Federal government manipulations have been confusing and confounding since 2021. In 2022 David Mamet wrote this elucidation: “My question, watching my beloved American democracy and culture dissolve, was, ‘What can I do?’ I found no answer. But I realize, a year on, that a different question has brought me closer to peace. That question is this: How might I achieve clarity?”

The federal government redefining of American traditions like equal justice is getting clearer. The alarming definitions (below) that are forming bring some level of analytical clarity, but they also break my heart.

The paradigm of democracy displayed by the leadership of the federal government no longer positions itself as the protector of the United States of America. Aiding and abetting the ongoing invasion of illegal aliens is an active insurgency against USA sovereignty. What’s the purpose of cancelling fossil fuel production without a viable transition plan? Intentional inflation, disharmony, insurrection?

Federal government’s unconstitutional edicts are redefining America. First edict: Observe, be silent and accept a form of governance that demands universal compliance without individual participation. Second edict: Accept a government ideology that not only rejects and cancels opposing positions, but denies their right to exist.

Justice, no longer fair and equal, attacks the person by recharacterizing their actions. Equity, an imitation of equality, unjustly and unequally punishes legitimate achievement and awards the predilection of victimhood.

The federal government has openly abandoned the traditions of democracy; governing for the whole population, that defines a republic; power to the people, not a monarch. My figure it out, finally figured that out, but my heart remains discontent. 

The 2020 election consequences we are forced to live under, see the border, make it clear that the plutocratic apparatus opposes the will of the people. Will the 2024 election bring peace or continued disorder?

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