Addressing WHAT matters... in a WAY that matters...
WHEN it matters.
the Civitas Project is a collaborative framework of like-minded citizens organized and mobilized for direct engagement with leaders in culture, government, and business toward reclaiming and returning to American "First Principles"
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core values:
the new website launching in March 2025
First Principles we affirm include:
Limited government
Rule of law
Ordered liberty
Free markets
Freedom of religion
Freedom of speech
Freedom of assembly
Freedom of the press
Judeo-Christian societal ethics
Private property
Equality of persons
Natural rights
Right of a petition of redresses
Republicanism
Federalism
Checks and balances
Separation of government
States rights
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It is hard to imagine the average citizen effectively sorting out and successfully navigating the issues and actions of the myriad of Leftist agendas engulfing the American landscape. They are legion. Understandably, one might feel over-matched and overwhelmed. The opposition does not have the Truth, but they often marshall the necessary resources, manpower, organization, and perseverance to push their toxic notions forward into general societal acceptance. They are continually affirmed and promoted through mainstream media.
Today, the "enemy" of the republic is not "at the gates". For decades the enemy has dominated as the shadow ruling omni-party within the gates. Before 2025, the compromised political parties were always busy pragmatically aligning to keep the "system" churning out their personal and professional preferences.
President-Elect Trump in 2025 will now step back into that matrix. Changes and reform have been promised. We are hopeful for the best.
But......the rise and domination of what can be called a Leviathan, or a 7-Headed Hydra of Branches of Governance, has nearly destroyed long-accepted notions of Constitutional First Principles affirmed and passed on by by the Founders.
What we have seen for decades is a slow-walking frankenstinian blend of elected and unelected governance coupled with woke corporate masterminds intent on ruling over their lessers. It is a mode of governance that often gets echoed in State legislatures and local municipalities.
We no longer have 3 distinct branches of federal government fulfilling their prescribed and limited roles; Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. None of them have been operating constitutionally for many years, which alone is a very ominous reality. There is little left of an intact, operative, and constraining Constitution. We still have the articles and the veneer of allegiance, but it has been routinely sidestepped as an antiquated and inconvenient document. Over the decades, feckless elected officials from both parties have repeatedly trampled and subsumed the constitutionally prescribed principles of States' rights. They have passed spending bills resulting in a mortally wounded and mismanaged union gasping for solvency where there is no hope of solvency. They refuse any steps toward returning the nation to a fiscally sound condition. They continually oppose the framers' intentions for a healthy measure of state sovereignty.
The fourth branch has been of concern since the framers established the Constitution: The unelected bureaucrat class.
They endure through every administration. They also infest at the State level. They are entrenched movers and shakers at the statehouse. Eventually, they die off, but their replacements have learned well, and carry on in like manner, often doubling down on insolvency and over-reach. They ARE the swamp. They and thousands of left-leaning NGOs operate hand in hand systemically to grift and turn America from a republic of citizens with a national identity and liberty, to a borderless mass of subjects requiring to be managed, profited from, and ruled over.
The fifth branch was outed by no less than Eisenhower. The military-industrial complex. Their influence and power cannot be overstated. We are thankful for their stalwart service in providing armaments for the country and developing technologies for an unrivaled military capability. The problem is the grift and propensity of insiders to manage and perpetuate forever wars with no definition for winning. It's very costly for young Americans who serve and die, and profitable for certain corporations. Long wars fighting for indefinite purposes are good for the economy according to prominent politicians like Mitch McConnell.
The sixth branch of government is media and entertainment. Their corporate heads and leaders in government are now joined at the hip. They serve and benefit from one another. It is now a way of life for them. The examples are endless and shameless. The mainstream and corporate media are largely shills for the government and vice-versa, resulting in vast and endless mutual benefits.
The seventh branch is the top structure of both legacy corporations and recent mega companies across the spectrum in tech, medicine, education, and beyond. They are intrinsically in lockstep with woke ideological policies and requirements. They promote and mandate in concert with our over-reaching government the limiting of freedom and liberty as "necessary" for the general welfare of all. Rather, together they are systematically undermining and over time destroying the social compact whereby the government exists to safeguard the liberty of the governed.
This is what we are dealing with. We are dealing with a fascistic, elitest, Marxist monster paradigm seeking to overwhelm and delegitimize as "untenable" a worn-out Constitution, and notions of governance of by, and for the people. It is the most direct and toxic assault on the internal general welfare and civil structure of the United States of America since our founding. This IS a societal existential moment for Western democracies as a whole, and the USA in particular. The assault is no longer a subtle, slow march through the institutions. They largely have the institutions.
They are now intent on flipping what remains of a traditional, constitution-based America in the next generation. It may already be too late. They are seriously dedicated to their ideal of remaking America and the Western world in their image.
However, the Leftist overreach IS being noticed by a broad spectrum of the population. But what (and how) are today's concerned citizens (probably less than 20% of the population) and those young adults who will lead tomorrow and don't wish to be mere subjects, going to do about it?
Even if President Trump makes fantastic inroads over the next 4 years, the consolidation of any gains will require an informed, active, and engaged citizenry not content to be subjects of an unelected bureaucratic class. We hope in 4 years Civitas Project groups will be active in every region in every state.