America Was Never a Democracy—It Was Always an Empire
The Federalists Never Left, They Just Got Richer, Smarter, and Fully in Charge
I. The Blueprint: How Hamilton, Adams, and Washington Built an Empire in Republic’s Clothing
We’re taught that 1776 was a revolution against tyranny. But what came after wasn’t democracy—it was a recalibration of elite control.
From the moment the Constitution was signed, the United States was never designed to be a government of the people. It was designed to protect a narrow class of property owners from the demands of the working majority.
At its core were men like Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, James Madison, and George Washington—founders who feared direct democracy, despised popular uprisings, and viewed common people as a threat to order and profit.
Their goal wasn’t to empower the public.
Their goal was to build a system that would outlive rebellion.
Shays’ Rebellion: The Spark That Terrified the Elites
In 1786, thousands of poor farmers in western Massachusetts—many of them veterans of the Revolutionary War—rose up against crushing debt, land seizures, and tax demands.
This uprising, known as Shays’ Rebellion, shook the foundations of the fledgling U.S. elite. It wasn’t just a protest—it was a clear signal that without centralized power, the poor might seize control of local governments.
The rebellion terrified the ruling class and directly led to the Constitutional Convention. As historian Woody Holton writes, Shays’ Rebellion “convinced many elite Americans that the Articles of Confederation were too weak to maintain order.”
What they meant by “order” was property rights and class hierarchy.
Alexander Hamilton: Architect of Financial Oligarchy
Hamilton didn’t hide his disdain for democracy.
He referred to the public as “a great beast” and believed political power should be reserved for “the rich and well born.”
At the Constitutional Convention, he proposed:
• A president for life
• A Senate for life
• A system where popular opinion would be filtered, contained, and overruled
When he created the First Bank of the United States, it wasn’t just about currency—it was about consolidating financial power in elite hands, tying state economies to federal debt, and creating a permanent alliance between government and merchant capital.
Hamilton’s America wasn’t one of farmers and workers.
It was a merchant empire, run by financiers, insulated from public interference.
John Adams: The Sedition President
Adams wasn’t as flashy as Hamilton, but he was just as authoritarian.
He openly declared, “Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.”
As president, Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which:
• Criminalized criticism of the federal government
• Allowed the imprisonment and deportation of immigrants deemed “dangerous”
• Targeted dissenters, journalists, and political opposition
Adams jailed newspaper editors and silenced protest not as a tyrant, but as a man who genuinely believed that too much democracy would destroy the country.
His actions weren’t the exception.
They were a preview of how the state would treat dissent for centuries to come.
George Washington: The Enforcer
We’re told Washington was above the fray. But in reality, he stood firmly behind elite power—and made it clear with guns.
When Pennsylvania farmers resisted a federal tax on whiskey in 1791—known as the Whiskey Rebellion—Washington personally led troops into the field to crush the uprising. It was the first time the federal government used military force on its own citizens, not to defend liberty, but to enforce tax collection and protect financial policy.
Washington’s support for Hamilton’s financial system and his military suppression of protest set the tone:
This new republic would protect wealth before it protected freedom.
James Madison: The Double Agent of Democracy
Madison’s political identity shifted over time—from Federalist to Democratic-Republican—but his structural design for the republic never truly changed.
In Federalist No. 10, Madison wrote:
“Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention…”
He praised the Constitution specifically because it filtered popular opinion through a series of elite mechanisms:
• The Electoral College
• The appointed Senate
• The lifetime-appointed judiciary
Madison wasn’t against factions—he was against popular power.
And his solution was a system that could appear representative while remaining safely in the hands of the elite.
The Constitution: A System to Smother Democracy
The Constitution didn’t guarantee voting rights. It didn’t protect workers. It didn’t include Black people, women, or the poor in its vision of citizenship.
Instead, it embedded systems of control:
• The Electoral College shields presidential power from direct vote
• The Senate, originally unelected, was designed to check popular legislation
• The Supreme Court became an unelected veto power over the will of the people
• Voting laws were left to states, ensuring property, race, and gender exclusions would last for over a century
These weren’t oversights.
They were design features, meant to protect the emerging American aristocracy from the masses who might challenge their power.
The Result: A Republic That Acts Like an Empire
By the time the 1800s began, the foundational DNA was set:
• Power would flow upward
• Dissent would be managed, not engaged
• The government would side with capital—not citizens—when conflicts arose
And when the original Federalist Party died, the structure it left behind didn’t disappear.
It simply changed hands.
This wasn’t a break from monarchy.
It was its rebirth—disguised in republican language and red, white, and blue.
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II. Federalism Rebranded: From Powdered Wigs to Pinstripes
The Federalist Party may have vanished from party rolls, but the operating system it installed never shut down. It simply changed its branding, cleaned up its rhetoric, and upgraded its tools.
Every generation, the ruling class rebrands itself—Whigs, industrial barons, technocrats, neoliberal “problem solvers.” But the mission never changes. From the earliest days of the republic to the boardrooms of 2025, the structure is still locked in: elite rule over the working majority, wrapped in patriotic packaging.
The American people never overthrew the Federalists.
They just learned to salute them under new logos.
The Whigs: Hamilton’s Ghost in New Clothes
When the Federalist Party collapsed after the election of 1800, their politics didn’t disappear—they just moved across the aisle and reemerged as the Whig Party.
The Whigs pushed central banking, internal improvements, and tariffs to protect industry. They presented themselves as economic modernizers, but they were still pulling from the Hamilton playbook: centralized finance, elite rule, and a deep fear of the unruly public.
They claimed to value order and progress, but what they really feared was disruption from below. The Whigs were terrified of popular uprisings and working-class demands. They stood for “the right kind of people” running the country—those with property, education, and pedigree.
They were Hamilton’s America, just wearing nicer coats and talking about “moral uplift.”
Andrew Jackson: The Controlled Populist
Many would point to Andrew Jackson as a counterexample—a rough-hewn outsider who smashed the Second Bank and raged against aristocracy.
But Jackson wasn’t a threat to elite power. He was its enforcer, repackaged as a folk hero.
He opposed the central bank not to empower working people, but to redistribute control among local elites and Southern planters. And while he called himself a populist, he oversaw the Indian Removal Act, violently expanded slavery, and built the foundation for American settler capitalism.
Jackson gave the working class some slogans.
The elites got more land, more labor, and more profit.
The Gilded Age: Industrial Federalism on Steroids
By the late 1800s, the rebranded Federalist machine had fused with industrial capitalism to become something far more dangerous: a corporate oligarchy protected by the state.
The Gilded Age wasn’t a fluke—it was the natural evolution of a system designed to elevate the wealthy few. Families like the Carnegies, the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers, and the Morgans didn’t just influence policy. They wrote it.
• They captured railroads, banks, oil, and steel.
• They bought Congressmen like office furniture.
• They built monopolies while workers toiled in tenement slums and died in factory fires.
• When workers resisted, they called in the National Guard, the police, or Pinkerton mercenaries.
In 1921, when unionized coal miners rose up at Blair Mountain in West Virginia—the largest armed labor uprising in American history—the federal government responded with machine guns, tear gas, and aerial bombardments.
That’s not democracy.
That’s class war with government air support.
The Progressive Era: Cosmetic Surgery for a Dying Body
Progressive reformers tried to put bandages on the machine, but they never stopped it. Leaders like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson passed antitrust laws, created regulatory agencies, and waved the flag of reform—but none of them touched the core: who owns power, who writes the rules, and who enforces them.
They didn’t dismantle monopolies—they curated them.
They didn’t empower workers—they restrained them.
They didn’t democratize the economy—they just polished its public face.
Even when the Federal Reserve was created in 1913, it wasn’t to serve the public. It was to stabilize the banking system and protect the financial elite from further panics caused by their own greed.
Progressivism was never revolution.
It was a tactical retreat by the ruling class.
The New Deal: Concessions Under Duress
When the economy collapsed in 1929 and capitalism began to eat itself alive, the structure bent—but it did not break.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal offered hope to millions, but the programs weren’t designed to democratize power. They were built to stabilize the system so it could continue. FDR even admitted as much in his famous 1936 speech, calling out “economic royalists” who opposed him—but ultimately, he saved capitalism from collapse.
Social Security didn’t challenge corporate power.
It subsidized consumption.
The Wagner Act legalized unions, but locked them into a model that would later be neutered by Taft-Hartley.
The ruling class didn’t lose power.
It diversified its tactics.
And when workers became too militant—too demanding—the system sent in the FBI.
The Black Panther Party: A Threat That Couldn’t Be Co-opted
While many Civil Rights victories were absorbed into the system, some movements refused assimilation.
The Black Panther Party didn’t just fight for civil rights—they organized against police violence, capitalism, imperialism, and state surveillance. They fed children, patrolled the streets, and demanded community control of public institutions.
The government’s response? COINTELPRO.
Surveillance, infiltration, false flag operations, and outright assassinations—including the murder of Fred Hampton in his sleep by the Chicago police and the FBI.
The Panthers weren’t just activists.
They were revolutionaries. And the state treated them accordingly.
The Cold War: Technocrats and Think Tanks Take Over
After World War II, the baton passed again—not to the people, but to planners, economists, and defense contractors.
The Cold War state was run by men in suits with clearance badges:
• The CIA overthrew governments across Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East to secure U.S. corporate interests.
• The Pentagon grew into an unelected shadow government.
• Public programs were slashed in the name of “fighting communism,” while military spending ballooned to keep contractors fed.
This era produced the most insidious version of the Federalist empire yet:
a managerial state that claimed neutrality, but always served capital.
And when the Civil Rights Movement demanded more than symbolic progress—when it started organizing around poverty, militarism, and workers’ rights—it was crushed, surveilled, and buried.
Neoliberalism: The Final Form
By the time Ronald Reagan took office, the game was fully rigged.
Reagan didn’t break the New Deal. He weaponized it, gutting public programs while transferring wealth upward through deregulation, union busting, and global trade pacts that turned workers into line items.
Bill Clinton continued the trend:
• He gutted welfare.
• He pushed NAFTA.
• He deregulated Wall Street.
• He criminalized Black and Brown communities.
Barack Obama bailed out the banks, crushed Occupy Wall Street with coordinated police raids, and left Wall Street untouched while millions lost homes and jobs.
By the time Joe Biden took office, the empire was already hollowed out—but still protected by its technocrats, its corporate media, and a Constitution designed to absorb dissent without ever relinquishing power.
This Is the Same Machine—It Just Got Smarter
From the Whigs to the robber barons, from the CIA to McKinsey, from the railroad monopolists to Google’s surveillance capitalism, the Federalist lineage has never been broken. It has only evolved.
You don’t need kings when you have corporate boards.
You don’t need generals when you have consultants and lobbyists.
You don’t need a constitution that empowers people—just one that slows them down.
We were taught that the American system bends toward justice.
But what we got was a machine that bends, absorbs, mutates, and endures—because it was built to.
The Federalist system never died.
It just logged back in.
III. Trump’s Second Term: The Federalist Empire Takes Off Its Mask
In January of 2025, Donald Trump walked onto the inaugural stage flanked not by public servants, but by billionaires. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Larry Fink, and Jeff Bezos sat behind him in full view of the world—not as guests, but as shareholders.
It was not an inauguration. It was a hostile merger.
Gone were the illusions of unity, of democracy, of even basic pretense. The elite no longer felt the need to disguise their power. The ceremony made it plain: the United States government is no longer even pretending to be of, by, or for the people. It is a vessel for private capital, fully captured, fully operational.
The Federalist dream has been fulfilled.
Project 2025: The Empire’s Operating Manual
Trump’s return was not just a political event—it was the final step in a long-engineered plan. Within hours of his swearing-in, his administration began implementing Project 2025, a comprehensive blueprint for dismantling the last shreds of public governance and replacing them with a handpicked, loyalist regime.
Project 2025 is the culmination of decades of elite planning. Its goals are unambiguous:
• Purge tens of thousands of civil servants and career public officials.
• Replace regulatory institutions with industry loyalists.
• Strip federal agencies of independence and fold them under direct executive control.
• Embed a permanent ruling class into the fabric of the state.
This is not policy—it is conquest.
And at the center of this conquest sits a new agency: the Department of Government Efficiency, run by none other than Elon Musk.
Yes, that Elon Musk—the same billionaire who built his empire on government subsidies, union busting, and performative trolling. Now, he holds a government title and uses it to execute the same agenda: dismantle public power, consolidate private control, and bury any resistance beneath the language of “efficiency.”
The Department of Energy now serves SpaceX.
The Department of Transportation now defers to Tesla.
The Environmental Protection Agency now protects polluters.
This is not deregulation.
It is re-feudalization—only now, the lords are technocrats, and their castles are data centers.
The Judiciary: Locked Down by Design
While Trump’s first term was chaotic and bombastic, his second is orderly and strategic. That is because the groundwork was already laid—three Supreme Court justices, over three hundred federal judges, and a judiciary shaped entirely by the Federalist Society.
These judges are not arbiters of law. They are guardians of the ruling class, trained to interpret the Constitution in ways that protect capital, silence workers, and defend executive supremacy.
This judiciary has already:
• Struck down environmental protections.
• Sided with corporations over unions in every major case.
• Expanded presidential immunity and narrowed the scope of public protest.
Trump did not break the court. He completed it.
This is not “originalism.” This is the Federalist restoration—a return to elite rule cloaked in robes and precedent.
Billionaire Cabinet: The New Constitutional Convention
There is no need to speculate who runs the country anymore. They told us.
Peter Thiel is openly shaping immigration and surveillance policy, channeling data contracts to Palantir.
Larry Fink is informing monetary policy and overseeing federal asset management through BlackRock.
Jeff Bezos has expanded Amazon’s role in federal logistics and now oversees infrastructure contracts once managed by government agencies.
Elon Musk, through Starlink and SpaceX, controls communications and defense-adjacent technology infrastructure for the Department of Defense and beyond.
These men are not advisors. They are co-sovereigns, and unlike presidents, they are not elected, not impeachable, and not bound by law.
This is not lobbying. This is corporate co-governance, hardwired into the structure of federal authority.
Authoritarian Spectacle, Federalist Substance
While Trump unleashes spectacle—rallies, loyalty oaths, culture war tantrums—the actual power grab happens behind the curtain, quietly, methodically.
He has used executive orders to:
• Block independent oversight of federal agencies.
• Reassign prosecutors who challenge corporate or administrative overreach.
• Defund climate science, labor protections, and civil rights enforcement.
He has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act against peaceful protests.
He has encouraged military enforcement of border control, domestic unrest, and anti-federalist “subversion.”
But none of this is new. The founders used troops against their own citizens during the Whiskey Rebellion. Adams used laws to jail dissenters. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. The United States has always kept a sword behind its smile.
Trump just put it on the table.
Trump Is Not a Fluke—He’s a Fulfillment
Many liberals still describe Trump as a deviation. A rupture. A shocking twist in the American story.
They are wrong.
Donald Trump is the natural result of an American system designed from the beginning to resist democracy.
He did not hijack the Constitution. He is the perfect student of it.
Where Adams feared the masses, Trump mocks them.
Where Hamilton wanted a president for life, Trump wants immunity forever.
Where the founders installed filters against public control, Trump simply removed the filters altogether.
The system did not fail. It evolved. It hardened. It adapted. And now it stands fully revealed—not as a democracy in crisis, but as an empire in command.
The masks are off. The billionaires are seated. The judiciary is fortified. The agencies are captured.
The Federalists never left.
They just stopped pretending.
IV. Every Revolt That Tried—and Why None of Them Broke the System
Every generation has risen.
And every generation has been broken, bought off, or buried.
That is not because the American people have failed. It is because the American system has succeeded—in absorbing rebellion, in suppressing resistance, and in evolving just enough to survive its own contradictions.
We are told to celebrate the progress, to measure history by its victories. But if you zoom out, what you see is a pattern: each time the people rose, the system adapted, rebranded, and tightened its grip.
No rebellion has ever dismantled the machine.
It just forced it to put on a new mask.
From Shays’ Rebellion to Blair Mountain: The State Crushes Early Resistance
The pattern began almost immediately. Shays’ Rebellion terrified the founders so thoroughly that they rewrote the entire structure of government to insulate themselves from the poor.
The people protested debt and land seizures, and the ruling class responded by inventing the Electoral College, the Senate, and a court system that would never answer to a majority.
A generation later, when farmers in Pennsylvania fought back against the Whiskey Tax, George Washington led federal troops to crush the movement—the first time the U.S. military was used against its own citizens, not to defend freedom, but to enforce finance.
Fast forward a century to 1921, where ten thousand coal miners in West Virginia marched to reclaim their right to unionize and work with dignity. What they got was the Battle of Blair Mountain—a full-scale assault by police, hired gunmen, and eventually U.S. Army bombers, flown against workers on American soil.
That is what this country does when its economic order is threatened.
It sends guns. It sends planes. It sends a message.
The Labor Movement: Contained and Caged
The labor movement won real concessions. It won weekends. It won wages. But it never won control.
From the late 1800s through the 1940s, labor was a revolutionary force—wildcat strikes, industrial actions, anarchist organizing, general strikes. But the state, working with capital, learned to respond not with negotiation, but with calculated violence:
• The Pullman Strike was broken by the National Guard.
• The Haymarket organizers were hanged.
• Industrial Workers of the World organizers were murdered, arrested, and silenced.
Then came the New Deal—packaged as victory.
But it was strategic co-optation.
Union recognition came at the price of legal limitations. The Wagner Act tied labor to the state. The Taft-Hartley Act later strangled that power, making it illegal to strike in solidarity or organize politically.
By the 1980s, union power had been reduced to weekend negotiations and electoral endorsements. The steel-toed resistance had become a nonprofit.
The empire absorbed its most powerful enemy and turned it into an administrator of its own decline.
The Civil Rights Movement: Sanitized and Selectively Remembered
The Civil Rights Movement is taught as a triumph of American democracy. But what is rarely told is how its radical edge was sliced off, sterilized, and buried.
The version sold in textbooks ends in 1965. It ends with votes, speeches, and dreams. But the real movement did not stop there.
By the late 1960s, civil rights leaders were demanding:
• The end of poverty
• An end to militarism
• Community control of housing, education, and policing
• Reparations, redistribution, and economic justice
That was when the hammer dropped.
The state answered with COINTELPRO.
Wiretaps. Infiltration. Blackmail. Character assassination.
And in the case of Fred Hampton, literal assassination.
The Black Panther Party posed an existential threat to the state—not because they were armed, but because they organized with precision, clarity, and care. They fed children. They patrolled police. They called for the end of capitalism and empire.
So the government executed them.
Today, the Civil Rights Movement is remembered as peaceful and nonviolent—because that is the version the ruling class prefers. The real one?
It was revolutionary. And they buried it.
Occupy Wall Street: Silenced by Coordination, Not Debate
When Occupy Wall Street began in 2011, it didn’t start with demands—it started with a diagnosis: this is the 1%’s country, and we are just renting space in it.
Occupy refused to speak the language of lobbying. It refused to elect a leader. It refused to play by the rules.
So it had to go.
The response was not confusion—it was state coordination.
Within weeks, major cities across the country launched simultaneous police raids, cleared encampments, seized supplies, and tore down infrastructure. Homeland Security advised mayors. Fusion centers passed intelligence. Media outlets parroted smears.
No reforms were made. No hearings were held. No legislation followed.
The system didn’t flinch.
It watched, it waited, and then it wiped the movement off the map.
Occupy proved one thing: the moment a protest names the economic system as the enemy, it becomes an enemy of the state.
The Bernie Sanders Movement: Absorbed and Pacified
Twice, Bernie Sanders mounted a challenge to the neoliberal order.
Twice, the system crushed it—without needing to arrest a single person.
In 2016, he was sabotaged by the Democratic Party machine. In 2020, every establishment figure coalesced around Joe Biden in a single weekend, following a coordinated script.
What Bernie offered wasn’t even radical—universal health care, college affordability, higher minimum wages. But even that mild disruption was too much for a system addicted to shareholder supremacy.
And when the movement lost, what followed was predictable:
• The activists were given task forces.
• The momentum was steered into electoral loyalty.
• The campaign was buried in “lesser evilism.”
• The staffers were absorbed into liberal nonprofits and consulting firms.
There was no revolution.
Only a quiet hiring spree.
The 2025 Hands Off Movement: Masses in the Streets, Police in the Wings
And now, we are here.
In 2025.
Millions have taken to the streets in the Hands Off protests—marching against Trump’s second term, against Project 2025, against Elon Musk’s control of federal agencies, against a government no longer pretending to serve the people.
They march for housing.
They march for wages.
They march for dignity.
And once again, the state responds not with dialogue, but with force.
Peaceful demonstrators are surveilled.
National Guard units are on standby.
States have begun pushing new anti-protest laws, labeling dissent as sedition and property damage as terrorism.
History is not repeating.
It is continuing.
This Machine Was Built to Survive Rebellion
Every uprising in American history has been met with the same strategy:
1. Ignore the movement as long as possible.
2. If it cannot be ignored, discredit it.
3. If it cannot be discredited, infiltrate it.
4. If it cannot be infiltrated, arrest its leaders.
5. If that fails, kill them.
6. Then rewrite the story.
What we are living through is not a betrayal of American values.
It is the expression of them.
This system does not fear protest.
It feeds on it. It grows smarter with every rebellion.
It studies resistance like a virus studies immunity.
And still we are told—vote harder, write your congressman, form a committee, be patient.
But patience is a privilege.
And this system is not slow because it is broken.
It is slow because delay is its defense mechanism.
We are not fighting an old empire.
We are inside a living one.
And every past movement that tried to change that ended in the same place:
Suppressed, co-opted, or erased.
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VI. Stop Asking the Empire for Permission
We are not witnessing the collapse of American democracy.
We are witnessing its completion—the final stage of a system designed from the beginning to filter the will of the people through elite control.
The founding elite feared democracy.
So they caged it in law, dressed it in ceremony, and sold us the performance while they held the keys.
Every few decades, the public starts to wake up.
And every time, the machine adapts. It changes parties, updates its slogans, swaps out faces. But it never hands over real power.
We were told the arc of history bends toward justice.
But it doesn’t bend.
It is bent—by force, by money, by law, by billionaires who never have to ask permission.
And still, we are told to wait. To vote. To hope.
To write letters to institutions that have already been sold.
How many more times are we supposed to be fooled by this?
This Was Never a Democracy That Failed—It Was an Empire That Hid Its Nature
They did not betray the Constitution.
They are fulfilling it.
The Electoral College is working.
The Senate is doing what it was built to do.
The courts are operating exactly as the Founders designed: to preserve wealth, insulate power, and slow the advance of popular sovereignty until it chokes.
We keep asking, “How did it get this bad?”
But the truth is, it was always like this.
What we call collapse is just the sound of the mask hitting the floor.
The System Cannot Be Reformed—It Must Be Replaced
You cannot reform a machine that was engineered to absorb resistance.
You cannot vote out the Board of Directors of a system that treats citizens as liabilities and shareholders as gods.
You cannot fix a system that was never broken—because it is working exactly as intended.
Every movement that tried was either:
• Co-opted and turned into a budget line,
• Crushed by police and buried in press releases,
• Or absorbed into a nonprofit industrial complex designed to pacify instead of empower.
It is not broken.
It is designed to win.
And it is winning.
We Need a Break, Not a Fix
We cannot “restore” democracy.
We’ve never had it.
We need to stop asking the empire for permission.
We need to stop begging elite institutions to grow a conscience.
We need to stop trying to reform the machine and start building outside of it.
Build unions that do not ask for approval.
Build cooperatives that do not answer to Wall Street.
Build community wealth that is untouchable by hedge funds.
Build schools, clinics, farms, networks—infrastructure for autonomy.
Build parallel systems that are not beholden to the donor class, the investor class, or the class that builds bunkers in New Zealand while the rest of us drown in their profit margins.
We do not need more reform.
We need rupture.
Not just resistance.
Replacement.
This Is Not Just a Crisis. This Is the Assignment.
The Federalist machine is running on schedule.
What we are facing is not failure. It is design success.
We were never meant to win in this system.
We were meant to play by rules that keep us exhausted, distracted, and divided.
And if we keep playing by those rules, we already lost.
So here is the truth:
• Stop asking billionaires for permission to live.
• Stop waiting for courts to grow a conscience.
• Stop imagining that the next election will save you.
• Start building what they cannot co-opt.
• Start defending what they cannot buy.
• Start organizing like your life depends on it—because it does.
They never gave us democracy.
We’re going to have to build it ourselves.
And this time, we do not let them back in the room.
In solidarity,
Greedbane
05/13/2025
Further Reading & Sources
1. Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation
A coordinated plan by right-wing think tanks to gut civil service, consolidate presidential power, and permanently embed a corporate-state regime.
• https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/commentary/project-2025
• https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/heritage-explains/why-everybody-talking-about-project-2025
2. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk
Trump created DOGE in 2025, placing Elon Musk at its helm. Its purpose: dismantle federal oversight and outsource public function to private billionaires.
• https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency
• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c23vkd57471o
3. The Federalist Society’s Judicial Takeover
More than eighty percent of Trump’s judicial appointments were Federalist Society picks—cementing elite legal power for generations.
• https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/11/04/how-the-federalist-society-shaped-americas-judiciary
• https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/03/in-audiobook-takeover-noah-feldman-lidia-jean-kott-explore-how-federalist-society-captured-supreme-court
4. BlackRock and Larry Fink
BlackRock, led by Larry Fink, has quietly become one of the most powerful financial forces on Earth—managing public pensions, central bank assets, and disaster capital.
• https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/about-us/leadership/larry-fink
• https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/larry-fink-annual-chairmans-letter
5. Peter Thiel, Palantir, and Government Contracts
Thiel’s Palantir now handles federal surveillance and policing infrastructure—making it harder to tell where Silicon Valley ends and the state begins.
• https://www.npr.org/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5372776/palantirs-growing-role-in-the-trump-administration
• https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-peter-thiel-trump-administration-connections
6. Jeff Bezos, Amazon, and Military Logistics
Bezos’ Amazon empire isn’t just delivering packages—it’s handling federal contracts, infrastructure, and defense logistics across the U.S. and abroad.
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/jeff-bezos-wins-mod-contract-073000624.html
• https://washingtontechnology.com/2019/12/jeff-bezos-defense-of-military-tech-work-has-this-unspoken-people-message/326484
7. McKinsey & Company’s Hidden Hand
McKinsey has advised governments, corporations, and war zones—profiting from crises and shaping policy behind the scenes.
• https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/how-we-help-clients
• https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-mckinsey-has-influenced-companies-and-governments-behind-the-scenes-for-decades
8. Eric Schmidt and the Rise of AI-Government Fusion
Google’s former CEO is now a key architect of the Pentagon’s AI strategy, pushing for automated warfare and privatized national security systems.
• https://defensescoop.com/2023/09/08/eric-schmidt-led-panel-pushing-for-new-defense-experimentation-unit-to-drive-military-adoption-of-generative-ai
• https://www.wired.com/story/eric-schmidt-is-building-the-perfect-ai-war-fighting-machine
9. The Gates Foundation’s Role in Public Policy
Under the guise of philanthropy, Gates’ foundation shapes education and global health policy to align with private sector interests and corporate frameworks.
• https://www.gatesfoundation.org/our-work/programs/us-program/k-12-education
• https://apnews.com/article/a4042e82ffaa4a34b50ceac464761957
10. Occupy Wall Street and Coordinated State Repression
Occupy was wiped out not by disorganization, but by a coordinated federal-local crackdown. The system didn’t flinch—it erased.
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy
• https://www.rightsanddissent.org/news/the-fbi-and-occupy-the-surveillance-and-suppression-of-occupy-wall-street
Wow! Thank you Greedbane for this, the history lesson my schools never gave me. You have filled in so many blanks for me, you have given me understanding of what is going on today, and you have completed my education as an informed citizen. I am beyond grateful and will be passing the message on as well as reading it over and over until it has supplanted my old operating system, based on the lies of the oligarchs, with a new system that has the potential for creating a new world.
Again, thank you!
The working of our government has never been explained more clearly. Thank you.