Comparative Politics
In America, the definition of “government” has fallen synonymous with that of “institutions,” “regime,” and “state;” the modern distinction between these terms can now be recognized only by its title. Traditionally, to the observer there was obvious evident discrimination between the two; the definitions of words are constantly revised, rewritten, and redacted. The government and other entities have exploited this principle of descriptive revision to include their own presence, disguising national and state authority in technical intricacies to supplant their ideas as objective discernment; contemporary government remains shielded by policy. Black’s Law Dictionary defines “government” as “the sovereign power of a state;” and “[t]he structure of principles determining how a state of organization is regulated;” while defining “regime” as “a particular system of rules, regulations, or government.” Black’s Law further defines the words “institution” as “[a]n established organization, esp. one of a public character;” and “state,” as “the political system of a body of people who are politically organized; the system of rules by which jurisdiction and authority are exercised over a body of people.”
Empirical evidence reveals the U.S. federal government can now be accurately defined by these terms, although they remain historically distinct and traditionally inapplicable. Oxford’s Dictionary of Politics defines the term “state” as, “[a] distinct set of political institutions whose specific concern is with the organization of domination, in the name of the common interest, within a delimited territory.” Merriam-Webster suggests “state” to be “a politically organized body of people,” whereas Dictionary.com defines the word as “status, rank, or position in life; a politically unified people occupying a definite territory.” The term “state capacity” is defined by Cambridge University as “the government’s ability to accomplish its intended policy goals,” whereas a “failed state,” is defined in Black’s Law as “[a] state that does not or cannot meet or maintain some of the basic social, economic, or political conditions and responsibilities of a sovereign government.” State capacity is intention; a failed state is what that capacity intends to avoid. State capacity has diminished in impoverished countries reveals the United Nations; in turn the organization is calling on its members to supply “conscious and intentional support” to achieve “sustainable development,” claiming that with more tax dollars from around the world, the UN can “[reverse] the erosion of State capacity,” claimed in a 2021 report.
Government
The Founding Fathers’ secured the posterity of the Constitution’s national dominion under the Supremacy Clause (U.S. Const. art. VI, cl. 2.), yet the modern U.S. national government has taken a direct initiative to depose its authority, conforming the people’s perception to fit this narrative. The modern national government has routinely abandoned proportional response since the Korean War, using U.S. servicemen and women to bolster their authority on the global stage. This is a direct violation of the Constitution's proscribed powers; whereby both Article I, Section 10; and Article II, Section II, (U.S. Const. art. I, § 10 cl.3, id. Art. II § 2); reject engagement of War, “unless actually invaded.” By the Constitution, Congress has the sole power to declare war, The United States has not formally declared war since World War II, instead utilizing the word “operation” to bypass Congress. Constitutional equivocation has fortified the U.S. national government, consensually siphoning civic sovereignty from the people by facilitating consistent crises, only to be solved through national and state intervention. America, by design, was declared through independence, instituted in charter; ratified through Constitution, we stand as a union clearly distinct from a “regime.” The Oxford Dictionary proclaims that there exists no difference in the meanings, stating that the word “regime” can be “[u]sed interchangeably with “government” to denote an organized system of rule (e.g., aristocracy, monarchy, democracy).” The correlation between Oxford’s definitions is reflective of the evident progressive structure of American government; a regime reimagining a nation that exalts government over higher power.
The American Revolution was initiated in reaction to feudalist rule and resulted in the first and longest-lasting Constitutional Republic in the history of the world; a nation bound by a 4,543-word document, the U.S. Constitution has inspired democracies across the world, as was the intention by our Founders. Just War theory is the evolution of the American Revolution, implementing human rights into the actions of the military. According to the U.S. Army, “Just War theory has shaped the way in which the United States fights its wars. Since public pressure, international opinion, and lawfare demand that wars be fought following the exacting precepts of jus in bello [international humanitarian law], the United States has taken significant steps to minimize its own casualties and to reduce the chance of collateral damage,” (Army, ICRC). Black’s Law Dictionary defines “jus in bello” as “[Latin ‘law in waging war’] (1916) The criteria for determining whether the conduct of an ongoing war is just.” Modern America has evidently deterred from invoking “jus in bello” when contemplating offensive military action on foreign adversaries; this is achieved by utilizing the maledictive word “Operation” to execute a ubiquitous international military presence.
Institutions
Christians equate the international advocation of democracies by example to the expansion to the assembly of God’s Kingdom; not to neo-Colonial imperialism, as seen by radical politicians, special interest groups, and nefarious grassroots organizations. Americans experience a wealth of liberties and progressive freedoms compared to other governments in the world. Black’s Law Dictionary defines the metaphor “slippery slope” as the collective concern that “allowing a small encroachment on [individual] liberty… will lead to greater encroachments in the future, perhaps because it will be too hard to draw principled distinctions between the smaller one made now and the larger one proposed later.” It is important to distinguish conservational diplomacy from coercive diplomacy. The word “Diplomacy” is defined as “The art and practice of conducting negotiations between national governments,” (Garner, B. p. 574). In May 2023, The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), neglecting their own concerning internal affairs, accused the United States of conducting “coercive diplomacy,” stating “the United States' coercive diplomacy has a notorious record. The United States has many means of coercive diplomacy. The United States' coercive diplomacy endangers the whole world…In the past half-century, the US has never stopped engaging in coercive diplomacy in spite of great changes in the international structure.” The Heritage Foundation’s Distinguished Fellow Jeane J. wrote on Foreign Policy in 1993 that, “[t]he ultimate test of the legitimacy of U.S. actions is not a temporary majority of the [UN] Security Council; it is the U.S. Constitution,” (Heritage).
America’s founding was influenced by Christian doctrine yet non-Christian Colonists also sought representation; having descendants from Christian lineage previous to arriving in early settlements in Jamestown, even non-Christian Colonists’ objective truth was rooted in Biblical worldview. British Common Law’s “methods of trial,” “the development of the modern petty jury,” and “the question of their guilt or innocence[‘s]” origin must date from before the introduction of Christianity, but the practice was so deep-rooted that the Church, in this as in other cases, felt bound to adopt it.”
Regime, State Capacity, and Failed Stated
The Oxford Dictionary of Politics defines the term “regime” as “[a] system of government or administration…any government may be termed a regime, be it monarchical, aristocratic, republican, or tyrannical.” Regimes aspire to depose God of His authority; without Supernatural supremacy and inherent rights, the secular pseudo-origin of civil rights rises to prominence in the public square. Historian Glenn R. Martin writes that “[i]ntellectuals in the post-Christian West, no longer holding to the Biblical view of man as prophet, are necessarily left in a world of epistemological relativity,” (Martin, G.R.). This epistemological relativity can be seen in the Biden Administration, which consolidated the U.S. federal budget with civic morale to fund the proxy war between Russia and Ukraine; funneling billions of dollars into neo-Nazi regimes within the Ukrainian government. Militant regimes like the U.S.-trained Azov Battalion are just one of many instances of contemporary establishments of power taking on the role of government, descending the sovereignty of its citizens into a centralized monarchy deemed “democracy.” These actions facilitate a failed state; encouraging national division, anarchy, and ultimate noncompliance. As seen in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the People’s Republic of China (Communist China), the terms “democracy” and “republic” have experienced transmutations in the past two centuries since the signing and ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemonium was another instance of the degradation of civic power that occurred over a three-year period of global social reformation, as the world government reshaped society into the best configuration that would fund each nation’s appropriation bills and annual federal defense budget. Moreover, major pharmaceutical companies have merged with governments across the world through centralized to perpetually extract revenue from the people. In America, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal administration and its were granted immunity to administer novel concoctions, resulting in the advancement of modern medicine and the full transcendence of mRNA in modern medicine.
Further, through mandating forced novel mRNA vaccinations, governments around the world divided citizens into isolated lockdowns, forced hospitalizations, and other crimes against humanity, violating the principles of “government” under a Constitutional Republic; or any other democracy for that matter. On December 23rd, 2022, the U.S. federal government passed H.R. 2617, rewarding bureaucrats responsible for usurping the Constitution’s Supremacy for global compliance; the 4,155-page omnibus bill granted The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) was awarded $3.5 Billion, $226 million above the previous fiscal year; Ukraine’s government received $45 billion; the Executive Branch gained $878 million in funding, $92 million more than the previous fiscal year, (Congress). These expenditures represent the lack of civic representation shown in recent decades of governance.
Analysis
Global institutions like the United Nations are meant to be establishments that represent the voices of its members; not those striving to establish global dominion, yielding national resources from its members. Nations who engage in this exchange are inherently submitting their own government’s authority to a centralized state of control. Globalization remains a deepened and sincere threat to our Constitutional Republic; federal deviation from U.S. national interests is a Constitutional violation under Article IV Section 4, whereby it guarantees, “to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” Acting in the interests of foreign governments to appropriate geopolitical prepotency on the global stage is seditious to the American public. Sedition is defined by Black’s Law Dictionary as “aimed at inciting or producing…imminent lawless action. At common law, sedition included defaming a member of the royal family or government.” Although the definition of sedition is used to describe civic dissidence, its presence can come from within the government, aimed against the people; many appellations have since been used to describe this form of nefarious bureaucratic behavior, namely the “deep state.”
Climate Change is another example of taxpayer manipulation; using legislation to compel constituents to fund foreign collusion, siphoning national sovereignty and civic power into a centralized global regime apart from the people. Global institutions like the World Health Organization (WHO) have established their own constitutions with the intention of superseding their Members. In 2022, the WHO met in the second-ever Health Assembly Special Session since its establishment in 1948; it is “Article 19 of the WHO Constitution [that] provides the World Health Assembly with the authority to adopt conventions or agreements on any matter within WHO’s competence.” The World Health Organization’s Constitution depicts mandatory financial requirements, (Article 7); hegemonic demands of its members to submit to its authority, (Article 2); and other concerning attributes that further smear public discernment between “government,” “regime,” and “institutions.” According to the 2024 Almanac of American Politics, “[a]n ABC News-Washington Post poll in early 2023 found that 58 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents preferred someone other than the incumbent as the party’s 2024 nominee.”
By contrast, Founding Father Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 26 that, “The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not wrought a deep and solemn conviction in the public mind, that greater energy of government is essential to the welfare and prosperity of the community.” The United States government was created to be a sanctuary from despotic government, prevent against tyranny, and above all recognize the God-given rights of the people. America’s Founders held very distinct differences between these terms, evident in their writings, proclamations, Declarations, charters, Constitutions, and revolutions; granting America its national sovereignty and generational sustainability.” The bottom line is that government is itself a gift from God. In Romans 13:1 (NASB) we are reminded by His Holy Spirit through Paul that, “[e]very person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God;” concluding, “love is the fulfillment of the law," (Romans 13:10b). The Founding Fathers’ separation of powers included recognition of distinct powers of good and evil. Government itself is not evil, nor authority, as these forces grant us humility, security, and power.
The most important “Why” Questions modern U.S. citizens must consider addressing are:
Why does NATO still exist; why do the United Nations and NATO have their own military?
Why has the focus of domestic interests around the world abruptly transitioned from National to Global?
Why is the U.S. military consistently embroiled in foreign civil wars; how has a universal U.S. military presence contributed to, or detracted from, our national security?
Why has the American federal budget increased each year, alongside increased annual funding to iniquitous bureaucracies; why has contemporary policy rejected the values of jus in bello?
Why instead has federal policy catalyzed government incentives for unemployment, suicides, homelessness, drug addictions, starving children, impoverished communities, domestic violence, anti-constitutional uprisings, unregulated ecotoxic chemicals, unmeasured electromagnetic field radio frequency (EMF-RF) radiation, degrading public infrastructure, and corporate destruction of small businesses run rampant?
Why has the national government rejected implementing a proportional response to U.S. Homeland Security; in the same respect, why has the conflict between Ukraine and Russia required hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars and weapons?
Why did the Biden Administration leave behind billions of dollars of U.S. military equipment and technology in Afghanistan for the Taliban?
Why is Saudi Arabia considering swapping petrodollars for petroyuan and other forms of currency?
The main concept that these questions imply is that through comparative analysis is culture; the politics between various nations are specific and relative to their location. Culture is defined in Merriam-Webster Dictionary as a “set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes and institution or organization.” America is a Constitutional Republic, whose interests need not concern the affairs of foreign governments and international regimes; the pursuit of global affairs plays a significant role in the homogenization of culture, and the destabilization of all sovereign nations.
Conclusion
In America, as the people have grown more divided; the distinctions between “government” and “regime” have been indiscernibly reduced. America resides in an age where many believe there no longer exists a need to defend our liberties from government, as democracy has already been achieved; instead, the target has been cast upon the people, to facilitate further encouragement for government intervention. It is up to the people to narrow their own social anomalies and contribute to the well-being of public good without federal mediation. The majority of modern Americans have lost interest in the magnitude of power and influence a Republican government represents, likening its existence to necessary evil. The United States of America is a nation that was founded in God’s image, and like Peter, remains the foundational rock that cannot be swayed (Matt. 16:18). Access to information remains imperative to better depict the structure of our government; separating the government from the maleficent forces at work to debase patriotism and inherent value from the constituent. It is often during America’s darkest hour that the omnipotent maleficent forces invoke degradative impositions on society; this acclimates citizens to conform to a political agenda in exchange for the removal of sanctions, ushering America deeper into a totalitarian state.
–August 24th, 2023
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