| America Out Loud News

From America’s first military operation as an independent polity to its military operations today, the American Armed Forces have always fought to procure and protect American prosperity. The operation to tamp down the excessive exuberance of the Barbary Coast Corsairs in the 1780s is no different from Operation Iraqi Freedom in the 2000s. Both were meant to guarantee America’s access to global trade and strategic resources. In the aftermath of WWII, America made a deal with the rest of the world in which it undertook to keep the world open for trade and, in exchange, procured for its currency the dollar the exalted status of world reserve currency and the flexibility to operate substantially outside of the typical fiscal constraints that apply to other nations. America’s unparalleled prosperity today rests upon this foundation. By calling every skirmish a war and by glorifying the avoidance of such military actions, the MAGA movement shows a lack of understanding of both geopolitics and economics. It is jeopardizing the living standard of every American. 

Image: Reuters

Fifty years ago, progressive globalists decided that what we used to call The American Dream was going to kill our planet and that it had to be limited only to the elites. They decided that there must be a cap placed on the human population of our planet and on the per capita energy consumption by the non-elite populations. To achieve their goals of negative population growth and limits on the energy consumption of non-elite members of society, progressive created feminism and later transgenderism (LGBTQ) to sow mass sexual dysfunction and thus reduce procreation rates to well below sustainable. 

To achieve their goals of limiting energy consumption, they created veganism and environmentalism; the former to limit the energy and health value of the foods we eat and the latter to limit our external energy consumption in things like heating and cooling our homes and, most importantly, our means of transportation.

The result is a mass of humanity that is malnourished, sluggish, sexually confused, and deeply unhappy, all in accordance with the progressives’ plan because, quite simply, miserable people do not have kids. We can resist our overlords’ insidious agenda by eating lots of meat and dairy, by clinging to our traditions, by living large, and, most importantly, by having lots of healthy, happy kids.

America was born not from the desire to separate from Britain as a nation, an ethnos, or a religion; it was born out of the desire for self-governance by its inhabitants. For this right, America fought and won, decisively and finally, in Yorktown, Virginia, on October the 19th, 1781. On January the 8th, 2021, 87,305 days later, America ceased to exist when an individual never elected by anyone, Jack Dorsey, proved himself and his employers, the globalist progressives, to be vastly more powerful than the sitting president of the United States, Donald Trump, who had just a few weeks earlier received the votes of more than seventy million Americans.

As a self-governing nation, America is not coming back simply because there is no process by which it can do so and because at least half of its inhabitants do not want to self-govern. Freedom-loving Americans must adjust to life under the totalitarian dictatorship of the Western globalist progressives, at all costs avoiding being trapped in the vast ocean of human units of consumption cum lab rats that will form the majority of American citizens.

Many people on the American Right are becoming vociferous enemies of formal education, especially graduate and post-graduate degrees. And yet, multiple studies and simple real-life experience shows that the path to success in America is closely correlated with one’s academic and professional credentials. The stolen election of 2020 was only made possible by the fact that too few American populists are represented among the American elites, i.e. the people who actually count the votes or, more precisely, tell others how to count them. 

Since the dawn of civilization and today more than ever, the path to agency, influence, and power lies via the acquisition of these much-maligned letters preceding or following one’s name. No country in history, and certainly not America, has ever been run by its uneducated working classes, with the notable and disastrous exception of the Soviet Union. Tellingly, the people who rile the most against formal education are either those who are well-educated or those who possess certain talents that are rare in the population at large.

For the first two centuries of America’s existence, being American gave one tremendous advantage. Starting with a whole continent to explore, through a robust economy and great respect and even envy anywhere in the world, being an American was, in most cases, a shield against adversity and a passport to success. 

Not so today. As America fractures along racial, economic, and ideological fault lines, as the solid foundations of shared genes, history, and religion are being replaced with intersectional fracturing, and as global competition intensifies, being an American is no longer magical. Indeed, it may be a detriment as compared to other, more dynamic countries.  

Since the processes that drive America’s rapid decline are fundamental and irreversible, it falls on individual Americans to trust in their own self-worth instead of relying on their so-called “rights and privileges,” none of which are any longer real. Americans today, if they wish to remain free and prosperous, must invest in their skills and build independent wealth, and most importantly of all, they must entertain no illusions or fall prey to propagandists who make money by selling them on lies and frivolous promises of a brighter future.

Paul Revere, one of the original American patriots, did not include in his definition of “American” most of the people then residing in the North American continent, be they French, Spanish, or native. To him, “American” meant people born in North America to a family that originated in Great Britain and resided in one of the thirteen British colonies. Revere’s sense of self was as a Massachusettsan, a New Englander, an American (in the sense described above), an Englishman (culturally), and a Christian. His and his fellow Patriots’ quarrel with their mother country of England was purely political, as described in the Declaration of Independence. In no way did the Patriots wish to distance themselves from English culture, English history, or English religion, i.e., the Church of England, which they simply renamed Episcopalian. 

What this shows is that political affiliation or political structure was of little real import to American Patriots. They felt aggrieved by the political system that England used to administer its overseas territories and wished to do all they could to replace it with a system of their own choosing, but in no way did this act affect their sense of self-identity. The Constitution, as the governing document of their new political system, was never meant to replace culture, religion, genetics, or shared history as the defining aspects of what it meant to be an American.

The erosion of these markers of identity and their replacement by the American Right with the Constitution and by the American Left with adherence to a set of generalized and ephemeral progressive values has created in America an identity crisis of immense proportions, and it is this identity crisis that is at the very root of America’s terminal decline.

As the Biblical story of the Exodus from Egypt teaches, people are slaves by default. A full trough is preferable, for most people, to the risks that always come along with freedom. It is equally wrong to assume that all Chinese yearn to be free and to believe that freedom has anything to do with voting in elections. Freedom is related to independence and both require hard work. Studying trades and mathematics is what makes one free, not voting in some sham elections for candidates who are only in it for self-enrichment. 

Too many Americans are proclaiming their opposition to big government while standing in line with their hands stretched out for pitiful crumbs from the same government they pretend to abhor. This is hardly the behavior of a free people. 

When it comes to China and the CCP, it is high time that Americans stopped whining about its excesses and atrocities, claims that America, with its sky-high abortion rate, rampant drug abuse, and “transgenders” is hardly qualified to make. It is high time that Americans stopped blaming China for winning and started blaming themselves for losing. Stop taking drugs, get educated, join the military; all of these choices are available to all Americans and yet too few make them. Until this changes, China will keep winning.

In the wake of the Second World War, Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand began a transition towards what would become known as social democracy or democratic socialism. By the 1970s, this transition was substantially complete. Democratic socialism is defined by the existence of ruling elites that limit the choices that regular citizens have at the ballot box to those candidates who are acceptable to the ruling class. Furthermore, the ruling class defines the limits of public discourse on issues such as abortion, homosexuality, and euthanasia. Finally, the ruling class limits both the economic upside and the economic downside, the risks, and the rewards, for the citizenry at large. The resulting economic system provides free healthcare and university education of acceptable quality to all citizens in exchange for high taxation on both income and consumption. An economic safety net amounting to something like universal basic income is also provided. 

With the rejection by the American ruling class of the results of the 2020 presidential election, because the reelection of President Trump was unacceptable to them, the true American rulers have briefly stepped from behind the veil and declared the transition of the United States to democratic socialism to be a fait accompli. It is unlikely that this action will face significant opposition in the halls of Congress or in the American public at large because no competing system of governance that comports to modern realities have so far been formulated.

A level-eyed historical analysis of the Hanukah story from 165 BC is often interpreted as an unlikely victory of an intrepid band of righteous warriors against an evil empire. In reality, it was a war by nationalist elements in the Jewish population of Judah against globalist Jews and the globalist Seleucid Empire. The war was won, barely, because of exceptional leadership by the Hasmonean family and even more so because the Seleucid Empire was in its final stages of decline and Rome has not yet asserted itself in the Middle East. Uprisings against Rome at the height of its power in 70 and 150 AD led to disastrous consequences for Jews, including a bi-millennial exile. 

The true lessons of Hanukah are thus that victories are few whereas defeats are many and ideology alone is never enough. Choosing the right historical moment and having the right leadership in place is what it takes to win.

In the sad and rather bizarre aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, the Trump fan base, far from proving itself passionate and activist, is showing its true colors as a collection of what in baseball would be called “fair-weather fans”. When Trump represented a winning brand and the stadium seats were full of sunshine, Trump’s supporters were everywhere to be seen. Now that the election, much through his own inaction, had been stolen from him, Trump’s fan base is quiet, even in states that have pro-Trump governors like Florida. Mass demonstrations by even one percent of Trump’s 70 million voters would have surely turned some heads and their non-existence speaks volumes.