From Spoiled Sons of Liberty to Surveillance Leviathan: America’s Six Republics and the Myth of Eternal Union
Most Americans, unfortunately, believe that we are still living in the constitutional republic created in 1787. That was five republics ago.
Source: Mises Institute
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DW NOTE
The Mises Institute marks six supposed republics since 1787 and presents this as revelatory historiography. Meanwhile the actual republic — the one with the printing press, the surveillance apparatus, and the $1.9 trillion deficit — continues to function exactly as designed: extracting value from savers to fund wars they never voted for and debts they can never repay.