Thomas Jefferson was an individualist and an enemy of collectivism. He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence (independence from British tyranny) and even wrote to James Madison about how the US federal government was never given the authority to build roads — except for along postal routes:
But the federal branch has, assumed in some cases and claimed in others, a right of enlarging it’s own powers by constructions, inferences, and indefinite deductions, from those directly given, which this assembly does declare to be usurpations of the powers retained to the independant branches, mere interpolations into the compact, and direct infractions of it.
They claim, for example, and have commenced the exercise of a right to construct roads, open canals, & effect other internal improvements, within the territories and jurisdictions exclusively belonging to the several states, which this assembly does declare has not been given to that branch by the constitutional compact, but remain to each state among it’s domestic and unalienated powers, exercisable within itself, and by it’s domestic authorities alone. —24 Dec 1825 letter to Madison
Regarding whether the US government should be allowed to interfere in the business affairs of private citizens — such as by regulating businesses or by attempting to set interest rates — Jefferson was also clear: No. He didn’t even like the ability to use tariffs as a form of protectionism of US industries favored by the US government.
In fact, a key reason for the American Revolution was the granting of a monopoly on tea imports to the British East India company. The tax on their tea was the lowest ever, but Americans didn’t revolt primarily because of “taxation without representation” (Jefferson’s fourth “For” — explained below).
After laying the mood of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, Jefferson laid out the reasons. The King of England was blamed, repeatedly, for a series of things. Here is the beginning of the blame list, with brackets and emphasis added:
The history of the [present King of Great Britain] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
[He] has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
[He] has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance …
As you can see, the blames all start with “He” — and there are 18 of them, But blame #13 refers to the King’s approval of regulations passed by either official British Parliment at home, or the parlimentary satellites in America. That’s when the “For’s” start.
The third “For” (cutting off our Trade) relates back to the Boston Tea Party, when Americans were disallowed from being able to import tea from other companies, so they destroyed the property of the firm which was in bed with — or in a “public-private partnership” with — the government (dumping the tea chests overboard):
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences …
Notice how it precedes the fourth “For” (taxation without consent). You won’t find that in a modern history book which, like all other modern establishment books, tries to hide how it was historical truth that economic interventionism (anti-capitalism) was a primary reason for the Revolutionary War.
We can learn a lot by getting back to the basics, such as free markets. Trump tried to bring us closer to free enterprise, but faced such entrenched bureaucracy and deception that he only slowed the pace toward tyranny.
The last US president who was actually able to reverse the tyrannical, anti-capitalist direction of the United States — rather than merely slow it down — was Ronald Reagan. Here are economic numbers showing the effect of the Reagan administration:
Each dot represents 3 years of economic growth. The trend line represents the average of the previous 5 dots (the previous 15 years). The high-point in average US economic growth occurred as Reagan was finishing his second term.
Here is the same graph with notes:
After Reagan, globalist elites “got smart.” They held an Earth Day summit in Brazil in 1992, so as to prevent capitalists from ever reversing the trajectory of corruption and tyranny, like Reagan did.
Replacing Human Welfare as Top Priority
They needed to find something more important than human living standards — because only capitalism is capable of improving living standards broadly.
If something could be thought to be more important though, then money and power could still keep flowing to these elites, as they presumably “work on” that special thing which has been adopted as being of the “utmost importance.”
As the title of the summit said, that special thing would be the “health” of the earth, itself. The elites would nominate themselves as stewards of the planet’s health, asking for evermore money and power so as to take care of it.
Today, that plan, which was hatched in 1992, is called the Great Reset.
It is anti-American in every sense of the term. Globalists elites don’t merely disbelieve in American exceptionalism, they despise it and seek to destroy it (as Yuri Bezmenov presciently warned was coming, in that 1984 interview by G. Edward Griffin).
But we can beat them.
As Mikki Willis says in the opening scene of Plandemic 3: The Great Awakening:
This is America the Beautiful, and it’s worth fighting for.
You are worth fighting for.
Your children are worth fighting for.
Our freedom is worth fighting for.
Reference
[Thomas Jefferson hated economic interventionism, a main cause of the American Revolution, and he even despised a federal government unconstitutionally attempting to build roads] — To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 24 December 1825. From Thomas Jefferson. Monticello Dec. 24. 25. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-03-02-0679
[the primary founding document of the United States of America] — Declaration of Independence. https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
[Leader’s summit to put something up higher than human living standards] — United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3-14 June 1992. A new blueprint for international action on the environment. https://www.un.org/en/conferences/environment/rio1992
[1984 warning of Soviet defector that systematic tyranny is coming for America] — 39 years ago, a KGB defector chillingly predicted modern America. https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/
[Plandemic 3 movie] — https://plandemicseries.com/plandemic-3-the-great-awakening/
[nominal GDP] — U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Gross Domestic Product [GDPA], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPA
[number of US civilians] — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Population Level [CNP16OV], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CNP16OV
[realistic measure of inflation: SS Wage Index] — Available (as the second choice given) in an easy-to-use online widget at: https://www.halfhill.com/inflation_js.html