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Perrin Lovett

A Country Called "America"

11/12/2022

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Over the weekend, I had the misfortune of speaking with a boomercon, civnat critter. It recited to me, like a parrot after cheap crackers, that we must “trust science.” No, wait, it was, “democrats are the real racists.” No, hang on, the platitudes all look alike… It told me, with grave sincerity, that this election (yesterday’s) was the most important political exercise in the recorded history of mankind. For my part, I muttered something about pillows as I quickly departed.

But, y’all done had that most importantest of all elections, right? I’m sure everything is fixed now. No?

​Okay, back in reality, we have entered into an epoch of massive and harsh change. Things are moving right on along, and there is no stopping what is in progress. 
Martin Armstrong sees, based on detailed modeling, where it’s all going.
“The United States will not exist after 2032. After 2028 and 2029, we are going to have to redesign a government from scratch. America is being destroyed,” he explicitly warned [Greg Hunter].
He said that before the precious election. There’s no doubt he’ll retract now that we have a shiny, new cabal of freaks, warmongers, liars, retards, and other Republicants saving the day. Or not. I’ve written about this over the past few years. Vox Day called it back in 2004: “America is dead. Let us go, then, and find her.”

Let us go, then! This is overdue, but at least I’m doing it – I hereby offer the broad-stroke beginnings of a new government for a new America. Keep in mind that this is a hypothetical sketch. Some of it, of course, is bound to change. Should one have other ideas, then now is the time to start presenting and discussing them.

The (New) American Federation

Our new polity occupies the territory currently known as Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. I might as well rope in northerly portions of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, and give the West Virginians a second chance. The Federation is an area of roughly 230,000 square miles with a potential population of about 35-40 million people. It goes without saying that certain current areas can and should separate from the new state (Memphis, Virginian metro DC, etc.). There probably will be a necessary population exchange wherein Americans from other areas enter New America while assorted not-Americans depart for other new states. My model kindly assumes that the breaking of the US and the rebuilding will be peaceful. It won’t be, but I’m just planting pleasant ideas. We’ll say that the new American Federation hosts 30 million Americans in 225,000 square miles. I drew up a crude map but decided it was unnecessary. Very crude. Third-grade art class-looking.

The Federation is just that, a loose association of several sovereign nation-states, joined together, voluntarily and at will under something akin to the old US Articles of Confederation of 1777. The primary purpose of the superstate is the mutual defense of the member nations. And little else. I advise we not get too caught up in the details at this point, as almost all powers and functions of government are retained by the member nations, which I will quaintly dub “Republics.” And since I’m the one organizing this thing, with the tacit approval of Machiavelli, I will insist on member-state base structures modeled on the Venetian Republic.

That means, say in the new Republic of South Carolina, a twin legislature composed of an elected (or lottery-drawn) Senate, balanced by a heretical Council. There is no Concio because to quote Yoda, “suffering too much democracy leads to.” And no courts, beyond Romanesque magistrates to efficiently adjudicate trivial civil matters and misdemeanor crimes. All major matters and felonies, along with any appeals of magisterial decisions, are decided by the Senate, the Council, or the King. Yes, there is a monarch – appointed and overseen by the Council. Should any of this sound alien, then look up the original. Note its longevity and prosperity.
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I sense this exploratory foray could easily drift esoteric, so I will add a few notes and then sum up core principles related to law and society, attempting to properly conform them to the vaunted order of identity over culture over politics.
  • By “Americans”, I mean Americans as defined by the founding documents and early laws of the former US, the common understanding of the late 18th century, and the dictionary definition, circa 1828. Christianity shall be the explicit, sole, official religion of the new American nation(s). There’s plenty of time to address minority populations and exact parameters. Et cetera, and so forth. I envision a 95%+ homogeneous demographic because I’d like the thing to work. One lingering benefit of the dying US is its vast size, providing plenty of room for all manner of alliance, diversity, and/or exclusivity. Should one find my invention distasteful, rest assured there will likely be other options.
  • Any and all forms of satanism shall be absolutely prohibited and shall be capital felonies.
  • Money shall be real money, actually based on something of intrinsic value. All forms of fake, nonexistent, and debt-based currency shall be absolutely prohibited. Dealing in anything other than real, legal money shall be a felony. Dealing in any form or amount of usury shall be a capital felony. 
  • Infanticide, serious degeneracy, and other malidies of the kind that wrecked the former America shall be capital felonies. (I really want our little baby to last).
  • There shall simply be nothing like the old Nineteenth Amendment. Nor shall there be anything like the 16th, 17th, Federal Reserve Act, Dick Act, or the Celler-ite Curse of ‘65. Ever.
This could go on and on. It will, in time, and it will encompass the militia, education, lots of happy children, puppies, sunsets, and much more. For now, here are the draft principles of the new nation(s), a list that may someday become known as Perrin Lovett Thought. Extra credit if one can correctly guess who I stole the notions from.
  1. To ensure classical, Christian, Western leadership over all forms of public work and life in America.
  2. The leadership of America shall take a citizen-centric approach for the public interest of the American people and to honor God the Father of Jesus Christ.
  3. The leadership shall continue to stamp out all vestiges of former corruption and wickedness.
  4. God’s science and logic shall provide the basis for innovation, development, and a happy, clean environment.
  5. Societal Christian governance with American characteristics: the American people are the ultimate masters of the country and the servants of God.
  6. America shall be governed by the rule of law.
  7. Exercise core Western values, Christianity, Greco-Roman legality, and European tradition, with American characteristics.
  8. Improving Americans’ livelihood, well-being, and hardihood is the primary goal of development, innovation, and order.
  9. America shall coexist well with God’s natural creation and contribute to ecological harmony – pack it in, pack it out.
  10. The national security of America: the leadership and the people shall keep America great (again) by keeping America American.
  11. The Senate, the Council, and King, acting on behalf of the American people, shall have absolute command over America’s military, security, intelligence, and police forces.
  12. America shall promote the peaceable reformation of all American-esque areas of the former United States while fostering placid development with and among all other peoples in or of the former United States.
  13. Leadership shall promote a common, unentangled destiny between the American people and other peoples among the sovereign nations of the world via peaceful international relations.
  14. Americans shall all strive to better themselves, safeguard their nation, and honor their God.​
Yeah … needs work. There is a lot more to discuss, iron out, and prepare for. 2028 will be here sooner than most would like. Time is running a little short, but we still have time. Onwards!
This piece was originally published on Perrin Lovett's website on November 9, 2022.
12 Comments
Cooter Brown
11/13/2022 10:09:41 am

Man! Dis heer boy sho'nuff is pretty dern smart! Yall bring'im back sumtime, ye heer?
-Cooter

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Buzz Poteet
11/14/2022 07:25:36 pm

Mr Lovett uses high end satire to convey the truth. Our country is in trouble and there is no where to go!
Keep praying!

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Perrin Lovett
11/15/2022 04:48:30 pm

Buzz! Thanks, brother. And we do have somewhere to go - through and over. To paraphrase Chesty Puller, the enemy has us surrounded; they can't get away from us now.

"Cooter:" Yessiree, boy howdy. 'N muh nexxun, Ima lay sum muh ejumakashun on y'all! Also, Buzz is the man who crafted those remarkable little magnifying cards for those of us on hard approach to the AARP wall.

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Walt Garlington
11/15/2022 03:29:53 pm

Glad to have another monarchist in the bunch! Did you mean 'hereditary Council' instead of 'heretical' though?

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Perrin Lovett
11/15/2022 05:10:46 pm

Walt, thank you very much and I am glad to be here! And, yes, very good call: it is or should be "hereditary." While I'm tempted to blame Grammarly, I suspect the fault is all mine. On a fast proofread, I sometimes see what I meant to type rather than what's there, especially if what's there is an otherwise a valid word. However, if anyone else asks, we'll just say this is evidence of a "conspiracy theory" - I heard that phrase somewhere - against New America.

PS: I read some of what you wrote about good Mr. Orban, the late, lovely Darya Dugin(a), and the central pillar of Western Civilization, faith in Jesus Christ. Right on, brother!

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Walt Garlington
11/15/2022 11:23:55 pm

A techno-conspiracy it is, then!

Thank you for the favorable review of some of my scribblings.

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Kenneth Robbins
11/16/2022 05:13:58 am

I'm confused, what was your purpose with this essay? Are you making fun of yourself, or everyone else?

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Perrin Lovett
11/16/2022 06:55:11 pm

Kenneth, hello and thanks for the questions. Given the state of decay and the independent calls to plan something new, my purpose was to offer a starter proposal for "a government from scratch." I picked a classic because of it's relative cohesiveness, prosperity, and lasting 1,000 years. Apologies for any confusion. And no, and no. I sometimes use satire, more like having fun to soften somewhat harder subjects. Next time though, I may make a little fun of myself. Cheers.

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Robert M. Peters
11/16/2022 06:10:13 pm

I do appreciate the "call to attention" in this article. It is absolutely necessary! I do appreciate the wit and humor, even the parody and sarcasm is this piece. I suggest that we consider, however, that for the polity which you envision to emerge, the roots of virtue must already be in the hearts of a critical mass of people, not necessarily, however, a majority but a vibrant minority What we call "Christendom" which was not just "Western" but which stretched across North Africa, through the Levant to Persia, ultimately even to Kiev and Moscow, did not come into being by the Command of Constantine the Great but came into being when Constantine, whether converted or cynically embracing Christianity, allowed the Christian faith into the public sphere, not only to exist relatively free of persecution but to participate in that sphere. The underlying metaphysical template even in pagan Rome and, in fact, among all pagan peoples was that they lived in a created order and that there was Something pushing through than created order demanding a response, usually a blood sacrifice, whether a virgin to the volcano in the East Indies, a captive to the knife among the Aztecs, a child into the flames for Moloch, a goat to the altar of Apollo, a horse or captive to Wotan, or an ox to Jehovah in the temple. When Diocletian was told by the Oracle of Antioch that the god's were silent, he was gravely concerned because even this old pagan Roman emperor knew that without the gods there could be no social order or common weal by which to live, thrive and govern. Marx, if you read him closely, hated precisely that pre-modern order: the template of created order, a god, a necessary response. In the "Western" context, he understood capitalism to be the initial leveling force to begin destroying the pre-modern order. He saw what had happened in the Italian city states and in the Netherlands as positive. Liberalism has joined capitalism as a destructive force. Capitalism and liberalism are in fact twin weapons: both are leveling forces against hierarchy (holy order) and virtue (Classical, Capital, Christian). Liberalism tells us that we are all equal, i.e. the same. It undermines all notions of hierarchy: God, family, church, associations and community. That is why radical Marxists today champion and work through corporations and liberal institutions. The Marxists have used them and continue to use them, holding out the false idol of a mass of Promethean selves who can shake their fists at all gods when, in fact, those would be Promethean selves turn our to be estranged, shriveled and alienated selves, a writhing heap of Grendels, bereft of all fellowship. Only then can these soulless selves enter the counterfeit Marxist hierarchy in which there is no subsidiarity. (Subsidiarity is at the heart of a real hierarchy). In the Collective West, which includes Europe, the UK, Canada, the U.S., New Zealand, and Australia, the great masses of people are Grendels, ready to be subsumed into the Marxist borg. The short of it is that documents (constitutions, declarations, pledges, etc.) and law must be a product of a social order organized on the pre-modern template with the Cardinal, Capital, Christian virtues. Such cannot be imposed from the top down. If I remember my Calhoun, and Clyde can correct me if I am wrong. Calhoun said that God produces societies, but men produce government. If that is correct, then I disagree with Calhoun; for there he seems to fall into the Enlightenment trap that men can produce with their logic and reason a polity first put forth on paper rather than a polity which springs forth from the heart. Thanks for the wonderful prompt for this rant!!!

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Perrin Lovett
11/16/2022 07:31:57 pm

Robert!

Thank you for the wonderful rant! You've been wanting to spill that and many eyes need to see it. Bravo! Moloch, Prometheus, the Aztecs, and the Enlightenment (you are most correct) "trap." A lot to process in one comment. You even added poor (I somewhat like John Gardner's sympathetic take) Grendel.

Your correct delineation of Christendom outside the traditional West reminded me of a conversation I had with someone recently about the Patristic view of humanity. We were right there, Western to Eastern, but just couldn't quite reach all the way across - opting to wave in friendship instead. And, while I didn't entirely agree with him, or say, with Schlomo Sand on the omni v. pan versions of "nationalism," Christian or otherwise, the perspective is always good to consider. Much of what we each say is semantic, or so it sounds to our fellows. The talking helps.

I will leave it between you and Clyde as to Calhoun's exact expressions, but I generally tend to agree with the leaning of your recollection. Everything originated in God, to include law, governments, nations (by all definitions), and philosophy (even the Greek and Roman pagans conceded that point, not even knowing God; a point further echoed somewhat indirectly by even medieval Islamic and Jewish (wanna say "Karait") scholars in the assorted Kalam). Yes, pillars, forms, dressings, and words aside, without a people of heart, righteousness, and conscious, we're no better than Babel, Carthage, or the Aztec-Mexica.

Marx too! So many tools for breaking otherwise good people. To para-quote Paul Harvey from a Christmas gone by: "Capitalism without Christianity is no better than communism."

Brother, this is what I was hoping to kick off! Now, this "wit" you mentioned????

Keep 'em coming.

PL

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Robert M. Peters
11/16/2022 07:44:50 pm

Old Morpheus calls. His sandman follows on. To bed I must among the feathers until Aurora breaks upon the retreating night! Bonne nuit de Louisiane!

Kennetrh Robbins
11/17/2022 09:59:57 am

Perrin ole. boy, I stand amazed. I did not think it possible to read this much Bullshit from one fellow.

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