Reality with Bruce de Torres
57 Anton Chaitkin: WHO WE ARE, America's Fight for Universal Progress
Anton Chaitkin is a historian and investigative journalist whose new book is Volume II of WHO WE ARE: America's Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy. Volume II covers the 1830s to the 1890s, celebrating the people and policies that took us from no manufacturing and no transportation into being the most prosperous and advanced nation on earth.
We defied the rules of empire, which are the same rules imposed on the world today by the European Union, NATO, by the Anglo-American elite.
The world envisioned by our Founders, and by Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy, was one of sovereign nations filled with people exercising their God-given right to improve their conditions, to raise their standard of living, and who wanted the same for all people in every nation.
Which was the opposite of the empire, which seeks to dominate or exploit other nations.
The people ruling our country since the murder of John F. Kennedy have deindustrialized our country. They deindustrialized much of Western Europe. They stripped Germany, turning the people, the ruling strata, into fools, to take down their own industry. We went to China to get cheap labor and closed down our own industry. We are induced to be fools by the imperial clique called globalists.
We can and must learn who we were so we can be that again, a people dedicated to our own progress and wellbeing and to the progress and wellbeing of every nation on earth.
Anton also writes at AntonChaitkin.Substack.com about the fight between the pro-humans and the empire.
We recorded this on Saturday, April 19, 2025, the 250th anniversary of the battles at Lexington and Concord, the start of the American Revolution.
Our fight for self-government inspired the world; the idea that we had the right to sovereignty and to progress, to improve our condition, to raise our standard of living.
These ideas especially two monarchical empires, France and Spain, who helped us in our struggle against Britain. Russia under Empress Catherine the Great also helped us by creating the League of Armed Neutrality in 1780, to continue trade with us in the face of British menace.
Anton describes the battle between the patriots and the Tories during our Revolution. The Tories were loyal to the British Empire; they were Anglo-Saxon white people who didn’t want any colored people anywhere to get the idea that they had rights given to them by God. (Southern aristocrats, wealthy by way of slavery, epitomized the empire’s economics and predations. -Bruce)
Families in New England and Virginia became wealthy by trading in slaves, then, with the British, in the opium trade to China. These Tories became the “Establishment” in New England, and in New York they became Wall Street. They became the aggressive slave-owners who tried to break up the country in the Civil War.
From our founding to the end of the 19th Century, we developed a powerful scientific, agricultural, and technologically advanced industry. We became the world leader in the progress of our living standards and in our mastery of technology.
How did we do that? With a system of protectionism with high tariffs to protect and foster the growth of our new industries.
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