The People Haven't Won Since 1781

The sad American track record

When British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781, it represented the high point in American History. We reached our peak at the very beginning of our existence as an independent nation. We successfully seceded from British rule. We won.

Things ran pretty smoothly under the Articles of Confederation. It gave the central government as few powers as any document possibly could. Shays’ Rebellion in 1786 revealed the ugly underbelly from the War of Independence. Those forlorn soldiers weren’t properly paid, or properly treated. In Massachusetts, an uprising fueled by increased taxation led by Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays, was eventually defeated by the state militia. The rebellion helped pave the way for the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which would radically transform the new nation’s federal government. Daniel Shays, perhaps the first American populist, and the people lost.

I defend the Constitution a lot. Because they included the Bill of Rights, and structured it around the checks and balances of three separate but equal branches of the federal government, it looked really good on paper. The Whiskey Rebellion that began in 1791, led by veterans of the War of Independence, thought they were fighting for the anti-tax ideals that sparked the revolution. It must have been especially disillusioning when President George Washington, who led the Revolutionary troops, used the new powers of the Constitution to crush the rebellion, leading military troops himself at one point. The people, and the spirit of Independence, lost.

During Washington’s administration, two factions emerged. One was led by Alexander Hamilton, who supported a more powerful central government, and the other by Thomas Jefferson, who thought that government was best that governed the least. Hamilton and company wanted the federal government to assume the debt from the Revolutionary War, and pushed for a National Bank. Jefferson thought the states should charter their own banks. Hamilton persuaded Washington, and both debt and a National Bank became a reality. Some 230 years later, Hamilton has become a revered Black Broadway star, and Jefferson is a despised “racist.” The people lost.

Thomas Jefferson fought the good fight on many counts, without much success. John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, first shattered the checks and balances between the three branches by instituting “Judicial Review,” whereby the Supreme Court could overturn legislation by “interpreting” whether it was constitutional. Jefferson recognized how dangerous this was, and strongly opposed it, on the grounds that it would give the Judiciary greater powers than the Legislative and Executive branches. “Judicial Review” became ingrained in the system. Both the Left and Right support it wholeheartedly. Jefferson, and the people lost.

President James K. Polk was the first executive to overstep his constitutional boundaries. The first ten presidents had restrained from doing so for the most part. Polk launched an aggressive war against Mexico, taking over a great deal of land in the process. U.S. troops committed the kinds of atrocities that have become all too familiar to us. Ironically, one of those bitterly opposing Polk’s war of aggression was then Congressman Abraham Lincoln. “Manifest Destiny,” or the notion that America was destined, by God, to expand its borders. Polk paved the way for Lincoln to become the first imperial president. Once again, the people lost.

When the original seven southern states began seceding from the Union in December, 1860, they appeared to have every right to do so. After all, the American colonies had seceded from British rule, and built their War of Independence on the principle that all people have a right to consent to those who govern them. Clearly, the Confederate states no longer consented by 1860. Abraham Lincoln figuratively raped the non- consenting states with a “Total War” strategy the world had never seen before. Nearly a million Americans would die senselessly. The Union forever became non-voluntary. The people utterly and unequivocally lost.

The people were defeated on several fronts during Lincoln’s reign of terror. Lincoln suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus and arrested untold thousands of northerners who opposed his policies, throwing them in makeshift prisons. He shut down well over 200 newspapers that criticized him. He introduced the concept of “appeasement,” whereby voices for peace were demonized into enemies. His troops raped and plundered like none ever had before. They burned homes and destroyed crops. I provided many details of their vile actions in my book Crimes and Cover-Ups in American Politics: 1776-1963. Peace, and the people lost.

Lincoln’s many unconstitutional acts set ugly precedents for future presidents. His incarceration of “disloyal” northerners made it possible for FDR to place Japanese, German, and Italian Americans into concentration camps during WWII. The government also stole their property and never returned it. Only the Japanese descendants ever got reparations. George W. Bush would also cite Lincoln in defending the treatment of uncharged prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Under Lincoln, the principles of the patriots who founded this country were crushed completely, and the people lost.

After Lincoln was assassinated through an “inside job,” probably led by his psychotic Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, “Reconstruction” was forced on the South. Military troops would occupy the southern states until 1877. This continued punishment of a defeated foe would result in the birth of the Ku Klux Klan, nearly a century of Jim Crow laws, and the explosion of virulent racism. Reconstruction only ended after the 1876 election, when Democrat Samuel Tilden was so blatantly robbed of the presidency the Republicans offered it as a concession. Again, the people lost.

The Populist Party arose in the 1890s, due to the crushing disparity of wealth in the Gilded Age, exemplified by the odious “robber barons.” But Americans demonstrated, even at that time, that they weren’t attracted to Third Parties. William Jennings Bryan ran on populist principles, and became the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party three different times. Naturally, he was defeated each time. Bryan was strongly opposed to evolution on moral grounds; he believed that “survival of the fittest” would lead to genocide. He would be slandered as a babbling fundamentalist at the Scopes Trial, dying five days after it. Human decency, and the people lost.

The Federal Reserve was created by the very bankers it was supposed to control, in 1913. Unmonitored and never truly audited, the government bestowed extraordinary powers upon a private corporation, deceptively named to indicate it was a government entity. The Fed had (and has) the power to create booms and busts at will. Every loan originating under its fractional system at first required 10 percent reserves to back it. Now it requires none. So their banks loan money they don’t actually have, to unsuspecting customers, and charge them interest on top of that. Money is created out of thin air with every transaction. They are counterfeiters. The people lost.

Woodrow Wilson, like Clarence Darrow (the great “liberal” warmonger who badgered Bryan on the witness stand at the Scopes trial), was a dedicated eugenicist. He started the nation’s first forced sterilization program as the governor of New Jersey. As president, he further eroded the isolationist principles of George Washington and the other Founders, by forcing America into World War I, after promising he wouldn’t. After the war, America and the Allies charged financial reparations from Germany, a historical first. Germany would not stop paying WWI reparations until 2010. Over 116,000 Americans died for absolutely no reason. The people really, really lost.

Wilson also threw WWI protesters like the great socialist Eugene Debs into prison. When they appealed this tyranny, the Supreme Court supported Wilson, in an opinion written by yet another “liberal” eugenicist, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Holmes invented the now common phrase “You can’t yell fire in a crowded theater” to justify Wilson’s actions. However you look at it, Debs and the others protesting the war were not yelling fire in a crowded theater. This was the first official asterisk affixed to the First Amendment, and led to Orwellian concepts like “hate speech.” The people lost.

The great populist Huey Long was shot on September 8, 1935, dying two days later. He had announced his candidacy for the presidency a month earlier, and had alleged from the floor of the Senate that the government was plotting to assassinate him. He was an early critic of the Fed, had opposed WWI, supported the Bonus Army of WWI soldiers who were routed by U.S. troops when they gathered in protest in Washington, D.C. (another loss for the people). He understood how sinful the disparity of wealth was, and was opposed by Standard Oil (run by the Rockefellers), President Roosevelt, and virtually all other powerful forces of the time. When he died, the people truly lost.

FDR and the mainstream media of the time demonized opposition to their blatant attempt to get America into World War II. The America First movement was run largely by classical liberals, who still remembered the senseless carnage of WWI. FDR engineered the Japanese “sneak” attack on Pearl Harbor as surely as if he’d been flying one of the planes himself. Over 400,000 Americans died in WWII, and eastern Europe was handed over to our then ally the Soviet Union. For the first time in the history of warfare, the victors prosecuted the vanquished at the Nuremberg Trials. The war was shameful, and the “trials” were even worse. The people lost again.

During the 1950s, the “Cold War” featured America now aligned against its recent ally the Soviets. Korea, and then Vietnam, resulted in nonsensical bloodletting, as both countries were divided into northern and southern divisions, with American boys fighting, and too often dying, for one side against the other. John F. Kennedy became the first president in modern history to urge peace, and resist all the overtures behind the scenes for war. He also wanted to abolish the out of control CIA. He would be assassinated on November 22, 1963. The country’s innocence was shattered, and a coverup was launched that is ongoing today. Obviously, the people lost.

Two other national voices for peace in the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr., and JFK’s brother Senator Robert F. Kennedy, were assassinated in 1968. Again, false narratives were established, patsies were framed and convicted, and the state controlled media lied about every aspect of each case. Richard Nixon became president, and the Civil Rights movement devolved into the race-baiting outfit we’ve come to know and love, under the leadership of the likes of shakedown artist Jesse Jackson and crack dealer turned FBI informant Al Sharpton. The people lost.

For brevity’s sake, it’s not practical to go into all the losses the people have suffered during my lifetime. October Surprise. Iran Contra. Waco. Oklahoma City. All the Body Counts. The Gulf “War,” which was tantamount to Mike Tyson entering the ring against a kindergartner. Iraq. Afghanistan. In each case, government lies regurgitated by pathetic “journalists.” I covered all these incidents in depth in Hidden History, and will dive even deeper into some of them in Hidden History 3. Each and every one was a massive crime against the people, an injustice of the highest magnitude. A historical lie reinforced by the despicable court historians. A massive loss for the people.

9/11 was the ultimate “inside job,” as Alex Jones used to say. A massive psyop, with lie piled upon lie. My books Hidden History and the upcoming Hidden History 3 document this thoroughly. A new “enemy” was born, in “terrorism.” Impossible to define, or even identify the enemy combatants. As George W. Bush said, “If you’re not with us, you’re with the terrorists.” Abraham Lincoln would have been proud. The Patriot Act, unconstitutional Homeland Security Department. Free Speech zones. The losses were really, really big here. 9/11 basically killed off what was left of America 1.0. Since then, we’ve officially been living in America 2.0.

When Donald Trump attained the presidency in 2016, it looked like possibly the people might finally have won something. If he followed through on even a fraction of his revolutionary rhetoric, we’d see real change for the better at last. But, of course, Trump turned out to be the biggest disappointment of all. He did nothing but tweet and capitulate, and his cartoonish personality divided the country. When as many as a million assembled in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021, to protest an election rife with fraud, they were demonized as “insurrectionists” and many remain behind bars as political prisoners. Trump said we’d get tired of all the winning. We lost.

Truman’s Secretary of Defense James Forrestal said, before they pushed him out of a window at Bethesda Naval Hospital, that if there wasn’t a gigantic conspiracy, once in a while they’d make a mistake in our favor. In the same vein, if this wasn’t a gigantic conspiracy, once in a while the average person would win. Things would happen that made life better for the mass of people. Good legislation. Honest leaders. Common sense solutions implemented. Instead, it’s always dishonest leaders and bad legislation. The absence of common sense at every level of power. A mishmash of corruption and incompetence. And now, lunacy. The people seemed doomed to lose.

I don’t know how many Americans would agree with me that the people have always lost, since winning their independence. We’re like Hamilton Burger, the hapless D.A. who scored one victory against Perry Mason. Or the Washington Generals, losing every game to the Globetrotters. But Burger and the Generals knew they were losers. The American people don’t seem to know it. There are many Trump supporters who think they “won” during his presidency. The elites, and those who have sold out to corruption, certainly are winners. We need to keep fighting for those who are screwed over by a rigged system, and aren’t even aware of it. Virtue is its own reward.