By Grant M. Dahl
The State of Division
July 25, 2024
In his speech accepting the 2024 Republican nomination for President of the United States, Donald Trump made a statement that should have made many do a double-take. In an attempt to make a plea to the nation to unite, Trump misspoke in such a way that actually ended up proving how a National Divorce for the American Empire would be a long-term benefit for the people residing within it's lands. It was a gaffe of monumental proportions, but one which the Elites and Wanna-Be Elites gladly overlooked, because they are more interested in profiting from the rising political tensions than in actually finding ways in which to preserve peace and return prosperity to the common man.
"I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America." - Donald Trump
Source: RNC Donald Trump Full 2024 Acceptance Speech
Through this illogical statement, Trump unintentionally made the best argument as to why he is just as unfit to rule America as Kamala Harris, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and all the other presidential candidates. Only a small majority or plurality (if not a small corrupt cabal) will end up endorsing the eventual winner. This means that, no matter who wins in November, there will be no victory for the rest of America after Election Day.
In fairness to Trump, he obviously was trying to make the point that he wanted everyone in America to benefit from the results of his policies, not just those who voted for him or attached their political prospects to him. The problem, which Trump does not seem to understand, is that the 55-state/territorial-compact is too diverse economically, culturally, geographically, and politically to benefit from a set of policies imposed from one particular center of power. If Trump understood this, he would be endorsing a gradual dissolution of the ties to the imperial center in Washington DC and allowing states and territories to re-assert radically more control over their own governance. However, his campaign platform and rhetoric makes no firm commitment to policies even resembling this approach, just more solutions dictated from the imperial center of power. The political structures by which tyranny is imposed are left unaddressed, ready to be used at a moment's notice by whichever wielder of power succumbs to the temptation to become addicted to it's exercise.
Political Unity always opens the door to tyranny. America's Founding Fathers well understood this, which was why they were in favor of multiple factions within the larger confederation (which was how pre-1860s America was designed). The view was that the dispersion of power, and the inability to consolidate it, would be a net benefit for the people. It would allow a very loosely attached country of different peoples to prosper in their own ways, in their own sections, according to their own needs. Co-operation (such as trade) would be voluntary based on the involved sections both benefiting, and Unity would only truly be needed temporarily in times of national emergencies, such as invasion from a foreign power (i.e. Great Britain in 1812).
Unfortunately for America, all these checks in favor of freedom disappeared, thanks to Lincoln's Great Blunder and it's immediate aftermath. What replaced it was a dominant center of power which built itself into the empire of today. Over time, this center gradually pulled more and more power to itself at the expense of the widely different sections of the country. It constructed a complex political structure, which now uses the mechanisms of law and power to dictate policy and results to a diverse body of millions, irrespective of what impacts it might have. All dictation is based on the whims of those with the acumen and manipulative skill to seize the levers which control it. So long as this complex structure of power exists, the common man in America has no prospects of truly succeeding in his earthly responsibilities.
"There is no victory in winning for half of America" Trump said in his speech. That much is true. Nobody wins as long as this imperial circus known as national elections continues. If all of America is to win, dissolution of the empire must be brought about. The power to govern must be returned to the local people. Only National Divorce, as the instrument of decentralization, can now accomplish that.
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