Episode Transcript
It is the 17th of September 1787, a monumental day in American history.
Drafted in secret by delegates to the Constitutional Convention during the summer of 1787, this four-page document, the Constitution has been signed, establishing the government of the United States.
So, why was it drafted in secret in a country that is claiming democracy as its founding principle?
The answer lies in who drafted it, who it is going serve.
All empires are built on greed.
All empires fall, the list is long and global, Rome, Persia, Britain, and now America.
That is a truism we all accept and then we are given the myriad reasons how and why they fell.
The fall represents the failure of the system.
It overextended, debt, military defeat.
Rise of competitor, cataclysmic natural disasters, etc.
Yet, one thing that is always ignored is the role of the human element in the Fall.
The reason is counter intuitive.
The Fall begins just as the Empire reaches its zenith, thinks it is unchallengeable and will last forever.
In their hubris, feeling untouchable, the Fall accelerates when the elite stop pretending that its system was anything but what you see.
All the fine words about civilization, the purported ideals it stands for, the ostensible moral virtues that underpinned its bloody actions, are shown to be merely tools to bind and exploit.
Thus, it reveals fully whose interests it works for, how it does what it does, who gains, and who loses from it.
This revelation begins the process of stripping it of its legitimacy, hollowing it from the inside in ever-decreasing and powerful circles, while those exploited within and without its geographic boundaries, who have been yoked, begin the process of overthrowing the constraints that previously bound them.
Once the process gathers pace, the question is not why, but when?
This is America today.
All the institutions and frameworks that govern our lives are made by the most powerful and their adherents.
It is important when looking at history to not ignore the human element.
What we are, what motivates us, our fears, hopes, jealousies, personal antipathies, beliefs and self-interest.
That is more important than any great words professing high-blown aspirations and unenforceable ideals because of the on-the-ground reality of existence.
So, keep in mind that George Washington insists on wearing his military uniform to meetings as president but not smiling in portraits because of his bad and false teeth.
Thomas Jefferson champions liberty yet owns 600 plus slaves and has a long-term relationship with Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman.
DNA evidence confirms her children were his.
John Adams is feisty, vain, and blunt.
Famously quarrels with Jefferson and Hamilton.
Benjamin Franklin is writing a pamphlet on farting, fart proudly.
James Madison is a sickly man just five feet four inches tall, opposes slavery but keeps slaves, and turns a blind eye to his wife's numerous affairs.
This is not to condemn them for being human, but to remind everyone that is exactly what they were.
Furthermore, the elite who are establishing the institutions of America are colonials.
Therefore, they are wealthy and powerful men who value material goods and power as key measures of personal success.
Given this, the America they are creating is not a country that will grow organically and develop its institutions as needed.
It is an artificial construct, being put together along lines that they want.
However, they need a carefully constructed national narrative to justify what they are doing and a constitution that will assist that process.
So, they claim a strongly moral and godly country of the free, the United States of America,has come into being after the American Revolution, inspired by and following the dictates of the Pilgrim Fathers.
That is a myth. A myth is either a story we like to tell about ourselves or propaganda, depending on your viewpoint.
Approximately two-thirds of people on the Mayflower were not Pilgrim families, but men hired to protect the interest of the financiers, who had underwritten the trip as a commercial enterprise through the Joint Stock London Company, in which shares were sold to stockholders for 12 pounds 10 shillings, roughly each share was sold for $5,000 in 2025 terms, in order to sponsor colonization by settlers in North America.
There is a very good reason for the later framing of their story as one of singular aim and exclusivity.
It suggests that who is American was defined by those on the Mayflower.
Therefore, what America is to be is a direct result of the foundational aims of the early pilgrim settlers when it is far from the truth.
The pilgrim fathers, instead of providing a moral lead and a map for a future country as implied by the myth, in essence, provided a pick and mix for those who came after, to choose elements that would reinforce the story that they wanted told, and ignored those that stood in the way of their wider aims.
A century and a half later, this narrow mindset of creating a country for the select has been picked up and hijacked after the American Revolution by the new elite, the winners in the war against England.
They draw their own definitive line from 1620, the purported landing at Plymouth Rock, to 1776, the Declaration of Independence, to 1783, the end of the American War of Independence, to 1787, to this moment, the signing of the American Constitution, suggesting an inevitability to what is happening and ensuring that they are seen as the direct heirs of those who had apparently begun the process.
Practically, the founding fathers are setting an American template of politics flavoured by religion, in service to the few that is openly in play today.
It is the age-old trick of the elite going back thousands of years who always legitimize their actions by fusing them with their religion and their God.
The political message is, We are making this happen.
The religious message is, God wants it. We are doing his work.
Think of the hundreds of millions, maybe billions, who have gone to their deaths over the last 5,000 years fighting for their God, country, king or queen, democracy, freedom, or whatever adjective you want to add, without ever realizing they were fighting for the power and wealth of their elite.
So, why have a constitution when you already have control?
Simply. It provides the legal front for all elite actions.
A constitution, in its most fundamental form, is a contract between all the people of a country.
It contains the philosophical framework and the rights and obligations of all its citizens.
It is a form of communal understanding.
All constitutions, either implicitly or explicitly, contain the understanding that what is being done, should be, and is, for the greater good.
It is a form of shared identity.
Countries with this understanding but no written constitution can exist quite well, as the UK illustrates, because it is in effect putting into words what already exists.
That is why you could have a universal health service and free education for everyone in the UK.
Think of the American Constitution as a secular Bible.
It is a tremendously clever document.
By largely talking in terms of higher ideals of freedom, free speech, pursuit of happiness, etc., the constitution created ensures the template is unquestioned because who can argue against ideals?
In practice, it allows a small elite minority whose concept of a common shared identity, the bedrock of any cohesive society, is limited to those like them to impose their framework on millions of other inhabitants of the emerging country.
In 1751, Benjamin Franklin had claimed the narrowest definition of what became American identity that only the English and Saxons make the principal body of white people on the face of the earth.
Yet by including the all men are created equal clause in the constitution, later reinforced and reiterated in the 14th amendment, the great American myth of a humanist country based on shared equality is created.
The reality is the opposite.
By framing the country as they wish,By binding their particular identity with the identity of the country, the founding fathers are claiming it as their own.
That excludes all others not like them, in a way that could not have been done in Europe.
So, what it means to be American is defined not at the outset of colonialization, but by the identity politics of the founding fathers.
This selfish exclusivity, limiting it to the few who fulfill a preset criteria,instead of inclusivity that embraces all citizens as equals, is at the very heart of America.
This fundamentalist belief has ensured that the history of America has always been an imposition of power by those who religiously identify themselves as the exclusive owners and beneficiaries of this foundational mindset on those who are not.
The political struggles playing out in front of us today are areflection of that, in which both the major political parties fight over the family silver, while they unite in repressing those who question their actions and their right to rule.
This means that unlike organic societies which grew into democracy, where one small group cannot claim ownership of what a country is, where there is an underlying, shared acceptance of each other, where all citizens are seen as equal stakeholders, a divergence of views are accepted and even encouraged,In America, all thinking that challenges the status quo, the way things are, is deemed dangerously un-American and unacceptable.
It is the reason why America has never evolved into a civic society.
This elite manufactured, national cognitive dissonance, a psychological conflict resulting from holding incompatible beliefs and attitudes simultaneously, is at the very core of America.
That is why there is a fundamental disconnect between how America presents itself and its reality, what it claims to stand for and what it really stands for, what it says and what it does.
Let's go back and ask the question, how are they able to create this highly dysfunctional, authoritarian, uncaring state?
A truism of politics is that no one ever gives up power willingly.
History has shown that if you place enough wealth and power in the hands of the few, their natural instinct will be to consolidate all that they have in economic and political frameworks that are unchallengeable, unchallenged, and unchanging.
If true, then why would those who are creating a country in their own image want to create a system that will deprive them of power?
They don't.
James Madison said so.
The splitting of power structures between the federal and state governments is not to promote local democracy, but a sop to the governing groups.
It ensures that their local power structures remain intact.
Not everyone can be the king of the hill, the president, but you can be the king of your own hill as senator or governor.
This is needed to cement the system in place.
The domestic, political aim is simple.
It is to impose a singular view on what the country is, what it is going to be, and of course, that ensures it will stay in their hands and of those like them.
With no previous history, and therefore no precedent to follow, there are no conventional barriers to the interpretation and implementation of this claimed perfect constitution, and therefore, no one to hold the elite accountable.
So, its workings are an open plane into which the new American elite,Those who wrote it and those like them they represent, can drive their fine carriages, encircle them and use it exactly as they want.
They are helped by geography.
A vast and growing country makes it impossible for a divergent power group to emerge to challenge the new orthodoxy, and Europe is too far away to cast a critical eye on what is going on.
This allows the elite to propagate the myths of what America is and transport them west across the country and east across the Atlantic to Europe highlighting its virtues and values.
These myths that they are propagating about what kind of country they have made cannot, of course, be measured against the realities on the ground so much so that the myths set the terms for all future views of America.
They now not only have economic and political power but have set the terms for the narrative,an unquestionable justification of what they are doing and are going to do.
It is a total power grab.
While espousing universal truths in principle, the elite are creating an exclusive system for themselves in practice.
Having established this system of exclusivity that will serve them, they will set about extending their power and wealth by financializing everything, putting a profit motive and judgment into all societal interactions, thus ensuring an ever-growing piggy bank for themselves and maintaining this privilege under the banner of what will come to be defined as American exceptionalism.
This belief, another self-justifying myth, attaches alleged moral superiority to elite actions as they assert that America differs qualitatively from other nations because of its national credo, historical evolution, distinctive political and religious institutions, and therefore, the normal rules that apply to the rest of the world do not apply to them.
They are creating their own version of reality.
The aim is simple.
The elite have printed their own free pass.
This gives them, and those like them who come after, license to pursue any actions they deem appropriate for their own ends.
We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.
And while you're studying that reality, judiciously, as you will, will act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out.
We're history's actors, and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.
Karl Rove, Republican strategist, who played a key role in the election of George W.
Bush as president in 2000, said: However, they need one other thing, practically unimportant but viscerally vital to sell to their countrymen. a validation for their actions.
Like the mafia adopted the moniker of family to burnish its murderous credentials, the American elite take on the identity of patriots and carriers of American values to ensure their own selfish interests are conflated with national interests of the country they feel they own and ensures all opposition to their actions can be presented as unpatriotic and un-American.
This ensures that the us vi them injected in the American DNA becomes a visible means of
Most obviously, while parroting the wish list of democracy, freedom.
Free speech, right to life, liberty and personal security, right to equality before the law, as if by ROTASOP, the American elite will, in fact, throughout its history never live up to these ideals most importantly at home and then abroad.
They have merely used them as convenient tools to hide their end goals, like candy wrapped around a cluster bomb.
All American history, domestic and international, only makes sense if seen as the workings of this horribly skewed framework.
So many actions of the American elite have been motivated by their singular self-interest and have been illegal, are illegal, both at home and abroad.
that the America they represent can better be defined as a country engaged in gangsterism for a select few rather than a national state working for the common good of its citizens.
This means there is a moral indifference, a societal barbarism, towards fellow Americans at the heart of the American psyche that is rare, if not impossible, to find in similarly economically developed countries.
America is a project by the elite for the elite, for the chosen by the chosen.
with a willing God always at hand to help, where all arms of the state are used to maintain the status quo, reinforced by imposing a systemic, stifling conformity on political thought.
The elite, colonial mindset established at America's founding that values material goods as the key measure of personal success, hoards its gains and seeks to maintain its position by any means possible, including extreme violence, has never evolved to take into consideration civic values.
It is not only still in place but has been turbocharged since the fall of the Soviet Union.
This insular, uncivic thinking which values infinite greed on a finite planet, rapacious profiteering, raging inequality, societal neglect, careless consumerism, selfish individualism, moral indifference towards fellow humans, daily mass shootings, ecocide enabling, climate catastrophe denial and endless wars is an existential threat to the concept of civic society in America.
Thus, it is against the American people.
One of the most confusing and amusing things you see from outside is American commentators and critics nostalgically talking of a Neverland America where all the promises of the Constitution were applied and lived in.
This is a prime example of cognitive dissonance and brainwashing, the twin inescapable strands of American existence, so that even those who can see its abuses maintain the illusion that there was a time when it was a better place and those ideals were practiced.
It has never been so.
No country that applied and lived by those statements could have had Jim Crow apartheid, concentration camps, McCarthy trials, Widespread economic discrimination based on ethnicity and class as just a few examples.
American Constitution is the candy floss that hides the cluster bomb the elite manufactured and placed amongst ordinary American people to control them.
Look at the America you see today.
That is what America is and always has been.
It is showing openly whose interests it works for, how it does what it does, and who gains and who loses from it.
Revealed for what it really is by a thieving plutocracy who no longer care to hide their actions, the American Empire is in early stage of collapse.
What will follow is horrendous for all of us but all cleansings are.
To fully comprehend how we got here, it is time to throw away our instilled, subconscious memories of what America claims to be and look at it with new eyes.
