One great opportunity missed by America was when our country traded its true manifest destiny as an empire of freedom for a shallow interpretation that basically amounted to colonialism and land expansion. It may, or may not, be true that it was inevitable and perhaps a subordinate part of our destiny to span the breadth of this continent, but land acquisition was not the core of our manifest destiny.
Thomas Jefferson referred to this as an empire of liberty, we use the phrase empire of freedom because freedom, while it includes liberty, also includes virtue as its guide and independence through mutual and individual self-reliance as its primary means. Liberty is its aim.
When America began as a country, in 1776, it was poised to fulfill a destiny in history, ordained by God, to replace the even then declining Western Civilization with a new civilization founded upon four core ideals. These ideals, our spiritual constitution, were a Judeo-Christian interpretation and balanced application of Unity in diversity, Popular sovereignty, Democratic equality, and Rule of law.
It is sadly true that the way some have twisted and redefined these ideals to justify various versions of socialism or other authoritarian ideas may confuse their meaning today. But if, for instance, one reads Democratic equality as an appeal to wealth redistribution or a majority-rule dictatorship, then the true meaning of this ideal has been lost on them.
When these ideals are interpreted in a more sublime manner, based on a Judeo-Christian worldview and Scriptural foundation, and when they are held in balance with each other to define how we relate, associate, and practice governance with other people, they are powerful proof against all forms of authoritarianism. They are the spiritual constitution of an empire of freedom, an empire of decentralized power and wealth, an empire of diverse constituent entities like small republics and multiple nationalities.
In 1776 America had a long way to go to fulfill its manifest destiny. It still had embedded assumptions that contradicted these ideals, including slavery and other intolerant hierarchical status structures based on class, gender, or nationality. The treatment of some groups of people people by our government, like the infamous “Trail of Tears” and other atrocities, was inexcusable and totally at war with what God intended for our country.
It was however the arc of our history, bending ever toward our manifest destiny and founded on these core ideals, that made America good and that drew people from all over the world to come here and become Americans. The heart and soul of our country was always better than the behavior of our state governments and federal government.
Those who lack spiritual discernment may conflate the spiritual heart and soul of the America as an empire of freedom which God has ordained with the baneful acts of governments in this land who have all too often betrayed that manifest destiny.
America was, and we aim to revive this dream, a country destined as an empire of freedom to become the cradle of a new civilization founded upon the very same ideals of its spiritual constitution, the four core ideals as understood from a Judeo-Christian perspective.
It is from the initials for these core ideals, UPDR, that we derive the core ideology and philosophy that is the true heart of this country and the new civilization: UPaDaRianism, pronounced You-pah-daria-nism.
We can say that America was meant to become a UPDR, or Upadarian, Commonwealth of diverse republics and national peoples all within a Union founded upon these core ideals. When the concept of an empire of freedom is truly applied to every human being in this land and when everyone who carries the weight and responsibility of citizenship embraces this manifest destiny as the true litmus test for every policy and every leader, this land will be blessed like never before.
This concept of a Upadarian Commonwealth in which every citizen has the same level and quality of liberty within a freedom predicated on virtue, liberty, and independence, is the true ideology of a new civilization which this land was meant to give birth to.
Something happened on the way to a Upadarian Commonwealth. America’s heart and soul were turned away from the path of fulfillment and seduced by alien spirits into a more dangerous and increasingly authoritarian path. America became and today remains a federal state without a living soul, an animatronic absurdity recolonized by Western Civilization and turned into its plunder.
Today, America’s military and economic might are largely exploited for globalist power holders and powerful exploiters without a moral foundation. Americans die on foreign shores to advance interests that are hostile to their own and that are at war against our manifest destiny. The gods of mammon, molech, and bacchus rule the land with ruthless ambition.
The petty battle between right and left over pittances and scraps occurs even as the globalist ruling class, whose only country is their portfolio or the corporations they control, steal the treasure and turn our population into serfs. The “great reset” is simply a new feudalism!
Of the two major parties today, only the Republicans still include a substantial base of people who are more or less sympathetic to the spirit of America’s true manifest destiny and its underlying philosophy, even if they don’t use or know its name, Upadarianism.
But the modern, and globalist, robber baron class have their hooks in both parties. They almost, but not perfectly, control the entire political show. They know whoever “wins”, most of the time, we lose and the robbers win.
Regardless of his flaws, which we have never shied from exposing and confronting, Donald Trump was not then and is not now part of the robber baron class. He is most definitely not accepted in their ranks! If there is any explanation why most of his supporters still back him, despite what we see as serious characterological flaws, it is an instinctive realization that a Trump win is a robber baron loss. Merely giving these louts a loss is enough for some people.
What is better, a rude and crass, arrogant egomaniac who makes poor personnel choices but who seems to care, or a polite puppet of the robber baron class?
Thus we have the only “general” who is willing to fight hard and take risks in the person of a loudmouth bore with no manners and a massive ego versus every other choice, mere politicians who have lost their fighting spirit and who grovel before the robber barons.
The terrible state of America and a measure of how far we are from our true manifest destiny, which we are moving away from more every day, is this stunning reality. That we can only field one general of such distemper who is even willing to try to fight is an indictment against us.
Back him we must, so it goes, and credit to him for trying, but we need more than this!
The solution cannot be conveyed in a single article. It begins, however, as and when more and more Americans of every national people group, race, class, and within every community, rich and poor alike, begin to understand and adopt both our manifest destiny and the philosophy of our empire of freedom as their litmus test for every policy and leader.
In 1982 I began to experience a series or experiences which spanned decades, but which in 1982 compelled me to write about a “secret history” of the rise of a new civilization by 2147 AD. In this history I envisioned a reality that more closely resembles today than the reality of this hour resembles the reality in 1982.
The sad and tragic aspect of these experiences, call them what you like, was that it showed an America that had for the most part lost its birthright and surrendered its manifest destiny once and for all. The new civilization and an empire of freedom did happen, but only part of our country partook in this or played a role. In other words, God’s intention for a new civilization to arise based in these core ideals, was not prevented, it’s just that our country mostly missed being the prime mover in that fulfillment.
Basically, the gist of this overall vision, derived from both these experiences and decades of study and personal experiences, is that the new civilization and an empire of freedom of some sort do not depend on whether America fulfills its manifest destiny. God’s plans are not limited by man’s choices.
The window of time in which America can return to her path of destiny and embrace her spiritual constitution for an empire of freedom, wherein freedom is a balance of virtue, liberty, and independence, is closing. It may close within a few decades or even a few years, depending on the choices our people make and the kinds of leaders and policies they vote for.
But the new civilization and some version of an empire of freedom will indeed occur, even if outside these shores, and a new spiritual nation will emerge whose heart and soul are explicitly inspired by this vision and whose very makeup is diverse people drawn from every land and nationality around the world.
Our intention and desire is to save America from losing its birthright as the harbinger of a new civilization and as the core of a globally-distributed distributed empire of freedom. Whether or not this exact term is used, America will become, we hope, a decentralized Upadarian Commonwealth of hundreds of diverse sovereign republics within member states and diverse national peoples within domestic nations organized like tribes.
From our spiritual foundations and present-day capabilities to emerging trends in decentralized and empowering technologies, the America of the future can become far more righteousness, just, fair, free, and glorious than anything we have ever achieved. America can become a Upadarian Commonwealth as a decentralized empire of freedom and as the cradle of a new civilization.
The first step begins within you. When you understand and embrace our spiritual constitution and when you embrace and adopt our true manifest destiny, something will begin to change. When more people do this and as they connect and collaborate in alternative arrangements outside the control of this top-down, centralized empire of authoritarianism and its robber baron ruling class, then the momentum will turn around over time.
It is not a sprint. It is a series of marathons, some consecutive and some simultaneous, that will get us out of the danger zone and move us toward our destiny. It begins within you and us and creates new connections and associations which result in alternative structures and institutions outside the purview of the robber baron class.
The choice for us is to embrace and pursue America’s true manifest destiny within our hearts, lives, relationships, and associations or to watch the dream die and watch our country become an authoritarian hellscape ruled by and for a ruthless robber baron ruling class. If we choose wrong, you can be sure God’s plans for a new civilization and an empire of freedom will not change and we, as a country, will simply be left behind.
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