The not so secret plot to destroy america
And how donald trump accidentally saved us
(keep the faith)
April 2025 Update: I originally wrote this a few days before the election. I just knew I had to put it on paper. Although I was wrong about the conclusion, I was right about the bad ending.
For decades, a common theme in American politics has been the existence of a secret shadow government, pulling the strings in the background. Tales are told of rituals, secret meetings, depraved parties, pedophilia, and everything in between. And for decades, these tales have been written off as baseless conspiracy. But, every conspiracy is rooted in truth. And truth is hard to find, while fear, doubt, and hatred are easy to sow.
Watergate and the rebirth of the Republican party
In 1972 members of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP) launched an intelligence operation that involved breaking into the Democratic National Convention (DNC) offices at the Watergate hotel in order to copy campaign documents and to set up wiretapping. The plot was presented to, and approved by, Nixon’s Attorney General John Mitchell. Fun fact about Mitchell, Nixon requested that the FBI not perform a background check before his appointment, which was at that time unheard of. The scandal was covered up largely by White House Domestic Affairs Advisor John Ehrilchman.
These were traditional conservatives. Their primary motivation was to protect capitalism, and reject what they saw as communism. They believed the civil rights movement, and the growing counterculture of the 60’s to be a threat to the existing power structure. The policies implemented during the Nixon administration would later spiral into the never-ending drug war we find ourselves in today.
John Ehrlichman
This scandal, which ultimately culminated in Nixon’s resignation, left the Republican party in disarray. They had been thoroughly raked over the coals, and they were embarrassed. Conservatives of the day quickly set out to make sure that would never happen again. And that was going to be tough, as the county was quickly becoming more progressive.
Enter Joseph Coors. Coors was as hard right as you could get in those days. And as the heir to the substantial Coors fortune, he saw an opportunity to shape this broken Republican party as he saw fit. Coors created three things that remain essential to politics to this day.
The Heritage Foundation - The front. A conservative think-tank that has defined conservative policy ever since. They operate transparently in the open. They have written conservative policy ever since.
The Council for National Policy - The shadowy group in the background. Membership is kept secret, but it was created by Tim LaHaye with the goal of infusing Christianity into right wing politics. Tim wrote extensively about the end-times, and was an outspoken critic of homosexuality. These views foreshadow the shift in political conversation towards social issues, rather than economic ones.
Television News Inc - The media arm. Coors believed all the other networks to be far too liberal, a theme that continues to this day. While short lived, the network gave Roger Ailes his start, and gave rise to the conservative media of today. This is what changed the conversations everyday Americans would have.
Here’s the part they don’t want to tell you
James Hansen, who gave congressional testimony in 1988 on the subject, is one of many who’s predictions have remained more or less accurate. They’ve also gotten more and more terrifying.
But why would they care? Tobacco companies don’t care when their products give you cancer. Chemical plants don’t care when they pollute rivers. They exist to make money. For the aforementioned billionaires. Their portfolios rest on the profits of oil companies. Of other companies that need oil. Because that is, in the modern world, essentially every company. They would instead continue to spread denial that persists to this day.
Many conservatives paint climate change as a government hoax. But what would such a hoax accomplish? Invent a crisis, only to bury it? Do almost nothing to pretend to solve it? Over the next 20 years, the conversation around climate change would itself change dramatically.
We’ll get back to that.
Ronald Reagan? The Actor??
Over the next decade these organizations stayed in the background, plugging away at policy plans with only moderate success. They advocated for pro-business policies which was typical for the time, but they also began introducing issues that were important to Christian conservatives specifically. They found their first major success in Ronald Reagan.
Reagan, today, would likely be considered a liberal. When he became governor of California in 1967, he was handed a nasty deficit. He turned this deficit into a surplus by raising taxes, predominantly on the wealthy. In response to the Black Panther party, he implemented some of the states strictest gun control policy. He did however, advocate for cutting social programs as well.
The Heritage Foundation found their first major victory in Reagan. They presented Reagan with a fully fleshed out policy plan, the Mandate for Leadership, to resounding success. The plan, of course, didn’t contain much that was controversial, and Reagan was able to implement around 60% of the proposals it contained. It did however usher in the era of Reaganomics (trickle-down economics), something very different from his approach in California.
This economic approach is largely responsible for the destruction of the middle class. The combination of lowering taxes for the rich, which fell from 70% to 33% (where they remain) by the end of his term, and deregulation, allowed corporations and the richest Americans to run wild, consolidating wealth at the top. With the obscenely wealthy billionaires, in their secret societies, like the Council of National Policy. Who wrote more policy, and became more wealthy.
The tax cuts were supposed to be paid for by cutting social services like welfare. But, the math never did add up. Especially not with skyrocketing military spending during the cold war, and continuing through the war in the middle east. Years of deficit spending, aside from a brief correction by Clinton, has spiraled out of control and led to the obscene national debt we now carry. Today, 10% of our budget is spent repaying that debt. But we are an economic empire. And at the end of the day, our dollar is worth however much our eleven aircraft carriers tell you it is.
And this slow creep continued, with the gentle touch of Heritage guiding the process at every step of the way. George H.W. Bush’s mandate focused simply on the first gulf war, building up the military industrial complex.
The 90s
When Clinton was elected, the focus shifted to the legislature. This is when politics began to shift into the nasty beast it is today. They issued a game plan to all congressional Republicans called “Washington and The Contract With America”. The unity of the GOP at this time stood in contrast to the Democrats, which remains a divided coalition including much more of the political spectrum and typically prone to infighting. This ultimately culminated in the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
The impeachment of Bill Clinton was originally based on the Whitewater real estate scandal. Whitewater, Watergate, the media loved that. A real estate venture that the Clinton’s had invested in had failed, leading to a bank collapse which prompted the investigation. Ken Starr was appointed by congress as special counsel, tasked with investigating Clinton and determining if there was impeachable. What is not in Ken Star’s 222-page impeachment referral, is anything about a real estate scandal. Because it turned out Bill Clinton was an adulterer. And people understand that. And people want to watch that on television.
We are so wildly desensitized now after almost a decade of allegations against Trump, but in the 90’s that was another historic scandal. And the media went crazy for it. So the investigation dropped the real estate scandal thread entirely. Why is that? If they had any evidence - they surely could have convicted.
Well, they could have had that kind of evidence. I certainly would not be surprised. But turns out, Clinton was pretty popular. Things were pretty good in the 90’s, and he’d worked out a surplus budget. Support for impeachment was low, and the GOP really didn’t stand anything to gain by actually going through with it. Because again, the end goal is simply to increase the wealth of the billionaires they represent. The ones at places like the Council for National Policy. The Democrats do ultimately have that same goal, of course, they just differ in method.
One thing I find interesting about this is that Clinton’s approval rating actually rose ten points when the Monica Lewinsky scandal first broke. More foreshadowing. But very in line with Heritage’s culture war strategy. The mainstream media companies learned an important lesson from this bump: people pay more attention to scandalous things than they do to boring policy discussions. And more attention means more money. For those same billionaires.
The boy who cried manbearpig
By 2000, the conversation about climate change had devolved into bullshit. Al Gore, who had been involved in congressional hearings on the subject since the early 70’s was mocked relentlessly for his alarmist tone on the subject during the 2000 presidential campaign. Today, we realize he was not alarmist enough. Even Southpark has long since changed their tone. Because today, it’s clear that we have been played for fools.
9/11 and a new American nationalism
The attacks on 9/11 changed everything about this country. They shattered the illusion of safety in a way we hadn’t seen since Pearl Harbor. We were scared, and in our fear we didn’t notice what was being taken from us.
The first point I want to address here is the conspiracy. There are two schools of thought here - the mainstream view is that members of Al-Qaeda, with the backing of Saudi Arabia, perpetrated the attacks. The conspiracy take is that the US Government staged the attack. In my opinion, it doesn’t matter. Because the end result was the same.
The Patriot Act was passed shortly after the attacks, and it allowed for widespread surveillance in ways that were previously unthinkable. We began to accept that we would lose freedoms in the name of safety. But safe from what? There was no concrete threat. This was new. We began to see widespread censorship in a way that had not been necessary since the cold war.
The American public needed something to blame, and the best they had was Islam. This was enough to jump-start a decade of wars, often having nothing to do with 9/11. It became acceptable to blindly hate a group of people once again. At the same time, No Child Left Behind began to hollow out the education system. An educated population asks a lot more questions - the Reagan administration had figured that out already.
Roger Freeman, Reagan advisor
I remember 9/11 because I lived on a military base at the time. I remember we all knew our parents were going to war. I also remember that after his first tour, my dad would never watch anything other than Roger Ailes’ Fox News. His tone would become more and more radical, and more and more indiscriminate for the rest of his life.
I also remember that he did not vote for Trump in 2020.
The truth is, we had been creating the situation in the middle east for years. Just like we created the situation in South America. The constant proxy wars between the US and the Soviet Union were the reason the region was so destabilized. And now that the American public was whipped into a fervor, the government had carte blanche.
The Obama Years, and the end of civility
During the Obama administration, very little was accomplished. The democrats only held a functional legislative majority for 72 days and that time was used to pass the Affordable Care Act, which remains universally popular when called by it’s real name.
The wars continued, and the public by and large felt fooled by his “change” campaign. The reality was more complicated.
Democrats were frustrated by his commitment to bipartisanship with those who had zero interest. I believe Obama was far too concerned with his legacy as the first black president. Republicans seemed to simply be frustrated by his existence, because he had not accomplished much of anything.
This is also where we see the beginning of the misinformation age. Social media had taken hold. I remember hearing constant talk about how Obama was a Muslim. He was born in Kenya. That was how Donald Trump got his political jump-start. I remember being a child on the bus wondering what the hell people were talking about. This was simply the continuation of the blind nationalism brewing since 9/11. There was an enemy in the shadows, and we didn’t know what they looked like. But we knew they looked different.
I also remember when, in 2015, the conversation was about how Obama would refuse to leave office, and seize dictatorial power. Funny how that isn’t talked about anymore. This is a common theme, priming the narrative so that when the unthinkable does occur, we won’t think anything of it. This is why people were able to downplay the January 6th plot.
The 2008 crash, caused by deregulation of the finance industry, compounded the pressure on the working class, which had already been declining due to Reaganomics and the increasing wealth divide. People were pissed off, and they were finally starting to look up towards those shadowy billionaires at the top.
Election 2016 and the end of discussion
Donald Trump’s first serious campaign came out of fucking nowhere. He was an anomaly, he was someone who was not involved in the GOP establishment, he had no ties to Heritage and the like. He had made some attempts at presidential runs in 1988, 2000, and 2012 already.
In 2011, Barack Obama embarrassed him. This is, in my opinion, where his fervor came from.
He was generally, up until this point, not considered a serious person in any capacity. In the 80’s, he’d earned a reputation as a grifter. He was very obviously the bad guy in Back to the Future. His resurgence in the 2000’s was due to the Apprentice, a show in which he played his public persona. This show essentially manufactured his reputation as a successful businessman, as he was in dire financial straights before it do to the failure of his casino business. His tax returns painted a very different story. Interestingly, I have seen them, but they are no longer publicly available since the GOP regained the house. Original Location (Archive.org record).
By 2016, social and mainstream media had so thourogly watered down the political debate, that nobody was paying serious attention. The conversation had now become about gaffes, about scandal, identity politics. Nobody wanted to hear about foreign policy, or economic ideals.
Revelations - My favorite conspiracy
The Heritage foundation had been building Nationalist sentiment for years now with the War on Terror. The public still had a deep seated fear that there was an enemy amongst us, 9/11 was not so distant. And they had normalized Islamophobia. I think they were breeding a Holy War. A never-ending war. The kind of war required to sustain Fascism. Why would they want this?
Imagine you are a dynastic billionaire. Your entire life you have lived a life of luxury. You’ve made decisions that shape the face of the world. You are powerful enough to have your own space program. And you learned in 1980 that climate change would be catastrophic. Huge populations would be displaced leading to immigration crisis’s. Mounting global tensions over increasingly limited resources like fresh water and arable land. How are you going to maintain control over an increasingly scared and angry population?
First, you grind them down economically until they don’t have the time or energy to fight back or pay attention. Distract them with scandals, entertainment, fill their heads to the brim with bullshit to distract them from the world around them.
Then you give them someone to blame. An ambiguous enemy for them to fight. Something that threatens their very way of life.
Instead of paying attention to the collapsing world, you will remain a cog in the machine, fighting the good fight until it doesn’t matter anymore.
By this time, the political term “left” no longer meant anything. Communism wasn’t a scary threat, because Russia had collapsed into a capitalist oligarchy, and China had largely reverted to a capitalist system in order to expand rapidly. To the average conservative, “left” simply meant unamerican. Foreign. Terrorist. To the average Democrat, “left” simply meant liberal. It was an ambiguous boogeyman, or nothing, depending on who you ask.
Donald Trump accidentally pulled the trigger.
He tapped into the anger and the dissent that had been carefully crafted by the Heritage ilk. They were caught entirely off-guard. Because the media loved Trump. They loved the scandal. That kept people watching. And amongst the wealthy establishment, nobody seriously thought he would win. They thought he was a joke. But people were mad at the establishment for years of being squeezed economically. And they didn’t like Hilary that much. And Trump gave them permission to say whatever they wanted to say. That goes for everybody. The rules had changed.
Heritage did their best to course correct. But they had a massive problem.
Trump is a widely narcissistic asshole. And that is uncontrollable.
A tangent on Narcissism
Everyone is narcissistic to a degree. It’s not unhealthy to have some sense of self importance, an ego. But the extreme cases are categorized by two things that are important if we are to understand Donald Trump.
They are wholly unable to question themselves. This means, they are generally unwilling to listen to others. This inherently makes it impossible to learn. Truly learning is impossible if you are unable to question yourself. Over the course of this essay I have deleted many sections because my memory did not reflect my research. I learned. That is what science is, fundamentally.
They lack empathy. They are consumed with concern for themselves, they cannot empathize with those around them. They especially cannot empathize with those that are different from them. Like the average American citizen.
I think Trump is an extreme narcissist simply because I’ve watched the way he interacts with people. I listen to the way he denigrates people. I’ve listened to him make every situation about himself. I’ve never seen him apologize or even admit that he made a mistake. Those things are important to me. I think we should all try to be good people.
I don’t think Donald Trump even wanted to be president. He didn’t look particularly thrilled on election day. I think he wanted to use the publicity to get his media company off the ground. I don’t think he tried particularly hard to get elected, he just loved the attention. The people around him, establishment Republicans, needed him to win. I think he was as surprised as everyone else.
President Donald Trump
I was initially open to the idea that the disruption of the establishment would be a net good. But Donald Trump’s presidency was a media circus. A constant bombardment of absurd things that were said, wild things that he may or may not have done. He lied constantly, because he didn’t really care that much. By the time anybody bothered to check, the media was talking about something else. Very little actually got accomplished, beyond more tax cuts. The economy was good because it had been good, by metrics like the stock market at least. People remember things being cheaper because yes, they were cheaper before COVID. Tariffs already jacked up prices, and during COVID prices did go up because of the supply chain, I dealt with this constantly at work.
But why would companies lower prices when raw materials became cheaper again? They exist to make money. For the Billionaires at the top who dictate policy.
Donald Trump used the presidency solely to enrich themselves. He funneled government money into his properties constantly. And once he was there, he had to stay there, because his opponents were looking at his business under a microscope. And they did find shady shit.
His first impeachment came from allegations that he tried to withhold military aide from Ukraine unless they would investigate Hunter Biden. This would later form the basis for the laptop scandal. Special prosecutor Robert Mueller was appointed and he did find evidence of crimes, but Trump’s justice department declined to pursue them further. His report did find significant contact between the Trump campaign and Russia (pg 182). This was all of course buried by the media and the DoJ, but much of this evidence spiraled into the charges Trump still contends with.
Notice the difference between the content of Robert Mueller’s report, and the Ken Starr report mentioned earlier. Impeachment had already been devalued in the eyes of the public, and it is quickly forgotten in the see of wild bullshit. Whether or not you believe these crimes are legitimate, I do at least appreciate how much better the attempt was to convince me in this case.
In the public, discourse becomes non-existence. The silos of social media have all but been locked in. They have already been used to elevate presidential campaigns. Because people engage with things that make them feel good. Not things that are scary and different. Or things that make them uncomfortable with their beliefs. So when Donald Trump’s behavior is questioned, it is written off as bullshit.
But, and this is important, the attention is a massive problem for the Heritage Foundation. People really hate Trump, so they’re watching what he does. And people are looking for anything they can use to take him down. Because that’s been politics since the Clinton Era. Trump already had the hearts of his supporters, so they were forced to adapt to him. Trump’s cabinet had been a revolving door of traditional establishment Republicans, so their agenda was not set back at all.
The far reaching coup to save Donald Trump
Most people, on both sides of the isle, have no clue what January 6th actually was. Because nobody wants to believe it. That would be scary. That would challenge their sense of safety. The protest was simply a distraction. The real plan, was for the secret service to take Pence out of the situation. Prevent him from certifying the election. That is why he is no longer the Vice Presidential nominee.
That is why most of his former cabinet is no longer with him.
This is why I’m actually scared. Because I’ve met people who I believe would break into a building because Trump told them to. I’ve seen Patriot Front signs. I know that from 2007-2017 71% of deaths from mass shootings have been the result of far right extremists. I believe this because I see the world around me. That is far more believable to me than some shadow trans agenda, or immigrant terrorists. Because those threats don’t reflect my experiences with those groups. There is no cohesive ideology on the “left” because that term no longer means anything. An ideology is what becomes dangerous. And the far right’s ideology has been reduced to idolatry.
Biden and the return of boring
I didn’t expect anything from the Biden administration. I just hoped politics would get boring again. I thought the numerous investigations into January 6th and his lifetime of actions would taint him enough to lose the Republican primary. But it didn’t.
Biden’s administration was, in my opinion, shockingly effective. The Dem’s only had full control over congress until the 2022 mid-term elections, but in that time they secured two policy victories that impressed me.
The CHIPS act. Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) is generations ahead of the industry. Modern technology depends on their single plant in Taiwan. Which China wants. Massive national security risk to the country, massive job security risk to me.
The IRA reduced the deficit and funded a lot of infrastructure. I dig infrastructure.
They had also progressed significantly with their January 6th investigations, which presented a thorn in Trump’s side.
Donald Trump launched his reelection campaign on November 15, 2022. My vote was decided immediately.
Donald Trump was still the guy, in the eyes of his voters. Meanwhile, an extreme contingent of republicans had gained hold in the Republican controlled House of representatives, and the Heritage foundation had lost control of it. While the republicans were now the majority, they were unable to even agree within themselves when electing their second House Speaker.
The house began preparing impeachment plans for Joe Biden in 2023. Initially, they were unable to specify exactly what for. But, in a stroke of luck as convenient as Clinton’s infidelity, they found Hunter Biden’s laptop. They produced a report claiming impeachable content. But they never moved forward with an impeachment vote. Why? Probably because they were more afraid of a Kamala Harris presidency.
During the Biden administration, Kamala stayed largely out of the public eye, beyond the occasional questions about what she was doing.
Personally, I think she was preparing to run for president the entire time.
Biden signaled before he won the election that he would be a one term president.
In 2022 he was secretly briefed by historians on the rise of fascism.
And Donald Trump, hilariously, had made his entire campaign about Biden being old.
I think that the Democrat’s knew they had nothing to gain by a contentious primary. I agreed back then that we should not waste the incumbent advantage. The infighting would only serve to write Trump’s insults for him.
I think Kamala was always the plan. And if that was the case? I’ve never been more impressed with the Democratic party.
They have finally risen to the occasion.
Meanwhile, on planet Earth
People are starting to notice climate change. It is of course happening faster than the mainstream scientists have suggested. People are beginning to notice the weather is weird. People are beginning to notice there aren’t as many insects (60% decline over 35 years). Historic weather events are constant. These are written off as conspiracies. HAARP causing hurricanes. I’ve never been offered a technical explanation for how it makes that happen. I have, however, been offered a century of ignored research that does explain it.
The search for truth is no longer valued. In any capacity. Intellectualism is actively rejected by much of the country.
China is eating our lunch in green technology. Remember Taiwan Semiconductor? China wants Taiwan.
Billionaires are building doomsday bunkers.
Climate change was almost entirely ignored during the 2024 campaign.
Donald Trump: The Dictator
After Kamala became the nominee, Donald Trump lost it. Complained about how unfair it was. The conservative narrative became disjointed. I remember hearing that it was “undemocratic”. January 6th was undemocratic. I remember hearing how they were hiding Joe Biden’s mental state. I trust the rest of his administration would have things under control either way.
Then he blew the debate. Kamala looked well enough, and didn’t give up any major soundbytes. TikTok loved Trump talking about how they takin the geese.
And shit really hit the fan when everyone learned about our friends at the Heritage Foundation.
Their latest Mandate for Leadership, which has become known as Project 2025, has gone viral. And it has become extreme, just as the rhetoric has.
Notice Kevin Robert’s name on the front cover of the document.
JD Vance wrote the forward to Kevin Robert’s book.
Trump’s rhetoric has become increasingly wild and violent.
Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are lining up to be the oligarchs.
Laura Trump, has hollowed out the party establishment. Money is being funneled away from down-ballot races and into Trump’s legal fees. That puts the legislature in a shaky position for Republicans.
JD Vance is the Heritage guy. Because Trump doesn’t care who his VP is. He just wants to be president. He surrounds himself with a far more extreme group of loyalists, because the establishment Heritage guys tell him no sometimes. And he is a narcissist. So Vance is their hail mary. They already have the Supreme Court. That is enough to get them an all-powerful executive.
Donald Trump is 78 years old. He is not in particularly good shape. He is clearly tired. He is sun-downing on stage for 40 minutes. He is probably not going to make it 4 years. Heritage and JD Vance will take their plot back at that point.
A simple choice: Socialism or Fascism
So here we are. I’m writing this two days before election night 2024.
And I find myself filled with optimism. Optimism I haven’t felt in the decade since Trump emerged.
Because Kamala Harris has ran a near flawless campaign. She hasn’t said anything particularly damaging. The worst I’ve heard is “DEI hire”. That she is stupid.
But I remember her time in congress. I saw her force Donald Trump to shake her hand at the debate, just like he did to Hilary in 2016, and how he struggled to land an attack going forward. She is a strong candidate, whether the right wants to admit it or not. And she genuinely seems nice. And Tim Walz genuinely seems nice. That is incredibly important.
And the first exciting candidate to run against a republican since 2008.
Her social media team is all under 25. These days, her TikTok is just footage of Trump rallies. Because those are not going well.
She’s campaigning almost entirely to Republicans, talking about being a gun owner, and making sure America has the strongest fighting force in the world.
Because her party has been convinced for a decade. We’re just enjoying the events with Beyonce etc.
By contrast, the Trump team is doing their best to hide their candidate. Cancelling interviews left and right. Doing publicity stunts at a closed McDonalds. Driving around a closed tarmac in a spotless garbage truck.
The energy from democrats that I know, in the real world, has been off the charts. Republicans often seem dejected. They are sick of Trump too, I think.
Donald Trump lost the popular vote both times. In 2020 the margin was wider than in 2016. Against Joe Biden. The Cryptkeeper. Who is he convincing? People who aren’t watching?
I think Kamala Harris is going to win by a landslide. I think the only reason anybody thinks otherwise, is because the media companies, and the billionaires, need the election to be close. So they make more money.
I hope they do usher in an era of socialism. We need a New Deal.
Why they both lead nowhere
As I’ve said, both parties ultimately serve the wealthy. I simply think the Democrats are less actively harmful right now. I’ve never found any of their shadow network conspiracies to be remotely this compelling, and well documented. But, like I said, I like being proved wrong. Because that is how we learn.
We will likely continue to ignore climate change.
We will definitely destroy the planet.
It’s not unlikely that damage hasn’t already been done.
Because the billionaires need more money.
So profits need to go up.
Which means we need to consume more resources.
So we can make more shit to sell.
And collect more data
To sell more shit
And make more money
Until we’re all dead.
Because Americans
Are unwilling to work together anymore.
Why it does not matter
Life is beautiful. The journey to better know the universe is the journey to better know the world we live in. And to better know the world we live in, is to better know yourself.
And the Journey is the Destination
Beginnings are such fragile things
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