By Mathew Carr and friends*

July 3, 2026 — one day to go — London, UK: The USA founding fathers will not only be turning in their graves….but trying to drop down from heaven (?) to save the world from the perversion that America has become.

*ChatGPT+CarrZee: About 250 years ago, the American Founding Fathers were trying to create a new kind of nation based on the principle that governments derive their legitimacy from the consent of the governed, rather than from hereditary monarchy.

Now in 2026, the governed around the world are on the back foot, trying to respond to the treacherous behavior of the leaders they voted for in good faith (where votes were credible).

Don’t get me wrong. I’m an Aussie and we Australians famously love America, or at least, we used to. I’m now heartbroken by what’s happened.

Many back at the beginning of America’s USA project believed that the British government had violated the rights of the American colonies through taxation without representation, restrictions on self-government, and other policies they viewed as arbitrary and limiting of freedom.

Their immediate goal was independence, but their broader ambition was to establish a durable system of self-government.

They failed (at least substantially failed)

The Founders were heavily influenced by Enlightenment thinkers such as John Locke, Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

They argued that all people possess certain inherent rights—often described as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—and that governments exist to protect those rights.

These ideas were expressed most famously in the United States Declaration of Independence, principally drafted by Thomas Jefferson.

Having won independence, the challenge became designing a government that was powerful enough to function but restrained enough to prevent tyranny.

The tyranny that we all now feel in 2026, is the central failure of American leadership.

Tyranny is the victorious. The Iran war, so called, is a case in point and really a type of terrorist violence (a market and financial violence; not only physical and deadly) deployed by the USA and its Middle East proxy Israel.

Almost 8 billion people are now suffering inhumane inflation that is eroding any wealth they had …and their mental health.

Let me be clear. This awful situation all of us in the world now face, is not the fault of the USA people, it is the fault of the deceptive and greedy people in charge. Think Congress and so-called corporate leaders.

The result of what the American founders wanted 250 years ago was the United States Constitution, which established a federal system dividing powers between the national government and the states.

It also created three separate branches—legislative, executive, and judicial—with checks and balances intended to ensure that no single person (Are you reading this Mr Trump?) or institution (Mr Warsh?) could dominate the others.

The press was meant to be a fourth branch of power, but like the other three, it’s now captured by the corporate interests.

The Founders did not all agree on every issue. Figures such as Alexander Hamilton favoured a stronger central government, while others, including Thomas Jefferson, placed greater emphasis on states’ rights and limited federal power.

They also compromised on deeply contentious issues, most notably slavery.

While some hoped slavery would eventually disappear, others defended it, and the Constitution left it largely intact—a contradiction between the nation’s ideals and its practices that would eventually contribute to the American Civil War.

We all, now in 2026, feel that slavery

It’s linked to surveillance, inflation, injustice and fast-growing debt, where central banks and the badly regulated investment and commercial banks … have captured and eroded our humanity.

Artificial Intelligence is finishing the job in 2026 … largely due to America’s obsession with fake freedom over good governance and wise regulation.

In summary, the Founding Fathers were trying to build a republic founded on representative government, individual liberty, the rule of law, and constitutional limits on political power.

Donald Trump’s greed and ego has showed the past decade or so that they failed.

Global temperatures are now at their highest in 125,000 years as the very basis of human existence is at risk … and as Trump declines to admit that he’s wrong about “woke is broke”.

The heatwaves, insurance and food prices clearly show that anti-woke is the thing that’s broke. That’s all of us, pretty much. Broke … unless you are the 0.1%. (That is still 8 million people.)

The founding father’s vision — which would have solved climate change by now — was neither a pure democracy nor an unchecked government, but a constitutional republic in which competing institutions and astute corporate regulation would balance one another while protecting citizens’ rights.

Trump has shamefully destroyed that balance.

Although many aspects of their original system have since been amended and expanded … and some of that system has helped bring billions of people around the world into a kind-of-almost-comfortable middle class (to be fair)… the principles the founders established have failed in 2026 to adequately shape political debate in the United States today…and beyond.

Because of that (failure largely of the corporate leaders, government, regulators and the press), the world’s people are suffering. Big time.

The 0.1%.? They are surprised they are being allowed to get away with it.

Notes

ChatGPT + CarrZee:

The central argument of 2020’s Humankind is that Thomas Hobbes was largely wrong about human nature and that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was closer to the truth.

Hobbes argued that, without a strong state to control us, life would descend into a “war of all against all” because people are fundamentally selfish, fearful, and violent.

Scientifically…this is bullshit, as the book clearly exposes.

Rousseau took the opposite view: humans are naturally cooperative and compassionate, and it is many social institutions—not our basic nature—that often corrupt us.

Rutger Bregman reviews evidence from archaeology, psychology, anthropology, and history to argue that humans survived and flourished primarily because we are unusually good at trusting, cooperating, and helping one another.

In short, Hobbes (1588–1679) was an English philosopher who believed civilisation restrains our worst instincts, while Rousseau (1712–1778) was a Genevan philosopher who believed so-called civilisation often suppresses our better instincts.

Bregman’s book does not claim people are always good; rather, it argues that our default tendency is far more prosocial than Hobbes assumed.

By challenging the “humans are naturally selfish” view, Humankind reframes much of history as a story of cooperation rather than constant conflict.

The cooperation, an expanded version of it, is the reality that we all want

Yes… That’s what we all want…peace, justice and some semblance of equality.

The brutality deployed by Trump’s America, 250 years later, is a completely deceptive fantasy designed to extract your sovereign wealth in the interests of the 0.1%.

Don’t give consent to it.

We all don’t want it…except maybe for a few (8 million?) arseholes.