Unprecedented Opportunity
The government shutdown, previously looming, has finally arrived. This is catastrophic. Or it is great. It is going to destroy countless lives or perhaps all such talk is senseless, nothing more than unwarranted panic. The government shutdown is going to destroy our credit with foreign countries and the global bankers or it is going to allow us to make the changes necessary for the system to correct itself and become more efficient. For decades, we have heard every possible perspective on the horrors of a shutdown. We’ve been told the policies to which we must agree in order to step back from the ledge. (We must, for instance, agree to fund healthcare for illegal aliens or we are told we are putting the future of the country in jeopardy. This is subrational. It is a non sequitur. It is literally nonsense.)
We have seen this episode before. The government shutdown narrative is a rerun, this time with second-by-second countdowns to the shutdown and second-by-second count-ups since it began—the covid death clock of 2025. Reruns are now the only scenes playing on the Screen. If we continue to entertain ourselves endlessly with reruns rather than learn the morals of the stories, it will be nothing but reruns until we eventually lose interest in the Screen. In each season of “Federal City: Government Shutdown,” we are guided through the process of sacrificing our principles on behalf of the State which, as always, requires more from us to do what, we are told, we voted for it to do. Each side will give something in service of a higher cause—the State. The government must remain open and doing all the things we are sure we never said we wanted.
It is good that the federal government is shut down. The federal government should be shut down. Whether it should ever reopen is a topic worthy of some discussion but, at the very least, it should remain shut down until the People’s relationship with the State has been totally reset.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
In the formative document of the American mythology and ethos (much less the American federal government), Thomas Jefferson made clear that it was the People’s duty to abolish the government and decide how best to replace it if the government had become despotic as a product of a long train of abuses and usurpations. Indeed, the government has become all that and far worse. Not only is it our right to withdraw our consent to be governed by what’s seen as the American government in its current form, it is our duty to do so.
If the American people have a birthright, surely it is this: government of, by, and for the People. When the People are deprived of the option to abolish and remove the government, the government has usurped the power of the People it pretends to govern. It has placed itself above the People, which makes it something else, entirely. A government outside the People’s authority cannot possibly be kept in check by the People which means it can dictate to the People all aspects of their existence whenever it sees fit. (The federal government weighs in, for instance, to let us know that we cannot purchase the milk from our neighbor’s cow until a regulated company has processed it and what type and color of lightbulbs we are allowed to use in our homes.) Such a government can violate the People’s most fundamental rights with reckless abandon and, of course, it does just that.
A government with such all-consuming power would, of course, refuse to cede power back to the People. A government more powerful than the People has no reason to take the People’s voting seriously. It should be no surprise, then, that our elections are fake. This fact is barely hidden, though, for some reason, widely denied. Our elections are rigged choices between the beneficiaries of a prior set of rigged choices. They are not elections at all. The choices presented are members of the Uniparty, different brands of the same thing. Voting “none of the above” and forming no government is never an option. Though the People have no faith and no confidence in the government, no matter who pretends to run it, this expression of the People’s true will and consent is not offered on the ballot. It should be. We are not given a way to opt out even though the refusal of consent to be governed is a fundamental, natural right. We are offered the choice of Coke or Pepsi, but we cannot choose not to drink cola despite being politically diabetic. The government currently usurping power from the People is not even legitimately formed. The people holding office are not capable of confirming their own legitimacy because the election process is incapable of substantiating its own results, which is why no one is allowed to investigate. Behind the facade, there is nothing. Our election system was designed with this goal in mind.
Our representatives, who cannot prove their legitimacy in office and are therefore committing treason against the People by pretending to govern them, are aware their legitimacy is unprovable. This is why they protect the fake elections. Our representatives know they are not answerable to the People, only to the people who fund their television appearances. Our representatives do not represent us, they represent a global agenda to us. Their purpose in office is to legitimize the illegitimate, on behalf of the State, by convincing us that the actions the government is taking are the products of our decisions, exactly as we wanted, or at least the best we were told we could get.
Our representatives are aware they are unaccountable to the People. They are instead managed as controllable assets by whichever entities paid to install them in the government. They cannot change rules or policies, even if they want to. Between donors, party leaders, and the proliferation of staffers, the system does not allow our representatives to wield power, not that we should want them to. Even if their positions allowed for autonomous power, our representatives would still incapable of properly wielding it for the benefit of the People. Most of them are flagrantly corrupt with their hands visibly in the till. Many of them are personally morally compromised. Either scenario destroys lives, reputations, and political careers. Evidence of corruption and moral compromise allows for blackmail which means full control, whenever called upon.
Are we to allow this band of illegitimate and treasonous degenerates to determine how much of our money the illegitimate and anti-constitutional federal government is allowed to spend to keep the system running? The US Congress and Senate do not possess the legitimate authority to make the choice to keep this long-since-overthrown farce of a government going. No American is required to support them in doing so, no matter what the TV Characters say.
This government is not of, by, or for the People. It is hard to see it as anything other than a foreign occupation on behalf of the global order. Numerous books published by prominent academics argue that the American “Civil War” was fought specifically to overthrow the original Constitution and replace it. The Constitutional Republic was intended to become a globalist democracy. The very American focus on individual liberty was replaced by government-enforced equality—something government is wholly incapable of providing, but quite capable of using as a justification for virtually anything. The Second (or Secret) Constitution prioritized the good of the State above the rights of the individual. Those who favor the global State are not bashful about expressing their approval for this historical truth. They see the inversion of the original Constitution as a great triumph for humankind and pretend it was the end of American slavery, despite the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments having been achieved at the tip of a bayonet held to the necks of the newly-installed puppet government officials in the several ratifying States.
If our Constitution has, in fact, been overthrown for longer than any American has been alive, our representatives have no justification for assuming the authority to govern Americans under the original Constitution. They serve at the pleasure of the same global entities that overthrew the Constitution and replaced it. If our representatives abide by any rules at all, they are the rules resulting from the usurpation. Following the rules of the usurper is to aid the usurpation, and our representatives are aware they are doing this.
If there is one thing a legitimate government of, by, and for the People does not do, it is cling to power by waging war against the very People it is meant to serve. Doing so would be proof of the government’s illegitimacy. A legitimate government would not attempt to proactively overthrow the Constitutional order, replacing it with its inverted opposite, but it seems that is what has happened. We are ruled by an illegitimate government that operates beyond the authority of the People and the Constitution, on behalf of a global order, to implement and enforce the global agenda,. It is a government adept at staging fake elections as psychological operations meant to keep the People docile and powerless, one that cannot be removed from power, a government that violates the fundamental rights it was ostensibly created to protect. How can it be seen as anything other than a foreign occupation? This government spits in the face of the Founders’ America and has burned the Constitution and written its own. Therefore, the government should not be revered as though it is exemplary of the American ideal, no matter how much lip service is paid to the Founders and the Constitution. It is not unpatriotic or anti-constitutional to withdraw our consent from being governed by a foreign occupation. It is unpatriotic and anti-constitutional to support the foreign occupation in exchange for material rewards.
Despite its unconstitutionality, its corruption, its compromise, its illegitimacy, its criminality, and the fact that its aims are explicitly opposed to the good of the People it governs, and despite the fact that the People approve of virtually nothing the State does nor trust anything the State says, we still claim to believe that the State must nonetheless persist. The State, we are conditioned to believe, has always existed and shall always exist, it is the alpha and the omega. It is inevitable, then, that the government will come back from shutdown. When it does, we are tasked with applauding it and granting it renewed respect.
On whose behalf would we support the reopening of the federal government when that government is incapable of and disinterested in operating on our behalf? We are told the government must be open in order to pay our debts to foreign nations and global bankers. But these are not our debts, these are odious debts. Our representatives, in their illegitimacy, cannot create legitimate debts to be paid by the People. Congress does not have the authority to direct the printing and then spending of new fiat currency for the benefit of the State, not for the payment of foreign debts or anything else. The illegitimate Congress and Senate could be removed and replaced with nothing and the only loss the People would sustain is the Uniparty illusion that empowers and protects the foreign occupation.
If the People are coerced to do as the State commands regardless of their resistance and dissent, even when it violates their consciences, the State has placed itself higher than not only the People, but higher than God, the ultimate usurpation and the necessary end state of organized Scientific Materialism. The worship of that which is worldly leads to the worship of the greatest source of worldly power, the State. Scientific Materialist Statism is our civic religion.
Our current debate is not about whether the government should reopen, but only about when and under what narrative conditions. The history of this particular narrative suggests that the shutdown will eventually be halted, at least temporarily. A resolution will be reached whereby further odious debt will not be incurred in paying, for instance, to enable the mentally ill to (pretend to) transform into the opposite sex but, in exchange, we must allow the State to continue funding the rest of the illegitimate government’s unconstitutional operations with a global fiat currency, printed at will, and pinned to the blood and sweat of the American People. Everyone will have to sacrifice their resources and their principles for the benefit of the State, we are told. Somehow, not everyone does end up sacrificing.
The people are not required, morally or patriotically, to support this outcome. We are offered two options within the Controlled Opposition Dynamic, but we cannot be forced to support either option. We can abstain from supporting any and all views originating from within the Dynamic and choose instead from the entire range of options outside it, the simplest of which is a flat and unflinching ‘no.’ No, we do not want to fund this government. Not now, not ever. No, we do not want any of its non-essential functions to be performed, in accordance with the government’s just functions as described in the original Constitution. There is no “essential function” if the function is violative of the original Constitution. What constitution do people believe they’ve taken oaths to protect? This is a crucial question and not one to take lightly. This is not the America the Founders intended. In fact, for decades if not centuries, we have been hurtling in the opposite direction.
If we are to keep this government, it can only be allowed to exist under its original Constitutional form. The current form is in direct violation of the original Constitution and is therefore a nullity. The People do not have to pretend otherwise. Fortunately, President Donald J. Trump seems to agree that his duties and his powers are laid out in Article II of the original Constitution and are not bound nor directed by the layers of abomination that rest atop the legitimate layer (to the extent that layer still exists). Laws, statutes, rules, regulations, and court precedent—even Supreme Court precedent—are invalid if they fail to comport to the original Constitution. All of them rest on various usurpations over our history since the Constitution overrode the Articles of Confederation, but they rest primarily on the 14th Amendment’s enabling of the government to monitor and control every aspect of our lives. Our system as it exists today does so entirely on the authority of the inverted constitution created during the aptly named Reconstruction.
Still, we cannot let it go. We are told society will fall apart without the federal government doing what it does. Are we to believe society is fully dependent on a corrupt, illegitimate, unaccountable, anti-Constitutional, federal government and its ability to fund those willing to implement its agenda throughout society? If that is so, we should admit that the State is our master and we are its subjects. We may soon see just how dependent on the federal government our states are, our schools are, our corporations are, etc… Every bit of the adjustment will be legitimate and in line with the original Constitution. The federal government was not intended to be the nation’s leading employer, without which society would unravel, at least not by many of the founders, though they were overridden by the same globalist infiltration we now face.
This is not a call to anarchy and it is certainly not a recommendation for violence or anything of the sort. Everything of that nature would be counterproductive as it could be reframed and used as a justification for State violence against the People and against our property. We should not even need to raise our voices. We can simply say no, as clearly as possible, in every possible forum, to everyone we meet. This would normally appear as the obvious first choice to everyone, yet it is never chosen. We are told we must choose and we are conditioned to do what we are told. “Why is the government even allowed to do this?” should be a question constantly running through our minds.
We are conditioned to prioritize the seizing of additional power to be used by the State in hopes that the power will be wielded by our side and used to defeat the other side. It’s worth noting that the other side is made up mostly of our family and friends, our neighbors, and our coworkers while we believe our allies are people we saw on the Screen with whom we pretend to have a more real relationship than the relationship we have with our family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers. We are led to believe one side of the Uniparty is mostly aligned with our side while the other side of the Uniparty is aligned with the other side. If we are swayed by the need to ensure the victory of one side of the Uniparty over the other and believe in the necessity of our side seizing power, we should admit that we are unrepentant Statists. We believe our problems with our family and friends, our neighbors, and our coworkers can be solved only through State action and the only way to do it is my winning endlessly more fake elections. What a racket this is.
And what do the sides represent? The Uniparty Left believes the government needs to be funded and empowered to do more on behalf of more people. The Uniparty Right argues the government should be funded and empowered to allow the State to do more, while being operated more efficiently. Both of these options are acceptable to the Uniparty, as the interests of the State are advanced no matter which brand of Uniparty politics is chosen. In either scenario, the State is funded and empowered to do more. If we believe that the victory of one political party over another in a fake election is how to fix our society’s problems, so we can finally hold the bad guys on the Screen accountable, we are Statists. The State cannot fix society’s problems when the problems are a result of a loss of faith in God replaced with total faith in the State. Perhaps the State should be empowered to do less or perhaps do nothing. I do not expect the Uniparty will present us with this option but it is one we can nonetheless take.
(It should be noted that the establishments of all political parties favor increasing State power. This is a Statist goal. It is definitionally impossible to be a Statist “on the right” which means it is impossible to be “on the right” while supporting any Statist political establishment. Statism is necessarily collectivist and obviously so when the State serves a global agenda. Collectivism is definitionally what it means to be “on the left.” It’s not something else, only that. The Republican establishment, for all its talk about “the left” and about “woke,” is Statist and therefore on the left. The common thread between all of the prominent TV Characters is Statism. Statism is the barrier to entry in the establishment.)
In the meantime, we witness the fallout. The Trump administration’s early actions seem to indicate direction, but it’s possible that we are being delivered nothing more than narrative layers designed to explain the changes taking place by other means. Regardless, we are being told there will be mass layoffs across the bloated and corrupt administrative State which will be welcomed by the People. Billions of dollars of climate funding has been pulled from so-called “blue states” (a Uniparty fiction) and from infrastructure projects in New York City. Perhaps we will learn our lesson and understand that the States are dependent on the federal government in much the same way people are dependent on the State. What will it mean when we find out our states are taxing us in every way imaginable but are totally unable to operate without massive quantities of newly printed Regime bucks? What will it mean when New York can’t take care of its infrastructure or California its healthcare without federal government money?
Our state of affairs, as it deteriorates, is causing a loss of faith in the State, which inevitably will spark an increase of faith in God. God and the State, if they are indeed at odds, there should be no question about which we should prefer. The State deserves no faith. Even a legitimately formed State, effectively bound and abiding by moral restrictions, would not deserve our faith. If we are to give our power to the State, we should be questioning it constantly, limiting its influence over the People at every turn. Faith in the State is not only an affront to God, it is a total abandonment of our responsibility to participate in keeping the State in check for the good of society.
Just as the country has experienced a total loss of faith in the mainstream media, we are being narratively driven toward a total loss of faith in the federal government that may well be followed by a total loss of faith in state and local governments. This should not be seen as a crisis, this should be welcomed with open arms. We are not supposed to place our faith in the State, in political parties, or in our representatives. We are not supposed to place our faith in amendments, statutes, rules, regulations, and court precedents that stand in contradiction to the original Constitution and, right now, allow totalitarian control over our lives by an unelected government.
There is no doubt that this is intentional. We can bear witness to the scripting and coordination of the moves and messaging from either side of the Uniparty. As usual, we see President Trump aligning with one side within the Controlled Opposition Dynamic and then allowing the public conversation to proceed from there while he eventually settles around the equilibrium. One way or another, collective belief is being manufactured, but around what?
The Great Reset narrative, with which most people are familiar, was intended to replace the old system with a brand new, more Statist, system. To achieve this, they would make people suffer until they accept the new ways, in order to one day own nothing, but be happy. Through the State, we would be given the opportunity to help everyone (even the underprivileged!) and save the planet(!!). It was more than liberal, it was outwardly progressive, and that brand is currently in poor standing. It was, however, quite friendly to big tech. In the last fake election cycle, the same tech community rushed to rebrand in the direction of Trump and MAGA, embracing the America First cause. Big tech CEOs (themselves exclusively globalist and Statist) are offering State-oriented solutions. They intend to use State power to make things more efficient by privatizing various government functions while keeping the same control infrastructure intact. This group, too, requires the People’s loss of faith in the State in order to be supported during the changeover to the newer, more stylish version of an ever more powerful State. This makes sense: If the Reset plan is to be accepted without anyone questioning the State, the plan needs to be marketed to all sides within the Controlled Opposition Dynamic, which necessitates differing views marketed in different ways. Once again, we are presented many versions of the same thing, all of it Statist in its every aspect. These are the embodiments of the enemy and we are cheering on one side or the other when our proper response should be to reject them both in all cases.
There is a way out. Donald Trump’s actions have aligned with a loss of faith in the State. This is undeniable and, as with the Uniparty Left and the Uniparty Right, it is intentional. President Trump is shifting power back to the presidency in accordance with the original Constitution. He is forcing court battles, offering the system a chance to correct itself, while stripping that same system of its power, since the courts, too, have usurped authority. Most importantly, he is seizing back control over the so-called (though totally anti-constitutional) independent agencies. There is no such thing as an independent agency. The President has and must have total plenary authority over the Executive Branch, in accordance with the original Constitution. The State is put in a bind. Either it can preserve itself, for a time, in slow retreat or it can attempt to recapture power and increase Trump’s leverage. In any case, the People’s relationship with and to the State is being corrected in the direction of the People, as Trump promised in his first inaugural speech. Donald Trump is the one American political figure who is not attempting to advance and promote Statism.
President Trump is presenting us with the way out as he has offered for a decade. We must reexamine our relationship to the State, as Donald Trump has been leading us to do. It is clear we have not done this, as our conversations remain focused on how to win fake elections years in advance of knowing who the candidates are. The loss of faith in the government is a victory condition for both parties in the real war (not the one in “Ukraine.” Yet we find ourselves protecting the reputation and institutions of the State out of some deranged sense of patriotism, an act of faith in the State, an affront to God. We are unwilling to allow the abomination to simply collapse under the weight of its own unconstitutionality, its corruption, its compromise, its illegitimacy, its criminality, and the fact that its aims are explicitly opposed to the good of the People it governs. Again, we find ourselves serving the State, an act of faith in a worldly abomination.
We are not required to be servants of the State. We are not required to protect its reputation or its institutions. We are, in fact, duty bound to oppose and abolish these institutions if the State employs them to violate its restraints. The government exists to protect life liberty and property. If it cannot do that, and only that, then it cannot be the government. We are never duty bound to do what we are told.
As President Trump said, we have been given an unprecedented opportunity. We should use it wisely.




The always reasonable and brilliant moderator Chris Paul strikes again, with the most obviously sound first principles that seems to evade "the common man" of today. Thank you for your insights as always Chris, and for stating what should be obvious.
Thanks Chris for sharing this work. I am right there with you and believe 90% of government should be eliminated yesterday. Then take a month or 2 to determine if any of the remaining 10% is of value.
As I have stated before I am so glad that I do not have to consume MSM, "Influencer" drivel or social media trolls/bots. This helps keep my sanity.
I pray that Trump cleans house. I do have a great deal of faith that Trump 2.0 will deliver the Golden Age.
Keep up the great work.
God Wins!
God Bless!!!