The REALLY Big Issues

While we address some of the obvious questions in the Q&A section, there are bigger, more pressing issues that loom over the idea of breaking up the United States. 

Apart from other federal departments and programs like Social Security, Medicare, the Department of Education, there are three major entities to factor in when we discuss the dissolution of what we recognize as the United States: The intelligence community (the “Deep State”), the military, and the Federal Reserve. 

The Intelligence Community

The intelligence community has become more well known in recent years as the “Deep State,” something that was touted as a myth at the start of the Trump presidency, but even the New York Times had to recognize as an underlying entity in Washington DC. 

Although there are other departments, the CIA, NSA, IRS, and FBI have more or less become their own independent entities, working with and without congressional oversight. We include the IRS in this group because of the enormous power it wields to investigate and scrutinize the finances and personal records of American citizens.

We’ve seen incidents over many years of the enormous power consolidated by these institutions. As examples:

The NSA’s warrantless mass surveillance operation on American citizens

The IRS targeting conservative groups with excessive scrutiny

The FBI’s spying campaign on the Trump presidential campaign

These are the most recent examples, but there are countless other scandals that have exposed these departments for their malevolent and unconstitutional activities.

The Military

Also known as the Military Industrial Complex, this organization has become the biggest part of the US government. Its reach is global, its consequences are severe, and its lucrative contracts to private companies are enormous. It sends our young people overseas to fight, and possibly die or forever maimed, for cosmetic reasons that hide the underlying motivations of the Washington DC ruling elite.

Most of what the military currently engages in does not correlate with the defense of United States citizens. However, many people and companies have a very vested interest in seeing the military proceed as is. The budget always grows and there always seems to be a new reason to expand current military operations in current conflicts or start new ones. 

The Federal Reserve

Established in 1913, the stated mission of “The Fed” is “to foster the stability, integrity, and efficiency of the nation’s monetary, financial, and payment systems so as to promote optimal macroeconomic performance.” In short, they control the money supply and issue the currency that is the only legal one for Americans to use in business transactions. 

Rather than fostering stability, The Fed has a history of causing volatility and financial unrest in the form of boom/bust cycles that ultimately result in either deep recessions or depressions, the longest of which lasted from 1929 – 1945. In addition, The Fed has caused inflation that has resulted in a 95% decrease in the value of the US dollar since 1913. 

The government uses The Fed’s monetary expansion power to fund enormous programs, the biggest of which is the US military. The ability to “print” money, especially with the removal of the gold standard in 1971, has allowed the US government to wage endless wars and regime-change campaigns without financial constraint. 

Addictive Power

The three institutions mentioned above obviously hold tremendous power and have every incentive to continue the United States of America as is and will certainly not abdicate their position easily or willingly.

Does this mean that peaceful separation is a fool’s errand? We don’t think so. 

It seems insurmountable, but again, if the cultural zeitgeist is strong enough, the government will have to do something to address the desire to restructure our current political system. One possibility is that the US federal government remains in some form, but only for certain populations – whether those who choose to remain politically or in a designated geographical area.

Moreover, with the tremendous national debt, ever-increasing deficits, devaluing dollar, and no passion for meaningful reform of our monetary system, military interventions, or entitlement programs, the issue will be forced. The US government simply cannot continue on this path and will face a day of financial reckoning that will force it and all Americans to make hard choices.

We hope that one of those choices is the option for citizens to start over in a new society with like-minded individuals. It won’t be easy. This is a real pickle. These entities exist for the purpose of holding onto god-like powers, and they won’t just agree to diminish their powerful and lucrative roles.

But if there’s no action taken now, we face the continued economic and societal collapse of the United States. Negotiating secession is the best remedy, in our opinion, to mitigate the effects of the American empire.