The Hidden Truth about the American Revolution.

Old, forgotten realities are coming back to life and light.

The American people have entirely forgotten what the ongoing American Revolution is really all about, and you will soon realize, it is ABSOLUTELY NOT about a bland sentiment of “Freedumb”, and it definitely has NOTHING to do with Adam Smith or the mythology of laissez faire economics you were taught in grade school.

The United States of America became a world power with a unique economic outlook shaped by a school of thought that today has been deliberately wiped from our collective memory. The foundations of even our most prized and prestigious institutions of learning have deliberately been scrubbed from the historical record and our national consciousness. (more on this another time).

The American Protectionist School of Economics led the transformation of the United States from a backward agrarian economy, to the most powerful nation in history, and for that reason, the enemies of our people wish to destroy its legacy. The development of our nation was not accidental, instead, it is the product of deliberate intervention, planning, the agitation of protectionist thinkers, their political representatives, and above all, the blood of patriotic Americans who gave their lives to see our nation sovereign and prosperous.

Even prior to the adoption of the Constitution, key to our nation’s history has been the fight to create a society in which American business and labor have the opportunity to thrive in harmony, safeguarded from foreign intrusion and influence. From the earliest days in colonial New England, to today, the American people have battled for a government that puts its people first, that safeguards its people and its businesses from those who would seek to destroy them, and to foster an environment that sets the foundation for prosperity for industry and families. Our forefathers envisioned a land in which the government and its constitution would be an effective force for increasing the welfare of the American people, and protecting our way of life from threats abroad, both military and commercial.

Before the American Revolution, Britain had very different plans and views for its new found colonies. The American colonies were deliberately prohibited from developing and protecting its own industries, sometimes to even comical extents. The Hat Act of 1731 for instance prohibited Americans from even manufacturing their own hats. That privilege would be reserved for manufacturers in Great Britain. The idea was for the American colonies to be plantations for the production of raw material, to be sent toward the manufacturers and factories in Manchester and across Great Britain. Prohibitions on the production of textiles were so dire, that during the American Revolution, one of the largest concerns of George Washington and the Continental army was for procuring clothing for his troops. American soldiers were said to be “naked troops”, and this dire situation was not limited to the famous story of Valley Forge. For more on this, check out Lindsay Schakenbach Regele’s book “Manufacturing Advantage.”

But the incursion on the colonies ability to manufacture their own wares was hardly limited to the textile industry, indeed, virtually every item that early Americans depended on would be manufactured in Great Britain and imported into the colonies, in exchange for the export of the raw goods necessary to produce them. Our early Americans forefathers would break their backs harvesting agricultural goods and smelting pig iron, only to export their work to Britain, where it would be processed into finished goods that Americans would need to pay back dearly for the favor. Violators of the prohibitions on turning these raw goods into finished products within the domestic market of the colonies were punishable even to death.

On top of the obvious inability to repay for value added goods with the proceeds of the raw goods sold that were required to produce them, shipping costs associated with transporting these goods across the Atlantic, in combination with the British imposition of taxes and duties, worked together to make the economic situation quite dire prior to the revolution. In that sense, while this imposition of taxes and duties are what our modern education most reflects on, in reality this trespass was only salt on a wound. The real basis of the economic and cultural repression that culminated in the courageous rise of our forefathers to the point of revolution, lied within the deliberate and merciless repression of the American people to develop and create their own industries and manufacture their own products, and do so free from prohibition and the imposition of taxes and other duties without their sovereign consent.

Thus, from the very beginning of American history, the task of the politically courageous has been to break free from foreign aggression and the destruction of our industry and way of life, and to establish within our own land a sovereign government, and wield it and its power to lay the foundations for a sovereign people, free and empowered to pursue their natural inclination toward industry and innovation. No one understood this better than Alexander Hamilton, the man who set the foundation of America’s commercial and military strength and who set the path forward for the fledgling nation to ultimately become the greatest super power in world history. And it is precisely Alexander Hamilton, who is considered the foundational father of the American Protectionist School of Political Economy.

The revolution is still ongoing, and no group of thinkers ever captured the spirit of this revolution, more so than the American Protectionist School of Political Economy. Exploring and developing the work of these thinkers and their contributions to the history of our nation, to economic thought and theory, and most importantly, to the ongoing American Revolution, is the foundation of this channel / magazine / and my personal life.

American ingenuity and power is unlimited when the American people are free and sovereign. As George Washington stated in his farewell address, “history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government”. Until that day, in which this baneful foe is wholly eliminated, the Revolution will persist.