How do we envision building a new nation on this American Independence Day 2024?

Paving the way to a better world

When Americans think about their war for independence, which was the result of a declared secession by wealthy elite colonists on the North American continent from the Global British Empire, most of us focus on the separation aspect of the revolution instead of how those original colonists built a country. It is not possible to secede from a jurisdiction without having an envisioned alternative jurisdiction and being prepared to make it work. Any teenager who makes it to young adulthood will tell you, the separation from parents is the easy part. Building a successful life is difficult.

Some very smart men in 1776 created a new nation so that they could separate from their existing jurisdiction. There were many spirited conversations among our founding intellectuals about this issue because it is the quintessential issue that all communities confront. Thomas Jefferson, the spirit animal anarchist, apparently had many conversations with John Adams, the communitarian, about the legitimacy of and the structure of the government they would eventually create. Some of those conversations were captured beautifully in the terrific 2008 John Adams miniseries.

Adams eventually carried the day because of his practicality. Anarchism sounds wonderful but it only works in philosophical debates. I have had many such fun debates as a common sense nationalist with my Jeffersonian libertarian friends over the past several years. I believe the time for those debates is over as it was when the founders drafted final ideas and working documents for their new nation that climaxed in 1789 with the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

In the case of the American colonists, there was already the foundation of two nations in place, and the beauty, perhaps tragic mistake of the Founders was negotiating a pact between Northerners and Southerners with different cultures to make one nation. That was made possible because there were already established, distinct thriving and healthy communities in place with similar people, norms for behavior, and a shared understanding of most everything important on which to impose a a governing compact. These were high-trust, essentially monocultural regional communities made up of people who were quite similar to each other, and shared the same religion. Yes there were factional differences but those differences were not enough to impede the establishment of a working community in which people benefitted from the social support and the shared commerce with their neighbors.

Approximately 40% of Americans today believe it is time for the Global American Empire to die. I am one of them. The United States of America is an iatrogenic human system inhabited by moral sloths and managed by career criminals. The United States of America Empire of 2024, like Rome before that empire fell, is a banana republic, military dictatorship, idiocracy. The questions most of us have now are how to break up the empire peacefully and how to build something new where good people can live peacefully and successfully and in cooperation with others in a healthy existence.

The sooner we face this inevitability the better because this arrangement is killing us.

These are a few of my ideas. You may also find the ideas elucidated here:

I believe our focus should be health, not freedom. How would a healthy nation be structured so as to encourage health and happiness?

The nation would be built upon a foundation of authoritative communities, which are high trust, homogenous localities in which rules and roles are clear and the developmental landscape for children and adults is working.

Complimentary man-woman relationships would be codified by marriage as the basis for procreation and the socialization of youth.

The commerce of the new nation would be primarily small business/agrarian and local.

New nations would also need to have moral foundations (holiness) that teach people how to treat each other. Otherwise there is no basis for community. This is the appeal of Christian Nationalism for traditionalists and for others, the Rainbow Creed. I advocate something that combines Christian ethics and aspects of secular morality.

Common sense, the transcendent knowledge one gains from observing how people successfully consent to the laws of nature, would prevail.

New nations would necessarily be much smaller and less encumbered by regulations and managing bureaucracies. One of the rules of systems is that they always grow in complexity unless forceful steps are taken to simplify them or end them. We tried the former strategy. It failed. Let’s end this thing and build something that can work.

I would be a part of a nation on the North American continent built primarily by my people, the European people of the historic American Nation, because that is my tribe. Many others would build their own distinct nations. Those nations might include people that were on this continent before Europeans, Africans who also have a stake in this land, other ethnic and religious groups, people who adopt the Rainbow Creed, and many other groups who share common cultures. I can imagine dozens of vibrant new nations forming. That is the beauty of nationalism.

The parasites that need smart people for their survival will resist our revolution of course as will the few powerful people who are thriving at the top because of our servitude to them. These people will need to be marginalized in the revolution.

I believe it is time for realistic new nation builders to convene conventions to begin generating ideas and actions for the new beginnings.

What do you think?

For a complimentary viewpoint please take a look at this article from Visayas Outpost.

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