Reaping the Fruit of What We Have Sown
While some violently argue over what our nation had been and what it is becoming, insufficient attention is given to what it is in the immediate present. The Framers cast the seeds of personal liberty and responsibility on fertile, seemingly endless fields of endeavor. They had harvested these seeds from centuries of thoughtful struggle to define what it is to be human, and how best to construct human society. Unlike Luther Burbank, we have not always plucked the best of our plantings to reseed the growth of future generations. In so doing we have seduced ourselves with the sweet softness of an easily obtained fruit. Contrary to popular expression, America has always been a republic, not a democracy. But it now has become a Banana Republic.
Wikipedia defines Banana Republic as “a politically and economically unstable country with an economy dependent upon the export of natural resources….a society of extremely stratified social classes, usually a large impoverished working class and a ruling class plutocracy, composed of business, political, and military elites.” This is another way of depicting Plato’s Myth of the Three Metals, in which each stratum of human society was “fixed” in its place by its very nature, a different metal imbued within it by the Creator. A more recent vision of this is Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”. Currently many are trying to cement our mutable classes in a complex web of intersectional identities, benignly compelled by an ever more omniscient government. That government broadly discovers and dispenses new rights to its subjects, who long ago forgot the source of all unalienable rights and that they, not government, grant powers. We have accepted destruction of our working (middle) class through export via “collusion between the state and favored economic monopolies” of our manufacturing capacity. We readily give away our current natural resources, knowledge, and sustain ourselves on the exchange of services and consumption. Profits of all these new multinational enterprises have been privatized, while any debts necessitated by their removal and expansion elsewhere have been socialized, made the “financial responsibility of the public treasury”. That same public treasury has been used to indenture our lowest socioeconomic groups to the ruling class, further ensuring its persistence. The loss of real spending power for the lower- and middle-income classes from exportation of manufacturing real goods has been discounted by the reduced cost of foreign labor, even as that exploited foreign work force has benefited by these new income sources. More recently Oz’s curtain has been the long-term artificial depression of interest rates. Thus we have become “…a country with an economy of state capitalism, whereby the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the ruling class.” Is our imitation of the state-run economy of China inadvertent?
This transfer of the wealth of the common population to the ruling classes has been enabled by debasement of the currency and exporting geometrically expanding debt to foreign investors and governments based on the full faith and promise of our government. Until the 1960’s dollars were backed by gold reserves; France began the first run on America resulting in the abolition of the Bretton Woods international agreement and Nixon’s creation of the “petrodollar” with Saudi Arabia. That petrodollar is now eroding away with several new “reserve currencies” being created. In the original banana republics, the U.S.A. used the debt of Central American governments to rule over them and occasionally, by private or government efforts, to actually overthrow them. Now our export of excessive and unpayable domestic debt denominated in ever diminishing fiat dollars no longer backed by gold or oil places America in the power of international cartels and foreign governments. Remember the old adage, “if you owe the bank $100K, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank $100M, you own the bank.”
Here of course we are talking about somewhere in the area of 30-50 Trillion dollars in foreign holdings of dollars and dollar denominated debt. When, not if, the world starts its “bank run on America”, the U.S. nomenklatura, siloviki, and oligarchs will ensure their own economic survival. Once again, the consequences will be socialized. We will not return to true, individually empowered capitalism but slide further into a version of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, run yet again by the industrial-military-political complex but. This new regime will perhaps be on an international scale, as exemplified by the unelected European Parliament. The need for such is already being justified by a new Plato’s Noble Lie—a myth or lie knowingly propagated by the elite to maintain social harmony. This lie denies sovereignty, nationhood, and individualism through compulsory social benefits derived from climate change controls (reducing lifestyles of affluent nations and denying affluent lifestyles to developing nations), healthcare controls (the new WHO Treaty with its One Health principle gives that body control over all human endeavor), and economic redistributions serving diversity, equity, and inclusiveness (best enabled by replacement of fiat currencies by national and then international Central Bank Digital Currencies).
The original banana republics never completely escaped the destructive results of U.S. dominance. What independence they have gained has been through violent revolution, acceptance of home grown oligarchs, and new alliances within their own circle and now with non-Western Hemispheric powers. We here in America have no extra-territorial power capable of or willing to come to our rescue. We have only ourselves. Our revolution cannot succeed through violence, but only through thoughts, words, and deeds with persistence. Regardless of what we are told, we must loudly and continuously proclaim we are all made by our Creator of One Metal in a dense fabrication of individual freedom, responsible not to government but to each other no matter what identity. We can insist on methods of assuring election integrity in our locales, and elect only those whose actions reflect our continuously voiced wishes and concerns. We can openly and forcefully reject the Noble Lies of any New Order or Great Reset while continuing to insist on personal and public rationally incremental solutions to these long-term problems based on local individual and social choice. While no one can be above the law, no one may be aside from the law, and we must make every peaceful lawful effort to bring to account all those who espouse “rules for thee and not for me”. Dealing with the impending collapse of our currency and its seductive “rescue” by those who will seek to preserve themselves at our expense once again will be the greatest challenge. It may involve a return to very old methods of local social commerce via individual debt, exchange, and barter. The alternative is to convince ourselves and those whose wealth is based in fantasy paper and derivatives of debt to return to a gold standard. All of this requires continuous attention and participation by everyone in all local affairs, then those of our states, and nation. Silence conceals preferences. Our nation’s founders and supporters were never silent. Or we can continue to feast on the slowly rotting flesh of the bananas