Is the American Experiment Going to be a Failure​?

Is the American Experiment Going to be a Failure​?

Guest post by Jack Gleason – 7/2/2026

With all the news flooding our TV screens and cellphones it is practically impossible to separate truth from slanted information and blatant fabrications. Many people have given up – “I don’t follow politics any more” – and go with whatever their social groups tell them. This is by design.

As we celebrate our 250^th anniversary, we must ask, “Are our best days ahead? Or are we doomed to fail?” The choice is up to us. It’s going to take clear thinking and hard work. I applaud all the conservative writers trying to explain what’s happening to our country and what can be done to save it.

The American experiment was unique to even consider that all men could be equal and power came from rights given by God, and not other men.

David Robb writes…

One of the most radical ideas of our revolution was that the general populace had both the right and the obligation to govern itself. There were to be no kings, no aristocracy, no emperors or caliphs or pharaohs. History was to serve as a guide, both for examples of failures and successes, for what worked and what didn’t, but we were breaking new ground, charting new paths, and setting forth into an unknown future.

A guiding principle was that each individual was given fundamental rights by Divine order, and not by any secular authority or government. It was a principle that held every person equal before man and God regardless of birth or race or creed. Moreover, every person, including those in positions of power, were to answer to a Highest authority for their actions here on earth—an accountability that could not be evaded or dismissed.

Before America was born, people lived on two levels – the rulers and the ruled, kings and serfs, masters and slaves, the elites and the commoners. They understood the power of education as a means to control their subjects.

In pre-Civil War United States it was against the law to educate a slave. Without freedom of information, people could be controlled to believe anything. Today, many Muslim children are placed in madrasasand taught that Jews are devils and must be exterminated. North Koreans believe Kim Jong Un is a god in human form.

The liberal media has infected millions of liberals with Trump Derangement Syndrome and a love for communism, while the Left controls education.

Lars Møller writes…

In The Decline of the West (1918–1922), Oswald Spengler introduces a biological metaphor, comparing Western civilization to a living organism. Within this concept, Judeo-Christian ethics forms the pulsating heart—the wellspring of compassion, human dignity, and the moral imperative to see the face of the other. Yet it is the brain—cold, discerning, hierarchical, and relentlessly oriented towards truth—that has propelled the West to unparalleled heights of inquiry, innovation, and ordered liberty. That brain is the academy, predicated on uncompromising meritocracy. When this cerebral faculty falters, the body politic convulses into senescence.

Kevin Finn says, “Influential sectors — news media, political parties, academia, legal institutions, entertainment, and business have been systematically promoting only one perspective for many years. Elites in those institutions act as gatekeepers of information, morality, and culture. By ignoring misdeeds within their aligned groups while amplifying or fabricating those of opponents, they create a Manichean worldview: one side inherently virtuous, the other irredeemably corrupt.”

America is the last thing standing between freedom and total domination of the planet. It is the great prize, the wealthiest nation in history – I’ve estimatedour country’s wealth at $320 Trillion.

Ray DiLorenzo says “Private property confiscation worked in Russia in 1917, in China in 1949, in N. Korea in 1948, and in Cuba in 1959. Oh, they promised so much. But every one of them turned out to be an organized crime syndicate that cost between 65 and 100 million lives.

A basic tenet of socialism is that dependency makes people easy to control. That is why Democrats traditionally love their poor so much. The last couple of decades have seen the uneducated (indoctrinated) added to the list.”

Socialism is a red herring – an excuse for totalitarian rule with Democrats as useful idiots. 

Foreign countries now wage a new kind of war. Instead of military power, they rely on espionage, blackmail and targeted assassination, and recruiting “useful idiots” to dismantle our country from the inside.

Ray DiLorenzo explains…

It is increasingly coming into focus that the Left wants civil war. The Democrat Party’s rhetoric has inflamed and continues to inflame their followers to a point of derangement.

Our Constitution, from its inception, as John Adams explained so eloquently, “…is made for a religious and moral people and is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Adams meant that the U.S. Constitution relies on its citizens possessing internal virtue and self-restraint. How could the freedoms we are given work in any other way? No set of laws could possibly maintain order without its people having the internal qualities that can live with such freedom without resorting to despotism. The Old Testament taught us that laws, even God’s laws, are ineffective unless approached with a repentant heart.

The new Democrat Party has neither virtue, self-restraint, nor belief in God.

It all comes down to elections…

Jim Hoft reports “The Election Crime Bureau published a stunning central library of election findings (visit the Evidence tab). They identify 10 main “Attack Vectors” through which election outcomes are shaped or shielded from scrutiny. Each of the 800+ findings from past elections supports President Trump’s assertions that our elections can be stolen – and were in 2020.

Jim Cardoza details the election corruption in California…

The right to vote is among our most cherished liberties, but equally important is the public’s confidence that every lawful vote — and only lawful votes — determines the outcome. Election integrity is not simply about preventing fraud; it is about preserving trust. An election that half the country believes was unfairly manipulated is an election that erodes trust in the republic and confidence in the system, regardless of who wins.

Such elections have become standard practice in California — not by accident, but by intent. The state has embraced a philosophy that treats virtually every security measure as an obstacle to the apparent goal of maintaining one-party control. Each voter integrity safeguard, once considered common sense, has been systematically dismantled. Practices critics have long warned create opportunities for abuse have not merely been tolerated — they have been written into state law.

Without honest elections and politicians who are beholden to voters, we are at the mercy of those who corrupt the votes. We must root out dishonest judges and corrupt prosecutors and eliminate fundraising organizations like Actblue that illegally funnel foreign money. We must insist that the Post office won’t deliver to fake addresses or dead people.

Jack Gleason is a conservative, common-sense, political writer. If you have story ideas or comments his email is [email protected] and his always-free Substack is jackgleason.substack.com