Rediscovering America

  Why this Mid-term Election is Critical to Saving America by Scott S. Powell         America’s democratic form of Constitutional republic is on the verge of breaking down because of political corruption at the highest levels and the concurrent decline in civility and growing mob behavior.       Fundamental and deep division prevents government from fixing itself. But we the people can and must play a decisive role in turning things around. In fact, a country with a constitution that makes us a nation of the people, by the people and for the people, puts the real power in the hands of voters rather than the elites in Washington.       It is important to remember that in giving the power to the people, the Founders had no illusions about everyday Americans. They recognized that most citizens would not have the time or interest to understand the details of domestic economic policy or foreign pol...

  Constitution Day is the Most Important   but Forgotten Holiday this Year   by Scott S. Powell        Constitution Day, which falls on September 17, is the national observance holiday that most Americans have never heard of. Yet this year, 2022, it may well be our most important holiday. For the Constitution is threatened more now than at any time since seven southern states seceded from Union and Civil War broke out on April 12, 1861.       To understand the present peril, it is worth going back in time to appreciate how the Constitution was conceived as both the founding and governing instrument for the United States.         The War of Independence lasted five long years from 1776 to 1781, with the impoverished colonial army being mostly on the defensive. It was a miracle that this small and disorganized American militia could defeat Great Britain—then the most formidabl...

  Democrats charge that Republicans are led by Fascists is absurd by Scott S Powell          President Biden referred to Donald Trump and roughly half the country that supports him as “semi-fascists” during a recent fund-raising speech.   A week ago, Robert Reich, a prominent media commentator and former U.S. Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton, suggested that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was a “fascist.” While some would attribute these comments to election year name-calling, referring to the two front-running Republican Party leaders as “fascist” actually reveals just how unprincipled, deceitful or blind the Democrat Party leadership really is.         The reason for the popularity of both Trump and DeSantis is that they both focus on delivering solutions to everyday problems that people care about.   Philosophically, they share a limited government and law and order approach to governing that em...

  Labor Day: the Untold Story of American Exceptionalism by Scott S. Powell      For most people, Labor Day is a rather vague holiday without the clarity and meaning typically associated with other holidays. Yet in its most complete context, Labor Day should be recognized as the holiday that celebrates not only labor, but also the ideas, job creators and institutions central to the flourishing of the United States and its people.       For starters, consider the tools brought by the colonists that arrived in the New World along the eastern seaboard that would become the United States. These were the same rudimentary tools—such as shovels, axes, hoes, and ploughs—that had been used for prior centuries. But something happened in America that sped up economic development and transformed labor output beyond what had ever happened previously in human history.       Colonial America certainly benefited from the...

                  An American Gestapo and Bullets or Overwhelming Ballots? by Scott S. Powell         The Biden administration will go down in American history with the unique distinction of creating and empowering a government against the people. The original vision of American government as one that is of the people, by the people, and for the people has been dying from a thousand cuts and twisted into a rule of the elite, by the elite, and for the elite. And with that elite rule, a new pervasive corruption has come into being and compromised those elected to serve and also the unelected in the vast administrative state.       Corruption has no doubt existed from the beginning of government and politics. The United States got off to a remarkably good start because of its moral foundation, lack of class and aristocracy, and its remarkable constitution that prescribed a limited sc...

  World War III is here, so how do we win? by Scott S. Powell         As I have written previously, World War III is already here, although it is not yet a shooting war. Instead, it is for now a battle for the mind and soul—directed primarily at demoralizing the American people—disconnecting them from reality and undermining their sense of identity, virtue and belonging—their commitment to family, their faith in God, and their appreciation for their country. This stage of battle to demoralize the people has been all but completed and Americans have lost.       The next stage of the battle in World War III involves planned actions by internal and external enemies designed to destabilize American society. This second stage has also been pretty well completed—through the Covid pandemic of fear in which supply chains were broken, small businesses were shuttered, the work ethic was damaged and huge numbers of Americans lost ...