America's Most Seminal Years

By Rich Kozlovich 

First, many of the years before the 20th century were pivotal for the nation, especially the Civil War period and right after, because they were the foundational formative years creating a brand new nation that was unmistakably a grand republican experiment, with all the warts that go along with that.  Not a democracy, a republic.  Nothing like it ever occurred in human history before or since.  Not the Roman Republic, nor Greek Democracy, nor any other government.  American government was created from the bottom up, by the people, and for the people, so, rightly or wrongly, I'm bypassing those years and sticking to everything after the 19th century. 

If you ask people what year in American history was the most seminal in the 20th century you'll probably get a blank stare, and if they're college students there's no telling what kind of insanity they'll offer.  But some will choose dates that are meaningful, and most will get it wrong.  The correct answer is 1913!  Why?

In 1913 the federal government passed the 16th Amendment, income tax, the 17th Amendment, changing how Senators were chosen, and they created the FED.  Those actions are foundational to all the crises we're facing right now.   

The 16th Amendment created a system of legal extortion, and abuse by a thuggish out of control IRS, both of which grew massively over the years, and negatively impacting the nation's economy, and the 17th Amendment changed how senators were chosen.  Senators were supposed to be de facto ambassadors from the states to the central government representing the interests of their states, not the people, that was the job of the House of Representatives, which is why all tax bills must originate in the House.  The founders wanted Senators to be chosen by the state's governments to keep the central government from getting out of control, and we now see the consequences of both those Amendments.  

Both need repealed, and neither will be.  That leaves the FED which was created in 1913, and turned over to an unelected body control of the nation's economy.  Alexander W. Salter in his article, Why Fed Reform Could Be the Biggest Sleeper Issue of 2024 states:

The Fed’s institutional flaws and failures trashed its credibility. It’s time to rein in the central bank.

Quoting Joseph Sternberg he states:

“The next president will inherit a Federal Reserve staffed by economists — and their intellectual helpmates in academia — who still don’t fully understand what has happened over the past few years, let alone over the past few decades”...........

Salter goes on to say:

The Fed is a flawed institution at best, and a failed institution at worst. Sternberg suggests several reforms. While potentially helpful, none go far enough...........Sternberg laments Fed decision-makers’ “groupthink,” explained in part by the concentration of authority in the “Washington-based Board of Governors in thrall to the central bank’s research department.” The “Fed’s independence from the rest of the government” amplifies its irresponsibility. .... It “means politicians and voters can’t enforce accountability.” In other words, it’s a judge in its own cause. That’s unacceptable for anyone who cares about the rule of law.

Just like the IRS, out of control, and powers unto themselves.   

He then goes on to make suggestions for reform.  How about abolishment?  Also I don't agree with him on this issue of tariffs, and while tariffs can impact prices, they can also impact how governments act, like China.  And that's a part of the package all these economist refuse to understand.  One more thing.  If tariffs are so bad, then why do all these nations who decry American tariffs have them?  I'll tell you what, we'll come back to that.

Then came 1916, and Woodrow Wilson, America's first fascist President, was re-elected, a President who, just like Teddy Roosevelt, believed the Constitution was and impediment to human progress and became America's first fascist President "revolutionizing the way the federal government works creating the foundation for the modern administrative state."  We'll come back to that also. 

The next seminal year was 1928.  

Calvin Coolidge became President after Harding died.  He finished Harding's term and ran for his own in 1924.  Coolidge hated being President and refused to run in 1928 for his second term, and Hoover, who Coolidge thought was an idiot, was elected and whose failures led to FDR, the , and a massive expansion of Wilson's administrative state FDR called the New Deal, which wasn't new, nor was it a deal. 

Then Kennedy was elected via voter fraud in 1960, a failure as President, but who's assassination led to Johnson's Great Society programs which has been massively expensive and arguably a failure, all of which expanded government all the more.   This led to the 1968 election of Richard Nixon, who was one of the worst presidents to ever sit behind the Resolute Desk, with his passage of the The National Environmental Policy Act, the creation of the EPA, and a host of other abusive and economically suicidal regulations, but worst of all, was his opening China up to world trade, saving China from Mao's disastrous economy.  As a result China has thrived economically, and western civilization is now funding it's own demise. 

Everything else since then has been nothing more than variations of those themes, including Obama's election, until 2016 when Trump was elected, and he set things into motion that's rattled the entire political culture in America.  I'm not deliberately ignoring Reagan, but he was still facing a loyal opposition, Trump was, and is, facing a disloyal opposition called the Party of Treason, and 2024 may become the most seminal year of all in American history, and may be the end of America as we know it.