America in Decline: Will Culture Wars, Foreign Dependency, and Failed Policies Alter the Fate of the World’s Great Superpower?

Photograph courtesy of The New Yorker

An Original KTJ Nation Article | March 24, 2022

The notion that America may be in the stages of decline is not a new idea.  Several intellectuals have argued that our decline began shortly after the end of World War II, although most agree the most significant shift occurred sometime in the early seventies when the rise of academic Marxism, extremist political economies, and critical cultural studies began tearing at the fabric of American ideals. In 2016, when Donald Trump selected “Make America Great Again” as his campaign mantra, the implication became clear to generations of Americans who had not been privy to the subject of American decline as academic discourse. America was no longer great, at least not as great as it had once been, and measures would need to be taken to restore our economic stability, national security, and manufacturing and energy independence.  And if Trump’s stunning presidential win showed us anything it’s that even when political roadblocks are overcome and new ideas are installed, implementing policy changes in a now corrupt and broken system not controlled by the people for the people but by career politicians, special interest groups, bureaucrats, media companies, and the super-rich, was going to be an uphill battle.

How did we get here? And is Donald Trump’s dream to “Make America Great Again” even fully possible in a country that elected a man like Joe Biden to commandeer our future and our interests and the interests of our children? When younger and younger generations of Americans are being taught to believe the American experiment has outlived its usefulness and it’s time for a radical reboot, how can we expect to reverse course if we can’t convince our own citizens that what we had and have is still the most viable path forward? These are polarizing questions and there are no simple answers, but what has become more and more clear is that neither Republicans nor Democrats seem 100% capable of running the show.

While thousands die and war rages in Ukraine, and China seriously contemplates a similar invasion of Taiwan, and our allies ponder their geopolitical futures as well as the liberty and safety of their citizens, we continue to fight amongst ourselves. It has been 156 years since the Civil War ended and nearly 70 years since the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, yet we continue to promote this idea that America has not evolved at all. This idea of an active and pervasive inherent racism or prejudice, once solely reserved for African Americans, is now everywhere. The belief is expanding to include perceived marginalized people of all kinds despite the historic successes achieved for equality under the law not only for African Americans, but for women, gays, and trans people too.

We are not a perfect country, but this strife and conflict is an insidious distraction perpetrated by the internal and external enemies of American democracy. It’s making us weaker as a nation, less safe, and less smart. While our kids are Keeping up with the Kardashians and we bicker about race, gender identity, and critical race theory, a truly dangerous threat is growing all around us. Today, it’s more money at the gas pump or a few innocuous supply chain issues. A year from now, it’s food shortages and life-saving medications that are not available.  If you think sketchy leaders and failed leadership policies don’t have the ability to cripple our economy or even annihilate life as we know it, think again. We are at a precipice. How we choose to govern ourselves and what we decide is truly important now may very well seal our fate as a nation. And if God forbid, we fail, what may eventually unite us is despondency—the despondency we feel when we realize we don’t recognize and may not be able to survive the system they put in play while we weren’t paying attention.

Florida fines county $3.5 million dollars for implementing vaccine mandates

Governor Ron DeSantis (R) of Florida
Photo Eve Marie Uzcategui/ Bloomberg via Getty Images

ANALYSIS/OPINION: Don’t mess with Florida! Or it’s Governor! The Florida Department of Health on Tuesday fined Leon County $3.5 million for requiring its employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, saying it violated the state’s ban on “vaccine passports.” In Florida, we love our Freedom. Don’t tread on us or you’ll be sorry.

READ MORE HERE: http://www.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/2021/a10/20211012-fdoh-issues-notice-of-fine-to-leon-county.pr.html

What Does A Parallel Society Look Like?

Gab News
September 11, 3021

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

This is great. Written by Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab.com

Mr. Torba speaks of a parallel society of critical thinkers. One made up of doctors, teachers, professionals, etc. It will be made up of those who don’t believe in mandates or lockdowns, and it will be superior. What a thought!!  We will be like the Pilgrims, or like those who chose to spread the Gospel in the very beginning.  We must stick together and we must prevail, so we can survive and thrive.

Please read and join, if you can.

READ HERE:

news.gab.com/2021/09/12/what-does-a-parallel-society-look-like/

Mass Civil Disobedience: Increasingly, the Only Answer

by Dr Michael Hurd

August 23,2021

ANALYSIS/OPINION: If it hasn’t become abundantly clear to you what a mess we are in, then it probably never will, and you should stop reading right now. However, if you see what is happening and want to stop it, here is what we suggest…. It doesn’t involve violence, or bloodshed, it simply suggests that you do not comply. Do not comply with things that make no sense. Do not comply with rules that hurt you or make you uncomfortable. Do not comply with nonsense just because you don’t want to be bothered and you want to be left alone.

In this article written by our friend Dr. Michael Hurd, he explains how those in power are using our compliance to crush us and take away our freedoms. Please take a moment to read and take (or do not) take action! Once our freedoms are gone we will NEVER be able to get them back.

READ: Without mass civil disobedience, we will not make it out of this mess.

As Senator Rand Paul said recently, “They can’t arrest us all.” They can’t. If enough people stop complying with unconstitutional mandates and directives, it will send the government into chaos. It’s what they fear most: losing control. Control and power are all the people in power care about. Yes, they care about money, too. But without power, they don’t get any money. People in politics and government don’t make their money through voluntary persuasion, as legitimate businesses (small and large) do. Nancy Pelosi didn’t become a billionaire through creating a product or service that millions wish to buy. She became a billionaire through coercion, deceit and manipulation — decades of it, assisted by a dishonest, fawning media as well as many ignorant voters. Ditto for Joe Biden, and all the other politicians who became millionaires and billionaires.

Civil disobedience is the Kyrptonite of politicians. When they see us wearing masks, staying inside, getting vaccinated because they say so — regardless of our concerns, or the concerns of our doctors, including our mental health professionals — then they are happy. They know that if they can get the vast majority to do all these things, they can probably get the vast majority to do anything. This makes them happy; and their happiness is their sickness. They know if the vast majority do their bidding — some of them resentfully — then they can get the vast majority to intimidate and threaten those who will not (yet) comply. Everything now unfolding with vaccinations and vaccination passports demonstrates the polar opposite of civil disobedience — and everything is now unfolding precisely as evil, powerful people desire it.

It’s not about masks or a mostly survivable virus. It’s not about health or safety. It’s about the “safety” of the powerful to maintain/expand their control and, where relevant, their money flow. That’s all it is, and all it ever will be. It’s human nature at its absolute worse. It’s human nature just a couple of rungs above the actions of a Nazi Germany. We’re almost there. I believe today’s power mongers have the potential to be much worse than Hitler, inconceivable as that is. Just watch. People in power can go wherever they want with the unqualified and unconditional support of the vast majority of the people behind them. Unthinking or fearful people are all they need.

So far, they have ZERO losses in their column. Nothing, absolutely nothing, stands in their way. Other than mass civil disobedience, which has yet to happen.

What do we have to do? In mass numbers, we have to stop complying with the idiotic, the insane, the unsustainable and the brazenly, openly unconstitutional. Stop complying. It’s as simple as that. If you’re afraid of being put in jail, just remember that they can’t put all of us in jail. Break down the system. Make it all come to a screeching halt — not through fire and violence; but through simply refusing to participate in it, under these conditions.

If you’re too afraid to take those steps, now or ever, then you’re going to have to accept the consequences. Those consequences are unfolding very rapidly, almost daily, right before our eyes. Those consequences will become much worse than anything you ever feared about disobedience. And just think: You can tell your children and grandchildren that YOU are the generation who lost our freedom, when they ask, “What’s all the ‘freedom’ I hear about prior to 2020?”

Civil disobedience will not be enough. There is no one single thing that will fix this mess. In many respects, it’s too late. It’s too late to avoid a disaster because, if we’re honest about it, the disaster is unfolding. Joe Biden is not the cause of a disaster; he’s the result and consequence of a disaster that already happened, and that’s getting worse by the day. Kamala Harris and all that’s to follow will be even worse.

But we can minimize the impact and at least try to reverse course. We can experience, in authentic solidarity with fellow freedom-loving citizens (millions of them), the satisfaction that emerges from simply not complying, and from doing so in numbers of tens of millions.

You can make the tyrants crazy. They’re already evil, and that will never change. But let’s make them suffer. Let’s torture them, by refusing to comply.

You’re not helpless, so long as you remember that.

Note: I still have a Facebook account (Michael Hurd, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware), but Facebook has suspended my account until August 27. They are also threatening to terminate it — for being rational. If you value my posts, please sign up for the Dr. Hurd twice monthly digest on this site, and you’ll be tuned in forever. Tell your friends too, including on Facebook and other social media.

What to do about COVID hysterics who won’t think?

ANALYSIS/OPINION: This is another gem from our friend Tom Woods. We wanted to share it with you because we believe that millions of us are feeling this way. And sometimes, it helps just to know that others in fact, do feel the way you do. Please read this letter written by an intelligent, frustrated citizen of the UK.

~ courtesy Tom Woods

March 11, 2021

Sometimes I share with you something I receive in the ol’ mailbag.

Usually these are particularly awful cases of abuse related to COVID.

This one, though, simply sums up the way millions of us are feeling:

Thank you so much for your continued work on this. I am one of the many who have been introduced to your work by your commentary on the virus.

I’m writing from the UK where the government have now set out its route out of lockdown- setting arbitrary dates on which we may get some of our freedom back…freedoms that weren’t theirs to take away in the first place!

I constantly have conversations with friends, family and colleagues who believe in the COVID voodoo (the type that end every conversation or message with #staysafe) and in response I cite data, peer reviewed papers and studies that show lockdowns, masks etc. have no effect on the virus. A lot of these people I would describe as rational, intelligent human beings. I am baffled therefore, to hear them repeating government propaganda and slogans, mask shaming and saying things like “these lockdowns are not strict enough” and “if these people just followed the rules, we would be out of this by now.” I even had one person (who had even had the vaccine) tell me, “I hope they don’t open things up too quickly as cases will spike.” To top that conversation, I was on a Zoom call with a group of friends and someone mentioned that some countries had no masks, lockdowns etc. and they had lower numbers than the UK….silence….I waited with bated breath….then “well maybe they are just being more careful and are wearing masks anyway.” So close.

It seems no amount of data or argument will shift these people from this stance. It is bizarre. Quite frankly, I am running out of energy to argue as it doesn’t make a difference to their zealous belief in these ludicrous policies. I’ve even had members of my own family follow the guidelines like sheep — even when today’s guidelines ban activities that you were “allowed” to do yesterday they follow without question. Like something magical happens at midnight.

It is disturbing how many people have welcomed so much interference into our lives. Moreover, it is frustrating how little I can do about it.

Thank you once again for continuing to fight the good fight, you are indeed, keeping me sane.


I hear his frustration: data and evidence amount to nothing to these alleged “followers of science.” Absolutely bizarre.

My own plan of action:

(1) Keep writing about it.

(2) Relentlessly share charts that undermine the official line. When people worry that opening X or Y will lead to devastation, show charts from places that have opened X or Y. Or remove the labeling and ask: which of these places, based on the charts, do you think limited indoor dining, and which didn’t? We definitely need more quizzes like that. Maybe when they keep scoring zero, something will get through their thick skulls.

(3) Support people who defy the orders, and even politicians (whom I normally do not support) who favor reopening.

(4) Most of all, care for my own friends and loved ones, and help them navigate through the craziness.

If you’re feeling isolated — or if you just enjoy the Tom Woods Show — I hope you’ll join us in our haven of sanity, the Tom Woods Show Elite, where you’ll find a whole bunch of people who see things exactly as you do:

https://tomwoods.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=77713d21ff56f1c126607d2c5&id=4a0f9fc614&e=53e210e108


Tom Woods

Your double-masked friends haven’t seen these charts

~ Courtesy Tom Woods

March 3, 2021

If you needed any further proof that masks worn by the general public, do not work, and never have worked during this coronavirus, here are some more irrefutable graphs, facts, and information.

We know that no one likes to feel like they’ve been “duped.” However, we have in fact been duped, folks. As we see mask mandates being lifted in state, after state, after state, “the people claiming that ‘it would have been worse without masks’ are moving the goalposts. They used to cheer masks for preventing spikes like the one in the chart. Then we get a spike and instead of admitting they were wrong, they suddenly retreat to the unfalsifiable ‘it would have been worse’ b.s.”

While we at KTJ Nation are thrilled and relieved to see the propagandized control of people in this great country slowly letting up, we will never forget what we the people were forced to endure during this past year.

We are grateful for people like Tom Woods who are not afraid to post truths, in the face of cancel culture and government overreach and abuse.

READ AND SEE MORE PROOF HERE…

mailchi.mp/tomwoods/morecomparisons

The Stand | The Truth About the COVID-19 Vaccine – America’s Frontline Doctors

Dr. Simone Gold

ANALYSIS/OPINION: This is Dr. Simone Gold. She is a truth speaker, scientist, humanitarian. She is not only a brilliant doctor, but an attorney as well. What she has to say will blow your mind.

You may remember her as one of the frontline doctors that revealed many facts about Covid 19 in Washington DC, many months ago. Their video was taken down by every social media platform as it reached 20 million viewers.

Dr. Gold has nothing to gain by coming forward with these truths and facts; only everything to lose.

WATCH IT HERE:

www.americasfrontlinedoctors.com/the-stand-the-truth-about-the-covid-19-vaccine.html

Trump Has Developed CCP Virus Antibodies: White House Doctor

President Donald Trump removes his mask upon return to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington on Oct. 5, 2020. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

BY TOM OZIMEK

October 7, 2020 Updated: October 7, 2020

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Is it really any surprise that President Trump has fought and beaten a virus which you have a 99.8% of surviving? Even with his advanced age of 74 years old, and being mildly overweight – 2 factors which are considered co-morbidities, he had a 95% chance of surviving. The treatment he received was nothing special and NOTHING that is not available to anyone who is admitted to any hospital for treatment. We know this firsthand as one of our founders actually works, and has been working in various hospitals in the ICU’s since this virus first hit many months ago. Trump has now developed antibodies to the virus which happens with people who have contracted many viruses.

This article was published by Epoch Times and we could not be happier. Folks, you need to live your lives using common sense. DO NOT let this virus kill you and your lifestyle by doing ridiculous things such as shutting down your businesses or hiding at home. DO NOT allow your government to force ANY more useless mandates (forced, filthy mask wearing and devastating lockdowns) on you that are actually making people sicker, not healthier.

READ MORE HERE:

President Donald Trump’s White House physician said in a memo Wednesday that the president has been free of symptoms for a full day and that his blood tests show the presence of antibodies for SARS-CoV-2, the scientific name for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

LINK TO ARTICLE:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-has-developed-ccp-virus-antibodies-white-house-doctor_3530026.html

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