What happened to the Republic? Democracy happened
by Jon Rappoport
November 19, 2017
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“When you come to the subject of who should ‘fix things,’ the government or private individuals, you could throw up your hands and confess that neither choice works, in which case you’re left with a terminal disease, and a fine excuse for doing nothing; or you could refer back to the principles of the Republic, and understand why the Founders put chains on government, and you might a find a clue for navigating out of the maze.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)
This piece is for anyone who can understand it—but it’s also for THE ENTREPRENEUR, who in his soul wants to do something large and bright and radical and successful, to turn the tide of human affairs in an enormously good direction and, yes, still make a substantial profit.
And no, “the universe” doesn’t rule out those two motives existing side by side.
The United States was created as a Republic.
That meant severely limited central government.
Why?
Because the Founders knew the long experience of Europe: overarching tyrannies; bloated kings emboldened with the doctrine of divine right to rule; theocracies; gigantic theft of land; force, coercion; slavery.
The new 18th century American central government, through enumerated powers and checks and balances, had to be limited and even hamstrung.
On that basis, individual freedom would be maximized.
That was the whole point of a Republic.
The individual would be free to do whatever he wanted to, as long as he didn’t interfere with the life and liberty of others.
INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM—THE HALLMARK OF A REPUBLIC.
However, in order for a Republic to have a chance of success, the population would have to remain small. A Republic is not for an enormous population. The people are too remote from the federal center of power.
And there needed to be a population of moral people, who understood basic rights and wrongs, beyond legislation and law.
As the American population swelled, there should have been many Republics founded on this continent. Unfortunately, that never happened.
Instead, men in and around central government conspired to multiply their own power through a variety of means, thus creating monopolies of great strength, in government and business and money.
And gradually, these men and their descendants came to see they could foist a grand illusion on the people: they could promote the idea that “the people’s wishes were paramount” and should be served at all times.
Thus arrived Democracy.
Rule by “everyone.” Rule by “popular decision.” Rule by “meeting needs,” whatever they might be.
Meeting needs, of course, necessitated a more powerful and extensive government—shattering the severe limits originally imposed in the Constitution.
Marry these democratic elements to a decline in general morality—grab whatever you can at the expense of your neighbor—and the fate of the Republic was sealed.
The Republic was never perfect. Far from it. Perfection wasn’t its goal. But it was a noble effort, and the ideas on which it stood still survive.
Particularly, freedom of the individual.
That freedom is the launching pad for everything the individual can imagine and create, in order to build a greater future.
And the rule barring the individual from interfering with the life and liberty of others is still a basic principle.
Democracy cultivates mobs. It embodies the idea that any group which can gain attention must have its purported needs met.
Just one step to the left of that, we find the socialist/Communist maxim: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
What able individuals produce will be taken from them and given to those of “lesser ability.”
Limited government, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights—these are mere pieces of paper, old pamphlets trampled on in the streets by the mobs shouting their endless demands.
If the ancestors of these groups, at one time, had legitimate objections to the way government was being run (against them), now all that is swept away in a sea of base anger and revenge—which turns out to be the elite plan for the end-game…
If the elites can pull it off:
Chaos. Out of which a new level of order will be imposed—which takes us back to the kind of tyranny that existed before the struggle for individual freedom and limited government was won.
And all the while, these elite planners pose as utopian altruists. Socialists.
And yet…as of 2010, there were 27.9 million small businesses in the US.
Somehow, the heritage of the Republic still lives.
Freedom of the individual.
The core idea on which America was founded.
Liberty of the individual is more than an invented “construct.” It’s a reflection of an inherent truth: the individual is at the heart of what life is all about.
A major point needs to be entered into this mix: ABUNDANCE. Planet-wide abundance of resources, technology, and energy.
As Buckminster Fuller made clear 80 years ago, there is “enough for everyone”—which is to say, every person on Earth can have the essentials of survival. Food, clothing, shelter.
However, Fuller (and others) stalled on the vital question: WHO WILL DELIVER THIS ABUNDANCE TO THE GLOBAL POPULATION, AND HOW?
In the arena of fuzzy thinking, the answer is, of course: “the government” will deliver abundance.
This is fatuous, idiotic, and impossible.
“The government” is controlled by men who, amidst their many crimes, have no intention of sharing the wealth of Earth’s resources and technology. I can’t emphasize this fact enough.
The government is there to promote socialism and technocracy as “better-world” answers right around the corner. THIS IS THE MASK.
Behind the mask is cruel top-down scarcity, upheld and maintained, despite the truth that there really IS enough for everyone.
No, government will not be the provider of abundance.
NOR SHOULD IT BE.
That task falls to…wait for it…private business.
What?
Here is the capper: if private businesses—including major corporations—realized they could sell food, clothing, and shelter to the global population for relative pennies—and make more profits than they’re making now—because of the size of that consumer base—they might reassess their position.
They might…but they won’t. Not without our help.
Boiling down the situation: you have the potential consumer base of some eight billion people; you have the means to sell this base the means of survival—food and clothing and shelter—for pennies; you have the technology needed for the job; you have the bright promise of a better future.
And you have the individuals who, armed with this understanding, could create businesses to bring such a vision to fruition.
Actual capitalism is preserved. Free market is preserved. Profit motive is preserved. Doing good is preserved. And all this WITHOUT GOVERNMENT CONTROL.
No one said this job I’m proposing would be easy. Of course it’s not easy.
But, for example, the next generation of techies—after this generation of air heads who seek to worship at the knee of brain-computer mysticism has faded away—the next generation might be persuaded to revisit the core ideas of the Republic and see how free enterprise, freely undertaken, could work a true revolution and distribute abundance to the planet at the same time.
Imagine a near-future corporate boardroom meeting. The CEO stands up and says:
“OK, people, I’ve brought you here because we’re going to try something new and radical. Face it, we’ve been selling crap to our customers for a long, long time and gouging them in the process. Today, that stops. We’re going to shift over to a different theme. Our board will approve, because we’re going to show them this new effort will expand our bottom line. WE’RE GOING MAKE NUTRITIOUS FOOD PACKS AND SELL THEM FOR RELATIVE PENNIES TO A BILLION PEOPLE. That’s the initial goal. We can do it. On another front, we’re going to sell a billion people good clean food seeds for growing food crops. We’re going to buy acres of land in the so-called Third World and then sell parcels, for farming, to the poor for pennies and take a small share of their profits…
“Now, at first, we’ll have to work through a bunch of foreign governments, because they control their people. This is tricky. But if we give these tinpot leaders enough money, they’ll go along….”
Of course, there will be problems. Serious problems. The CIA, for example, which supports government control and scarcity around the world.
That’s where GOOD AND RIGHTEOUS PUBLIC RELATIONS ENTERS THE SCENE. That visionary CEO and his company will have to publicize the hell out of their radical new plan and expose the problems and barriers and ops the old guard throws up against them.
Wake up the people to what is going on.
“Are you kidding? This will never work.”
That’s what was said in the middle of the Dark Ages, when a few people said THE INDIVIDUAL SHOULD BE FREE.
“This will never work.”
But it did.
With enough courage and determination and intelligence and vision and work and imagination, over a very long period of time, it did work.
Up against forces of evil and deception, it did work.
And it can work again.
“But this time it’s different. The situation is worse, much worse.”
No it isn’t.
Here’s a clue. It’s always worse. That’s the way it always looks. But it’s always possible.
The free and independent and creative individual has been lulled into thinking that he has to limit his entrepreneurial vision and goals to a few self-contained enterprises in a small corner of a much larger space.
That’s called brainwashing.
He can think and plan and work in as large an arena as he wants to. If he wakes up.
If he’s a rocket ship with a range of 100 light years, and he’s operating on an old route that travels 50 miles, back and forth, something is seriously amiss.
There is much more to say…
But this is an introduction. This is a sketch of the core. This is about the individual unleashed. This is about sacrificing nothing in the pursuit of individual success while making abundance into fact.
This is about wiping away the delusion that “the government will generate a new and better world.”
If you want a better world, if you want abundance, you can choose government or the individual as the carrier. You can put your eggs in either basket. You can analyze both answers and decide.
You can roll the dice on either choice.
You can put aside the mantra of “nothing works” and look into the psychology of the individual and government and find truths.
An analogy: you’ve got a gigantic oil tanker that’s been heading in the wrong direction. You want to turn it around. Who is going to take the helm and do it?
On one side, you have 50 individuals, 47 of whom are corrupt and consumed with criminal greed. The other three are different. They glimpse the possibility of doing the right thing.
On the other side, you have that amorphous swollen blob called government. It’s not only consumed with greed, it preaches The Good as a deceptive front to cover its crimes. A few individuals who might want to do the right thing are laden with connections which command the continuance of crimes.
Your choice.
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Jon Rappoport
The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.
Brilliant, Jon! Thanks!
The bureaucracy of Ideological Technocrats like this guy is why Transforming the Governments control over everything is constantly being pursued ………
https://www.ted.com /talks/per_espen_stoknes_how_to_transform_apocalypse_fatigue_into_action_on_global_warming
I believe Jon has expressed some pie-in-the-sky ideals here; personal freedom and choice. Throughout the entirety of human history there has been a ‘ruling class’ who’s methods of subjugation were not to dissimilar to what we have today.
Human nature brings with it greed, envy and other emotions that are easily entangled in anything that has value associated with it. Using the idea that entrepreneurship and capitalist ideas are the key is misleading because ‘human nature’ wants it all so the viscous circle starts all over again.
I don’t profess to know the answer but I feel confident that following a failed pattern isn’t the answer either.
Self survival (individualism, personal freedom, choice) is instinctual. Covering it over doesn’t make it go away.
But folks can be trained to forget it or to not trust it.
The answer is… https://taawaciclos.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/458/
The utopia is to believe that human animals are Human Beings.
Here’s something we can all do right NOW. We can get this …
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I believe the issue of ‘too large a population’ under a Republic governance had been given full consideration by the founding fathers and was addressed by delegating unto individual states the power to function autonomously – each a small republic, if you will. A state may nullify federal law within its boundaries; a preponderance of states enacting a common nullification eliminates the federal law altogether. County sheriffs hold sway over the feds. It’s all a matter of implementing the Constitution to its fullest extent.
Reblogged this on amnesiaclinic and commented:
Fantastic.
I think about this all the time. Certain technologies are converging into exactly what you’re saying. The big Corps. aren’t planning it but it’s working out that way. The vast money put into solar cells and batteries means that people will be able to decouple themselves from the grid and lower cost dramatically.
Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces New Technology for Fast-Charging, Noncombustible Batteries
https://news.utexas.edu/2017/02/28/goodenough-introduces-new-battery-technology
There’s even a technology to build artificial Islands, (not the Libertarian guys), that could house the whole of the population of planet Earth with four times the energy use that a typical American uses in only fifteen years.
James Bowery, “Exponential Remediation of Civilization’s Footprint”, on creating new territory.
http://jimbowery.blogspot.com/2014/05/introduction-extinction-of-human-race.html
There are even newer forms of making food would be even more efficient than bio-reactors. Using electricity and air to grow food at up to ten times the efficiency of photosynthesis.
https://www.ndtv.com/food/the-new-kind-of-protein-created-from-air-and-electricity-1731757
So this is happening now. I think one of the big steps missing is cheap construction materials. We have that coming. Graphene is one of the strongest materials we have and it keeps getting cheaper and cheaper to make. Graphene made from coal or some other cheap carbon source could be the magic material that lowers the cost of construction materials dramatically while providing very good performance.
The ultimate in this would be a bus about the size of a typical tour bus with solar powered roof. If you sit still it would easily provide all the power. It should include water purification, sewage treatment and make food with the newer electrically grown food. If someone annoyed you you could just drive off somewhere else.
I am not saying that it is impossible, but, Good luck with that one!
With all the diversity, the racism, the sexists, the pedophiles, the government corruption, the illegal aliens, the sanctuary cities, the radical leftist protests, it might be just too late.
I suspect “all the diversity…” etc is a lot less than the impression of it formed by watching tv. I suspect there’s more sensible, humane, folk around than the media want us to think. Crazy is eye-catching and therefore “news”.
Dear Jon, this just in: governments, once created, cannot be limited. This “should” be obvious to you- why isn’t it? All governments are criminal scams, nothing more, nothing less. Criminals cannot be “limited” via pieces of paper, as [again] should be obvious to you. The constitution/bill of rights was a scam, pure and simple, as was, and is, the “supreme” court.
See “Dreams [Matrix Blues]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zbs7_zH7p8
Regards, onebornfreeatyahoodotcom
Of course they are limited. They can’t break natural laws, physical laws, etc. And they can’t make other governments necessarily agree or comply. And citizens can/might/will find ways to skirt the coercion also, and go their own way. Creativity, individualism, personal freedom, choice, self survival… self determinism.
Thank you. Some one else sees through the ruse.
post-scriptum:
And, I should add to my previous post, that with all the insanity going on, and the fluoride in the water, the vaccines who fry your brain, the Chemtrails and the GMOs. you would need more than just Good luck…. lol
In terms of that foul “protect the people” mantra, the “corporate governments of the world” are so negligent in their duty, they have become a laughing stock that ceases to be funny.
It may be stating the “obvious”, Jon,. but why are there “charities” and governments (issuers and regulators of money)?
An old but by no means tired article of mine did pose the question:
https://ozziethinker.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/if-government-is-really-truly-for-the-people-why-is-there-charity/
Best
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If you really want to know what you are fighting against , just listen to the first hour
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Alex Jones (1st HOUR Commercial Free) Sunday 11/19/17: News, Reports & Analysis
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Reblogged this on John Barleycorn and commented:
Excellent commentary. Do not look to the government for solutuons
“Somehow, the heritage of the Republic still lives”
The Republic remnants still exist because complete and enduring totalitarianism has never been achieved. Collapse is inevitable because the seeds of self-destruction are sown in the beginning.
As heirs of public education, we are indoctrinated to believe what was created in 1787 was a Republic. But corporate entitlement was built into the framework, and the administrations that followed teetered on the verge of totalitarianism, beginning with Washington’s.
Jon’s ignorance of the Revolutionary history, particularly the behavior of what the Founders did, as opposed to what they propagandized to force nationhood, is the weakness in his arguments. A thorough digestion of Forrest McDonald’s last two books, We The People, and Novus Ordo Seclorum, as well as Merrill Jensen’s The New Nation would drive a big wedge in his preconceptions about our nation’s founding. Even a thorough examination of the Anti-Federalist Papers would help dispel such propagandist notions about the founding of our “Republic”, and from thence the works of Thomas Paine.
Having said this, such enlightenment only strengthens the argument that government is never instituted to preserve liberty, but to make legal plunder justifiable. Bastiat understood the true limits of government, the necessity of virtue, and he was a late-comer.
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Imagine a near-future corporate boardroom meeting. The CEO stands up and says:
“OK, people, I’ve brought you here because we’re going to try something new and radical. Face it, we’ve been selling crap to our customers for a long, long time and gouging them in the process. Today, that stops. We’re going to shift over to a different theme. Our board will approve, because we’re going to show them this new effort will expand our bottom line. WE’RE GOING MAKE NUTRITIOUS FOOD PACKS AND SELL THEM FOR RELATIVE PENNIES TO A BILLION PEOPLE. That’s the initial goal. We can do it. On another front, we’re going to sell a billion people good clean food seeds for growing food crops. We’re going to buy acres of land in the so-called Third World and then sell parcels, for farming, to the poor for pennies and take a small share of their profits…
Look up and read Gaddafi’s “Green Book” takes about 1/2 hour.
It explains why the governments don’t work, shows how a government can work, and what is needed.
He built it and it became the richest country for all the people in Africa.
That was why he was killed.
It works!
Don’t argue until you read the book and lookup what Libya was like before the Clinton B* and the US destroyed it.
I will read it and give you my opinion of it. But there is much simpler explanation, watch this 2 minute video:
https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw
I would like you to explain to me, how private business is better than government. For I have a different view which is much simpler. Money can buy you anything. Who has the most money? Pharma companies among others. They bought most of the TV stations, bribed politicians, passed laws as they wished. As a result, 300.000 deaths as a result from medical error each year go on unnoticed, while 15 (fifteen) annual cases of measles scream panic on media 24/7, mind you all of them non lethal. Measles kills 1 in 1000 infected, and only in third world countries, in developed countries this is much lower, maybe 1/10.000 and 50 years ago it was considered a normal childhood disease. The medical error is now 3rd leading cause of death and nobody says or does anything about it. So which one is worse, 0 deaths or 300.000 deaths? Where is the logic? Not to go into medical disease any deeper, money can buy you everything, all the politicians, all the medias. It has already happened. Who can stand in their way? Who can oppose money? Only few good men.
So I don’t think that private business is any better than government control. If we let the business control anything, soon we will become batteries from matrix. Expendable cells without basic human rights (pretty much on our way there). Government control is not good too, don’t get me wrong, most of the politicians are corrupt and they don’t do anything good for the people. But government is already under the control of the private business, the politicians are on sale and so is everything else on the market.
So a new approach is needed. One which will stop brainwashing of the already retarded population. Why do you think so many murders happen in America, but no politicians get killed? Why is the american public so blind to the crimes of its politicians? Why has a politician never been held responsible for anything more than a sex scandal?
Love this, and would also love to see how we could collaborate 🙂