There is too much for any one man to consider, whenever he looks at his government and the current state of affairs in America!!!

It’s hard as hell to reconcile the fact that the FISA Reauthorization Act that was changed in 2017 to allow the NSA to spy on all Americans was signed by President Trump in 2018, even after it had become fairly common knowledge that it had been used against him by Obama, during his campaign for president in 2016. And then, after Trump signed the bill, it was soon discovered that Obama had still been spying on him after he was elected president right up to the January 20th hand over of the reins of power and “control” over the White House.

And then I consider all the Democrat abuses of power aligned with Trump’s “due process” fiasco, 2nd and 4th amendment violations and Lockdowns and later Biden’s vaccine mandate and ILLEGAL Border Eradication, and it’s hard not to see where our government is headed. No matter who is in office – Democrat or Republican – the U.S. federal government is on an all-out trajectory toward totalitarian government, if we don’t see civil war first.

The history of civilization is, in no small measure, the history of tension between the individual and the institutions he creates. Governments arise to secure order, to defend against external threats, to adjudicate disputes, and to coordinate the complex needs of large populations. Yet in performing these tasks, governments inevitably accumulate power. And power, even when originally granted for protection, has a tendency to expand beyond its original mandate. In this expansion lies the central drama of political history: man against man, citizen against ruler, conscience against command.

The American experiment was born in precisely such a struggle. The Declaration of Independence did not merely list grievances; it articulated a philosophical anthropology. It asserted that human beings are endowed with certain unalienable rights and that governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The American Revolution was not framed as a rebellion against order itself, but as resistance to a system that had violated the moral boundaries of legitimate authority. Embedded in the founding was an assumption both hopeful and sober: government is necessary, but it is also dangerous.

From that tension springs a permanent vigilance. The Bill of Rights is not an ornament; it is supposed to be a barricade. Freedom of speech, protection against unreasonable searches, the right to due process — these are acknowledgments that the state, left unchecked, can erode the very liberties it was established to protect. The founders understood that institutions, however noble in origin, can become indifferent to the dignity of the individual. They designed a system of checks and balances precisely because they recognized the frailty of human nature in positions of authority.

Yet history demonstrates that formal safeguards do not eliminate the struggle. As the United States industrialized and later digitized, power consolidated in new forms. Bureaucracies expanded. Intelligence agencies developed techniques for surveillance and psychological operations. Universities partnered with defense departments. Corporations amassed unprecedented influence over communication, labor, and daily life. The complexity of modern society created layers of mediation between the individual and the levers of power. Decisions affecting millions could be made in rooms far removed from public scrutiny, especially now with the advent of all things Artificial Intelligence.

It is within this environment that the sense of alienation grows. When a citizen feels processed rather than heard, managed rather than respected, a psychological rift opens. The individual asks whether he remains a participant in self-government or has become merely a subject within an administrative apparatus. This question is not pathological; it is political. It is the echo of Jefferson’s warning that “the natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”

This is what Americans must stop dead in its tracks. We must stop the expansion and continued growth of unrestrained Big Centralized Government. We must stop the Leviathan from gaining any more ground and taking more of our freedom and liberty away from us in the process.

Editor’s NOTE: The intensity of what you have just read – warrants a Second Chapter in our author’s work. Watch for Part II in a few days. ~ Editor

March 16, 2026

Justin O. Smith ~ Author

~ the Author ~
Justin O. Smith Has Lived in Tennessee Off and on Most of His Adult Life, and Graduated From Middle Tennessee State University in 1980, With a B.S. And a Double Major in International Relations and Cultural Geography – Minors in Military Science and English, for What Its Worth. His Real Education Started From That Point on. Smith Is a Frequent Contributor to the Family of Kettle Moraine Publications.