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What Really Makes America Great

Gregory Lyakhov patriotpost.us 5-23-26

The Founding Fathers designed the American government to slow the accumulation of power before it could become destructive.

Americans often disagree over what makes the United States exceptional. Some point to the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments, designed to protect individual freedom, civil liberties, and the citizen from government abuse. Others argue that America’s greatness stems from representative government, as citizens have the power to choose their leaders. Many others describe the United States as the land of opportunity, where hard work can still change the course of a person’s life.

Each of those answers contains part of the truth, but none reaches the core reason America became different from every other nation. Rights, elections, and opportunity matter deeply, but they all depend on something more fundamental: the structure of the American system itself.

The United States is not great merely because citizens vote. Dozens of nations hold elections. Some countries are, in certain ways, more directly democratic than America. Thankfully, the United States was never built as a pure democracy. America is a Constitutional Republic, where the people choose representatives, but those representatives remain limited by a written Constitution, separated powers, state authority, and judicial review.

The Founders understood that popular will alone could become dangerous if no structure restrained it. A majority can be wrong, emotional, temporary, or abusive. The American government was designed to slow the accumulation of power before it could become destructive.

The Bill of Rights is also essential, but even it does not capture the full genius of the American system. The original Constitution did not include those amendments. They were added after fierce debate, largely to address concerns that the new federal government might become too powerful.

That history does not make the Bill of Rights less important. It shows the deeper principle behind the entire American design: distrust of concentrated power. The Founders did not assume government would always be virtuous, but rather that government needed limits, boundaries, and competing centers of authority.

Opportunity follows from the same structure. America did not become the land of opportunity by accident. Opportunity grows when government protects property, allows enterprise, prevents one faction from controlling every institution, and leaves space for families, churches, businesses, communities, and individuals to build. Other nations may promise opportunity, but American opportunity has always been tied to a system that prevents government from controlling every path of life.

A very real indicator of American greatness is the structure of government: separation of powers, federalism, constitutional limits, and a permanent suspicion of centralized authority. Congress writes the laws. The president enforces them. The courts interpret the Constitution and decide whether the government has exceeded its authority. States retain power instead of surrendering every major decision to Washington. Local communities govern many aspects of life, bringing decision-making closer to the people affected by those decisions.

This system does not require a weak government. Limited government and powerless government are not the same. A branch of government should use the full authority the Constitution gives it. Congress should legislate, not surrender policymaking to agencies. The president should enforce the law, not pretend the executive branch has no role in shaping national direction.

The courts should protect the Constitution, not avoid hard questions because a decision creates controversy. State governments should govern boldly within their own authority, not wait for federal permission on every issue.

America works best when every branch reaches the full extent of its constitutional power while respecting the boundaries placed around it. The system fails when one branch abandons its role, when courts invent authority, when presidents ignore the law, when Congress delegates responsibility, or when states become administrative units of the federal government.

The structure only functions when each part carries out its duty.

America’s greatness does not come from republican government alone, rights alone, or opportunity alone. Those blessings exist because the American system was built on a deeper insight: power must be divided before freedom can survive. The Founders created a government strong enough to govern, but restrained enough to protect the people from the government itself.

 

Politicians that allowed and encouraged this illegal alien invasion of our Country - have blood on their hands. It is total insanity!

 

Illegals Are Killing America

Another horrific murder shows what we’re up against — not just the illegal aliens, but the judges who keep releasing them.

Jeffrey Folks | May 22, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

On April 3, a 51-year-old woman was murdered by a man wielding a hammer as she exited a Chevron gas station in Ft. Myers, Florida.  The attack was captured on video, and from the video, it appears that the woman didn’t realize until the last second what was happening.  It was too unexpected.  The victim had undoubtedly exited that gas station, where she reportedly worked as a clerk, dozens if not hundreds of times before and felt secure.  In the video, she shows no sign of apprehension, but as long as anyone like her killer is at large in America, none of us is completely safe from this kind of unexpected attack.

The hammer murder was so vicious that it captured the attention of President Trump, who condemned it on Truth Social.  A murder of this kind — of a totally innocent and unsuspecting middle-aged woman by a strong young man in the most brutal fashion and in broad daylight — is extreme, but not entirely uncommon.  It actually epitomizes what has come about in America today, since most murders are carried out by directionless young men, often by illegals and often for no reason (can there be a “reason”?) other than wanting to kill.

The president’s posting, which included “an extremely graphic video — not for children,” identified the accused as 40-year-old Rolbert Joachin, an illegal alien from Haiti who had been released by Joe Biden under the much abused “Temporary Protective Status” program.  Trump stated that liberal judges have been blocking the deportation of persons like Joachin, despite the president’s repeated efforts to end the TPS program and deport them.  Trump’s DHS assisted the Ft. Myers police in tracking down and arresting the accused.  In his statements regarding this killing as in so much else concerning illegal aliens, the president was totally correct.

One month before that unidentified woman was killed in Ft. Myers, another unsuspecting person was killed as she waited for a bus in Fairfax County, Virginia.  Thrity-two-year-old Abdul Jalloh is accused of stabbing Stephanie Minter, 41, multiple times and leaving her to die at the bus stop.  This case should send chills up the spine of anyone who hears of it, but it doesn’t seem to have affected Virginia’s newly elected governor, Abigail Spanberger, who just after the event signed an executive order allowing state and local police to refuse cooperation with ICE.

The accused in this case had at least forty prior arrests and was reportedly “well known” to prosecutors, but was released every time by liberal judges.  Remarkably, under guidelines approved by Gov. Spanberger, Jalloh could be released again without being turned over to ICE. 

Most of us are careful when we are out in America’s cities.  We avoid areas known to be dangerous, and we watch before we get out of our cars even in “safe” areas.  But there is nothing we can do, other than carry a loaded gun and have it ready, to protect ourselves from attacks like these.  The most important thing is to support ICE in its effort to remove criminal aliens, who in some locations are responsible for as much as three fourths of violent crime.  It is madness for state officials to oppose cooperation with a federal agency — or for Democrats in Congress to block funding — whose main purpose at this time is to remove “the worst of the worst.”

Any discussion of criminal illegal aliens should begin with the understanding that removing them should not be a matter of discussion or a reason to protest on their behalf.  It is essential if America is to continue to function as a free, open society.  If ICE is prohibited from doing its job, America will turn into what it was quickly becoming under Biden: a crime-ridden, violent, chaotic nation in which no one is truly safe.  The women in Ft. Myers and Fairfax County would be alive today if Biden had not let their murderers in, and many others would be alive, including Sheridan Gorman, the 18-year-old Loyola University student in Illinois, if ICE had been allowed to do its job.  Already, federal prosecutors have jumped in with a list of charges because they “have no faith” in the Illinois justice system, “according to a local defense attorney.” 

What’s actually happening is that Democrat politicians are knowingly allowing the murder of thousands of innocent American citizens, and when the murders take place, all too often, they urge leniency for the killer — as federal prosecutors suspect they will in the case of Gorman’s accused killer — or somehow blame the killing on Trump.  We need to recognize that illegal alien crime is not a small problem; it is a cancer that has been growing and that will continue to grow until ICE roots it out.  Nor will this kind of alien ever assimilate; those who killed these three women killed merely for the pleasure of killing, and that sort of killer does not assimilate or reform.  ICE is the only solution, and those who oppose ICE, in my opinion, are accomplices to the kinds of murder that took place in Florida, Virginia, and Illinois.

In America, congressmen and those in the Executive take an oath to defend the Constitution, and one of the key points of the Constitution is the obligation of government to “insure domestic Tranquility.”  If there was even an instance that meets the definition of upsetting domestic tranquility, it is the  murder of Minter, Gorman, and the as yet unidentified woman in Ft. Myers.  Florida’s Gov. DeSantis has done all he can to prevent killings like these in his state, but Virginia’s Spanberger seems determined to avoid deportation of dangerous criminals.  This qualifies as a violation of her oath of office and grounds for impeachment. 

The murder of the Ft. Myers woman in particular, caught on camera and widely broadcast, was a horrible act of violence and a wake-up call for those who oppose the punishment and removal of violent aliens.  Nothing will ever make our nation completely safe, but once every violent illegal alien is imprisoned or deported, America will be significantly safer.  A reduction in the number of murders in the U.S. is estimated to be in the tens of thousands, and reducing the number of murders by this amount makes the efforts of ICE well worth it.  If there was ever proof of the importance of ICE, what has happened in Florida, Virginia, and Illinois is clear evidence of its worth.

 

The planet is in an uproar because of illegal immigration and its horrific consequences!

 

Checking in on Europe: Elderly couple asks a migrant to turn his music down so he beats and strangles them, and lots and lots of machete crime

I wonder if they’re wishing they had the ability to keep and bear arms right about now?

Olivia Murray | May 19, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

I love my European kinsmen, but I don’t love their smug and uppity attitudes. We get it, they have better food and prettier cities; they’ve been entrusted as the custodians of Western civilization, culture, art, and history (which they’ve done a horrible job at); and they’ve always had less crime, unlike the U.S. with our “gun culture” that’s just so…unenlightened.

But that was the situation before they decided to commit suicide and open their doors to violent hordes of 7th-century savages. Modern Europeans weren’t preserving Western excellence, they were merely riding its coattails—and everything continues to crumble in fantastic fashion.

Remix News reported today that an elderly couple in Spain were brutally physically assaulted by a North African migrant when the wife asked him to turn down his music, which he was, in a moment of peak stereotype, “blasting” in a public elevator. Like the misogynist Islamist he is, he became enraged, because she was a woman who “cannot give [him] orders.” At this point the husband stepped in to defend his wife, so the migrant shoved the woman to the ground, breaking her collarbone, then choked out the husband. (Both husband and wife suffered severe injuries.) The suspect was known to police for his violent history and was quickly arrested, though he was promptly released after appearing before a judge.

Then, we head north into the U.K., and see this, in Sadiq Khan’s London: Watch on X

And this: Watch on X

I wonder if the Europeans are wishing they had the ability to keep and bear arms right about now? Don’t bring fists to a machete fight, and don’t bring a machete to a gun fight.

When I was in my last year of college at the University of Arizona, I ended up getting a job as a paralegal at a local law office. I sat next to a young woman named Deborah, who was from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC. (I presume she had been granted admission to the U.S. as an asylum seeker, along with much of her family.)

Anyway, one day at work, she was preoccupied with the state of things back home as the country’s long-time dictator Joseph Kabila, who was supposed to be permitting elections to happen, was reneging on that agreement. Reports were coming out of the DRC that soldiers were going door-to-door looking for political opposition and murdering them—these reports turned out to be true, as we learned the following year:

‘State agents’ in the Democratic Republic of the Congo carried out 1,176 extrajudicial killings last year, according to a report published by the United Nations mission in the central African country.

The report says at least 89 women and 213 children were among the dead. The number of extrajudicial killings had tripled over the past two years, and Congolese armed forces were responsible for 64% of the total, the UN said.

Now, I already knew the answer, but I was hoping to make a point, so I asked Deborah: “Don’t the people there have guns?”

She scoffed at me, turned up her nose, and said, “Absolutely not, that would be just so…uncivilized.” Mind you, as her kinsmen were being slaughtered in their Kinchasa homes by democidal killers, and the country was set to suffer another period of unchecked violence.

I was the boorish yokel—so pathetically American (barf!) clinging to my guns like some inbred oaf—for even suggesting that the people exercise a right to keep and bear arms for self-defense. Deborah could ride in on her high horse—because she was living in a world where the Second Amendment existed.

I like to think the Europeans are a little more discerning than someone like Deborah and are realizing that guns don’t make for an impolite society but a polite one—though how they can reverse course, I’m not sure.

 

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The Future Of Civilization

Between demographic trends, the rise of AI, and the nature of power, the possibilities can be very grim.

Jacob Fraden | May 20, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

For decades—perhaps since the era of the Vietnam War—America has lived under the shadow of what many call the “Deep State”: a hidden machinery of influence operating behind the façade of democratic institutions. One of Donald Trump’s central missions has been the struggle against this entrenched apparatus and the dismantling of its vision for humanity’s future. Though he has shaken the foundations of the establishment and achieved victories once thought impossible, the resistance has proven fierce, and the conflict remains unresolved.

Yet the American Deep State is merely the visible crest of a far larger iceberg—a closed club of rich and powerful. These individuals were never elected by the peoples of the world, yet through wealth, institutional control, and social prestige, they have formed an unofficial aristocracy—a closed World Elite Club seeking not merely influence, but stewardship over the future of civilization itself.

The presence of such a World Elite Club is discernible in organizations such as the World Economic Forum, the corridors of the United Nations, international banking institutions, intelligence networks, and the executive chambers of technological empires. Among them are billionaires, central bankers, hedge-fund magnates, ministers of finance, media architects, and the rulers of the digital sphere.

Human nature has always been driven by two ancient appetites: wealth and power. Everything else—including sensual pleasure—is secondary, because power and money themselves are the ultimate aphrodisiacs.

The members of the global elite already possess unimaginable wealth. Their remaining obsession is therefore inevitable: dominion over the future itself. And today, the future appears to be shaped by two colossal forces converging simultaneously: the intellectual decline of humanity and the explosive rise of artificial intelligence (AI). To seize control of these forces is, perhaps, the defining ambition of the World Elite Club.

The reason for the intellectual decline is a sharp reduction in fertility rates in developed countries and, as a result, an aging population. Civilizations, like organisms, die when they cease reproducing themselves.

In Japan, South Korea, the United States, Italy, Germany, and other developed countries in East Asia and Europe, the number of births per woman ranges from 0.7 to 1.7, far below the minimum replacement rate of 2.1. Countries with a fertility rate below 2.1 are doomed and, in 50-100 years, will either disappear or be completely transformed.

Meanwhile, across much of the underdeveloped world—sub-Saharan Africa, parts of South Asia, sections of Latin America, and many Muslim-majority regions—populations continue to expand rapidly, with a fertility rate of 4-6 children per woman. At the same time, mortality falls thanks to medical and financial aid from members of the World Elite Club. Thus emerges a dramatic demographic inversion: the developed world contracts while the underdeveloped world multiplies.

The consequence, according to this vision, is civilizational transformation. Over several generations, the cultural and intellectual profile of entire continents could change beyond recognition.

This is directly related to the intellectual decline of the world population because the intelligence of people in all underdeveloped countries is much lower than that of people in developed countries. Today, in European countries and the U.S., the IQ is in the range of 98-101, in Asia, 100-105, and in Israel, among Ashkenazi Jews, 103-115. On the other hand, people in underdeveloped countries are much less intelligent: in Somalia, the IQ is 68-72, in Niger 65-70, in India 76-82, and in Latin America, 82-96.

Hence, we arrive at the inevitable conclusion: if nothing significant happens, in 2-4 generations the demographic shift will lead to the extinction of developed countries, while growth in underdeveloped countries and uncontrolled migration to developed countries will lead to the dumbing down of the entire planet—there will be fewer smart people and more dumb people.

Of course, we are talking in statistical terms: the overwhelming majority of people will become stupider, but a relatively small percentage of smart and talented people will always remain.

While the natural intelligence of the world’s population is declining, the pervasive AI grows; that is, humanity is getting dumber, while AI is getting smarter, and it grows at an incredible rate in two directions: information processing and robotics.

In a not-so-distant future, AI will replace many human professions that require mental work: doctors, lawyers, scientists, inventors, journalists, writers, accountants, programmers, teachers, and many others. Professions that require manual work will also soon be replaced by AI robots: surgeons, nurses, construction workers, farmers, musicians, soldiers, and salespeople, etc.

A future begins to emerge in which billions of human beings become economically unnecessary. And then comes the terrifying question: What becomes of a civilization in which the majority of humanity is no longer needed for productive work?

The World Elite Club solution lies in the old imperial formula: divide and rule. If current trends continue for centuries, nation-states themselves may gradually dissolve into something else entirely. Borders blur. Populations merge. Humanity stratifies into rigid layers.

One could imagine a future world divided into three castes:

The Plebs—the vast majority (perhaps 99% of all), intellectually diminished, politically passive, sustained through entertainment, subsidies, algorithmic distraction, and dependency.

The Managers—a narrow administrative-technocratic class (no more than 1%) tasked with supervising the plebs through AI systems, surveillance networks, and robotic infrastructure.

The Elite—an extraordinarily small global aristocracy possessing knowledge, power, longevity technologies, and near-total control over planetary systems.

History may then complete a dark and ironic circle. The ancient Roman Empire understood the principle of managing the plebs: bread and circuses. Keep the intellectually inferior population entertained, fed, distracted, and emotionally stimulated, and political stability can be maintained.

In such a world, the masses may gradually cease to be viewed as citizens and instead become perceived as a logistical burden, so I can imagine that the Elite will find a way not only to limit the birth rate of the plebs but also, in the more distant future, to get rid of all these useless masses altogether, say, through their natural extinction.

In the future, humanity would not disappear entirely. Rather, it might contract into a tiny biological elite surrounded by intelligent machines, synthetic servants, cyborg systems, and autonomous networks. Yet the greatest danger may lie not in that distant age, but in the turbulent transition leading toward it.

There may come a time when millions—perhaps billions—of people find themselves economically obsolete, yet retain enough awareness to feel humiliation, resentment, and rage. A civilization drifting into purposelessness can become profoundly unstable. As the old American proverb warns: “An idle mind is the Devil’s playground.”

Such an era could become a time of unrest, fragmentation, violence, and spiritual collapse—a historical storm unlike anything humanity has previously endured. Whether the World Elite Club possesses either the wisdom or the moral restraint to navigate such a crisis remains an open question.