War on the American Republic

In the face of a powerful American kleptocracy, conservatives should not conclude in discouragement or despair but in ruthless, radical analysis and questioning—smashing the old idols—followed by hope. Increasingly young Americans mock the incompetent, corrupt, and degenerate cosmopolitan ruling class. And they no longer believe in the conservative lies that sold their birthright. They should openly disdain the propaganda designed to convince them that resistance is hopeless... Moreover, they must awaken to the truth that they are the West, not a mere idea in musty books but their own flesh and blood, which they can restore when they themselves flourish...

For the Deep State, democracy means importing a new populace to vote for a welfare state run by rich overlords. Legitimacy is claimed by lawless mail-in elections where a “designated third party” harvests the ballots of an “underrepresented” dependent class with no stake in society...

When the majority sides against the rulers, the state overturns its will on gay marriage, transgenderism, immigration, trade, and foreign wars. Under democracy, the kleptocracy plans to reduce rural Americans to serf-like status... The Democratic Party pushes race reparations, the Green New Deal, registering AR-15s...

Because its decaying institutions still promise resistance, Democratic candidates put forward the most radical proposals: to pack the Supreme Court, abolish the Electoral College, scrap the filibuster, and add new states to the union... COVID-19 and the BLM riots revealed the breakdown of the rule of law, and leftists openly call organized violence an effective strategy...

Returning to the principles of the nation-state would require the rule of law—universal and enforced. It would mean... reclaiming sovereignty from the bureaucracy...

The alternative, civil conflict, has already begun...

The leadership of the Republican Party rests with those brave enough to force a constitutional crisis in a system that refuses to protect its citizens’ rights...

... The essay is an edifying exposition of the rise of the Western (American and European) elites to become despots... Oligarchy often deteriorates to despotism because many ambitious men are bereft of the virtues and morals essential to a good ruler and political leader...

We have lost what was advocated by the American founders and led John Adams to wisely assert,

Slack provides ample evidence of the rise of despots in all aspects of American culture, business, and politics... He points out that the seeds for our destruction were planted a long time ago, in 19th-century humanist progressivism, then amplified by Teddy, Woodrow, FDR, and then later progressives followed by aggressive socialist statist fascists...

This is not a recent sabotage of America; it is a long time developing... Well, here we are, and we did it to ourselves...

... before I had finished, I called him at Hillsdale and asked if I should give up... He said, to paraphrase, I have five children. I can't give up on America and Americans.

Here are a few of the points made about the rise of despotism:

• "the evidence ... exposes the globalist American empire as a kleptocracy that has betrayed the country, outsourced its wealth and defense, and degraded its people."
• "Today's globalist American empire is a kleptocracy filled with princelings of the political and corporate elite..."
• "the kleptocrats claim science's authority to subdue the populace"
• "[T]hey enlist an identity politics priesthood to stoke racial hatred against middle-class whites..."
• "Following the COVID lockdowns and unlawful 2020 election, the last vestige of legitimacy has collapsed, and the kleptocracy has revealed itself as an incompetent, corrupt class of degenerates."...

He [Slack] reminds us that Amazon and Google are the government. Banking and credit card companies are another example of the creeping fascism and monopolization of activities...

Slack's recent book is a historically ordered discussions of political developments — 19th-century humanist progressivism, a result of the enlightenment, evolving to the progressive periods of Teddy and Woodrow, then the progressive socialist early liberal era of Walter Lippmann and the effects of Marxist communism, a big acceleration with the administrative statist socialist/progressive FDR, the liberalism surge...

There is no sector of society that has escaped the corruption... Slack provides the report on the dying patient, the American Republic...