A Rare Moment In American History

There are points of deflection along the timeline of any nation where taking one route led to one future and another route that would lead to another. The United States has seen a number of these deflection points, even before it became the United States of America. Largely, these deflection points have been met with the spirit of the American people and successfully navigated. Even the Civil War, as hotly contested as it was, led ultimately to a sense of one nation rather than a confederacy of independent states. Without accepting that as a “good” thing, it was necessary to galvanize the American psyche as a single entity before facing existential threats in the World Wars.

Post WWII, America took the wrong path; misplayed the strong hand it had won through victory and set itself up for international failures of every kind. In seeking to remake the world in the interests of multinational corporations founded in America, but not carrying American principles of freedom and wealth to other lands, but to use the power of American military might to subdue and exploit the world over, it sacrificed its very soul. The use of destabilization techniques to rid itself of uncooperative leaders such as Mossadegh in Iran and Arbenz in Guatemala it became the back-alley thug behind every dirty corporate deal and willingly so.

What was called “making the world safe for democracy” was really a sort of outward facing fascism by the old definition while professing the blessings of a republic at home. Given just the headlines of a new leader for the nations unwilling to bless their nation with American cooperation, it was hard to see the downside for America, but the headlines were just that: a façade that crumbled on reading the rest of the story. When the truth of the matter became known, it caused a psychic rift among the population that communists quickly took advantage of to vilify capitalism and the American Way to undermine the entire system.

It worked outward from universities, corrupted the courts, pitted one part of America against another, divided the whole thing between racists and virtuous progressives. What they proposed and eventually succeeded in accomplishing was the destruction of the Middle-Class, robbing it of its wealth through government programs and regulations designed to expand the federal, state and local governments to unwieldy size and power, reducing the American from hardworking, upwardly mobile individuals seeking innovation and invention to increase their wealth to mere debt slaves by the 1980s. Suddenly private wealth began to decline as productivity increased, that being a reflection of the siphoning off of profits by government agencies and their ever-increasing regulations against small and medium sized businesses. Only the big corporations could play in those waters and still accumulate capital, largely because they could lobby for and receive favorable laws and rulings to eliminate competition. Some of this was payback for these same corporations that covered for American political shenanigans worldwide.

All of this was done under the radar and Americans were mystified at the sudden universal disdain other nations had for the United States. It didn’t seem logical to their understanding, driven by corrupt news outlets that only told part of the story. Yes, the United States spent a lot of tax dollars on foreign aid. Wasn’t that good? Did it not help those struggling nations overcome famine and pestilence? Did it not bring them into the modern world? None of the citizens blithely paying their taxes knew that these payments were instigating and funding insurrections in those nations to gain favorable access to minerals and ores valuable to these partner corporations. There were only glimpses into the corruption, such as Iran-Contra and the drug cartels created by it.

Then there was the big business of endless wars. A lot of money could be made by expending ammunition and lives for causes that were tenuous to their stated purpose. Sometimes they were just outright lies, but the wars demonstrated the effectiveness of American military hardware to warlords, so that even when America was not directly involved, the military industrial complex could still profit.

That all of these lies and dirty tricks would ultimately have a dire consequence was not known or given much attention, until it faced the comparable firepower of a military peer like Russia. Exposed in Russia’s war with U.S.-backed Ukraine, a war that was largely fueled by USAID funds, was the reality that the grift and fraud baked into the military industrial complex has kept the U.S. from developing superior weapons and defensive systems. While confronting non-peer enemies like Iraq and Afghanistan, the weapons systems were frozen in place twenty years ago.

This is only symptomatic of a government that no longer does anything efficiently or effectively, but it does dole out trillions of dollars for accomplishing nothing. That’s really the story government wide. This is the cost of an unserious approach to national security. It was only a matter of time before the intelligence community started to ply its trade in political coups here at home and since it was funded by the taxpayers themselves, there was ample fuel to power that objective.

Whether one marks this innovation in the 1963 assassination of JFK, or the Russia collusion hoax of 2016, it’s safe to say that some aspects of 1963 have been in play ever since, employed against anyone who attempts to untangle the web of deceit surrounding government spending, because all of it eventually leads to the intelligence community.

In 2024, with all of the ammunition spent against him by two impeachments, thirty-four felony indictments, one conviction, an armed FBI raid on his home and two assassination attempts, Donald Trump was overwhelmingly elected the 47^th President of the United States for one specific reason, to root out and deconstruct the corruption and wasteful spending of the federal government. Trump has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity set a new course for the future of the United States by deconstructing the apparatus of corruption. This is a deflection point where the United States can and must make a change in direction, disavowing the mistakes of the past eighty years and focusing on America and Americans first, rebuild the American Middle Class that is the economic engine of the United States, deregulating business, ridding them of overburdensome taxes and unleashing their economic might. If the American people stand behind him, support him through the controversies he’s already fending off as this is written, it could be a new world in which Americans awaken.

But the opponents, the ones who profit from corruption, who double-deal the American people, who say they are offering humanitarian aid while simply subverting the citizens of other nations to accept unfavorable corporate deals, will not go down without a fight and that was revealed in technicolor over the protests against shuttering the worst offender of the corruption, USAID. But that’s still only a glimpse of the horrific nightmare the United States has morphed into, but it’s something to focus on; to push back against.

In the meantime, the direction Trump has laid out is but the first step. This point in time has to be that correction, the deflection point to a new America and we need to be looking hard for those who will follow this prescription for a better tomorrow, because there is a post Trump and we need to be prepared for it. This means cleaning out as many RINOs as possible along the way. The election of 2026 must be historic for dumping the old guard who want nothing more than to go back to business as usual, even if the ultimate goal of that business is to bankrupt and destroy the republic.

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