America’s Political Chasm

Is our “government” Living up to the Promise of the Constitution to us? This is the root cause of our chasm.

It is widely known that progressives both, Democrats and Republicans, have changed government over the years and created Institutions and tools of individual and social control over time violating our Constitution.

The effect has been a slow turning away from our Constitutional System of government and, walking away from our Declaration of Independence, our “Moral Law,” creating a new set of moral laws through legislation. The Administrative Government, the undeclared and unconstitutional fourth branch of government, made changes through regulations, affecting corporations but aimed at the people. The visible result has been the creation of a formidable chasm within our American people.

The chasm is bigger than the one we had before the Civil War, during the antebellum period. It does not involve just a few states, it involves ALL the states. it is between the American people in all the states, based on moral judgments created by unconstitutional laws.

Six key events over the past one hundred years played roles in what we see today:

1. The establishment and implementation of an “Administrative government” within the government, instituted by Progressive Woodrow Wilson in 1913.

2. The reaffirmation of this type of government control by Franklin Roosevelt with “The New Deal.” Accepted by the Supreme Court only after he threatened to “pack the court.”

3. The establishment of “The Great Society” by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. This is the trigger of today’s problems.

4. The very visible Impeachment of President Nixon (1973–1974). People lost confidence in the government’s true purpose.

5. The slow but continual introduction of unconstitutional “Moral Laws” through the unlawful expansion of the LBJ “Civil Rights Act” through the “invisible” Administrative government 4th branch, to this day. It legislated “eternal bigotry.”

6. Last but not least, the invasion and abuse of the check and balances the Constitution provides on three branches of government that are part of our Constitutional Government.

To understand the slow change that has overcome us, a historical perspective is needed. We are the victims of the “Paradox of the Boiling Frog” slow change process called, “the process of incremental seduction.” Today, we are on the verge of dying as a society without knowing what is happening.

We all get the idea of this chasm when we read assertions made by authors expressing, what they think is, clear opinions on the way they see the “other side” and express the dangers. Just as the two sides did in the antebellum period. For example in the Medium opinion titled, “The Next Stage of American Collapse,” the introduction gets right to the point:

“American democracy survived fascism by a hair’s breadth. Trumpism was, yes, the rise of very real fascism in America. It was replete with everything from concentration camps to kids in them being “separated” from their mothers and fathers — which is a form of genocide — to minorities being hunted in the streets and seeking refuge in “salvation cities” to “bans” on whole ethnicities.”

To clarify, “Fascism” is characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy. The people who follow when, where, and how things happen can easily find out, independent of social systems, that those claims have no basis on reality in what happened during the presidential period with Trump. People that say that, are appealing to the emotions of a group that has already decided what Trump is. They do it in order to gain readership. These emotions are not allowing them to see the beginning of a return to a Constitutional government that has been truncated by many strong progressive past Presidents and a Perennial Progressive Congress that today, borders on tyranny because of their heavy use of the 4th branch of government.

The Process of Incremental Seduction Has Turned “The People” From Being Sovereign to Being Serfs

Tyranny has its roots in America with slavery. It was demonstrated during the antebellum period in the Southern States. It was the primary cause of the civil war. It became the struggle to save or destroy our Republican form of government and equal natural rights as stated in our Declaration of Independence. Abolitionist Frederick Douglas said, “slavery requires nothing less than a total transformation of the entire society,” because the nature of tyranny always requires expansion for total control. Why? Because it requires control in order to protect itself, such is Congress today and individually, all are “vocal” progressives who feel threatened by opinions other than theirs.

They have an ironclad control of our destiny today and are making near-irreversible changes. This started very slowly back in 1912–1913 by Woodrow Wilson, the first progressive to take control of the Executive. It came into being after the Republic was reinstated, basically, with Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (Nov. 1863) which brought us back to the Declaration of Independence (Our Moral Law) and the Constitution (Our Law of the Land), the end of the Civil War (Appomattox, 1865), and the recovery period, the country went through a period of astounding economic growth and change.

It is well known from history, between 1880 and 1920, the country saw a dramatic change with unrestricted immigration, in addition, there was a great movement of the population from rural areas to the cities, Corporations came into being, the transcontinental telegraph was completed (1861) and the railroad became the transportation system for goods and people (1869).

The progress and the problems it engendered gave rise to the “progressives.” The bases for that way of thinking was the perception, thereafter, the belief that our Constitutional system was too conservative and rigid, which made it slow and cumbersome for the country’s new problems. The progressives, led by Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, set out to change that.

Progressives introduced the concept of the “Administrative government” and thus government “systems” being a “living thing” thus, it required “adjustments to the current times.” The progressive thinking was that government required to be split into two functions, one to “Govern” and another to “Administer.” By doing this, President Wilson changed the way our Constitution had delegated control to three independent branches of government tied together through rules of engagement; he instituted what is today the 4th totally independent branch of government, in the form of an institution run by “Civil Servants” (an oxymoron), answerable to nobody, and with the capability to act as needed to “regulate progress.”

we saw how President Trump suffered these consequences. Today, there are 2.5 million (depending on what Agencies you include, some say 10 Million) civil servant institutional workforce. They are beyond our control AND Congress’s control. And yet, they make all the common laws that rule our lives today through “experts.” It is the invisible arm of the progressives, they have total control because one of the requirements Woodrow Wilson demanded was that anyone hired to “Administer” had to be a “progressive,” and they are to this day; they hire people like them. The Lincoln government “of the people, by the people, and for the people,” is no longer. Our Constitutional form of government is in the hands of people we have no control over, nobody can fire them (read about Reagan’s troubles when he fired ALL the flight controllers).

here is a quote from Larry P. Arnn, who among other things was at Oxford University, where he served as director of research for Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill. From 1985 until his appointment as president of Hillsdale College in 2000.

“Listen to Fauci on Face the Nation, dismissing his critics in Congress as backward reactionaries. When those critics disagree with him, Fauci said recently, “They’re really criticizing science because I represent science. That’s dangerous.”

The problem with this kind of thinking was pointed out by a young Winston Churchill in a letter to the writer H.G. Wells in 1901. Churchill wrote:

Nothing would be more fatal than for the government of states to get into the hands of the experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge: and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows only what hurts is a safer guide than any vigorous direction of a specialized character. Why should you assume that all except doctors, engineers, etc. are drones or worse? . . . If the Ruler is to be an expert in anything he should be an expert in everything, and that is plainly impossible.

Churchill goes on to argue that practical judgment is the capacity necessary to make decisions. And practical judgment, he writes in many places, is something that everyone is capable of to varying degrees. Everyone, then, is equipped to guide his own life in the things that concern mainly himself.

Another thing about the experts is that they are not really engaged in the search for truth. Instead, the powerful among them suppress the obvious fact that there is wide disagreement among the experts. There always is.”

There are other parallels between the civil war and today. As the civil war approached, the then slave states:

• Curtailed free speech — which today they do in many open or concealed ways through Social Media. By shutting down opposition opinions or speech.
• Free Press — Media today is owned by progressives who readily populate their stations with sympathetic mouthpieces. Forcing other media to tell the truth which challenges those who want to choose the “convenient truth.” This over time, creates the chasm we see in society today.
• Protection of mails — civil service today spies on the entire population by hoarding in infinite servers, all internet traffic, and using the cooperation of social media to spy on the people, all in the name of the new “moral government.”
• Unwarranted searches — facilitated by “The Patriot Act.” See all the CNN publicized, FBI arrests made during Trump’s Presidency. Private citizens, like Carter Page, a Patriot graduate of the Naval Academy, was investigated to potentially be “tried” in secret courts. Meanwhile, in Obama’s progressive government, he allowed Hillary, to have a FOIA exempted non-government private server at home, for government business. US government papers were stored in an unsecured server, with no consequences to this day.

All of these are threats to our natural rights, a standing threat of tyrannical power, and our individual freedoms. From Frederick Douglas, “Slavery is the most stupendous of all lies.” Why? “Because it has to reshape the entire society in order to protect itself.” “Control” is key. “Progressiveness” has become the most stupendous of all lies, besides making us Serfs, to protect the invisible 4th branch of government that affects all of its “policies” through laws created there. Without our representation or consent and to our detriment, Because this is what turns sovereign citizens into serfs.

From our progressive President, Woodrow Wilson, who instituted the 4th branch of government, through Lyndon B. Johnson who, through his Great Society set of ACTs, instituted morality laws as the government way of doing business, we have sustained a slow but consistent intrusion into our natural rights and individual freedom. As the astute politician he was, President Lyndon Johnson refused to run for a second term, to allow someone else to “clean up” the mess that the Vietnam war had become. Mass protests all over the country and young people chanting “Love Not War.”

The Process of Incremental Seduction

The progressive strategy over the years has used the “process of incremental seduction,” (the slow process of the paradox of the boiling frog), to establish what we see today, with no one noticing the increasing irreversible changes being made.

After the Vietnam war, the Democratic Party won all the money and prestige, the Republicans lost those things. There are many explanations but based on what we see today, differences in perception within groups of men and women started to diverge. For men, they noted differences based on wealth and their ability to stay out of the draft and felt the heavy-handedness of government, police, and the military; women’s self-image from a culture of feminism and marriage which was the golden knot of the family that united women to today’s women, that are diametrically opposite, an added contribution to the shrinking middle class; for both, the civil right movement during the 1960s in the south.

However, the main cause of the individual and social effect that runs through us today, according to Christopher Caldwell is, “how the civil rights laws of the 1960s, and particularly the Civil Rights Act of 1964, divided the country.” They did so by giving new teeth to our new invisible “moral constitution,” the new Civil Rights Act accelerated the change into two different and incompatible constitutional culture groups. This became obvious only over time. It happened so slowly that many people did not notice. Thus, the Civil Rights Act perpetuated the strategy of “the process of incremental seduction,” which continues today. New laws can be enacted that continue to direct our society as being “racist.”

The progressive state and new “Congress Acts,” give new ground to cover with new laws we know nothing about until we trip a wire.

This is similar to what the PRI (the “Institutional Revolutionary Party) did in Mexico. They were in power from 1929 to the end of the 20th century (70 years). The two-prong tactic being used by the current “democrat” legislature can achieve that if they allow enough illegal immigrants into the country and give Puerto Rico statehood. Both are nearly irreversible and to us, the cost of millions in revenue we don’t have that our grandchildren will have to pay for.

How bad was the Lyndon B. Johnson “Civil Rights Act?” Within this Act there is what is called, “emergency mechanisms” that, in the name of ending segregation, were established in 1964. It was “widely assumed” that the emergency mechanisms would be temporary and narrowly focused. Everybody was wrong. As Caldwell expresses:

“they soon escaped democratic control altogether, and they have now become the most powerful part of our governing system.” In essence, these emergency mechanisms gave the Federal government unprecedented concentration of power.”

We see that today, exercised by the 4th Administrative State institution to tyrannical lengths.

Laws nobody voted for. This may be the biggest problem was/is when segregation was stopped, these powers were not suspended or rolled back. They have been used to intensify and underline racism everywhere in our society, meanwhile not correcting the real root cause of it. Bob Woodson, one of the original Civil Right advocates alongside Martin Luther King said, “race is being used as a ruse, as a means of deflecting attention away from critical questions such as, ‘why are poor blacks failing in systems run by their own people?’ making that a root cause for race to be an issue for the criminal justice system. In the past 50 years, 22 trillion dollars have been spent on poverty programs, 70% of that goes to blacks serving poor people, not the people themselves.”

The original Civil Rights Act did not specify for government to have the ability to set racial quotas in public schools; However, the “offices” of civil rights started doing it. No one was strong enough to resist the encroachment. “Affirmative Action” was another example, even though, this action was sued once, and the plaintiff won, the institution law was not changed, and further added “laws” mandating “diversity.” The abused spilled over to and worked against the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. This nullified what the American voters had approved through their representatives.

Civil Rights law has been used to institutionalize racial bias through their continual actions and intrusion in any public process they saw fit and keeping “racial bias” making the “root assumption” that our society is a BIAS society, this is wrong. Meanwhile, “we the people” NEVER have voted for ANY institution to do that. Looking at these actions from the other side of the looking glass, ALL our current social problems have this root, and its cause is illegal law invented and implemented by people we have no control over. This has led to many years of strife over immigration policy through today, where the now, tyrannical government unilaterally has opened the borders with NO LAW to support that decision.

Civil rights law has become a second, illegal constitution, with powers that can be used to override the Constitution of 1787. The illegal constitution has a metaphysical moral element, theocratic in the form it has been institutionalized. It gives the bureaucrats and judges all the Emergency power they need to override the known Constitutional order.

Check and Balances

Within the structure created by our founders, they implemented a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government. They gave them all distinct functions independent of each other by giving them separate powers, they also gave each branch some role in the function of the others.

As Peter Wallison quoted in his book “Judicial Fortitude,” Woodrow Wilson asserting his theory of the government being a “living” thing, while making the Constitution be a machine, wrote, “no living thing has its organs offset against each other, as checks, and live.” Woodrow Wilson is wrong on many levels.

• First, the Constitution is not a “machine,” it is a system. Russell Ackoff, definition, “a system is a whole that cannot be divided into individual parts.” Why it cannot be taken apart: 1. “Every part of the system is capable of affecting its behavior;” Z 2. “The way each part affects its behavior is dependent at least what other part is doing.” And the most important characteristic for us is, 3. “If you take the parts of the system and you line them up in any order, and divide them into groups, the subsets, will have the same properties as the parts. In other words, these subsystems interact, and they affect the behavior of the whole.”

As a system, the government is “a complex body of “interacting” individuals regarded as a functional entity with needs and wants and social characteristics.” The 4th branch is not part of the “constitutional system” and thus “invisible to the people.” There are no rules for interaction with it; it’s an “add-on,” like a rack on top of the car (the car is a system, the rack is optional), it creates drag and requires more power but, if it is temporary, it’s okay. The 4th branch is permanent, it is “enabled” by the Legislature, they make “rules” (Acts/Bills) Then, the 4th branch decides what infinite set of laws they want to invent. The fourth branch is an extensive “Politburo” with the power to make its own laws for corporations, society, and individuals. There are no longer checks and balances and nothing for the people to do except follow the law or go to jail, bankrupt, or both.

When Theodore Roosevelt threatened to “pack the courts” back in 1937, allegedly to make it more “efficient,” he was violating the basic premises of a system. There is a huge difference between being efficient and being effective. Like Peter Drucker said, “there is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all. Effectiveness is doing the right thing each time.” Think of it as a doctor having total control of your body and threatening to put a second heart to make you more efficient. Packing the courts is not a “switch” a president can throw. It should not be enabled by the Constitution unless there is an amendment for “the people” to decide, but the Constitution is mute about this. “Packing the court” is something that can be done without our approval. With that threat, Theodore Roosevelt got his way when his “New Deal Act” eventually passed. The net result of that attack and subsequent dealing of the court has demonstrated that they eventually acquiesced when on another occasion approved a state minimum wage law.

The slide of the balance between the “States” and the “Federal Government” started with that intrusion. Later FDR got to pick seven of the nine justices in the Supreme Court, cementing a long stretch of progressive changes. Today, we have a “conservative” but weak Supreme Court, a phantom image of its former self. We also have very weak states due to the “centralization” of Federal power into Congress.

Net Effect

Both Republicans and Democrats in Congress have already turned away from the Constitution. The creep, away from the constitution is real. It started with W. Wilson and now, 100 years later, we are seeing avalanches of changes through these “Acts” Congress enacts. Today (Oct. 20, 2021), Chuck Schumer spoke on the Senate floor on the cloture vote on the motion to pass yet another “Act,” “The Freedom to Vote Act.” We are on a death spiral.

The creep exists in every one of these “Acts” to the point that there are now over 150 institutional 4th branch departments that have created “laws” we did not vote for. An example of creep by the republicans was “The Patriot Act.” This act has empowered the DOJ/FBI to do as it pleases within our borders. Nowadays all they want from you is a lie to put you in jail. However, it is even more malicious than that, as was shown in the Trump election. During Trump’s term as President, the FBI lied three times in order to ensnare Carter Page with the purpose of eventually put him in jail using “secret courts” (which WE did not vote for). The DOJ just sat and believed what they read. The Patriot Act is unconstitutional because there was NO amendment for us to approve it.

The Congress “Act” gave the FBI license to lie as it wishes without ANY consequences. Congressmen are so emboldened by this that on September 26, 2019, Chuck Schumer then, minority leader told the press with glee all over his face, “let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.” Fear is implied, fear of a government inside the government, a Politburo of sorts.

During Trump, the 4th and independent branch showed its real ideology, when they blew the whistle and later, testified against Trump. They are the emboldened shadow government of the Progressives. Like the Russian Politburo, it is a self-perpetuating body; it is the supreme policy-making body for internal control of the masses.

By definition, ALL the “laws” created and instituted by the 4th branch of government are Un-Constitutional. They have “no people” checks and balances based on the Constitution through our representatives.

Our way of governing has evolved to the point where the Legislature (Congress), with a majority, has complete control of the country if it is a democratic government. If it is a Republican government, very little gets done. They can rule all the land despite the people and continue to institute new unconstitutional laws for governing just by writing and voting for “new Acts.” However, there is no moral or legal ground for this. “Civil Rights” requires a bad society for it to exist, today, we do not have that.

This pendulum has swung all the way to the other side, and it is now being abused without the essence of ANY law of the land. In 1940 F. A. Hayek, a Nobel Price and Medal of Freedom winner wrote in his, now 80 years old classic book, “The Road to Serfdom” in his chapter “Why the Worst Get on Top,” where he examines the advent of totalitarianism as an inevitable:

“We must not deceive ourselves into believing that all good people must be democrats…Many no doubt would rather entrust it to somebody whom they think more competent.”

Such a group today is the 4th branch of government. If we the people choose not to depart from a collectivist orthodoxy, we are still on the road to serfdom, if not there already. The question becomes, in view of this new way of slavery, based on a masqueraded tyrannical way of governing, What do we, as citizens of a once-great country, DO?

It is clear our “System of government” has been under unrelenting attack and ignored by the 4th branch, and totally disconnected from us. It has rendered the people totally ineffective. The question for all of us is:

“We The People,” What are we here for?