Volume 11, Issue 25
What is most interesting is that, for some reason, four presidencies failed to reveal the decisions and deceptions committed by government in the early events leading up to the Vietnam War. President Richard Nixon castigated the Papers and made every effort to undermine them even though the lies exposed occurred before his administration. Nixon felt that leaking official government documents constituted treason.
Then White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman advised President Nixon with this warning, “To the ordinary guy,” he told the President, “all this is a bunch of gobbledygook.” But he also warned correctly that “out of the gobbledygook comes a very clear thing: ‘you can’t trust the government, you can’t believe what they say, and you can’t rely on their judgments.’”
David Shribman, syndicated columnist, stated with prescient insight in reference to Haldeman’s words, “That was a prediction in 1971. It is a conviction in 2023.”
And so, in this attitude promulgating misinformation and misleading government intent through the years, the American public’s skepticism and loss of trust in government and national institutions has reached epic proportions.
To bring the continued U.S. foreign policy deception forward to current events, one only has to examine the presented government position in dealing with China.
The Biden administration has imposed austere sanctions on Russia to reel in their military aggression. China provides resources and materials to the Russian economy and military in direct violation of these international sanctions. Yet China escapes any measure of retribution.
Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen recently testified before Congress stating that it would be dangerous for the U.S. to attempt to decouple from the Chinese economy. In a sense, she indicated that trade sanctions were off the table. Why? China is deathly afraid of U.S. sanctions. They export 80% of everything they manufacture, 50% of which is exported directly to U.S. markets. Russia can skirt sanctions in part by selling oil on the black market. China has no such option or alternative.
This fear of restrictions of exports to the United States is why President Xi requested to meet with Secretary Yellen and not Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in China. The U.S. government would have you believe that the reason China delayed in accepting the Secretary of State was because they didn’t desire negotiations and discussion with the U.S. over policy matters including Taiwan and Russia. The truth is, China is desperate for help in long-term economic support and strategies.
Immediately following Secretary Blinken’s visit to China while policy matters were still being considered, President Biden publicly called President Xi a dictator. And then he doubled down on that was exactly what he meant. This makes no sense. Why would you send the Secretary of State to China to open backdoor channels of diplomacy and, before a response can be rendered, a personal reference of defamation is sent as an intervening signal? Either the President of the United States is out of touch with his own Secretary of State or presidential campaign rhetoric for the 2024 election has already begun in an effort to keep China in the forefront as a threatening issue that only an incumbent President can handle.
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered three decisions that have left progressives apoplectic. Affirmative action (college admissions), religious rights (individual free exercise of choice in reference to LGBTQ services), and limiting presidential authority to modify legislation (student loan forgiveness) would seem to be pitting Americans against each other. This would not be the case if both political parties and most elected officials were not framing their rhetoric to benefit the advancement of their own agendas in lieu of the people’s demand to make decisions for themselves.
Recent research conducted by the America’s Values project found that 94% of Americans, in varying degrees, are proud to be Americans. The other 6% simply said ‘not sure.’ To reach this pinnacle of 94%, a binding emotion holds Americans together in a common fabric that respects each other’s right to the freedom of believing ideologically what they want to believe. Elected officials should be more concerned about weighing their prejudices against this backdrop of what unites Americans. In other words, 94% believe that universal freedom for each citizen to determine their own moral decisions in their pursuit of happiness is a uniquely American right. This right is personal and unthreatened by anyone else’s right to make their own decisions.
Government continues to hide its agenda of control behind the specious argument that it is better to lie to the public for their own good rather than tell them the truth and allow them to make their own choices.
This continued protocol of ignominious platitudes is leaving Americans without hope for trust in any national institution of comprehensive beneficial governance. Citizens feel a dreadful loss of community. Jessica Grose of the New York Times recently published an intriguing exposé of how damaging this loss of sense of community is to the American psyche. It is one reason why 75% of the American public continues to say that the country is on the wrong track. Even though the author states that she is not religious, she misses the continuity of community binding the generations through commitment to religious principles and doctrine.
The United States of America was founded on the concept that God is sovereign over man and man is sovereign over government. All rights are inalienable as granted by God. Without societal consensus that there is a greater calling binding the generations in eternal principles, the cultural identity of a nation-state cannot be perpetuated. For if we believe only in the accidental happenstance of life evolving from an inorganic universe with no known explanation for the uncaused cause of eternity or recognition of any universal purpose, then the path of society can only lead to the destination of the ultimate conflict of the selfish nature of mankind.
In dealing with the hypocrisy of government subterfuge, Americans must have confidence that their innate instincts to remain loyal to their own moral authority and belief in America is justified by the hope represented in the reality manifested in the following fact.
Surveys indicate that there are over 100 million people in the world desirous to legally or illegally enter the United States to attain citizenship. There are near zero comparatively applying for citizenship in China or Russia.
This belief in moral dignity of purpose shared by 94% of Americans is obviously something inspiring to people worldwide seeking a better life for their families.
In this truth of virtue, governments should trust.
My name is Marc Nuttle and this is what I believe.
What do you believe?