How Do We Make America Strong Again? Start Telling The Truth

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

You want to make America strong again? The only way to do so is to start telling the truth and insisting on the truth.

“Making America Strong Again” is a potent political narrative. But what does “being strong” mean? For some, it’s a code-phrase for bullying–forcing other nations to do our bidding.

For others, it describes a re-emergence of widespread domestic economic vitality.

Another audience sees the rebuilding of a social contract and social cohesion as the essence of strength.

As laudable as some of these interpretations of strength might be, to me “being strong” boils down to one principle, and only one principle: tell the truth, however painful and unwelcome as it might be. The essence of weakness is the cowardice of avoiding the truth. We as a nation have grown accustomed to the cowardice of half-truths, half-confessions, half-apologies and a financial system that rewards fraud in all its variations of artifice, deception and lies.

What’s presented as “fact” is actually a spectrum of manipulation and lies. Does anyone with a basic grasp of the economy really believe unemployment is 5% or less? Does anyone seeking the truth believe that a person working one hour a week is equivalent to someone working 40 hours a week? Isn’t counting both of these positions as equally statistically important jobs a form of not telling the truth?

If you hold great wealth and power, and the source of your wealth and power is illegitimate, you must dissemble, fabricate, propagandize and lie to hide the illegitimacy of your power. That is the status quo of the U.S. in a nutshell. Those who earned wealth and gained power legitimately have no fear of the truth. Those whose wealth and power is illegitimate fear the truth more than anything else.

The Power Elite of the nation has purposefully co-joined “America” and “Empire,” as if the two cannot be separated. They have successfully conned much of the public into a strained belief that the U.S. isn’t an Imperial Project, that we’re just looking out for our “interests,” which just happen to extend into every nook and cranny of the entire planet.

The Power Elite has also purposefully confused bullying with strength. Bullying fails because the bullied hate the bully with every fiber of their being. True strength flows from opt-in, mutually beneficial alliances that people and nations join out of self-interest. Such opt-in relationships can only endure if telling the truth is the core principle, for truth is the foundation of trust, and trust is the foundation of durable alliances and cooperative networks.

The Power Elite of the nation has pushed the narrative that its own rising power reflects the rising power of the nation. Nothing could be further from the truth. The increasing concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the few at the expense of the many is the source of America’s weakness, vulnerability and fragmentation.

Take a look at this chart. While GDP per person (per capita) has been rising, household income has been declining. What does that tell us about the economic growth we keep hearing about? That it’s flowing to the top and being drained from the bottom 80%.

Telling the truth, and insisting on the truth, requires courage, a moral foundation and strength. Telling lies, accepting half-truths and living with fraud as a way of life is easy because it requires no courage, moral foundation or strength.

You want to make America strong again? The only way to do so is to start telling the truth and insisting on the truth. Accepting statistical lies, propaganda and fraud as “truth” because it’s easy and doesn’t challenge our assumptions is a one-way road to ruin.

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TPC
TPC

Top 0.1%, not top 80%. The top 20% pay the more than 85% of the taxes in this country. The “middle class” is being buried under an avalanche of government redistribution, regulation, and globalization.

rhs jr
rhs jr

Elect Trump and Trump Republicans, Fire whoever Obama hired, rescind every Obama policy, reinstate a Civil Service Exam System and Meritocracy, give Parents School Choice. establish a real Budget and get the Congressional Budget Office going again, allow Churches to preach the Gospel and Constitution, open the TV Media to Conservatives, Regulate banks back to being just banks, return Colleges to the business of academic education, go back to a gold/silver backed dollar, reform the Courts and police, reform Welfare and Taxes to strengthen traditional families and small business.

Dutchman
Dutchman

Amen.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Never Happen.

Dutchman
Dutchman

Let’s start with the BLS. The real unemployment must be 15% – 20% – maybe even more when someone is counted as employed – even if they only work one hour a week.

Just last week the HNIC was telling us that Trump is all doom and gloom, when in reality things are really good.

It’s hard to fathom that nobody calls him (the HNIC) on these blatant lies.

Here are the 9 charts – right from the Federal reserve

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bb

Abolish or remove this hostile Damn tribe from every position of power and influence. Take control of the TV networks , Hollywood , Newspapers and every other media outlet this tribe controls. Then abolish the Federal Reserve this tribe owns . Then take back control of our currency which this tribe now controls. In other words we are going to have to do what Hitler did to sit Germany free from this tribe .Anything else is pissing in the wind.

ditchner

You had me until you wrote “In other words we are going to have to do what Hitler did to sit Germany free from this tribe”. Hitler was totally backed by the NWO powers. If you think the Jews are the power elite, you’ve been duped by the Jesuits.

bb

Who gave me a thumbs down you cowardly fuckers. Tell me any other way.

Ed
Ed

I gave you one after you asked who gave you one. Mine made three, so two others are yet to speak up, Sofa King.

Stucky

I gave you one. Just, because.

Dutchman
Dutchman

@bb “Who gave me a thumbs down you cowardly fuckers. Tell me any other way.”

The fuck’in commies.

Ed
Ed

Nah, not commies. It was th’ eevull joos. They’re everywhere, y’know.

nkit
nkit

Could have been the regyoullah joos too… None of them care much for bb’s jootrashin’

Then again, could have been the eevull injuns…

Ed
Ed

Well, at least one indin admitted to downing his comment. I’m a regyoulah indin, though.

ditchner

Investigate and prosecute the true terrorists that turned the twin towers into dust, blaming it on Islamic patsies. Investigate and prosecute the bankers and their handlers that achieved a coup in 2008 by Systematically destroying the economy in 2008, while enriching themselves as a result.

Stucky

Oversimplification to the nth degree.

Yeah, ask Donald how well “tell the truth” works.

The entire MSM cabal and about 50% of the country believes his vision of America is “dark” …. and he barely scratched the surface.

Truth for truth-seekers vs truth-for-libtards —- never the twain shall meet.

constman54
constman54

bbbbbbb
I gave you a thumbs down for your lack of critical thinking.

OutLookingIn
OutLookingIn

Truth?

Truth does not come automatically. To anyone.

It MUST be taught. In childhood by truthful, caring parents.

The truth? America can’t handle the truth! Because the teaching of truth has failed. It is going to take a complete generation or more, of truthful caring parental guidance, for truth to become commonplace once again. To KNOW what is right and what is wrong.

Hershel Pasternak
Hershel Pasternak

“Could have been the regyoullah joos too… None of them care much for bb’s jootrashin’”

No not me, but he can blow me and get enough Yid DNA in him to raise the bb blondebimbo (because goy is not a nice name) IQ enough to understand what hes bitching about (that I never get a cut of) comes from the bible he reckons he follows:

Deuteronomy 23:19-20
“You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest. You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

Boat Guy

Sadly the truth is no longer accepted by the masses , most who attempt to reveal the truth are sent off to the corner to be ridiculed as some sort of kook . Like the acquaintance I have who pulls down a handsome 6 figure salary working for one of the federal alphabet agencies that toss figures about to tell us the cost of living has not gone up . It’s all BULL SHIT his words not mine yet he is honorable enough to keep collecting his salary and benefits to lie to us and we keep paying him to do so . Go Figure , oh that’s his job !

Overthecliff
Overthecliff

…the truth, the TRUTH, we( as a country) can’t handle the truth.

bb., for a few months I thought you were beginning to make a little sense.. Since your trip to the hospital you have dropped of the deep end. Damn, Hitlerism REALLY?

bb

None of you knuckleheads gave any other way to restore our REPUBLIC.

Damn ,my lack of critical thinking?::::

Ed
Ed

Well, bb, what you got was disagreement with your idea to round up th’ joos and put them in W’s FEMA camps, and then everything would be better.

Just because you thought up a plan doesn’t mean it ain’t a completely retarded plan, dear Sofa King.

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