The Impending Political Order
“You know why? Because Donald Trump—the Dow, the Dow right now is over—the Dow is over 50,000. I don’t know why you’re laughing, you’re a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the NASDAQ smashing records. Americans’ 401ks and retirement savings are booming. That’s what we should be talking about.” - US Attorney General Pam Bondi during a congressional hearing on the accountability of the FBI with the Epstein Files February 11, 2026.
What the actual F#!% - The audacity of the government to shove loads and loads of horsecrap down our, the general populaces’, throats is ridiculous. It is not our fault; without action, we are to blame.
Historically, this has led to the punishment of politicians, and in extreme cases, political leaders have been guillotined or even eaten by the masses. Without standing up for our rights and what’s right, we will soon lose what may be the last possibility to stand up for justice and freedom.
There are two main, modern ideologies for government control and takeover past the point of revolt. The first is forced submission - an Orwellian philosophy where an authoritarian government controls the population. The second passive submission - the Randian philosophy, where the population relinquishes freedom for security, akin to modern serfdom.
In the popular 1984, Orwell discusses a world with strong regional groupings, Superstates, that control the world through authoritarian measures. With more control on an individual basis, one could conclude that recent Trump Doctrine policy, Greater Americas, could be the beginning of these Superstates. The everyday individual is monitored 24/7, and any unapproved action is met with strict punishment.
On the contrary, Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged describes a world where the productive members of society support the masses through guilt. This leads to a world where everyone is supported under control, and nobody is free. This equates to a self-detained zoo animal, where shelter and food are provided at the expense of freedom.
Both authors have contradicting points of view for how a government should be established. Rand was a libertarian, promoting capitalism and individuality, whereas Orwell was a socialist, desiring a selected state to promote the benefits for all and relinquish poverty.
Between the two writings, I see them as complementary with Rand’s relinquishment of rights leading to a totalitarian government that takes control over a feeble population. We must act. We must stand up for justice in and from our government. They will not give up their control unless we act on our unalienable rights.
“The fact that ‘the public’ is just people, made of the same clay as those in the government, means that there is no reason to expect the government to be any more wise or any more moral than the people themselves. There are evil people in every walk of life, and it is a dangerous delusion to think they don’t go into government.” - Thomas Sowell: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy