another speaker with limited objectives on the destruction of the system that has destroyed the American people. Their devotion to Trump is, in the end, what destroys their ability for meaningful reform, and Washington knows it.

Here’s a test for all of us. Would we be willing to be disobedient to the government in the small things if it showed them for what they are? What if we stopped paying our taxes or did them so sloppily that they had an overwhelming number of audits to do? Would we be willing to stop filling out our LLC forms with facial recognition that is now required (or soon will be based on the current court cases) and just close down the entity and assume the liability or tax consequences? Would we be willing to all convert to a different religion that, under the Social Security Act, is exempt from having to have a number?

I doubt it.

We don’t believe that there are enough of us to overwhelm them - and as government grows, our instincts are probably correct. 50% or more of our fellow populace works for or benefits from a government entity. Do we believe that our friend who gets their grants from the EPA or works for the Forest Service is going to suddenly gain a conscience and reject their paycheck? It’s a very disturbing moment in America. Our money is so ruined that we have to keep our heads down all the time just to make ends meet. We can’t pay attention to the creatures in government who have active destruction of us on their minds. They have created a system so brilliant that it seems that it cannot be undone.

As President Trump and his cabinet selections prepare for battle and their first hurdle of confirmations, it is becoming increasingly clear that this is the last moment we might have. The tensions in the world are heightening, and the abuse of the money and the military by the United States has run its course with major countries around the world. They are actively pursuing the evacuation of the dollar as the reserve currency, and they know that what we have become as a citizenry is a people more intent on compliance than liberty. It’s a tragic indictment of a once great people, but our government’s insistence on a hegemonic empire dominated by the USA has bankrupted its people and left them worse off than communist slaves. At least the communists were honest about their desire for power and made no illusions that their people would ever be free. Our cabal parades about and builds temples to the illusion of peace and justice and, in the back rooms of Washington, grins with joy at their punitive capabilities.

Honesty in free government is the fundamental principle. It is the only thing that actually matters - because if the government isn’t honest, then the contract is void. Our veneration of the Constitution as some kind of sacred, scriptural document has created an atmosphere where we, as the citizenry, are the only ones adhering to the rules, believing that our high priests of good intent have our interests in mind. Nothing could be further from the truth. For many Americans, the Constitution is almost a political scripture with a tinge of divinity in its design. It is often pointed out that America’s Constitution has lasted longer than any other republican form of government in history. France, for instance, has had nearly 20 versions of a constitution within the same amount of time that America has had one. To many, that speaks of some kind of inherent miracle to the design and writing of this governing document.

The America of 1787 was a very different landscape than the one we find ourselves in today. And while the framers of the document certainly hoped that what they were crafting would set the country on a course that would outlast themselves and even multiple generations, they had no illusion that when they were writing things down, they were drafting some kind of political scripture. They were there on behalf of the people of their respective states. They were the aristocracy of the era, and they believed that nobility resided in good representation. The highest calling of a man was to be chosen by his peers for public service. It was a sacrifice to serve. They left their farms and businesses at the height of planting and summer commerce to come to Philadelphia at their own expense to serve. There’s no question that the men of that era had their moral conflicts and failures, including the holding of slaves, but their willingness to move into the public service space was an attempt by them to elevate the stoic set of virtues their culture venerated.

The Constitution was crafted to reflect the politics of the American landscape in 1787. It was designed to be understood by the common man and intended to be something that everyone who could engage with the government of the country could. There was a heavy push by the framers to write down the things that they saw as imperative to the successful formation and operation of the government, but they never intended for it to become a mysterious document that needed Judiciary review or interpretation, nor an organization intended to be overrun with secondary layers of bureaucracy or millions of pages of tertiary law. It was a document that was designed in the best and most interpretable way by the common person of the country, and it was predicated upon honesty by all players in the contract.

We have come a long way from that premise. We only have one side willing to play by the rules while the other works to destroy any semblance of integrity. Those in Washington believe that they are the divine and we are the trouble that causes a world of struggle and pain. It’s becoming evident that the powerful intend to continue to create a legalistic world of entrapment where the citizen lives in fear and trembling, all while they venerate the very document that the government uses to imprison them. I think many of us want to be left alone and not have to fight for every inch of living that we create - but that isn’t the world we have inherited. It will take an overwhelming dedication to pushing back at every level if America or the idea of liberty is to survive. Certainly, the spirit of humanity will always have its inherent call, but without swift and fierce conviction, that spirit will be in the darkness of total government oppression.