America's Most Crucial Election

Vote like your liberty depends on the outcome. It does.

Tyranny and slavery exist in many forms.  Freedom on the other hand, is singular.  Either it exists, or it does not.  Domination of the many by the few has defined the human condition throughout the millennia.  Only in recent times, has freedom for the common man risen to the top of the agenda of mankind.  Now everyone speaks of freedom, yet it is under assault everywhere, clinging precariously to life in the “land of the free.”

Freedom’s original home in the modern world was across the Atlantic in the British Isles, but over two centuries ago it migrated across the sea to Britain’s North American colonies, where it was nurtured by the isolation imposed by geography and imperial neglect.  Freedom sank deep roots into the rocky soil of New England and the fertile loam of the southern colonies.  Freedom of conscience.  Freedom of thought and speech. Freedom of enterprise and mobility.  These ideas gestated gradually within the framework of the empire, and combined with vast natural bounty, culminated in the emergence of a free and prosperous people.

Yet, at the heart of this great experiment in liberty, lay the great paradox of chattel slavery.  The new nation that emerged in the 1770s proclaimed that it was the home of freedom, yet by the 1860s, the stark contradiction between freedom and slavery could no longer be contained.  The United States could not stand half slave and half free.  Ultimately, as our greatest president commented, it would be all the one, or all the other.  Abraham Lincoln and the newly formed Republican Party led a crusade to preserve the Union, “the last best hope of mankind,” and establish a “new birth of freedom,” for four million former slaves and for the nation as a whole.  It was, to be sure, never some pure and holy crusade against evil.  What human endeavor is?  But in the end, at the cost of some 700,000 lives it destroyed the evil of chattel slavery and eliminated the stain of hypocrisy that had cursed the nation.

But liberty is never safe from the will to power that is ever present in the human heart.  The founders understood that “men are not angels,” and must be constrained by law.  While they feared the emergence of “plutocracy,”  and the spirit of faction, they feared the growth of all powerful government most of all.  Accordingly, they designed a frame of government they hoped would be strong enough to ensure liberty for its citizens without becoming so strong as to threaten or curtail it.  Yet the emergence over the ensuing decades of enormous private fortunes and industrial giants seemed to threaten the economic liberties of ordinary American citizens.  In order to deal with this perceived threat, a new generation, no longer fearful of government power embarked upon a multigenerational effort to curtail the power of the “malefactors of great wealth,” who seemed to be the new threat to liberty.  Accordingly, they built a great regulatory and welfare apparatus which they placed within the executive branch of government.  In short, over the course of at least a century and a quarter, they created an entirely new fourth branch of government and endowed  it with enormous powers over the citizens of the nation.  Taking place gradually as it did, and appearing to be benign, few objected to the constitutional revolution that was unfolding.

Under the impact of crises such as the great depression, World War Two, the Cold War, and more recently, the “Global War on Terror,” an enormous national security bureaucracy has emerged that threatens the freedom the nation was founded to guarantee.  Under the guise of “national security,” it sends young Americans into meaningless “forever wars,” much like the conflicts that formed the background to George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.  Concomitant with the emergence of the national security and welfare state, a new aristocracy of government grandees, media propagandists, billionaires who collude with them, and academic experts has made its appearance.  These new aristocrats believe they are the source of all wisdom and hold the common man and woman in contempt, all the while making disastrous decisions about the great issues of war and peace, as well as such petty issues as what kind of stoves the man in the street can use to cook his evening meal. 

They have underwritten the creation of a virus that has taken the lives of over a million Americans, and used the crisis to deny them the “unalienable rights” guaranteed Americans in the Bill of Rights.  They have spied upon the presidential campaign of a candidate whom they despise.  They have spread not one, but several malicious hoaxes intended to destroy him.  They have enlisted the government in an unprecedented campaign to demonize him and drive him from public life.  Fearful of public criticism they have enlisted social media giants in an unconstitutional campaign of censorship against any who dare criticize their policies.  Fearful that they cannot win an honest election among American citizens, they have in contravention of the law they have sworn to uphold, imported upwards of twenty-million foreign nationals to whom they hope to grant citizenship and the franchise.  All of this and more they have done in collusion with the Democratic Party.

Tomorrow is the concluding stage of the great national election of 2024.  Should the Democratic Party and its candidates prevail, it is likely that it will take steps to ensure that it never loses another election.  A president Harris will likely move to make Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. states, each entitled to two Democratic senators.  A president Harris will likely attempt to pack the Supreme Court thus ensuring that the Court never rebukes a Democratic administration on any matter of consequence in the future.  A Harris administration will likely grant amnesty to over twenty million foreign national present in the United States illegally—thus ensuring their electoral loyalty generations into the future.  It may even continue Joe Biden’s illegal policy of mass immigration without the approval of Congress.  Meanwhile it will likely continue its reckless foreign policy of helping our enemies and punishing our friends, a policy that is likely to provoke a Third World War.

         Meanwhile they claim that they are the defenders of democracy.  They assert that “democracy is on the ballot.”

Indeed, it is.  They are the threat.

Democrats loudly proclaim that Trump will be a dictator.  But he was in office for four full years and never exercised dictatorial powers.  If he didn’t do it then, why would he do it now?

You may not like Donald Trump.  You may not like Republicans.  But if you care about your liberty, you better vote for him—and bring ten people with you.

Donald Trump can only serve one term.  Then he is out.  In four years, you will still have a choice.