We are almost three months into Trump’s second term as president and things are developing at a rapid pace. Hardly a day goes by where we aren’t hearing a story that reinforces the narrative so many Americans are clinging to. Trump is saving our country, and he is the only one who can do it. From DOGE exposing trillions in fraud waste and abuse, to reciprocal tariffs that promise to restore the nation’s industrial might, Trump is being cheered on in nearly everything he does, without question. Some are even calling for a third Trump term and are demonstrating a willingness to do whatever it takes to get him there. The driving belief is that the left has caused so much damage to our country that fixing it will require more than this four-year term. This is a familiar line however, as Obama justified many of his radical actions based on the belief that George Bush had destroyed the economy beyond repair, and only his drastic spending measures could save it. It is almost as if this narrative is being used because it worked so well before, but I digress. While Obama touted a great game with his persuasive rhetoric, he spent money and dropped bombs at a pace that would have put Bush to shame. Despite all of the wonderful ways that Trump is restoring the greatness of our nation, there are some things that seem to never change no matter who is in office. The bombs are still dropping, and the debt is still increasing. The latest news is that Trump is threatening to bomb Iran unless they agree to halt their nuclear weapons program. This also is a familiar narrative as war with Iran has allegedly been part of America’s war plan since September 11, 2001. Most Americans believe that we have two political parties that vehemently oppose one another, as the mainstream media bombards us with programming that shows Republicans and Democrats fighting to uphold the values of their voters. In the meantime, the agenda drives on as we fight amongst ourselves over the issues, they tell us to care about.
“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is [to the Eastern Establishment] a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, [they believe that] the two parties should be almost identical, so that [they can control the elections] … without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.” (Quigley, p. 1035)
The above quote comes from Carrol Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time. Does it reflect reality in any way, or is it just a statement purporting to show how others think our government should function? Quigley isn’t asserting the idea himself, he is quoting what he calls the eastern establishment–whoever they may be. There is another version of this quote floating around the internet giving the impression that it is Quigley who promotes this idea, however, going directly to the source we can see he is discussing the beliefs of other governments. Who is the eastern establishment? Looking at the quote we can assume they are those pushing for global government. A common belief–one that is backed up by plenty of evidence mind you–is that the U.S. government has been infiltrated by communists. People who view the nation as being founded unfairly and believe a collectivist society based on the equal distribution of resources would be more righteous. Republicans are quick to assert that it is the Democrats that have been infiltrated. This stands to reason to some degree as the Democrats generally are the ones pushing for socialist reforms. It should be noted however, that the much referred to list of forty-five communist goals states the capture of one or both political parties as one of their objectives. It doesn’t say infiltrate the Democrat or Republican party–it says capture one or both. Who knows which one was captured first, or if this list has any merit at all? It should be obvious to all Americans however, that there are certain policy objectives that seem to be agreed upon by both parties, despite all of the efforts to convince us otherwise. One of those is spending us into oblivion.
In my article, Planned Economic Destruction: A Deliberate Communist Strategy, I shared a video of Robert Welch describing a ten-point plan of the Communist Party to destroy America. One of those points involved “greatly expanded government spending for every conceivable means of getting rid of larger sums of American money as wastefully as possible.” With the national debt currently standing at thirty-six trillion it is hard to argue that this isn’t expanding beyond the scope of conspiracy theory. Our government has been spending trillions of dollars on a consistent basis since the Reagan administration. According to thebalancemoney.com, President Reagan was the first to sign a spending bill into law that was over a trillion dollars. Since that time, the spending has continually increased. President Obama will always be remembered by Conservatives as the biggest spender, as during his eight years he spent a whopping 8.6 trillion. This amount was touted by talking head media starts like Rush Limbaugh, as more money that was spent by all our presidents combined. Trump, on the other hand, being viewed as a fiscal conservative and a prudent businessman, only spent 6.7 trillion in his first four years. Imagine had he been elected again in 2020; it would have been him that increased the debt by another 6.17 trillion instead of Biden. While we are only in the first three months of Trump’s second term, the debt is set to increase by 22 trillion over the next ten years. I suppose if he gets his third term, we can count on this as a certainty.
What about war with Iran? Surely a war would be justified if Iran was building nuclear weapons, would it not? War with Iraq was justified after 9/11 because they allegedly had weapons of mass destruction. Weapons that mind you, were never discovered. General Wesley Clark made an astonishing claim shortly after that tragic day. He claimed that the U.S. had plans to invade seven countries within five years, and the end goal was to engage Iran. The other six were Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Lebanon. While it has certainly been more than five years, the U.S. has been actively dropping bombs in most of these countries, if not all, since 2001. Biden dropped bombs in Syria, Trump, according to Newsweek, dropped more bombs in the Middle east than Obama–who ironically–dropped more bombs than Bush. These wars were pursued under a policy initiative called The Project for a New American Century which was a blueprint for rebuilding the nations defensive capabilities and expanding its influence across the globe. The Project New American Century was established by the Neo-Cons who surrounded George Bush like Richard Pearl, Paul Wolfowitz, and Lewis Libby. The plan itself had existed for some time, written while Clinton was in office in 1997. The document itself stated that minus some kind of new Peral Harbor type event, these goals would be achieved much too slowly. While conspiracy theories abound concerning the 9/11 attacks, there is little doubt that this event justified the launching of these ambitious plans to reshape American dominance–and every president has been amping up the efforts ever since.
While the Republicans and Democrats continue to fight over issues that keep the public sitting on the edge of their seats, spending money and dropping bombs seem to be one area where they agree to cooperate. Another area, and this is going to ruffle some feathers as again, the popular narrative is that the Trump administration is waging the valiant fight, is gun control. The common perception is that Democrats push for more gun restrictions while Republicans stand for the Second Amendment. This isn’t true, especially when it comes to Trump. President Trump accomplished more in terms of gun control in his first four years than Obama did in his eight. In fact, Trump did things that Obama wouldn’t have dared to do, like issue an illegal executive order banning bump stocks, for example. This action went virtually unopposed because the perception as Trump being the one man who could save the nation–because he defeated Hillary Clinton– had taken such a deep hold of the American consciousness. Earlier, I mentioned Reagan being the first president who signed a trillion-dollar spending bill into law. Most people aren’t aware of his support for gun control. It is because of the 1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act that we can no longer purchase fully automatic firearms. This provision of the bill paved the way for Congress to pass the 1994 “assault weapons ban.” Reagan also passed sweeping gun control legislation while Governor of California, including banning the open carry of handguns. Finally, after his presidency, he openly supported many of the gun control provisions we are still dealing with today, like background checks under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act. Today, conservatives believe that Trump is fighting the good fight to restore the Second Amendment while completely forgetting about his support for unconstitutional red flag laws. The public is being led to believe that Pam Bondi is investigating unconstitutional infringements across the country, and that she will swoop in and save the day. What is more likely to happen is one small step forward and two steps back. I would like to remind readers that it was the first Trump administration’s ban on bump stocks that paved the way for some of the other ATF rules we are still dealing with.
Americans continue to be cognitively subdued by what can best be described as–a fake battle of insignificant issues between Republicans and Democrats. Because both sides are emotionally attached to the issues that define their movements, little attention is paid to areas where both sides seem to be pushing the same agenda. This is because the engineers of public opinion have spent a significant amount of time understanding the beliefs and attitudes of the American voter, that they understand very well how to frame these issues in a way that shuts our minds down to any critical evaluation. The American mind has been beat down by a constant exposure to trauma and stress that we are losing the ability to be critical while demonstrating a willingness to simply follow who ever promises to return the nation to a state that agrees with our sense of normalness. While Trump, for example, is being cheered on for his efforts to expose corruption and stick it back to the countries who have been sticking it to us, very few are raising questions about a 22 trillion-dollar debt increase. It is like Alinsky said I suppose, once a people have been brought to a point of hopelessness, they will accept anything that promises a future.
“Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.” (Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, xx)
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