A Bike Ride through the Remnants of the American Dream

One can never fully appreciate what our ancestors’ daily toils and experiences taught them in dealing with unseen and uncontrollable forces of their times. How the forced changes shaped their thinking about what the future held for them or their progeny. Their backbreaking labors then – growing food, building infrastructure, manufacturing items for the world (I am speaking of the 1880s-1960s), and constructing the foremost military power on Earth. This last labor, born out of European war drums, started as an ethical burden that amorally evolved into dozens of “proxy” wars. Those in “leadership,” the new, elitist expert class, decided the world required their know-how to properly shape nation-states, often far-flung, like America once was at the peak of the British Empire.

Instead of staying contented with the magnificent bounty called the United States, where anyone with great motivation, mental flexibility and good character could make it in due course – often against the slick legal headwinds of the socialist billionaire that buys a Senator or pockets a President – the new elites wanted to remain in power through more sinister and subtle means. To control the American People: not with inspired ideas and freedom to pursue them, but with various Cloward-Piven(s) to overwhelm the system – the American Republic – to install yet again: a Master-Slave system with better technology and data tracking.

As it always does, this revolved around the control of money, namely: The Federal Reserve and Federal Income Taxes. The 20^th century story is too often focused on the World Wars when a greater focus should be on the changes to the monetary system in the U.S., U.K. and the World Over. Key dates and years (1913, 1917, 1929-30, 1944, 1971, 1991) precipitated bloody wars, or the collapse of an rival empire. In the present moment, the seizure of Russian assets (for Ukrainian war funding) will move the U.S. toward the collapse of its 75-year run as the primary reserve currency (the foundation of the world monetary system).

Source: Lynn Alden

Instead of heeding masterful words and sage advices of ancestors that built judiciously the governing foundation of the country, in a way that diffused power, anticipated overreaches (thus 3 branches with very distinct powers and checks to that power) and poor laws (the amendment process), our 20^th and 21^st century experts tossed aside this well-designed Constitution, ignoring an appropriate axiom: “the best government is that which governs least.” Over the last six score, the U.S. government has expanded a 4^th Agency branch – unaccountable and untethered from the daily reality of average folks – that gathers zettabytes of data for blackmail, fear, and often, spite to be used on anyone inconvenient to its expansion and edicts. The BLOB (Behemoth Living Organism of Bureaucracy) has no special purpose but to exist.

Those experts are increasingly not American-born, nor interested in any nation-state autonomy at all (based off language, culture, traditions, socio-political decisions), and find no necessity to observe or obey any Constitution. That a Constitution is designed for slow, deliberate and thoughtful changes, and delineated simple processes so ordinary people can be at their most free and the law most understandable. These tenets are now gone.

Presently, Joe Biden’s Administration pays no heed to enforcing laws appropriately from the border to the court room; instead, an obsessive focus is to label their political opponents as extremists and supremacists and always hell bent on violence. (J6 should be remembered as the American Reichstag 2021 with U.S. Federal Agencies as the perpetrators of the most violent and subversive acts. The D.C. Courts and U.S. Prosecutors are shameful in applying justly law and order to ordinary citizens. These judges and prosecutors allow far more impactful criminality to go unpunished, “wiggling the law” to fit the defendant’s political importance for the maintenance of their power and friendships and sinecures.)   

Moreover, the diplomatic and co-conspiring financial “expert” class see America’s power only through the crudest lens, that of: consumer conquest (that is outsourced to China) and military forays (with 700+ bases worldwide) whenever a foreign regime fancies themselves divorced from the American System. There is evil to be fought in the world, no doubt, but it is best to honor one’s own durable homeland security.  In short: Let American citizens decide how to use their ingenuity, apply progress and conserve the country’s security and social stability. The latter, social stability is much more important to resisting a military defeat than mere guns, soldiers, drones, or highest level of lethal weaponry is.  That stability can be fueled with life-affirming, balanced ideas and positive messaging, instead of the swallowed swill, a toxic propaganda, borne of the shallowest minds being groomed at pricy, so-called elite universities. 

But for 35 years, since the USSR’s crackup, the United States Government (under Bush, Clinton, Bush II, Obama, Biden, and in some respects, Trump) thumped war drums and amassed $32 trillion plus in short-term, National Debt. (The long-term outstanding liabilities are calculated above $150 Trillion). The so-called experts have destroyed the United States finances and ruined the American Citizens’ reputation. This was done to line the elite’s pockets off taxing Americans and doing what the Founders beg they would avoid from the outset of the Republic: foreign entanglements.

Investment in the American Dream disappeared down an inner city sewer. It devolved into buttressing welfare recipients while telling them it is much better to be mollycoddled by a fat-cat bureaucrat (who takes nearly half of all U.S. taxes for their salaries), than it is work steadily, rising upward, while having very low taxes (or trade tariffs collected). Additionally, to teach the value of rewarding work: skills acquisition, mastery and critical thinking. This builds the foundation on how and when to start a business and/or take innovative risks.  Upon making those risks assessments, the aspiring business owner, with time, can pass along new skills to the next generation. This happened in America – not perfectly – but substantially, from its Founding to 1913. Thereafter, it took several generations to whittle away the foundation of innovative, can-do spirit.

To pivot to ones’ bike ride through America’s Heartland.

The lasting remains show up in well-kept houses, RVs/campers, pools, sheds, large lawns, care and consideration for one’s belongings on the back roads of Middle America. Not all – some places ahead on the journey will show that. The once mighty middle class, material property has not be seized as of yet by the Washington D.C. government BLOB. This too explains why their label – “MAGA Extremists” – is applied by Democrats in Congress and their favorite agencies: DOJ, DHS, FBI, CIA, NSA, and their underling, Intel and Security BLOBsters.

The Democrats in Congress are Dunning-Kruger dunces. A lackluster communist bunch that lord over their wrecked and crime-addled cities (where billions upon billions are siphoned off from the working classes – from inside once great cities (San Francisco, New York, Chicago, LA) and out to the rural farms that died a slow death under bureaucratic and corporate overreaches, equaling fascism). But these spoiled soulless sirens of socialist utopia actually are not unaware of the failing of the monetary system. Even the dumbest socialist in the U.S. Congress knows the end of their grift is near. The stealing escalates because no one stands in their way. Like Great White sharks, their instincts kicked on: to killing off the American Whale.

The Republicans’ schism is also pronounced. The very few that have “MAGA” thinking are backbenchers and too few to matter much. The last 4 Republican Speakers of the House are exactly the sort of fake people that rise at the end of the Republic. Boehner, Ryan, McCarthy and Johnson, all found tons of money for war. They funded pet social programs that moved the needle 1/100^th the distance needed to make a discernable impact. While preaching tax cuts, if one does not reduce spending (funding a new FBI building – a Trump misplay) the private sector will never outpace the government BLOB. While in power, Republicans blather on about nothing. And they are sane ones!

The BLOB needs a retirement. Or: a one-way ticket to China where Xi Jinping can best utilize an eager cadre of socialist and authoritarian-minded expert liars to control his people. That’s fair trade, in action.

Bringing back the American Dream will take the hardest choices ever in the 400 plus years since European colonists came onto the scene. The Revolution needed will be messier than the one in 1776 started and won. Leaders, apply within. Understand: the sacrifice will be everything one is and has to win back the country from the Dunning-Krugers and the Do-Nothings.