After all of the success of capitalism and the republic, at least one hundred and fifty years of building the strongest, most powerful nation in the world out of the minds of a few intelligent farmers who had studied history and previous successful means of governing, why did we turn to communism in the early 20th Century? The answer is: systems.
If you read about the world back then, at the turn of the previous century, you read a lot about systems. It was revolutionary thought in a lot of ways to effectively use what was already there in new and interesting ways. It was the birth of corporate farming, of distribution systems, ultimately, the instate highway system, because they believed that in order to feed, house and educate the future, they would need systems to take the random small farms and farmers and produce for the nation and the world. They would need systems to organize and distribute not only food, but fuel, water, etc., and they weren’t wrong, but it was a sort of conditioning that led to the wayward turn we would make.
So ingrained in this nation today is this revolutionary way of thinking that it’s almost impossible to consider anything without a system. And, systems aren’t all bad, but they allow for the few to control the rest. Is that good? In some ways. But understanding that the genus (not genius) of the system was along collective thought leaders like Hegel and Marx, should give one pause to at least consider whether the “system” is good or bad.
As we have seen the systems we use to vote can be corrupted simply by one secretary of state or one district attorney. If they don’t care that the elections are being rigged, who would be in a position to challenge their authority? When Bill Barr came out on a national television program and declared that he saw no sign of a rigged election in 2021, after the furor over the steal had gained momentum, you can recognize the unprecedented move that was for him to make. When before has the Attorney General declined to investigate such obvious crimes as were committed during the 2020 election? Now, we see it all the time with Merrick Garland, who has perfected the concept of ignoring crimes of the left and prosecuting crimes of the right. But Bill Barr was the master. Look at all the crimes of treason surrounding the illegal wiretapping and surveillance of Trump’s campaign to ignoring the fraudulent dossier, to allowing the prosecution of Michael Flynn when the DOJ and the FBI refused to intercede in the judge’s obvious obsession with Flynn. Those who participated in it knew they were committing treason and even if, like Comey, they were dedicated to committing treason “for the good of the nation.” that’s still treason. I might have medical expenses for my daughter that I cannot afford, that does not allow for me to rob a bank. The justifiable “reason” for committing treason doesn’t negate the fact of it.
People focus on the facts of the treason committed by almost all of the upper level of the FBI, who should be arrested by the “good” FBI agents we hear so much about on Dan Bongino and Sean Hannity, but they weren’t, and they fail to focus on the real culprit, the system.
The republic is designed for the individual, not the system. It’s designed to work in each individual case by arming the oppressed with indisputable rights. These rights give them the armor of power when standing before the courts. They might have all the cops, government representatives, all the judges, but when an individual stands before them with their rights intact, they are on an equal footing, because it negates the power of the state by providing supremacy to the individual and their rights.
So, the system needs to negate those rights in order to have absolute power over the individual. This is what we’ve been witness to in our recent history, a dismantling of the one aspect of the republic that the state can’t overcome any other way than to have the legislature try over and over to abolish these rights with laws and counting on the years of abuse until eventually the judge or the Supreme Court deny them.
This is the cynicism of the system, to recognize that a lot of abuse can take place before anyone determines that they acted in error, but it wasn’t error, it was calculated.
In the coming New Republic, after SHTF, the Civil War, and the restructuring of the republic is underway, this is one thing that must be included in the future negotiations much like they had during the Constitutional Convention, that these “errors” must be fixed and when something is deemed unconstitutional, that it opens the door for civil litigation of those who acted unconstitutionally. If an individual must stand to defend themselves from the power of the state, the actors must be subject to lawsuits and punishment up to and including separation from service and heavy fines. Some might go to the extent of prison terms, but I suggest that in going that far, one makes prosecution more rare and I believe that if it remains separation and fines, that charges would be more often brought and executed than otherwise, unless we believe that SHTF and Civil War puts a blood-thirsty aspect into society for a period of time, but ultimately that fades and the prospect of putting FBI agents in prison is not something the public would support. Hopefully there will be no FBI, or any federal police in the New Republic, but I am not a dictator, only a lowly proponent of a republic that does not yet exist.
I hope that this post helps to inspire people to look past what is already a dead whale on the beach, i.e., the old republic, and look to the future. One day, there will be a need for these ideas and solutions to the “systems” that took us down. Focusing on the power of the individual is an answer to the systems required of dealing with the masses. What we have forgot, as a nation, is that the individual does not need a system. Capitalism does not need a system and a republic made up of individual rights does not need a system. This is why communists wanted it abolished, they only gain power through these systems.
Read this to get an idea of how the individual is being eliminated and replaced with a system of dealing with individuals. It’s a crock!
The system is the disease, not the constitution, or the individual.
No wonder colleges produce such educated idiots. That Systems Theory link was just gobbly gook posing as something "scientific" and valuable to know. A witch doctor's mumbo jumbo is probably more useful. The story of the Emperor's clothes comes to mind Pretense, & hubris, wrapped in significance without reality = insanity.
Where there is no system, we invent a system. (I have a system for stringing green beans.) Another name for "system" could be organization. I learned in my career that in order for any project to be successful there must be organization. I used a system called Incident Command. In working an incident needed tasks were categorized into five functional areas - Command, Operations, Planning, Finance, and Logistics. The size and/or complexity of an incident determined how many of those functional areas were staffed, except for Command. Command must always be filled. If Command could handle the other areas (small incident), they didn't expand. It was a means to use limited resources most effectively. Each of you uses that same system daily. You just don't call it "Incident Command" or even realize you are doing it. Systems are great when applied in a logical and sensible way. But along the way for us as a country, disreputable people in pursuit of their own demented agenda, usually fueled by the desire for power and wealth, corrupted systems for their own benefit. Sort of like installing a wing damn on a river to direct the flow the way you want it. Added by propaganda its been easy to "pull the wool" over the public's eyes as their freedoms, liberty, and individualism is sucked away slowly over time and replaced with dependency.
You seem more optimistic than me, T.L. I don't see a New Republic in our future.