"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
―
Aristotle"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned
from time to time that the people preserve the spirit of resistance?" ―
Thomas Jefferson
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ―
John F. Kennedy
The pre-totalitarian wobble
Before full-blown totalitarianism emerges for all to see, the failing societal establishment inevitably begins to "wobble" under the weight of the dire sociological and environmental consequences of its corrupted rejection of and/or departure from a steady and impartial [aka constitutional] rule of law according to the principles of sound reason and sustainable nature ... and America is wobbling badly as it lurches from crisis to crisis.
A debt-ridden Congress totters
Republicans have cut taxes not spending ... while Democrats have increased spending not taxes ... as BOTH PARTIES force the nation to "borrow" more using the central bank Federal Reserve to prop up the borrowing by purchasing trillions in public and private debt with fiat credit. This debt-rollover ponzi scheme is tantamount to counterfeiting the common currency in increasingly larger amounts which is impoverishing working families as a massive regressive tax on current and retired Labor [ie. family breadwinners] which gain income and hold wealth primarily in the form of the currency [ie. wages and savings] which is rapidly depreciating in real purchasing power.
This systematic impoverishment of breadwinners and the accompanying weakening of their families gives impetus to the expansion of the welfare state which is increasingly needed to stimulate the failing family structure and defer or mitigate the worst symptoms of sociological collapse without properly diagnosing and treating their underlying cause ... the corrupted fiscal and monetary policies of the federal government and the Federal Reserve. The result is a downward, multi-symptomed spiral into criminal and revolutionary discontent that will require both an enlarged welfare state and a strengthened totalitarian response to defer or mititgate breakdown and chaos.
As this post is being written, the Congress is passing a special "emergency" law to amend legislative procedures to allow a "one time only" special vote to increase the debt limit again ... to avoid national default ... in a way that will permit Republican deficit spenders to blame Democrat deficit spenders. And the Democrats are quite happy to play along and claim the Republicans are hypocrites. But everyone sees through the politics of both parties.
What's happening is a clear act of desperation on both sides which exposes the ad hoc, reactionary manner in which the ruling establishment has abandonned any principled commitment to the rule of law and is willing to increasingly resort to pragmatic discretion disguised as gimmicks to mislead and deflect public anger over the advanced state of national dysfunction and fiscal-monetary decay.
A power-grabbing Federal Reserve is exposed as incompetent
At the same time, even the corporate-controlled media can see that the Federal Reserve [the government's elite and unelected co-conspirator in plundering the public treaury] has no clothes ... and is faltering badly ... for as CNBC reports, it is now changing course abruptly for the 4th time in Chairman Powell's four years. A reasonable person should not only question the credibility of such an erratic institution ... but should fear the consequences of giving unchecked power to such an obviously inept [or corrupt] unelected group of elite bankers.
"Central banks have shifted to almost purely discretionary monetary policies ... rooted in a Do Whatever It Takes monetary policy." Bill Hester, Hussman Strategic Advisors, December 2021
At least a few are left who are unafraid to call the tyrants out to their faces ... all our "great
declarations" are nothing but sad commentaries on the advanced state of
complacency in which we find ourselves as the watchmen on the wall.
Totalitarians in the wings
But the real truth goes much deeper if we will look forwards not backwards.
As FA Hayek explained in The Road to Serfdom in 1945, a sure sign that a body politic is in the late stages of its journey towards the totalitarian side is repeated claims by those in power of the necessity to take temporary, extraordinary steps in further and further departures from the clear, written rule of law as they grasp more and more extreme, discretionary power in a fevered but futile effort to do "whatever it takes" to shore up their corrupted, crashing, chaotic systems of control and oppression:
"As planning becomes more and more extensive, it becomes regularly necessary to qualify [aka nullify] legal provisions by reference to what is 'fair' or 'reasonable'; this means that it becomes necessary to leave the decision to the discretion of the authority in question. ... One could write a history of the decline of the rule of law in terms of the progressive introduction of these vague formulas into legislation and jurisdiction and of the increasing arbitrariness and uncertainty of, and the consequent disrespect for, the law. ... This process of the decline of the rule of law had been going on steadily in Germany for some time before Hitler came into power [and completed its advance to complete totalitarian planning]." ― FA Hayek, 1945
A wobbling America stands on the brink of its own descent into totalitarianism. What can prevent it from stumbling over the edge and falling to its destruction?
Identify and disable the source of discretionary power
Reestablishing the rule of law follows a collapse into chaos and the long and painful period of sociological and environmental cleansing and rebuilding that must inevitably follow.
Rescuing the rule of law, however, requires decisive action in the late stages of decline by a committed remnant of the failing republic where enough otherwise-passive citizens are still willing to follow a bold and principled resistance to the emerging tyranny. The exact form and strength of this resistance varies depending on the circumstances of history, but it always seeks to first identify and then disable the underlying source of the discretionary power.
In America's case, effective power long ago passed out of the hands of elected public officials and the electorate [at any level] into the hands of an unelected financial elite that controls the US$ and the national banking system ... led by the Federal Reserve which has illegally and unconstitutionally de facto counterfeited the common currency in open violation of the clear laws of its own charter and the US Constitution. ― see Love vs.The Federal Reserve Board of Governors, 2015.
By exposing and resisting what honest commentators are increasingly calling "the lawlessness of the Fed", a remnant of Americans can bring the entire associated system of fiscal-monetary corruption to its knees IF enough otherwise-passive citizens are still willing and able to follow a principled and impartial movement away from the edge of the abyss. And although that is a BIG IF, the alternative is to let America slide into totalitarianism ... and past any remaining point of rescue.
Is resistance worth the immediate risk and pain?
When evil is great, even the great in heart can be frightened into silence.
"There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate
and despise him who speaks with integrity.
... You oppress the righteous by taking bribes;
You deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times,
for the days are evil." ― Amos 5
But there are good historical reasons [based on morality and self-interest] to join the effort to stop injustice while it can still be unseated.
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of
mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of
the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced
the latter, without neglecting the former." ... And they will reply, "Lord, when did we see You
hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did
not minister to You?"
Then the King will answer, "Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for Me." And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. ― Matt 23-25
They came for the Communists, and I
didn’t object – For I wasn’t a Communist;
They came for the Socialists, and I
didn’t object – For I wasn’t a Socialist;
They came for the labor leaders, and I
didn’t object – For I wasn’t a labor leader;
They came for the Jews, and I
didn’t object – For I wasn’t a Jew;
Then they came for me –
And there was no one left to object.
― Martin Niemoller, German Protestant Pastor, 1892-1984
Choosing to join the resistance against injustice or to remain silent may not be such a hard choice after all ... it simply takes a thoughtful forward-looking conviction about what is right and what is wrong ... something called conscience ... without which no individual or society can prosper. Sooner or later you will admit what is right and what is not ... voluntarily or involuntarily. Why wait when you can do it now?
How can you "fight the Fed"?
One principled person or organization can accomplish alot, but a multi-threaded coalition is not easily broken. The sociological and environmental symptoms of America's decline are diverse ... ranging from failing private families and businesses to failing public schools and eco-systems. If the source of discretionary power in America ... the enabling Federal Reserve ... is to be disabled resulting in the immediate shift of power back towards the rule of law under the citizens of the Republic, it will be by uniting the resistance in all the areas that are suffering directly and indirectly from the Fed's continued access to the discretionary power that is enabling the continued subversion of the societal and environmental rule of law. A good motto for such a coalition might be:
“In justice, unity; in all else, liberty; in all things, charity.”
Will YOU join the resistance?
