The greatest
threats to America come not from abroad but from internal
overreach: a permanent surveillance state, secret executive militarism,
congressional impotence, judicial passivity, and catastrophic debt. The
formal structure of the Constitution remains, but its functional
authority is evaporating. This points toward systemic failure.
Congress has abdicated its
legislative role, the judiciary selectively enforces constitutional
norms, and the executive rules increasingly by decree. Meanwhile,
lobbying power from defense contractors and pro-Israel groups locks
Congress into perpetual military spending—now over $1 trillion annually,
more than the next ten countries combined.
Domestically,
the unchecked growth of executive power is matched by economic
instability. The federal debt, nearing $40 trillion, carries annual
interest exceeding $1 trillion—an unsustainable burden that threatens
systemic collapse. Tariffs, imposed unilaterally and used as political
weapons, drive up consumer prices while violating constitutional limits,
which vest taxing authority solely in Congress. Courts may soon
invalidate these executive-imposed tariffs, but political gridlock makes
corrective legislation unlikely.
» Collapse—not through revolution, but insolvency. «
If unchecked, these
dynamics will lead to the federal government's collapse—not through
revolution, but insolvency. Unable to service its debt, pay salaries, or
borrow, Washington could cease functioning. The likely outcome is regional fragmentation: a dozen or so independent republics forming along ideological and geographic lines—e.g., New England, Texas, and the Southeast. This breakup, though gradual and
nonviolent, will mark the end of the United States as a unified federal
entity.
» Decadence is a moral and spiritual disease. «
Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb, 1978.
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