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Is individual freedom guaranteed by the US Constitution? If it was, there would have been no need for the heroes of the War of 1812 who fought off the Royal Navy 5 times their size. There would have been no need for the Civil War, the cost for the freedom of African American slaves. There would have been no need for the US Supreme Court who’s role is to ultimately decide in support of the Constitution. There would have been no need for the lives spent on WWI and WWII. Less understood today, there would have been no need for the Palmer Raids, arrests and deportations of well known anarchists and political activists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman in December, 1919¹, nor the arrests and deportations of Communist Party leaders in arrests and convictions of 11 Communist Party leaders in June 1949 under the Smith Act of 1940.² The even darker forces against individual freedom in the United States have always emanated from its own citizens, those who never came to understand the irrevocable relationship between individual economic freedom and economic competition. They seem to be unwilling to accept the reality that economic competition is morally sound and is the only way to maintain economic stability, not just in a capitalist country such as the US, but internationally as well. The myth that it favors one race above another is an excuse for the failing subcultures that abdicate personal responsibility and the politics that support it. It is expressly because of the US Constitution that those organizations and their voices against individual freedom are, indeed, allowed to threaten that freedom. The history of the United States Socialist and Communist parties is that they had been quite marginalized until relatively recently. Political organizations such as these always take advantage of periods of economic hardship to blame the rich and their politics for their poverty, disease and social unrest. The notion that everyone is entitled to an equal portion of wealth regardless of their life choices and the value of their contribution to society has successfully migrated into American society, initially through the anti-establishment hippie movement of the early 1960s, and then through the completely antithetical educational system of the last 30-40 years. Prior to these influences, American society had fostered a greater grasp of the evils of communist philosophies that had already been proven toxic to society and the individual, to the level of civility of society, and to the inherent value of the individual. This, as the result of affected individuals immigrating to the United States for this very reason, willing to risk everything for the attainment of legally guaranteed individual freedom from governmental tyranny. By WWII, many of our teenagers had matured into the knowledge of the evils of communist rule and invasion and the real threat to the security of the United States, having become well motivated to the point of sneaking into the armed forces under-age to risk their lives for the sake of defending individual freedom. There were many very heroic American young men that gave their lives defending individual freedom for people all over the world but especially for our country. That is what patriotism meant in our society. The firsthand knowledge and experience of governmental tyranny and economic control, which was effectively communicated through the family culture and supported by social studies classes in their schools, and their observation of the obvious disparity between their standard of living and what was made known about the economies around the world, became a great part of the basis for their understanding. This healthy grasp of the value of our constitutional freedom, that previous generations had given their lives for, was the result of a respected teaching profession unfettered by a centrally controlled curriculum established in the late 1960s with the desperate goal of indoctrination above genuine education.

So, what drives our citizens today to support communist ideals? The short answer is the lack of awareness of economic reality and the true and historically proven consequences of socialist and communist economic decisions. In this context, many higher educated young people have evolved a belief that no country has a pure economic system, and that the United States has a mixture of socialism and capitalism, and that capitalism must be restrained in favor of socialism to promote a “fair distribution of wealth”. The individual must be forced to sacrifice personal ambition and personal gain for the common good. This, they believe, is the best way, indeed the most moral way, to maintain economic stability. Out of context, this can actually be made to appear logical. In the context of lifeboats on the Titanic, this can make sense. But in the context of economics, it is no longer logical because wealth is not a static commodity that is of constant value over time. Wealth is constantly being produced and consumed. The attempt to distribute it evenly from producers to consumers has always rendered impoverishment, as a civil society’s demand for wealth is constantly increasing while capital for technological progress is depleted. As for the philosophy of “the common good”, there can only be a common good amongst a society that allows government to dictate what that common good is, what medicines, what doctors, what type of education, what curriculum, etc… This type of society cannot tolerate individual freedom. Our young people have been influenced to have an emotional attachment to this belief which is absolutely not supported in present day world economics with plenty of absolute examples, much less the many examples throughout world history. They cannot recognize that the “socialism” of a growing, and therefor stable capitalist society, is a necessary economic safety net for those that cannot support their individual needs, not for those who are unwilling. The socialist society is one that maximizes their welfare state and uses taxation to equalize the distribution of wealth. This is born out of and fueled by the envy of those that cannot tolerate the fact that people realize different levels of economic reward based on merit, a system that prevents any one human entity from assigning value to goods and services, that system being the free market. So their solution to their perceived problem is simple: governmental control of the world economy. They believe that the bigger the private enterprise, the greedier the owners and executives. They are captured by the seeming immorality of a private entity to profit over anyone’s need for healthcare, or for anyone’s need for education, or for housing. They believe that the profit motive is purely the result of greed and the root of poverty in the United States and the world. This, in complete ignorance of the actual role of profit in managing any private entity, but specifically in corporate financial stewardship. Indeed, the drivers of our public and many private educational institutions have secured the absence of genuine economics and world history in the traditional American curriculum. Here, in the one country in the world which legally guarantees individual economic freedom, is there a stark absence of instruction in economics from grade school through high school, the highest standard of which is teaching high school students how to balance a personal checkbook.

Today, it is now well known that these same dark forces are better globally organized and funded primarily by rogue American government agents and billionaire elites. This money pays for the propagation of mainstream media mythologies and social media advertising. It pays for socialist activist programs in the public and private sector, mostly concentrated in our more densely populated metropolitan areas. These influences are much more sophisticated and pervasive in our young people’s world, taking advantage of their relative naivety. It pays for the campaigns of socialist and communist local officials in our most prominent cities, and for those of liberal activist federal judges across the country. It also pays for the smear campaigns against the most threatening candidates vowing to come to the defense of individual freedom.

No presidential administration will be able to effect lasting change in our young people’s awareness and understanding of the reality of economics and human nature without an all out transformation of our educational culture. By that, I mean all those daily influences that effect their education. We need better educated young people to become the leaders of American society, to be able to demonstrate and explain the myths of socialism and communism, to be able to explain the impact of religious and economic freedom on a nation’s level of civility and economic stability. We need strong young leadership that can explain the stealth tactics of globalists to indoctrinate them into surrendering the sovereignty of their entire country, thus enabling those same globalists to gain control of the world economy. The only preventative to an irreversible revocation of individual freedom is an effectively informed generation of young adults and their effectively motivated leadership.

As many of us are well aware, American society is being challenged by the loss of the recognition of what a well educated young generation is like, and what it takes to produce it. In the end, it is not the illegal migrants that will be blamed for the decay of American society, for it was decaying before the Obama and Biden administrations. It is the growing unawareness, the complacency, the false sense of security of the average citizen that will be blamed for its total collapse.

As many of our young people have been surrounded by the enticement of passive mainstream media influences, by the cultural pressure to conform to the myths of failed socialist and communist ideologies, and the acceptance of misrepresentations of the actions and public statements of conservative leaders, they desperately need a place where they can ask honest questions about themselves and the world they’ve inherited. We not only need more innovative entrepreneurs, more armed forces enlistees, more capable and unrestrained teachers, more basic science researchers, etc… The only way to empower our society is to produce a growing army of spiritually motivated young adults that thrive on “doing hard things”, like meeting the challenge of tough learning curves in formal and informal education, of learning in their best interests, not their passive emotionally driven spontaneous interests, of practicing physical discipline in terms of diet and exercise, of developing strong character through service and humility, and most importantly, of asking deep and personal biblical questions that strengthen and develop their personal relationship with God. As for me, it is with Jesus Christ. Many of our young people are immersed in a religious culture that hinders the development of a personal relationship with God, hindering their identity as learners, as servants, and as leaders. We will need this army because of the growing sophistication of distractions and deceptions being thrown their way. They will more severely be challenged to become the exact opposite of what I have just described. Will they have the motivation to become aware of the dealings of their local government and voice their opinions and concerns. Will they be motivated to petition their local leaders when there is the moral imperative to do so. Will they care if their local government leaders are acting in their best interests? Will they be motivated to voice their opinions and concerns in their workplace and in their places of worship? Will they take leadership and responsibility in their children’s education? One truth I am certain of: The United States will not prevail in the absence of such leadership. One great example of taking advantage of the fundamental freedoms of our Constitution lies in the life of George Washington Carver, the self made doctor of botany, invited by Booker T. Washington to teach at Iowa Agricultural College after the loss of both of his parents by age 12, starting formal education in a one room schoolhouse in Missouri. This self made scholar captured a such a strong passion for learning that allowed him to defy incredible odds in his present day society.

The globalist machine is desperate to block the American conservative agenda from gaining traction in our young adults’ education. Now that the federal route has been severely challenged, they will double down through the local route in ways not ever seen before. They will want to defend their radical curriculum through local government. As federal taxes are decreased, they will influence state legislators and liberal governors to increase state taxes and “user fees”. The globalists will also influence city councils and county boards to increase property tax rates. They will create incidents and scenarios in order to sway the local public opinion about “racism” in schools, and all sorts of public places, demanding local and state legislatures for DEI to be re-instated. They will instigate incidences that bait the police into racial conflicts, redirecting funds from police payrolls to social worker payrolls. They will use these scenarios to sway public opinion to support confiscation of guns and ammunition from law abiding citizens. They will groom future city councilmen and women, future town councilmen and women , and future county commissioners to raise taxes and over regulate local businesses. They will also groom future activist lawyers to be installed into the federal judiciary. They will double down on smearing the most threatening conservative elected legislators and judges. They will argue that there can be no equal opportunity without the redistribution of wealth from the suburbs to the cities. They will try to perpetuate the welfare state in the cities as they go after state taxes and blame the present administration for the lack of state and local funds. They will quietly spend state taxpayer funds by passing welfare bills and supporting illegal aliens, forging an unconstitutional path to their citizenship that excludes legal entry, allegiance to our country, and full assimilation. They will argue that the conservatives have misinterpreted the US Constitution to serve themselves, stating that the checks and balances were intended to keep a president from single handedly deporting criminal aliens without due process, that he is not empowered to choose who he will and will not work with in the federal agencies, nor which foreign states are a threat to our national security. They will argue that as long as whoever enters the country and does not threaten to conquer it militarily cannot be a national security threat. They will argue that the main purpose of the Constitution is not to guarantee individual religious and economic freedom but to guarantee that the judicial branch has broader powers to check the executive branch in terms of executive orders regarding immigration and citizenship. They will depreciate the historical interpretation of the US Constitution by doubling down on this indoctrination in the public schools. They will deem the founding of this country completely irrelevant and depict it as a criminal and greedy revolt against the established colonial authority which was “provoked” into restraining the colonists.

What is most needed right now are young people that can effectively debate and debunk the myths and flaws in these claims, young people that can debate well informed and logical rebuttals to all these claims. This can only result form a much stronger emphasis in civics education, designed and administered through talented teachers that have a strong foundation in world history and American government.³ We need an army of self motivated learners, servants, and leaders who demand the end of public school indoctrination and are motivated to challenge their local and state governments to authorize and enforce this great transformation. We desperately need this army in our metropolitan areas, where the misallocation of public funds runs rampant. Young people who get familiar with their city councilmen and county commissioners, with their mayor, their police chief, and their sheriff, will be most likely to be able to alert their communities of key upcoming bills which threaten their freedoms and depreciate their private properties. They will be most likely to vet candidates for their state legislature, their city council and their county board according to how likely their communities will benefit or not. They will also be most likely to stand up with their voices on elements of their church’s religious culture that hinder their family’s relationship with God. Our founders not only suffered under a tyrannical king but from all his loyal governors and judges installed into the colonies to keep them from attaining wealth and political power. A fact of life under human governance is that the role of the governed is to actively keep local and federal government from becoming too overbearing, too expensive, and too discriminatory. For generations, our young people have remained unfamiliar with the real issues, only to resort to protests mostly on college campuses and capitol grounds. Across the country in the 2022 primary, according to CIRCLE (Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement), youths between 18-25 yrs of age represented less than a quarter of the national vote.⁴ According to PEW Research, conservative youth comprise only 34% of their age group, and only 14% of them actually voted.⁵ The only youth participation in local government seems to be in the form of youth councils and the like, mostly comprised of liberal leaning youth. Youth at any age are generally motivated by their need for local governmental change. Our conservative youth are still too reliant on elected officials to do their bidding. They simply don’t realize the imperative for local governmental change and the magnitude of power they possess as citizens in their age group. The skill set they could acquire in the process would propel them through any career they chose. In all of our largest cities, the Republican party has been at least 5 times less financially supported than the Democratic Party. Apart from direct participation in local government, the most impactful way for these young citizens to effect real change is to become aware of the real issues and organize petitions that threaten elected officials against holding their offices. Ronald Reagan reminded us when he said, “Freedom is never more than one generation way from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.⁶“

Today, all across the country, local officials are signing away excessive amounts of public funds that are totally irrelevant to the vast majority of taxpayers. The city councils and metro area county commissioners are taking federal funds and local property taxes and spending them on ever increasing bureaucracy and anti traditional family programs that depreciate the value of private property and raise property taxes.⁷ The Obama globalists have engineered the allocation of a massive amount of federal funds from the “American recovery and reinvestment Act” to Biden’s “American Rescue Plan” to liberalize our biggest metropolitan areas and urbanize their surrounding suburbs at the expense of depreciating private property. The entire country is also paying for huge metro infrastructure projects that exchange gas powered city buses with electric ones, for new roads and bridges, and for EV power stations. Everyone has, by now, noticed the speed of apartment dwelling construction, enticed by federal funds for the purpose of allocating mixed income multi-family housing in urban and suburban neighborhoods. The Low Income Housing Tax Credit provided to developers and investors has been turbocharged through both administrations to accelerate its use. As the federal funds are cut through DOGE, this will also bring a tremendous cost to the taxpayers in terms of local taxes and property depreciation. Young people need to challenge these elected officials by petitioning for providing necessary and effective services instead, such as policing, water sanitation, waste management, and public property management that maintains the value of private property. They need to petition for school choice vouchers and for results based compensation for public education. We should be done proving that automatically guaranteed increases in compensation will never produce increases in effectiveness of teaching. The almighty teaching certificate should become null and void as it does not represent the ability to teach even the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic effectively at all. Too many of our 6th graders consider fractions confusing, the same cohort that then gets overwhelmed with 9th grade Algebra. By that time they have learned to blame themselves, lose their ambition and drop out of school. Any educational institution should not only be held accountable for academic performance, but for the instillation of strong character. Children should be effectively educated for a globally competitive workforce, not just among their public school peers. Everything else should be left to the local community to fund according to demand. Local government should not be a self rewarding institution that incentivizes stagnating public careers. Rather it should borrow the skills, talents, and knowledge of members of the community to serve the property owner’s interests. Limiting property taxes always results in increases in taxpayer’s discretionary income, and over time results in local economic growth in the form of business growth and increases in the local standard of living. Local governments need to be heavily petitioned for privatization of infrastructure projects wherever feasible. This could greatly lower property taxes, especially in the towns and cities in and around large metro areas.⁸ The entire state should never be forced to pay for services and programs that either promote beliefs and behaviors contrary to the majority of the taxpayer cohort, or that incentivize misallocated welfare. These are drains on overall economic growth and quality of life for the taxpayer. It will take a steep rise in awareness amongst our young adults before we see these things come to fruition. They will have to discover who the key decision makers are for every key issue and pursue them relentlessly. When a state legislature, a town council or county board of commissioners are handed well written petitions with sufficient numbers of verifiable signatures, one key vote after another, they will pay attention if they care to be re-elected.

In order to do these things, young adults will have to examine budgets, understanding what produces wealth and what consumes wealth, what promotes individual freedom and what things limit individual freedom unnecessarily. They will have had to come to an understanding of the constitutional role of local government and of what compassion is an is not, that it is the personal voluntary sacrifice of an individual, not the forced surrender of everyone else’s money for services and standards not of their choosing. Not too many people would pay to have their market property values drop while their tax values rise. It will require a significant improvement in their level of civil awareness.

It is only from this level of civility in society that we can expect to have our individual freedoms guaranteed. Community awareness is the only way elected officials can be influenced to change their decision making. Politics is what electoral candidates say. Reality is determined by the decisions they make. It is a preference to ignore politics, but it always costs to ignore reality.

1. Palmer Raids ↩︎
2. Palmer Raids ↩︎
3. Civic Education Must be Made Priority for Young People, Panel Says ↩︎
4. The Youth Vote in 2022 ↩︎
5. Age, generation and party identification of registered voters | Pew Research Center ↩︎
6. https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ronald_reagan_183965 ↩︎
7. State, local government need spending cuts, not federal bailouts ↩︎
8. Reduce reliance on local property taxes ↩︎