To run for president all I had to do was raise $100,000 in 20 states and then I would be eligible to receive matching public funds. Then I could raise as much money as I wanted for my “campaign” and the government would have to match those donations. If I won, thanks to the Supreme Court I could not be prosecuted or incarcerated while I served in office or while I was running for office again. Even if I didn’t win I could keep all the money left over for “fundraising” and “future campaigns” and use it to pay my legal fees thereby avoiding prosecution indefinitely.
Of course if I ran for public office all the grimy shit from my past would come out but maybe the dirt in my past could be an asset. Most people elected to political office are lawyers but in my opinion drug dealers, thieves and pimps cause far less damage to society than lawyers who pass laws that allow companies to poison our air, our water and our land and pervert the very constitution and the law they are sworn to uphold. Most Americans know that politicians, corporations and foreign governments are lying to them and stealing from them like the partner of a cheating spouse knows the truth. The problem is that every time these crooks get caught stealing they play dumb. It’s like when you catch a thief breaking into your house or your car he will lie and say “This is your house. I’m sorry. I must have got the wrong house or I thought this was my car.” playing dumb.
The public, like the frightened homeowner or the battered spouse, pretends to believe the lie just to keep the peace. It’s complete bullshit but is how so many people get fooled into thinking the government can’t do anything right when that is just not true. If you want proof that the government can work properly, just ask anyone who parks illegally in Los Angeles. You can say what you want about the mayor, LAPD, even the Fire Department but if you park illegally in Los Angeles you will get a ticket and you will be towed. That is proof enough to me that even in the most chaotic, sprawling city in America where the police and other emergency services are overwhelmed the government works just fine if the same rules are applied to everyone equally. The problem is that they are not.
One party in this country claims that good government is the solution and tries to fix it and another party claims government is the problem and then gets elected and tries to prove it. Both sides blame the other but in reality they work for the same people. The Republicans are the Harlem Globetrotters and the Democrats are the Washington Generals. Neither of them work for you. So who do both parties really work for?
“Those who say do not know.
Those who know do not say.”
The Tao De Ching
Most politicians are lawyers and most lawyers are lazy crooks. Just ask any good lawyer. Nowhere is that more apparent than in Washington, DC on K-Street which functions like an open air drug market where bribery and corruption have been legalized by the Supreme Court and rebranded as dark money political contributions and protected industry lobbying. While the news, media and celebrity watching shows like TMZ cover the daily lives of thousands of movie stars, and athletes, not a single news channel follows any one of the 535 politicians who represent Americans around Washington, DC to see who they meet with in a day. Instead Americans are subjected to a constant onslaught of “news and entertainment” which has been weaponized into a tool of psychological warfare to divide them by the special interest groups and the fringe elements that drive the narrative. So who is really behind the curtain?” Who is that the media is talking about when like the great and powerful Wizard of Oz they scream? ”Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.”
There is absolutely no way a regular citizen with a family to raise and support can be equipped to deal with the truckloads of bullshit that is heaped on them by their government and that overwhelms them with the help of the media. I certainly didn’t want to get involved with politics when I was selling weed. I was trying to be respectable. I have been down in the muck my entire life and I’ve had to know where the bodies are buried to survive. Now they have grown so bold and so accustomed to winning that they operate in broad daylight with no fear of repercussions. We are expected to look the other way and tell ourselves “That’s the way it is.” and that was what I was being asked to do. I had always remained quiet because I did not want to draw attention to myself. Maybe now that I had lost all respectability, I was ready to go into politics.
Rome did not collapse from a powerful republic into an empire overnight. Instead, Rome drifted through centuries of civil wars and conquests with emergency powers granted to rulers and through a series of legal workarounds changed from a republic to an empire. Romans allowed more and more foreigners to be part of the empire and continued to buy expensive luxury goods from the far east. Eventually all the gold from Rome ended up in India and the empire collapsed. We are now witnessing the same thing happening in the United States. The United States of America was formed in opposition to monarchy but since World World War II the United States has become the chief defender of monarchies and dictatorships and now functions as an empire while maintaining the facade as a republic as its wealth is drained. To understand how we got here we need to have a basic understanding of human history.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe entered the “Dark Ages” and was overrun by barbarian tribes and later suffered through the Crusades, the Black Plague and the Inquisition. On the northern frontier of China, Genghis Khan hordes broke through the Great Wall and slaughtered and burned their way to gain control of Northern Asia. In the Arab world and the Middle East and India the Islamic jihad came as death to all who stood in its path and opposed submission to Islamic rule. In Mexico and South America the Mayan, Aztec and Inca empires brought most of Mexico and South America under their rule. The Dark Ages were the Golden Age of Africa. While the rest of the world descended into chaos, Africa entered a golden age of expansion as the kingdoms of Mali and Ashanti were created. So while the rest of the world was in the Dark Ages the empires of the Dark Continent were at the peak of their prowess and prestige. Yin and Yang baby.
Marco Polo returned from China bringing with him maps, paper and gunpowder and Europe rebounded sharply after reaching the tipping point and hitting rock bottom in its thousand-year spiral. Contact with Islamic scholars during Crusades and the invention of the printing press led to an unprecedented diffusion of knowledge in Europe. After centuries of war and pestilence Europeans had built up an immunity to alcohol and diseases, and with the printing press they now had the ability to transmit knowledge from generation to generation. They also had an ace in the hole. Gunpowder. After centuries of relative isolation Europe was ready to share these “gifts” with the rest of the world. Within a century of Columbus’s voyage, maps, sailing vessels, gunpowder and European resistance to disease had allowed the European and and Asian colonial powers to carve up Asia, Africa, North America, South America and Australia into colonies. Can anyone say, “Punctuated Equilibrium?”
Above all the European nations, Great Britain emerged as the dominant colonial power which history tells us was because of Great Britain’s first-rate navy and exceptional diplomatic skills which were both true. What history does not tell us is that it was also a matter of luck. Disease killed far more soldiers than combat in these foreign wars but the English soldiers boiled water and drank tea instead of drinking from the local water supply. While other colonial powers had to drink the water that ran from the local streams and wells and were exposed to such ailments as dysentery, typhoid and cholera, the British soldier drank tea long before it was discovered that boiling water killed the bacteria that caused these diseases. If you have ever been unfortunate enough to have typhoid or dysentery you know this is good luck indeed.
England was the first European power to gain the advantage at sea commissioning and organizing a first-rate navy under Queen Elizabeth 1. In 1588 King Phillip of Spain sent the largest fleet of ships ever assembled against England. The Spanish Armada which was dispatched by Phillip II to subjugate England was destroyed by a freak storm that sank almost half of the warships in the Spanish Armada. From that point on Great Britain never lost its command of the seas. During the American Revolution General Howe's fleet set sail from New York in 1776 for an attack on Philadelphia but were blown off course to the West Indies allowing General Washington’s army to escape and live to fight another 2 years an ultimately win the war. It really is better to be lucky than good.
In 1778 the French king Louis XVI made a decision that would forever alter the course of human history. The Treaty of Alliance brought France into the American Revolution on the side of the American colonists. Up until that time Washington had lost just about every major battle that he fought but had he managed to hold the Continental Army together. Though Washington was not nearly as gifted of a military commander as my ancestor the infamous traitor Benedict Arnold who had won victories at Ticonderoga and Saratoga, his narrow escapes had molded him into the image of a Robin Hood and he was very popular in England. Many intellectuals in England and France sympathized with Washington and the idea of a republic based on John Locke’s Rights of Man. Locke rejected the concept of Divine Right, which asserts that monarchs derive authority from God and argued that legitimate government is based on the consent of the governed. Locke believed in natural rights, including life, liberty, and property, which must be protected by the government. He posited that if a ruler violates these rights, citizens have the right to revolt.
After 5 years of the Revolutionary War, King George of England was having none of it and in the spring of 1781, General Charles Cornwallis landed in Yorktown, Virginia with an army of over 7000 men to unite with General Howe and finally crush Washington once and for all. Lord Cornwallis did not know that the French Commander of the West Indies had left the islands undefended and dispatched his army of 5,500 French troops as well as a fleet of warships commanded by Admiral DeGrasse to come to Washington’s aid. Cornwallis found himself trapped and without naval support and was forced to surrender which effectively brought an end to the Revolutionary War. After this defeat at Yorktown, England abandoned its attempts to regain the 13 Colonies and focused its resources on the conquest of India. The Earl of Cornwallis the loser of the Battle of Yorktown would eventually become the governor of India, and George Washington would become the first President of the United States.
The 13 colonies would not have gained independence if not for France’s help or Britain’s desire to conquer the fabulously wealthy Mogul Empire in India. Britain valued India far more than America's forests, river lakes and mountains. Great Britain’s world domination would begin with its conquest of India, but the myth of the moral superiority of the British Empire would end in India when confronted by Mahatma Gandhi’s “nonviolent protest” movement. After England clawed its way to the very top of the colonial food chain Gandhi then used nonviolent protest to show the English the inferior nature of the conqueror, just as Chaitanya Mahaprabhu had shown it to the Chand Quazi in Bengal in the year 1492. In the United States Dr. Martin Luther King would follow Gandhi and Chaitanya’s example during the civil rights movement employing non-violent protests rather than violence to change hearts and minds.
The wars in Viet Nam, Afghanistan, and Iraq and Iran have demonstrated that the United States is not capable of winning wars of conquest because the price is too high. War has always been hell. The conquerers would burn the cities, rape and pillage, exterminate the males or sell them into slavery and take the women into captivity. Television and the internet has made winning a modern war extremely difficult. It turns out that when people actually see what war is they don’t like it very much. Even the Russians historically known for their brutality have been unable to win in conflicts in Afghanistan, Syria and Ukraine because of pressure to not exterminate their opponents and destroy their cities. Now we find ourselves in an endless succession of limited proxy wars between these neo-colonial powers, the European and Asian monarchs and the corporate empires that dominate the globe.
If the United States did not intervene in World War II, Communism or Fascism would have relegated monarchy to a forgotten institution. Hitler or Stalin would have deposed all the European and Asian monarchs and taken possession of their kingdoms and their colonial possessions. Then along came Uncle Sam and the American taxpayers to save the day. With the help of the United States the European and Asian monarchies emerged on the victorious side of World War II and were preserved along with the fabulous wealth these monarchies had accumulated over centuries of mass murder and international banditry. These royal families that had carved up the entire world before starting two World Wars resulting in the death of over 100,000,000 people but they were not surgically removed from the body and continued to grow in power and influence.
When the former colonies of the victorious European monarchies gained independence they were required to respect the property rights of the former colonial monarchies and their subjects by allowing them to maintain their plantations, and their mineral, oil, gas and property rights in the former colonies if they wanted to participate in the new economy under the US and British protection. The European constitutional monarchies were allowed to keep the wealth they had accumulated from centuries of conquest and slavery. Under the protection of the United States the Asian monarchs have managed to hold on to both their sovereignty and their kingdoms and have even established new monarchies. Communism has collapsed on its own in every nation that the United States did not intervene to stop it. The threat of nuclear war kept the United States from attacking the Soviet Union directly during the Cold War but Communism collapsed on its own in the USSR. The United States and the Soviet Union did fight a series of proxy wars in Korea, Viet Nam, South America and Afghanistan but by the end of the Cold War in 1993, the only places where Communism still survived were China, North Korea, Cuba and North Viet Nam, the very places where the United States had fought wars to actively try to stop it.
In 1953 for the first time in history, the United States of America overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran and established a monarchy and the world is still dealing with the fallout from this decision. After gaining independence from Great Britain the people of Iran elected Mr. Mohamed Mozadeh as Prime Minister. Prime Minister Mozadeh then demanded that the Anglo Persian Oil Company [BP- British Petroleum] submit to an audit. When Anglo Persian Oil refused, Prime Minister Mozzadegh nationalized Iran’s oil industry. The United States and Britain were terrified that Iran would fall to the Soviet Union and that Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf States could fall like dominos to Communism. So in 1953 the CIA and MI-6 launched Operation Ajax and overthrew the democratically elected leader of Iran. Kermit Roosevelt Jr., the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt directed the coup from Tehran personally and even threatened to go ahead with the coup without the Shah’s cooperation. With the help of the CIA the Shah was placed back on the throne of Iran until he was overthrown in 1979.
Iran, once the greatest ally of the United States in the Middle East is now America’s sworn enemy and this was not an isolated incident. Since World War II, in the name of halting Communism the United States has supported monarchs, dictators and tyrants all over the world but the monarchies of Europe and Asia have remained in power long after the threat of Communism was neutralized. The Communist states that exist today are a reaction to anti-democratic US foreign policy just as US interference in the Middle East on behalf of the European and Asian monarchies is responsible for the rise of Islamic movements hostile to the US in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen.
Meanwhile the United States of America has been left holding the bag supporting 41 of the 43 monarchies in the world. I have compiled a list of these rulers by Divine Right below for the benefit of the American taxpayers who now go to work each day to pay for the defense of their properties. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Jamaica, Antigua, Belize, Bahamas, Jamaica, Grenada, St Lucia, St. Kitts, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon and Grenadine Islands are all monarchies ruled by King Charles of England. In Europe, the kings of Belgium, Denmark, Liechtenstein, Monaco, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Sweden, Norway, Spain and the Pope in the Vatican still sit on their thrones. Though these are constitutional monarchs and their power is limited they still control vast fortunes in farmland, commercial real estate, water, cattle, timber, mining and industrial production in the countries they once colonized. In the Islamic world monarchs’ rule in Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Kuwait, Oman, Quatar and Bahrain, Jordan, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates controlling over 50% of the world's oil reserves. In the Far East royal families sit on the thrones of Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Bhutan and Tonga. In Africa, though only Lesotho, Malta and Eswatini remain as monarchs since the fall of the Ethiopian King Haile Salasiah. The African nations of Algeria, Angola, Chad, the Central African Republic, the Congo, Barundi, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Gabon, Libya, Rwanda, Somalia, the Sudan, Uganda, Western Sahara and are all ruled by dictators who will no doubt attempt to establish dynasties. Add in the dictatorships in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Iraq, Syria, Laos, Tajikistan, Tibet, Turkey and Russia and China and we come to find that less than 25% of the world’s population now lives under full democracy. Long after the fall of communism the United States has maintained the most powerful military organization in the world and contrary to the wishes of its citizens that military has been systematically directed at the enemies of these powerful monarchies. This has required consistent and constant manipulation of the public to convince them to go to war from the day Roosevelt allowed the Japanese to bomb Pearl Harbor to the day President Trump attacked Iran without provocation in 2026.
I was in India in 1979 when the Shah of Iran fell and the Islamic Revolution took place. I remember when Jimmy Carter ordered the failed attempt to free the US hostages at the embassy in Tehran. The mission ended in total disaster and after that disaster I was glad when Ronald Reagan was elected president. Immediately after Reagan was sworn into office, Iran set the hostages free. I was so proud to be an American on that day, proud to think that we finally had someone in the office who was ready to handle business. Years later I learned that during the campaign, members of the Reagan Administration were already in negotiations with Iran to sell them the American weapons and spare parts they needed for their war against Iraq in exchange for the release of the hostages. “The Ayatollah Khomeni had agreed not to release the hostages until Reagan was elected.” That meant that American citizens who were being held as hostages by foreign adversaries were used as pawns to gain an advantage in a US election. This was my first experience with the calculated psychological manipulation that we as citizens of the Empire of the United States are subjected to on a constant basis. No other nation’s population is subjected to this level of manipulation because the US elections are quite frankly the most important elections on the planet and maybe the only ones that matter anymore. And for good reason. The President of the United States has control of the United States Military and he can do pretty much whatever he likes.
In 1982 the United States Congress passed the Boland Amendment cutting off military aid to the Contras, a rebel army fighting against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. The Sandinistas had overthrown the brutal dictatorship of the Somoza dynasty which had ruled Nicaragua since 1936 with the support of the United States and the United Fruit Company. The Contra rebels were accused of of carrying out acts of terror including kidnappings, mutilations, rapes and mass murders and therefore Congress had cut off all military support to the Contras. President Reagan decided to support the Contras anyway and so under the direction of Colonel Oliver North the Reagan Administration continued to send weapons to the Contras while the CIA allowed operatives under its control to smuggle kilotons of cocaine into the United States.
Most of this cocaine was sold in poor urban neighborhoods fueling the “crack epidemic.” in America’s cities and the exponential growth of the prison population during the 1980s. The “crack epidemic” in the United States was created when the DEA’s sophisticated interdiction and eradication efforts severely restricted the supply of Mexican cannabis entering the US while the CIA had facilitated a massive 50% increase in the supply of cocaine. The introduction of freebased cocaine also known as “crack” in a smokeable form made the drug cheap, convenient and extremely popular. Almost overnight in America’s cities it was hard to find grass but crack was everywhere.
Most people I know that smoked “crack” for the first time did it because they couldn’t find weed. I am sure many of the people that got hooked started that way. I used to wonder if that is what happened to Len Bias. Len Bias had played basketball at the University of Maryland and had just been drafted by my favorite NBA team the Boston Celtics before he overdosed and died after reportedly smoking “crack “ just one time. I was 13 years old at the time and living with my Grandma Jane in Severna Park Maryland. I attended Magothy River Middle School and on Sunday I worshiped at Hope Presbyterian Church where my grandfather the Rev. Allan Moore had been the pastor.
Back then I was glad that President Reagan was doing something about the crack epidemic. Rival drug gangs had armed themselves and competed for territories in America’s cities. At night the sound of sporadic gunfire and sirens made sleeping more than a few hours at a time almost impossible. During the daytime base heads walked along the avenues like zombies alarming the commuters. Restaurants lost millions because people were so coked out they people weren’t eating. Crack vials and bullet shells littered the streets. Blood stains and chalk outlines painted the sidewalks. Police departments found themselves overwhelmed by the violence and and riddled with corruption. The headlines were filled with stories of drive-by shootings, and overdoses. I had no idea what cocaine was or where it was coming from.
In 1986 Congress passed The Anti-Drug Abuse Act which created mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses. Lawmakers on both sides lined up to throw the book at drug dealers and passed the bill creating mandatory minimums for drug offenses in record time before the election and Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law. Then in September of 1989 President Bush came on television from the White House and announced that the United States had declared “War on Drugs” and that drug dealers would be caught, arrested, prosecuted and incarcerated. Back then I didn’t even know what grass/ganja was. I definitely had no idea that I, like millions of other Americans, would be sent to prison under this law a few years later.
It actually turned out that Len Bias did not smoke crack for the first time and did not die from taking one hit. That was the official story we were told “for our own good” and it was widely accepted as fact. The United States government has repeatedly denied that it was responsible for creating the “crack epidemic”but it has been proven that the Reagan Administration sold weapons to Iran and funneled the profits from money to the Contras and at least looked the other way while the supply of cocaine in the United States doubled. CIA Inspector General Frederick Hitz even testified before a House congressional committee.
“As I said earlier, we have found no evidence in the course of this lengthy investigation of any conspiracy by CIA or its employees to bring drugs into the United States. However, during the Contra era, CIA worked with a variety of people to support the Contra program. These included CIA assets, pilots who ferried supplies to the Contras, as well as Contra officials and others. Let me be frank about what we are finding. There are instances where CIA did not, in an expeditious or consistent fashion, cut off relationships with individuals supporting the Contra program who were alleged to have engaged in drug trafficking activity or take action to resolve the allegations. “ Source - Wikipedia.
Translation. It happened but there is nothing anyone can do about it now. Now that would be believable if it only happened once. Burn me once. Shame on you. It was not just once though. After first allowing the crack epidemic to take hold and decimate the black population in our cities during the 1980's the Drug Enforcement Agency [DEA] then looked the other way as pharmaceutical companies like Purdue and Lilly created generations of opiate addicts in America’s Heartland including my home state of West Virginia. States like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee were especially hard hit by the recession of the 80’s and NAFTA in the 90’s but the DEA continued to focus its efforts on the low hanging fruit of cannabis eradication and interdiction while doing almost nothing to slow the spread of legal but deadly narcotics like oxycodone (hillbilly heroin).
My brother-in-law was 16 years old when he was first prescribed oxycontin for a football injury. By the time he was 18 years old Oxycontin, Prozac and Adderall were being fed to America’s youth like tick-tacks for halitosis and opioid addiction was out of control. During one 6 year period of time 780 million pills of oxycodone were shipped to West Virginia, 433 pills for every one of the 1.8 million people in the state. All of this was completely legal and the DEA did nothing to stop it while actively pursuing medical marijuana cultivation and transportation even in states where the voters had legalized cannabis. Millions of Americans have become addicted to these opiates and millions more continue to rely on Suboxone, a pharmaceutical substitute to treat their addiction. In some parts of the United States almost 20% of the population is addicted to a combination of these opioids. That is 1 out of 5 people. In 2025 Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family were ordered to pay 7.4 billion in damages for their contributions to the addiction of generations of Americans. While millions of Americans have spent decades in prison for cannabis, not one person from Purdue Pharma or a single member of the Sackler family has spent a day in prison. In 2016, Harper’s Magazine revealed that the “war on drugs” was concocted as part of Richard Nixon’s broader “war” against Black activists and opposition to the Vietnam War. Nixon had commissioned the Shafer Commission to study cannabis which had recommended federal decriminalization of marijuana but Nixon instead increased penalties and began the draconian enforcement of new laws.
White House Council John Ehrlichman stated in the interview.
“You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.
“Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
Richard Nixon may have invented the War on Drugs as a political tool but every president Republican and Democrat alike has found it useful for one reason or another. Under Ronald Reagan. George Bush and Bill Clinton those policies continued and the skyrocketing cost of the War on Drugs is now impossible to ignore: billions of dollars wasted, countless lives lost on the streets of our cities, and millions of lives destroyed by draconian punishment that doesn’t end at the prison gate but in the disenfranchisement of millions of American voters because of a felony conviction. The deliberate campaign of defamation, of poisoning and incarceration of Ganja prisoners should be treated as a war crime. President Nixon knew that he was misleading the public and waged a private war with the express intent of targeting his political opponents. This war was continued by his successors for decades for political expediency.
When we see these examples of government inaction and uneven application of the laws as unrelated events it is easy to mistake them for incompetence and not corruption. As I said before when you catch a thief stealing they pretend that it is a mistake or an accident.
When we see this as evidence that in the United States we have created our own aristocracy that is not subject to the rule of law in the same manner that medieval dukes and barons were not subject to “common law” it is difficult to accept that these are just mistakes or accidents. If you see them as examples of psychological warfare waged against American citizens who were perceived as potential threats such as young black men empowering themselves in the 1980s and radicalized rural whites disillusioned with the loss of manufacturing jobs arming themselves and joining militias in the 1990s then what? Who would actually do such and who could possibly benefit from keeping Americans so weak and divided?
If all men are created equal then there is no Divine Right to rule and therefore monarchy is the antithesis of what it is to be an American. If Franklin Roosevelt allowed the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor in order to convince Americans to join the war against Japan and Germany on the because he knew that Hitler was killing 50,000 Jews a day and had to be stopped, does that make him wrong? After World War II, the Soviet Union abolished all monarchies under the territories that it captured from Germany. The United States was in a position to abolish the monarchy as an institution as the Soviet Union did but did not. Even after these European and Asian monarchs had carved up the entire world through centuries of conquest and slavery and had caused 2 World Wars resulting in the deaths of over 100,000,000 people these predators were allowed to remain on their thrones. Most predators are not creepy old men flashing little girls in the park. They are charismatic and powerful people who get away with rape and murder because no one suspects them or stops them when they do find out the truth. Somehow the United States of America has fallen under the sway of these European and Asian monarchies who, let's be completely fair, have all demonstrated their rapine tendencies . Beguiled by their predatory charm America has now become the theatre and the instrument of wealthy and powerful families led by Great Britain and and conducts itself as an empire on their behalf while maintaining the illusion of the republic for the public at home.
Even more disturbing is the growing power of an unscrupulous and mercenary clergy and their sycophantic and “unholy alliance” with this nouveau-royalty. This “unholy alliance” has its nexus in the fanatical belief that it is the church’s God-given right to not pay taxes. Churches were originally granted tax-exempt status because the state did not provide social services and relief aid and the churches did. Following the Great Depression, the advent of Social Security, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (welfare), Food Stamps, Medicare and Medicaid shifted all these burdens from the Church to the State. Still the Churches retained their tax-exempt status but having been freed from the responsibility of caring for their poor in their flock they have continued to acquire wealth and properties and support their extravagant lifestyles like cardinals breaking away from the Holy Roman Empire. Jesus said that “It is easier for a rich man to enter the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.” but you will not hear that message in the church today.
The United States government’s assumption of all the liabilities of the Church while refusing to tax this estate is much akin to the assumption of the responsibilities of European and Asian monarchs in these kingdoms while allowing them to retain their wealth and property. The gospel of wealth and prosperity has utterly polluted our churches just as our tolerance for monarchy and dictatorship has polluted our government. To prevent the emergence of a permanent aristocracy in the United States the wealthy citizens of the United States were once taxed at a very high rate as much as 70%. To avoid paying these taxes the wealthy would spend their money on paying their employees high wages, improving and maintaining their businesses and funding the arts and other charities to keep the government from taking most of their profits. Robber Barons like Carnegie and Rockeffeler spent the first half of their lives building their fortunes and the rest of it giving it away so that the government could not take it from their children in inheritance taxes designed to protect against the emergence of a permanent aristocracy.
In 1981 Ronald Reagan cut these taxes on the wealthy to stimulate economic growth. The theory was that if the government cut taxes on the wealthiest Americans they would use the money to create more jobs and the money would “trickle down” to the middle class and back into the economy. What actually happened was that once these tax rates on the wealthy were cut from 70% to 28%, the United States was forced to borrow almost 10% of its annual budget to cover its expenses and increased military spending.
The wealthiest taxpayers did not invest in job creation but instead purchased tax exempt United States Treasury Bills allowing them to lend the money they should have paid in taxes back to the US government and collect tax free interest payments from the American taxpayers. This created a permanent aristocracy who could now collect interest from the American public while contributing almost nothing. They also borrowed money against the value of these Treasury bonds and bought back shares of their own companies which pushed their own stock prices up and increased their own paper wealth which could not be taxed unless they sold these securities. The national debt grew from $985 billion in 1981 to $2.9 trillion in 1989. Since 1981 the national debt of the United States has grown from less than $1 trillion dollars to $40 trillion dollars. The United States taxpayers have paid $20 trillion in tax free interest to bond holders and Wall Street bailouts since then. That is 60 trillion in total spending that the United States has borrowed and spent since 1981. Remember that 60 trillion number. It is going to come up again.
In that time total dollar value (market cap) of all companies in the S&P 500 the largest 500 companies has grown from 1.1 trillion in 1981 to approximately $61.1 trillion as of late 2025 for a gain of, you guessed it, $60 trillion dollars. Since 1981, the wealth of the top 1% in the United States has grown dramatically, capturing a significantly larger portion of the nation's total net worth. As of the third quarter of 2025, the top 1% collectively held a record $55 trillion of the $60.1 trillion dollars in the S&P 500. Since 1989 their wealth has increased from approximately $4.7 trillion to $55 trillion—a growth of over 1,000%. Forensic accounting research indicates that between 1981 and 2021, an estimated $50 trillion in wealth was effectively transferred from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1% due to shifting tax policies and the resulting growth of the stock market. So when you hear people bragging about their $401k’s keep in mind they are tooting their horn about their share of 0.89% of the index while the other 99% is held by the 1%.
Now they are squeezing us all again. Between 2022 and 2025 the United States saw the sharpest increase in interest rates in history as interest costs on the National Debt doubled from $476 billion in 2022 to an estimated $970 billion in 2025. The US will spend more than $1 trillion dollars in interest payments in 2026. 1 out of 5 dollars that Americans now pay in federal income taxes goes to pay interest to these bondholders. So of course they have enough money to buy the media, to manipulate public opinion, depress voter turnout and to buy politicians, judges and even elections in order to prevent this from changing.
People may try and argue that I’m simplifying things but only because they are trying to cloud the issue. What I am trying to say is actually pretty simple. Just follow the money. The growth of the S&P 500 since 1981 is almost dollar for dollar what the United States has borrowed, spent and paid in interest since then. People may argue that the government wastes money but that money doesn’t disappear. It just changes hands. Tax cuts do create economic growth. They increase the amount that the government deficit spends creating debt thereby transferring wealth of the republic from the taxpayers to the bondholders. Anyone who tells you differently is pissing on your leg and telling you it’s raining. Remember when you catch a thief stealing they also act like you are dumb making a mistake too.
I recently had a chance to watch Ken Burn’s “The American Revolution.” It was a brilliant portrayal of the most important time in American history up until now. America was forged by the most intelligent and enterprising men of their time in opposition to the tyrannical rule of the most cunning and ruthless empire in the world. It was an existential battle between those who believed that all men were created equal and those who believed that God had ordained that a king should rule them. When General Washington took the city of New York 4 out of every 5 families were Loyalists who supported King George.
During the American Revolution only 1 out of 3 people supported independence. 1 out of 3 people supported King George and 1 out of 3 could care less. Today 1 out 3 people in the United States vote Republican, 1 out of 3 vote Democrat and 1 out of 3 people do not vote. In our 2 party system the two sides are split so evenly that the only place to get votes is with the people who don’t care, the so-called Independents. So both parties chase the votes of the 1 out of 3 people who don’t care and that is who is deciding our elections. That is who is running the United States right now. The 1 out of 3 people who absolutely do not give a fuck and it shows.
The United States is listed as a flawed democracy under which 39% of the world’s population lives. For all the political outrage we see in the media the US has unusually low levels of participation in elections. In a flawed democracy elections are free and fair, civil liberties are respected but these nations struggle with:
1. Low levels of participation in politics.
2. Maintaining a functional government.
3. Politicians subvert the will of the majority due to foreign influence.
I think this is a pretty fair assessment of democracy in the US. I realize that we are jumping around a lot here and now I have gone on quite a tangent here but if you endure with me for a short while longer you will see that there is a point to all this if you are an American.
Despite everything that has happened to me I still believe that the United States of America is the last and greatest hope for humanity. Abraham Lincoln found himself in this same struggle as he fought to rid the Republic of the United States of the last vestiges of the Divine Right of one man to have dominion over another. After the terrible victory at Gettysburg Lincoln delivered a speech that will forever enshrine the highest ideals of this Republic and inspire us all to reach the sacred ideal for which it stands.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. —and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
Never was there a more powerful speech delivered when the fate of the republic was still in doubt. Unfortunately, what we once believed was the most powerful force for good on planet Earth is no longer “a government of the people, by the people, for the people.”
Today the United States Government’s primary function often appears to be to suborn and thwart the will of the majority of the citizens of Planet Earth, suborning democracy in favor of monarchies, borrowing money for wars while neglecting the citizens at home. The “thousand points of light” flicker anemically like some opiate induced hallucination in the misty valley below and there is no “shining beacon on the hill”. To the rest of the world we are savages dancing around the smoking embers of a once great bonfire beating our chests and shouting our own praises while the fire dies out and the darkness closes in around us. Our leaders, the people we have entrusted with keeping this eternal flame burning appear to be incapable of even gathering firewood and this is no accident.
The Author smoking a joint on Stonewall Jackson’s gravestone. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
What great men do common men follow? The Achilles heel of a republic is that the leaders reflect the public consciousness. This works well if the republic promotes the well-being of the majority of citizens by providing the essential components of a healthy, educated, economically stable and independent electorate. When the electorate is the constant target of sophisticated and uninterrupted psychological manipulation by factions that transform conflicting ideas into divided tribes unwilling to compromise, the machine of the republic breaks down. Power alternates between the party in power and the party out of power, each side refusing to cooperate on any meaningful legislation out of fear of giving the other side a victory. Each side does as little as possible while in power and lays the blame on the other thereby avoiding accountability to their own constituents. This has not gone unnoticed by the populace, half of whom have checked out of the electoral process entirely refusing to participate in the charade.
So what does that have to do with you?
The United States has 350 million people, about 4% of the world’s population. About half of all Americans vote so only 2% of the world’s population votes to choose the next President of the United States. The presidential election is always very close, again splitting the electorate in half. The domestic power of the President of the United States is limited by congress but as the Commander in Chief the president has control over the most powerful war machine ever known to man and almost unlimited discretion to overthrow regimes through both military and covert action. For all of our progress mankind has not evolved so much from the days in the cave. If you look around, the guy with the big stick is still in charge. The voters of the United States, just 1.5% of the world’s population, decide who has the biggest stick in the world but 1 out of 2 Americans will tell you they don’t vote because “Their vote doesn’t count.” In the movie “The Usual Suspects” Verbal Kint AKA Kaiser Soze tells Detective Kujan
“The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing people he doesn’t exist.” The greatest trick anyone ever played was convincing the American public that their vote doesn’t count so that more than half of them don’t vote at all. Which brings me to the point of this story which is you. If you are an American you are part of the 2% of the world’s population whose voice actually counts for something but I hear people tell me all the time that they don’t vote because it doesn’t matter. It matters to everyone on Planet Earth. Unfortunately we haven’t evolved as a species much since our days in the cave and the guy with the “big stick” which is us is still in charge. America may have paused, staggered and even gone backwards along the way but its path has been clear since Benjamin Franklin uttered the words. “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, hang separately.”
The United States formed as a republic but it has behaved like an empire since the beginning. Just ask the Native Americans. Alexander said that empires grow or they shrink and history has taught us that where one empire ends another begins. The Sumerians, Spartans and the Persians all built walls that fell eventually. The Chinese built the Great Wall to stop the Mongols but the Mongols eventually overran them. The Romans built Hadrian’s wall to keep out the Northern British tribes but within a few hundred years Britain had emerged as the greatest empire in the world. The Russians built the Berlin Wall but it was America who emerged as the greatest empire in history. So when I hear people talk about building a wall on America’s southern border I worry about America’s future. Do we really want Mexico to become the next great empire?
So what can we do? What is the next step for us as citizens of the last and greatest hope of humanity, the Republic of the United States of America if we want to avoid becoming another failed empire. The first step is becoming a solvent nation not dependent on bondholders to decide policy. This is a problem that no one has been able to solve and so I decided to use Artificial Intelligence to solve the problem for us. I asked Chat GPT “How can the United States balance the budget, provide universal single-payer healthcare and eliminate net national debt within 30 years and this is what it created.