Do We Dare to Hope?

Perhaps there's substance behind the "vibe shift"

For decades, Americans have been conditioned to think about politics in a particular way. Tom Woods have been alluding to this conditioning by his reference to the “3-by-5 card of allowable opinion.” By restraining debate within extremely tight parameters, America’s governing elite has been able to consolidate power within DC. While they have politically and materially benefitted from this framework, it has become increasingly questionable they have implemented these policies to provide any tangible benefits to the American public. If anything, everyday Americans have been increasingly ignored, if not mocked, by an arrogant elite who have cashed in while the country’s foundations have been crumbling.

As the “Biden” administration opened up the southern border, required Americans to take the jab, withdrew from Afghanistan in the most disastrous way possible, and ballooned the federal budget, it was reasonable to wonder whether the United States was on the verge of collapse. If one didn’t know any better, it looked as if the American government was run by vandals.

In many ways it was. Over the years, the Democrats had become increasingly aligned with globalist forces, who are ironically centered in “post-colonial” Europe. They had no problem ceding American sovereignty to implement their projects, such as ESG, DEI, climate change initiatives, digital cities, sustainable development, and central-bank digital currencies.

All of these projects required enormous amounts of capital. Western governments and central banks increasingly coordinated their activities so as to finance them at the lowest possible cost. In fact, there was a point when some European government bonds were “paying” investors negative interest!

All of these efforts provided narrative cover for the globalist elites to further consolidate their power over Western, if not global, economies. And “Biden” went along for the ride.

The cost of the Democrats ceding sovereignty to global sources of political power was the decimation of the American middle class in every way possible. Politics and culture became increasingly crass. White Americans, this country’s founding stock, became vilified for being inherently racist. Through the Democrats’ support of the LGBT agenda, the family and religion as institutions were under assault. The downgrading of America as a global economic, political, and cultural power, and the rise of the global elite class, appeared inevitable.

Yet within the globalists’ agenda was a seed that eventually led to decline.

When the globalists sought to implement a central bank digital currency, there was one group among the elite who didn’t appreciate the existential threat this initiative posed to their livelihoods.

Commercial bankers.¹

If everyone holds their cash through a CBDC account, there wouldn’t be a need for banks.

As a result of this threat, they worked through the Federal Reserve to insulate American capital markets from foreign influence. They accomplished this by replacing the London Interbank Offering Rate with the Secured Overnight Financing Rate. The Federal Reserve then began aggressively increasing the fed funds rate.

The Fed’s moves did not come without cost. After all, Silicon Valley Bank, among others, collapsed because their businesses were not prepared for such a violent change in rates. However, one of the primary benefits of these moves has been to hamstring the globalists’ ability to further their agendas. In fact, given their already bloated government finances, European governments are currently in one form or another of collapse.

Which brings us to the most recent election of Trump. Unlike in 2016, when the vast majority of American elites were firmly ensconced in the Democratic camp, Trump finds himself with commercial banking and Silicon Valley (which I discussed briefly in my previous post) elites who have aligned themselves with him for one basic reason: survival. If Harris won the election, they could have found their businesses in the ashes as the globalists continued to implement their maniacal plans for dominance.

In many ways, these Trump-aligned elites had far more in common with the everyday American than the Democratic “betters” who persistently pushed them aside. Moreover, these parties were joined by former Democrats who were also vilified by their own party; these include RFK, Jr, Nicole Shanahan, Tulsi Gabbard, and union members. In fact, Trump found himself during this campaign with the broadest coalition in recent American political history.

This coalition was necessary. The Democratic party were prepared to subsume the United States into globalist projects no one really voted for. The low information Democratic voter is a well meaning but naive person.

Fortunately, the Blue Information Bubble has been pierced. Social media and podcasts allow dissidents, and Donald Trump, to talk directly to people and fact-check (pun so intended) the prevailing Democratic narratives. Trump needed this coalition to defeat a global leviathan that sought to place Harris into office.

Now that Trump has been elected, what now? Given the enormous debt, currency debasement, overstretched militaries, and fractured communities, is it too late? Have we already reached the point of no return?

If you had asked me this question two years ago, I would have said yes; the United States is bankrupt and on the verge of breakup. I wasn’t aware of any information or analysis that would have indicated otherwise.

However, a recovery can not be ruled out. Americans, both common and elite, have come together to tell the Democratic party to shove it. The Democratic party, once seen as speaking with one voice, is in complete disarray. Meanwhile, Trump has brought on board a far more talented, and goal-oriented, administration, than he was last President. He appears to be focusing on the right issues: too many foreign wars, too much domestic spending, a porous southern border, and a crisis in confidence among Americans.

It is far too soon to know what the next four years will look like. However, for the first time in a very long time, not only could our circumstances four years from now might actually be better than they are today, but a path could be laid so that we will be able to rebuild our lives and our communities so that we may be able to heal over time.

And for that slim possibility, it just might be all right to have hope after all.

1. Many thanks to Tom Luongo for spearheading the development of the foregoing analysis. Any mistakes I make in any of my analysis are my own.