The United States of America is a government institution and is now 250 years old. In the following summary of the history which led us to the state of society today I will prove when The USA was great, why it is a former superpower of former greatness, and how to make America great again, actually, not like the hyperbolic manure in the popularized slogan.
What a young nation The USA is. The USA is a beautiful nation of amalgamation. It is a flawed nation, perhaps formerly the best nation, it is one of the most influential nations, and certainly the only superpower to ever exist and the only superpower to have degraded into just another national power. The USA is only former superpower on Earth.
The USA was a superpower. It may be arguable when and if The United States of America was great, but there is no doubt in my mind that The USA was a superpower in the 1980s and early 1990s. During this time period The USA could conduct action without war and could inspire problem solving without transactional political schemes. During this time period The USSR, the opponent in The Cold War, fell simply by way of attempted competition with a superpower. No war was required it simply fell.
It's now 250 years since the foundation of The USA, July 4, 1776, but not quite 250 years since the advancement of The Bill of Rights, later ratified on December 15, 1791. We did have much all else of The Constitution and The Declaration of Independence, of course. The Bill of Rights is the institutionalization of individual liberty, or as close as we've got thus far, and since then we have fought to keep our liberty with many successes and many failures.
The Declaration of Independence set the course and character of The USA, but it has no legal influence. It is the first of the documents which comprise The Trinity of Liberty. Perhaps the most important part of The Declaration of Independence is the distinction of individuals and institutions and the then institutionalized king. The Declaration of Independence defines The USA as a culture of individuals rather than institutions.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. ~Declaration of Independence
We see the import of individuals over institutions here. And it is important to note that in the original draft of The Declaration there was a renunciation of slavery among the many renunciations of the king, but it was removed. Later The USA would fight The Civil War over the hypocritical cruelty of slavery. This battle between those seeking liberty for individuals among institutions and the constrictive arrangements of institutionalized representatives has long characterized The USA as well world history more broadly. History may be understood as the recordkeeping of this interplay between individuals and institutions, between liberty and oligarchy.
"He has waged cruel War against human Nature itself, violating its most sacred Rights of Life and Liberty in the Persons of a distant People who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into Slavery in another Hemisphere, or to incur miserable Death, in their Transportation thither. This piratical Warfare, the opprobrium of infidel Powers, is the Warfare of the Christian King of Great Britain." ~Thomas Jefferson, Draft of The Declaration of Independence
On July 4th, 1776, The Declaration of Independence set fourth on the independent individualized character of The USA. The Constitution defined government operations. Perhaps the most character revealing idea within The Constitution aside from the mechanics of government is The Preamble.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. ~USA Constitution
Then fifteen years later, in 1791, after much tumult between individuals and the institutionalized, that The Bill of Rights was ratified. There are so many important concepts within the documents of The Trinity of Liberty that it has influenced the world, not by way of militarism or transactional exchange, simply by way of its importance and the uplifting impact of its existence. All other institutions across the world since then, all other oligarchical collectivism, had to adjust to its principles.
Since the foundation of The USA and the establishment of The Bill of Rights the world has seen the shedding of the divine rite of kings, the breaking of colonialization, numerous wars and the mental and physical plagues brought about thereby, including two world wars, several proxy wars, numerous oil wars for resource control. And more recently we have erratic aggression expressed to neighbors, allies and enemy collectivist states alike. And all to the benefit entanglements with other nations it would appear; russia and israel most notably.
And despite all the specific and differentiated isms involved and the particular institutional posturing in left and right wing format to rationalize mass murder and mass repression these different tunes are all the same dissonant melody. If we take a step back to gain fuller perspective, it is the same old story since the renunciation of slavery was removed from The Declaration of Independence. It is and was institutional repression coordination versus liberty pursuing individuals.
Today, our education system is torn asunder, burned out and federalized to ordain good workers for collectivism, rather than raise individuated intelligence. Many do not even learn the character of the former superpower anymore, the character that made the only superpower to have been, that is the power and potential of the individuated individual distinct among institutions. Now it would appear that people don't even know the difference between living and breathing individuals and mechanical and bureaucratical institutions and the institutionalized thereof.
The results of our degraded education system have led us to the point where ignorance rules and materialism is glorified, to the declination of unity passed the peak in the line of decline. And it is all based on the ignorance of The USA character, the power and potential of the individuated individual among institutions. It is all based on the decline of literacy and increase of ignorance. For over two hundred years individuals in The USA knew the difference between individuals and institutions and were exemplary thereby.
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