If voting really changed anything, it would be illegal. — Thorne, Land of the Blind (2006)
After months of hand-wringing, mud-throwing and fear-mongering, the vote was finally taken and the results decided. The deep state has won.
Even as billions of dollars are spent creating the illusion of choice, culminating in the reassuring ritual of voting for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, there are no authoritarian As for most of the big issues that continue to bind rulers, not much will change.
Despite all the efforts that have been made to convince us of the illusion that things will change if we elect the “right” political savior, the day after a new president takes office, the nation will always have It's going to be a street thing. The government is actually run by an unelected bureaucracy.
The war will continue. Drone killings will continue. Monitoring will continue. Censorship of those who criticize the government will continue. Government efforts to label dissidents as extremists and terrorists will continue. Police shootings will continue. SWAT team raids will continue. Highway robbery by government authorities will continue. Corrupt governments will continue to exist. Profit-driven prisons will continue to exist. And the militarization of the police will continue.
These problems have persisted in recent years under both Republican and Democratic administrations, and in many cases have escalated.
The results of this year's election do nothing to change that.
In fact, a look at programs and policies that are not affected by the 2024 presidential election provides a clearer picture of the government's priorities. They have little to do with taxpayer representation and more to do with the accumulation of funds. , power and control.
The destruction of the Constitution will continue unabated.
The so-called War on Terror, which the United States has relentlessly pursued since 9/11, has chipped away at our freedoms and dismantled our Constitution, thanks in large part to destructive laws such as the USA Patriot Act and the USA Patriot Act. and turned our country into a battlefield. National Defense Authorization Act. These laws completely circumvent the rule of law and the constitutional rights of the American people and reorient the legal landscape of the United States so that martial law is the map rather than the rule of law, the U.S. Constitution. It is. This will continue to be enforced as we live our lives in the United States.
The government's war against the American people will continue unabated.
“We the people” are no longer protected by the rule of law. While the First Amendment, which gives us the right to speak, is being muzzled, the Fourth Amendment, which protects us from being bullied, whipped, beaten, vandalized, and spied on by government agencies, is being gutted. Masu. As a result, in America you don't have to be poor, black, or guilty to be treated like a criminal. All that is required is that you belong to the suspect class of the American police state: the people. As de facto members of this so-called criminal class, all American citizens are now guilty until proven innocent. Oppression and injustice, whether in the form of shootings, surveillance, fines, asset confiscation, prison sentences, street searches, etc., will befall us all eventually unless we stop them now.
The shadow government, aka the deep state, aka the police state, aka the military-industrial complex, aka the surveillance state complex, will continue unabated.
A corporatized, militarized, and entrenched bureaucracy is fully operational and staffed by unelected officials, regardless of who sits in the White House or controls Congress. He will continue to have the power to make decisions. When I say “government,” I don't mean the highly partisan two-party bureaucracy of Republicans and Democrats. Rather, I am referring to “governments” with a capital “G”, meaning governments that are unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and that place themselves beyond the reach of the law. , an entrenched deep state.
The government's manipulation of the national crisis to expand its power will continue unabated.
“We the people” are exposed to a “state of emergency” that justifies all kinds of tyranny and power grabs by governments in the name of so-called national security. Whatever the so-called threat to the state, governments tend to exploit public sentiment, confusion, and fear as a means of expanding the reach of the police state. In fact, the government's answer to every problem remains one that places more burden on government, more on taxpayers, and less on individual liberties.
The endless wars that enrich the military-industrial complex will continue unabated.
America's expanding military empire is draining the country at a rate of more than $93 million per hour (totaling $920 billion annually). Incredibly, despite having only 5% of the world's population, the United States accounts for almost 40% of the world's total military spending, spending more on military than the next nine largest spending countries combined. I'm going.
Government corruption will continue unabated.
Government is not our friend. Nor does it work for “we the people.” Americans instinctively understand this. When asked to name the biggest problem facing the country, Americans across the political spectrum cited government as their top concern. In fact, nearly three-quarters of Americans surveyed believe the government is corrupt. Our so-called government representatives do not actually represent our people. We are currently ruled by an oligarchic elite of governments and corporations whose primary interest is to perpetuate power and control.
The tyranny of the government under the imperial president's rule will continue unabated.
The Constitution gives the President very limited and limited powers. But in recent years, American presidents have waged wars, unilaterally killed Americans, tortured prisoners of war, stripped people of their rights, arrested and detained people indefinitely, and issued warrants against Americans. He has given himself the authority to conduct unauthorized espionage and establish his own secret intelligence agency. shadow government. Powers accumulated and inherited by successive presidents, powers that are a toolbox of terror for imperial rulers, give those occupying the Oval Office the ability to be above the law, above their actual responsibilities, and to become dictators. authorized to act as such.
The harsh reality we must accept is that the so-called dangers that the American government claims to protect us from pose a greater threat to the lives, liberty, and property of its citizens.
As I made clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and its fictional work The Eric Blair Diaries, this situation remains the status quo regardless of which party is in power. are.
About John and Nisha Whitehead:
Constitutional lawyer and author John W. Whitehead is the founder and director of the Rutherford Institute. His most recent books, The Erik Blair Diaries and Battlefield America: The War on the American People, are available at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be reached at (email protected). Nisha Whitehead is Executive Director of the Rutherford Institute. Information about the Rutherford Institute can be found at www.rutherford.org.
