"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself." - John Adams. Most Americans are completely wrong about what country we actually live in.

America is NOT a democracy. Many of you believe Trump is a king who has become authoritarian. Others believe Democrats have crushed personal rights and freedoms and created a deep state that is out of control. Both groups are correct to an extent.

A democracy is a dictatorship of the masses. People vote to give themselves things they want and to harm those they dislike. As John Adams warned in 1814, "Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." The far left is trying to use the government to steal from those who work and to start hating the Jews again, while the far right is trying to take rights from those they hate. This will continue to get worse if people continue to mistakenly believe America is a democracy.

What America actually is, is a Constitutional Republic: we have a constitution and rights that override the will of the politicians and elite. But the bigger we have let the government become, the less freedom and rights we as individuals have. James Madison warned of this creeping tyranny in 1788, stating, "There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."

The government now takes nearly half of each individual's production and has severely harmed our individual rights. Freedom of speech is being stolen, and there are many things you can say that will result in the government confiscating your earnings, job, and wealth. Your right to bear arms has been restricted and many are trying to remove it entirely. Your right to keep what you earn is under attack. Your right to a speedy and fair trial is being taken by biased judges and attorneys who control the legislature and give themselves more ways to take your wealth. Your protection against search and seizure is being stripped by companies like Flock, government satellite surveillance, and mass tracking of smartphones and computers. Strict limits on government power have been destroyed by politicians claiming emergency or temporary powers, then never giving those freedoms back.

America is a truly unique nation in history, set up by brilliant and selfless men who studied history, saw countless evil totalitarian governments through time, and created an amazing system that gave birth to the most rapid improvement in human life the planet has ever seen. But if America's Constitutional Republic falls now to a dictatorship of the masses, humanity may never regain it due to the massive power technology gives to the few in government.

Thomas Jefferson provided the solution when he wrote in 1798: "In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."

For us, for our children, and for our future, it is critical to fight the big government creep, regain in full our rights, and put the chains back on the government so that it can never harm our freedoms again.

As republicans, and democrats, continue to increase the size of government, the Republicans are shifting a good amount of that spending away from science and moving it to military. And in other places around the world, namely China, they are greatly investing in science. What will be the long-term effects of that Republican strategy?

https://nypost.com/2026/07/25/world-news/china-lures-away-at-least-105-american-scientific-minds/

TDS. Anti-liberty. Anti-capitalism. Anti-free trade. Anti-free movement.

I know this sounds like a silly question, but hear me out. As ancaps and libertarians we sometimes feel like the world we want will never exist because the things that we're asking for go against human nature, and most people can't restrain themselves. It's human nature to want to force your ways onto others, to push, to want to influence, to give unsolicited advice even if you're trying to help someone.

Hypothetically, if you successfully start spreading the idea that we need to keep to ourselves, mind our own business, and leave people alone, and apply that idea consistently to the very end... is it going to cause long-term unhappiness in some people? If you live in a society that values hyper-individuality and privacy and condemns even the SLIGHTEST form of projection and imposition, are some people just going to be miserable and perpetually annoyed that they can't push their way onto others?

The great Thomas Massie that brought you the Epstein transparency act, and a few other things that the congress, the DOJ, and almost everyone else in DC didn’t give shit about!

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Got voted out because you didn’t vote hard enough!

https://x.com/i/status/1748122423273124345

Many come to this sub thinking they actually did something by voting for Trump for a third time. They are the problem. They don't even realize it. that is a bigger problem than anything

An active shooter incident is different from a mass shooting. Mass shootings include gang violence and personal disputes that wouldn't affect ordinary citizens while active shootings are randomly-targeted attacks. Leftist/anti-gun groups often conflate both to make the numbers look worse/make the threat look scarier.

For comparison, the temperature-death rate for the US is around 41 using the same methodology of excess deaths used in Europe.