My State of the Union Assessment
Biden’s State of the Union (SOTU) address is a candidate for one of the worst speeches ever given by a US politician or government official - worst in terms of accuracy, tone and relevance.
The entire speech was a cringe-worthy mass of lies piled upon disinformation piled upon gaslighting propaganda, and filled with campaign rhetoric and shameless sales pitches for more of the same failed policies, sprinkled with the usual “Blame Trump!” mantras - with the entire mass smeared with genuine hate and fake outrage and a phony ‘leader’ persona.
And most relevant, Biden failed to give an accurate state of the union - which is supposed to be the purpose of this annual address.
Several individuals have analyzed Biden’s SOTU address, and given their own assessment. Some of my favorites include
Tucker Carlson video here
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. video here
Ron Paul article here
Daisy Luther article here
The remainder of this article presents what I consider to be the current condition and state of the United States. These are my personal observations, and as such I don’t feel the need to present ‘proof’ or ‘sources’ or ‘citations.’ What I see and observe is what I see and observe. I leave it to the readers to agree or disagree with any or all points.
How I See the State of America in 2024
I’m a US citizen. I love the US nation, its people and ‘the Spirit of America’ passionately.
The founding fathers of the United States had an ideal and vision of a nation and society free of tyrannies and oppressions, while ensuring fundamental rights and freedoms for citizens. The Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights spell out those purposes, intentions and vision very clearly.
The idea was to create a nation where good, honest, hard-working, freedom-loving people of all races, ethnicities and religions from all parts of the world could come for life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, the freedom to practice their religious beliefs, and the freedom to pursue their dreams - with all citizens bound, guided and protected by the Constitution, and with government limited and restricted by it. An ideal society for sure.
In such a way, people would be able to carve out lives for themselves and their families ON THEIR OWN - using their own dreams, goals, strengths, skills, work ethic, courage, determination, imagination, creative abilities, innovations, resourcefulness and intelligence - and free from government intrusions, interferences and oppressions.
Government as envisioned by the founders was intended only to safeguard the homeland as a safe and secure space for such people to live their lives - NOT to dictate every aspect of their lives, nor force people into cradle-to-grave, government-run systems, nor oppress them in any way.
The U.S. grew and developed into one of the greatest nations the world has ever seen, thanks to three factors:
Our Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence
Strength derived from the diversity of intelligent, hard-working, honest, freedom-loving people from all over the world - the best qualities of all races, ethnicities, religions and cultures coming together to form a free, productive, thriving nation, while sharing a constitutional and freedom-loving philosophy
A beautiful, lush, rich land bountiful with natural resources, raw materials and excellent soil.
Unfortunately, the United States has been declining for decades, descending down the path toward increasing totalitarianism and fascism. The U.S. is being dismantled as a constitutional republic right before our eyes.
The United States no longer operates according to the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The current anti-Constitution state of affairs is the end result of decades of gradual but steady violations of the Constitution, government corruption and treason, and trampling of Bill of Rights freedoms.
Want irrefutable proof? Read every Executive Order, act, law and funding bill from presidents and Congress over the past 30 years - and especially under the Biden and Obama regimes. Look at all the ‘causes’ pushed by the Democrat party. Then read the Constitution again as to how the U.S. government is SUPPOSED to be governed. NO RESEMBLANCE!
A Polarized and Divided Nation
The nation is fractured, divided and polarized, and this condition is accelerating nearly to the breaking point.
The U.S. is being transformed into a Bizarro world where honor, wisdom, spirituality, competence, integrity, responsibility and rationality are being replaced with insanity, corruption, hive-mind thinking, groupthink mentality, irrationality, illogic, dishonor and depravity.
Bill of Rights freedoms have been whittled down and trampled upon over the past few decades, to the point where these Rights barely exist today.
In particular, the 1st Amendment has been practically dismissed.
Religion in general has been under attack in the US for decades.
Freedom of the press? As Hermione said in one of the Harry Potter movies: Excuse me, I have to go vomit. The entire mainstream news media is owned (literally) and controlled by global corporations that dictate what can and cannot be published, while censoring anything that goes against ‘official’ narratives, while also falsely discrediting anyone who dares expose and oppose corruption, disinformation and criminal activity in governments and private sectors.
Americans no longer have the freedom to speak their minds. Government censorship and suppression of truth and opinions is rampant. Fascism is alive and well and growing like wildfire (see here and here).
Freedom of Speech is the most important freedom of all. Benjamin Franklin captures the importance of this freedom perfectly:
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.”
"Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates."
The U.S. - and most of the world for that matter - is run more by false narratives, disinformation and gaslighting than by rational, ethical, constitutional governance in the best interests of the nation and its citizens as envisioned and established by the founding fathers (see here, here and here).
Endless Wars
The US has become a warlike nation - sometimes in violation of the Constitution, occasionally in violation of rationality, always in violation of the best interests of U.S. citizens, and always in violation of maintaining peaceful international relations (by creating enormous hostility and hatred toward the U.S. from the majority of countries due to excessive strong-arm, world-policing, government-staged coups and sanction-happy tactics).
All of the above has been justified by politicians and government officials over and over for ‘national security considerations’ or ‘humanitarian purposes.’ All such justifications over the past 60 years or more have been false. They were used to cover corruption, criminality and anti-constitution activities and behavior of these governments.
Citing the most recent examples, US engagement in the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Palestinian wars is causing extreme harm to the nation on multiple levels. The state and condition of the union have been dragged down because of US involvement - dragged down economically, culturally, morally, militarily and internationally.
Biden began his SOTU address by pushing for more support and aid to Ukraine. According to the Biden regime - and majority of Congress - Putin is Hitler reincarnated, Russia is 1930s Germany, and the U.S. is doomed to destruction because Putin wants to take over all of Ukraine and then all of Europe. This is all gaslighting disinformation and misdirection.
The US should never have engaged in this conflict. The Ukraine government is and has been one of the most corrupt on the planet; the current US government is possibly THE most corrupt. The US government has wrongly engaged in this war for corrupt reasons that have nothing to do with ‘stopping Russian aggression’ or ‘protecting democracy in Ukraine (which doesn’t even exist)’ or ‘helping the Ukrainian people.’ These are all lies and propaganda. The entire Russia-Ukraine war narrative spun by politicians and the sycophant news media is pure gaslighting propaganda and BS.
Most Americans are unaware of the chain of events over the past 30+ years, and the US (and UK) role in instigating, escalating and prolonging this conflict.
Ukraine is not only losing this war, they WILL lose this war, and they are nearing extinction as an independent nation because of this war - and the U.S., UK, European Union and Russia are equally responsible.
Government Corruption
Government corruption in the U.S. is rampant and growing wider and deeper. The majority of the federal government has been subverted and corrupted by global oligarchs intent on controlling as much of the earth’s wealth, resources and populations as possible. The individuals who run the U.S. government don’t work for the American people; they works for their own financial and power gain, and for the agendas of their global oligarch paymasters.
Invasion
The U.S. is being invaded by illegals. ‘Government reports’ indicate there have been around 3M illegals entering the U.S. since Biden took office. The actual number is well over 15M. And the number of illegals is increasing monthly.
The same invasion is happening in the UK, Germany, France and other Western nations. These invasions of illegals were planned and are being orchestrated by global oligarchs, via UN Agenda 2030. Agenda 2030 has 17 global goals and one of those is euphemistically named ‘migration.’ The invasion of the U.S. by tens of millions of illegals is the result of this ‘migration’ agenda.
These invasions of illegals weaken and dilute nations, making it easier to transform them into global oligarch-controlled socialist/feudalistic/ states.
The entire US Democrat party is owned and operated by global oligarchs. The party is in bed with Agenda 2030 and migration - along with a few corrupt Republicans as well. That’s why the US border is wide open to tens of millions of illegals.
Oh, and a side benefit of this invasion is that Democrats get millions of illegal votes now and tens of millions of “legal” votes later - to keep them in power indefinitely.
Injustice
‘Justice’ in America is on a steep decline. The Department of Justice is anything but.
DOJ and FBI devote more attention and energy to targeting U.S. citizens who commit no crimes than they dedicate to real criminals. Parents who oppose woke, CRT and trans lunacies in schools are labeled ‘dangerous’ or even ‘potential domestic terrorists.’ Same for any citizen whose only crime is to expose and oppose government insanities, corruption or crimes.
Actual government corruption is allowed to run wild - with DOJ a part of that corruption.
Democrats and other Trump-haters have falsely exaggerated the J6 protest as an ‘insurrection’ or ‘coup attempt’ for the sole purpose of keeping Trump from being president again.
Dr. Ron Paul states it perfectly:
“The goal of the Jan 6 Committee is not to seek justice for the ‘crime’ of trespassing and putting feet on Pelosi’s sacred desk, but to make sure that Donald Trump is never allowed to run for President again.
“That is the reason hundreds have been unjustly arrested and held in terrible conditions for non-crimes.
“The purpose of the Committee has been to prop up the false narrative that somehow a few rowdy protesters who broke into the Capitol Building were the equivalent of the storming of the Bastille.” - Dr. Ron Paul
Here are some key facts surrounding J6:
J6 was a peaceful protest by hundreds of thousands of peaceful people - at least 500,000, most likely more.
ALL the trouble came from a few hundred ragtag troublemakers and rioters stirred up by dozens of government-planted agents provocateur.
The news media cherry picked a few videos that focused only on the few hundred rioters. They never show the dozens of other videos that show this was mostly a peaceful protest.
This wasn't an ‘insurrection’ or ‘attempt to overthrow’ the most powerful nation on earth. It was a mob. Infinitely worse was done at "peaceful" BLM/Antifa riots, yet very, very few of these domestic terrorists were charged.
Of all the people arrested and charged with J6 crimes, the majority actually committed NO real crimes, NO violence, NO destruction, NO rioting, NO "seditious conspiracies." These peaceful people were simply in or near the Capitol and walking around, causing NO trouble at all. Yet serious ‘crimes’ were manufactured against them to exaggerate J6. These non-violent ‘criminals’ are used for pure political purposes. Their Bill of Rights were totally trashed. This isn't supposed to happen in the U.S.
We are to believe that Trump employed a bunch of ragtag troublemakers with NO weapons, WITHOUT the military and with NO coordination with other government agencies as a ‘coup attempt’ against the most powerful nation on earth? Really? REALLY?!
You might loathe and despise Trump, but give him a little more credit for intelligence and planning than that.
Dozens of videos prove the above statements. One of the best and most comprehensive is here, showing the full timeline of events in never-before-seen footage.
J6 is being falsely inflated and used to divide the nation even worse than it already was.
The Economy
Among all the lies and gaslighting by Biden during his SOTU address, his economic propaganda was among the most egregious and misleading.
Biden and the US government paint a rosy picture of the economy, presenting all sorts of statistics about job creation and growth, lowered inflation, healthy indicators and so on. But all these reports are all works of fiction.
Biden’s economic state of the union is false. There are huge cracks in the US economic dam, cracks the government tries desperately to cover up to prevent panic.
The truth is this: The US economy is in fragile condition, and the forecast is truly scary. THIS SITUATION IS DUE ENTIRELY TO THE INCOMPETENCE, INSANITY AND CORRUPTION OF THE GOVERNMENT AND FEDERAL RESERVE. It’s a joint operation. This report gives the true facts and reality about the U.S. economy. It’s lengthy but packed with accurate, fully-cited and sourced information and numbers.
Education
“Let me speak to you about dumbness, because that is what schools teach best.” - John Taylor Gatto, award-winning teacher
Mr. Gatto sums up perfectly and succinctly the state of U.S. education.
There was a time many decades ago that the US public education system was one of the very finest in the world. At some point, education in America began to be eroded, and quality and standards of education began plummeting. Public education in America started ‘dumbing down’ people.
What happened? Why is public education in the US sinking fast? The answers are here and here.
Conclusion
I’ve painted a depressing picture of the state of America. However, the U.S. is still one of the greatest nations on earth. Our people are still Americans. Our rich, bountiful land still exists. Our potential is unlimited.
We can reverse course by (1) rooting out corruption in government, (2) cleaning up elections and implementing foolproof elections systems and processes, (3) working to enlighten more and more citizens to the existing state of our nation so they pay more attention to what our government is doing, (4) get term limits instituted somehow, some way (a seemingly impossible challenge, but one we must overcome), (5) elect more constitutional, rational people of integrity in government offices and positions, and (6) reverse the course of the U.S. back onto its constitutional and Bill of Rights track.
I end this article with a statement of hope and optimism from the president I consider the best in my lifetime, Ronald Reagan, His words apply just as much today as they did almost 40 years ago: