Enabling the Perpetual Political Pendulum
(Part Three of Three)

Excerpted from The Unfounding of America, by Michael Russell
TheSecondDeclaration.org

"In order to form a hypothesis about the future of an individual," Ayn Rand wrote in 1971, "one must consider three elements: his present course of action, his conscious convictions, and his sense of life. The same elements must be considered to form a hypothesis about the future of a nation."

Were we to generally diagnose our republic's health by taking her societal temperature, we would find it feverish. Heart and respiratory rate? Fluctuating according to "the news." Blood pressure? Elevated. Vision and hearing? Acute within a predetermined range of acceptability. Body-mass index? Corpulent. Reflexes? Sluggish. Medications? And then some. Vaccinations? Whatever the doctor orders.

Were we to seek diagnostic specificity by examining symptoms potentially indicative of a fundamental health problem, we would reference the barometer of culture — the ideas, achievements, influences, politics, education, behaviors, art, and entertainment that dominate American life — and we would find . . . what?

Americans spend just under seven hours a day in a virtual world — forty-four percent of their waking time — and not in the performance of online business. Two-and-a-half hours are dedicated to media deceitfully called "social" and designed to be both addictive and privacy-eliminating while reducing human interaction to the two-dimensional, with up to four point two hours playing mobile games. Add three-and-a-third hours of television to the mix and across a seventy-five-year lifetime, forty-eight waking years will have been spent staring at glowing rectangles.

Tens of millions of real-world human beings anxiously await what the likes of Kylie Jenner, Rihanna, Busy Philipps, Baby Ariel, Kim Kardashian, Bella Poarch, and SwagBoyQ have to say about beauty, music, fashion, gadgets, lifestyle and what they had for lunch and with whom. There are unfathomably popular Internet celebrities who lip-sync other people's music and comment on games and stage "pranks" and issue "challenges." A few years ago a pair of twenty-something brothers had 30-plus million subscribers on YouTube, almost 30 million followers on Instagram, 20-plus million fans on Facebook, and an estimated combined net worth of over $20 million without doing anything real for a living. A former competitive kick-boxer, who elevates the meaningless "toxic masculinity" to the meaning-rich, sells to throngs of admiring males advice on how to get the bod, the babe, the buggy, and the bounty they desire.

Computer applications automatize tasks that once required focused thought, eliminating conscious cause-and-effect connection. So-called artificial intelligence, which can never replicate the distinctively human act of creation, is rapidly being infused into every level of research, communication, study, and business while meeting little resistance. Over time, even those who sense there is something wrong with machine "thinking," fully intended to replace human thinking, are likely to hit the "Let AI compose your [fill in the blank]" button.

Personal motorized transport more and more takes over from the moment the (for now) driver presses start to the moment a computerized voice announces arrival. Seven out of ten Americans depend on government-service monopolies for life's taken-for-granted necessaries: electric power, water delivery, sewage disposal, and garbage-removal. The corrupt FDA controls what Americans eat and the corrupt USDA, aided by brain-dead order-following federal, state, and local law-enforcement goons, is dedicated to preventing Americans from making their own decisions about where they obtain what they eat.

Americans casually pop pills to relieve the symptoms of ailments, both legitimate and industry concocted, and to ease the strain of reality.

Countless men are obsessed with watching, cheering for, betting on, and outfitting themselves in the costumes of professional game players — a tragic manifestation of surrogate masculine efficacy.

America has become a nation of watchers addicted to the ingestion of cognitive fluff, of listeners relegating "news interpretation" to talk-show hosts, of voters believing what they want to hear, of convenience junkies habituated to grabbing whatever will allegedly make life "easier" while failing to ask, "What are we trading for yet another layer of ease?"

Only an independent-minded citizenry, which means an independence-capable citizenry, can preserve a free independent nation. But the dominant feature of American culture today is overwhelmingly dependence without even a nod to what constitutes "enough," and America's wealthier-and-wealthier upper-level government functionaries are too busy violating the constitution-protected inalienable rights of circus-games distracted, convenience-obsessed Americans to constitutionally represent Americans.

Not long ago Tucker Carlson, arguably America's most-aware popular patriotic voice, recommended an effortless evaluative standard. As reported by Zero Hedge:

"Your gut is the one thing that doesn't lie to you. Your gut only has your interest in mind. It is not trying to sell you a product, or convince you to vote for it. I'm just telling you once again, what you already know, which is this is going to be — the next year is going to be, I think I'd bet my house on it, really like nothing we've ever seen in the country. And everyone can kind of feel that. You know, most of our perceptions come through intuition rather than reason. But if you're close to your dog, you know, the dog knows exactly what's going on . . . they just watch and they feel. And people are very much the same. And if something bad is about to happen, everybody gets jumpy. And everybody's really jumpy right now."

Neither Mr. Carlson's nor anyone else's intuition can defend against bad ideas and centuries-entrenched political corruption. Reason-deficient impulses have, however, successfully motivated dependent minds to incrementally subvert the vision of America's founders.

Over the past two centuries, like an inspired novel that began with passionately motivated larger-than-life characters but promptly fizzled into a soap opera laced with cheap political and criminal intrigue, America has become a model of everything she was created not to be.

She is grievously wrongly defined. Her just heart has been cut out and reinstalled upside-down and backwards. The educational instrument of her ideological tomorrow is a black hole into which parents sacrifice their children by the millions while, when expedient, handing them political banners. The means by which conversation, debate, ideas, news, and law are comprehensibly expressed has been robbed of meaning. Her government is gargantuan and debauched, and whatever vestige of goodness remains among its minions is negated by that particularly disgusting brand of spinelessness called "Just doing my job." Her militarized law-enforcement squads increasingly consist of amoral automatons who should be wearing the plastic Peacekeeper costumes of The Hunger Games.

Americans allowed their government employees to shoot America in one foot with Amendment XI and in the other with Amendment XIV — and in both knees with the Sherman and Clayton Acts. It took a while to work up the nerve to invite a bullet to the back when bending over for the federal income tax but, having warmed to the theme, less than a year to make it a double tap by failing to roundly reject the Federal Reserve Act. After taking one to the gut by donating nearly three million conscripts to the Great War before starving through a depression caused by federal fiscal policy, Americans all but welcomed a bullet to the heart by failing to militantly refuse to hand over their gold to Franklin Delano "New Deal" Roosevelt.

Bullet to the Head Number One was delivered when Americans bestowed upon their masters the power to forcibly confiscate their earnings in the name of "social security." Number Two when accepting Nixon's ending of the gold standard. Number Three when fearfully saying "okay" to the Patriot Act and its rash of rights desecrations. Number Four with the pathetically appropriately nicknamed "Obamacare." Number Five with sea-to-shining-sea acquiescence to societal lockdowns, mask mandates, business closures, and fake-virus non-vaccinations. Numbers Six through Thirteen with every million or so taxpayer-sponsored illegal border crossings. Number Fourteen will be a tossup between central-bank-regulated digital currency, social-credit scoring, and global-warming legislation. The myriad self-cuttings en route to a Green New Deal and subservience to globalist control — from affirmative action to hate-crime laws to free-speech zones — hardly matter because repeatedly violating a corpse merely insults an already miserable death.

And yet, Americans continue to seek ballot-box solutions to ballot-box-created problems.

What is wrong in 2024 was on track decades ago to be wrong in 2024, just as what was wrong decades ago was on track to be wrong decades before that. New voices draw from old voices the wisdom of what has already been said. The exquisitely clear and blueprint-quality writings of Isabel Paterson, Ayn Rand, Alexis de Tocqueville, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, John Locke, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell — not to mention America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution — provided more than enough intellectual ammunition to save America but did not inspire Americans to save America.

How can anyone believe that a favor-indebted chameleonic deal-maker, a slave-world-gadget manufacturer, an overabundance of political-show personages, or the status-quo-constrained Mandate 2025 have anything to offer beyond a moment's reprieve from the Perpetual Political Pendulum? Is four years of mitigated inflation and temporarily less oppression all Americans want?

If that is the right question and the answer is "yes," America is good to go. Re-elect the deal-maker, give him Mandate 2025, trust Mr. X, and tune in nightly to The Great One. If it's not the right question and the answer would anyway be "no," Americans need to realize this very minute that until they accept certain hard truths their nation can never be restored.

1) The Republic of America is not her trappings, adornments, geography, flag, or even citizenry, but the Declaration and Constitution that made her possible. Which is to say she is not now "in trouble," but gone.

2) A restoration must be a resurrection, for it is from the grave that America must rise.

3) Such a resurrection would be an accomplishment as unprecedented in history as was America's birth, requiring no less dedicated or perilous a commitment.

4) The rubbish heap of American culture, the inconstancy of citizen fortitude, a horizon-to-horizon ignorance of what makes America, America, and hoards of convenience-dependents, "just doing my job" functionaries, and stolen-money trough-feeders combine with epidemic-scale normalcy bias to doom to almost certain failure even the best-marshalled plan to resurrect America.

5) A high probability of failure should not preclude doing what is right.

Question: How many true Americans would it take to resurrect America?

Answer: As many as are capable of making such a commitment, starting with the smallest, purest, most-essential, and only sovereign minority that has ever existed.

The minority of one.

The principles responsible for the creation of America have always been required in equal measure to sustain America. Until a preponderance Americans as individuals own and refuse to betray this maxim, their nation's course is unchangeable. The means to achieving what can then become a possible American future must be proclaimed at the close of her Second Declaration and uncompromisingly defended by every signatory pledging life, fortune, and sacred honor.

We, therefore, as witnesses to and victims of the nefarious plundering of our inalienable Rights, declare the present government of America to be the Enemy of Americans. We declare that we will not countenance this ignoble condition by continuing to acquiesce to the Constitution-betraying, liberty-debasing, treasonous dictates of its miscreant functionaries. We further declare that we will, by our actions as Sovereign persons and as is our Right, restore to its Just place in our Lives and in the World what Tyrants at every level of government have ravaged unto extinction: The Constitutional Republic of America.

Committing to less will bring to fruition what Mandate 2025 was designed to bring to fruition: the continued enabling of the Perpetual Political Pendulum until it arrives at a destination made possible by both anti-Americans and mistaken Americans and, with global technological conveniences already in place, where it will remain.