Americanism vs Communism

During the Cold War, primarily from the 1950s to the 1980s, both American and Soviet societies were systematically indoctrinated to misunderstand the opposing economic "ism," reducing complex ideologies to simplistic caricatures to serve state power. In the US, "Americanism" was framed as a divine struggle for freedom and capitalism against a godless, tyrannical communism, using schools, media, and civil drills to equate free markets with liberty itself, while obscuring its tendencies toward inequality and crisis. Simultaneously, the USSR taught that state-controlled communism was a scientifically inevitable path to a classless utopia, vilifying capitalism as inherently exploitative, all while masking the system's brutal inefficiency and the rise of a new oppressive party elite. This mutual indoctrination intentionally distorted the full spectrum of economic models—from free markets to mixed economies and socialism—creating a false binary that ignored the nuanced failures and potential syntheses of different systems, ultimately prioritizing nationalist loyalty over a genuine understanding of economic principles that could serve a healthy humanity.

The systematic indoctrination that reduced complex economic systems to warring caricatures created a profound and lasting societal ill: a financially illiterate populace. This is why it is now crucial for individuals to undertake the task of clearly understanding the why and how—the complete history of money, economics, and the financial system. Such knowledge is the essential antidote to this historical propaganda and the key to righting the compounded wrongs we have inherited. When one traces the evolution from barter to coinage, from the gold standard to fiat currency and complex derivatives, they see that money is not a force of nature but a human-made tool, one whose design and control have always been a source of immense power. Understanding this history reveals that the "isms" of economics—capitalism, communism, socialism—are not immutable truths but competing frameworks for organizing this tool, each with documented flaws and trade-offs that were deliberately hidden during the Cold War. This foundational knowledge empowers people to see through the ideological debris of the past and recognize that our current systems—marked by extreme inequality, boom-bust cycles, and environmental externalities—are not the endpoint of history, but a moment in an ongoing evolution. Armed with this clarity, we can move beyond the false binaries of the 20th century and begin the necessary work of designing new, more humane, and sustainable economic models. We can transition from being passive subjects of economic forces to becoming conscious architects of a system that truly serves humanity, rather than the other way around. In this light, financial and economic literacy is not merely a personal finance skill, but the most fundamental form of civic empowerment, without which genuine and lasting progress is impossible.

Building a New Economic Model:

Americanism & Communism

What if the next evolution of America wasn’t about choosing between capitalism or communism—but about extracting the best ideals from both and weaving them into a model that finally serves everyone?

What if we could build a world where:

Every person’s basic needs are met, not as a privilege granted by the state, but as a foundational guarantee of human dignity.
Individual freedom, creativity, and enterprise are incentivized, allowing people to chase their dreams—whether modest or wildly ambitious.
Communities, not bureaucracies, determine what is best for the people who live within them.
Economic value is created from contribution, collaboration, resource stewardship, and innovation, not debt, scarcity, or manipulation.

This isn’t utopian fantasy. It is the natural next step in human governance—and it is well within our reach. As we enter a period of profound transition, we face the undeniable truth: The dollar, large segments of the U.S. government, and many of our industrial systems are approaching collapse. Not because Americans failed, but because the systems we inherited were never designed for the complexity, connectivity, and consciousness of the world we live in now.

But here is the good news: While old structures are falling apart, new, resilient, community-driven systems are already blooming. Across the country—and the world—people are building:

Micro-economies rooted in cooperation and local empowerment
Regenerative food and energy systems
Education models centered on human development rather than obedience
Decentralized technologies that remove gatekeepers and redistribute power
Governance models that put decision-making back in the hands of the people most affected

Together, these innovations point toward an emergent economic paradigm—one that harmonizes the security promised by communism with the freedom promised by capitalism, without inheriting the corruption, coercion, or exploitation that plagued either system alone.

This is the essence of the new American future we are called to build. A system where freedom and responsibility coexist, where community and individuality reinforce each other, and where prosperity is not concentrated at the top, but generated from the ground up.

This new model is not about left vs. right. It’s not socialism vs. capitalism. It’s not Americanism vs. communism. It’s about creating something beyond all that—a human-centered system of governance and economics, built for a society that is ready to evolve. The collapse is not the end. It is the clearing. It is the space we need to build what comes next. And what comes next is beautiful.

FOOD FREEDOM: THE FOUNDATION OF A NEW UTOPIA

Every great civilization begins with one simple truth: Whoever controls the food supply controls the people.

If we are serious about building a world where every human being is free to live with dignity, pursue their purpose, and participate in a thriving community-driven economy, then we must start at the root—food production and consumption freedom.

Food is not just fuel.
Food is autonomy.
Food is culture.
Food is power.

And food is the first layer of sovereignty every human should possess.

1. Food Freedom Breaks the Cycle of Dependence

Today, a handful of corporations and regulatory bodies determine:

What we are allowed to grow
How we must grow it
What seeds we can access
What chemicals are used on our land
What foods are “legal” to sell, share, or even barter

This system creates dependency—not because people are incapable of

feeding themselves, but because they are forbidden from doing so outside

of the industrial model. When people regain the right to grow, trade, buy,

and consume food without bureaucratic interference, they regain the most essential form of sovereignty. From that sovereignty, real freedom becomes possible.

2. Local Food Systems Create Resilience Where Global Systems Fail

We are watching the cracks form in the industrial food system:

Supply chain fragility
Soil depletion
Food deserts
Contamination recalls
Consolidation of farms
Vulnerability to political manipulation

A society that relies entirely on centralized production is a society one disaster away from collapse.

Local food production—community gardens, clean family farms, regenerative agriculture, micro-farms, homesteads, neighborhood food co-ops—is the antidote. Local food systems don’t just feed people. They fortify communities against economic shocks, political instability, corporate greed, and natural disasters.

3. Food Freedom Ensures Basic Needs Are Met Without State Dependence

A utopia—any meaningful version of it—requires that people’s basic needs are met. Food freedom guarantees this without requiring authoritarian structure. When communities produce their own food:

Hunger disappears
Health improves
Cost of living falls
Families have bargaining power
Wealth stays local
No one can be coerced by the threat of starvation or scarcity

This is how you build a world where human rights are not granted by the state—but are ensured by the people themselves.

4. Food Production unleashes Creativity, Enterprise, and Innovation

Food freedom isn’t just about survival—it’s about unleashing human potential. When people can:

Experiment with regenerative practices
Start micro-farms
Build small butcheries or dairies
Sell eggs, honey, bread, produce
Try new systems like aquaponics or permaculture

—they create micro-economies that strengthen the entire region. Food becomes the foundation of:

Entrepreneurship
Innovation
Trade networks
Community bonding
Cultural revival
Economic independence

This is bottom-up prosperity— the cornerstone of your new economic model.

5. Food Freedom Reconnects Humans to the Land—and to Each Other

Industrial systems have severed the most ancient relationship we have: the relationship between people and the land that sustains them. Food freedom restores:

Respect for natural cycles
Stewardship of resources
Healthier bodies and healthier ecosystems
Interdependence between neighbors
A sense of belonging and home

A society that grows together, eats together, shares together, and supports each other through the land—
that is a society that is impossible to divide or control.

6. It Is the One Freedom That Makes All Other Freedoms Real

You cannot be truly free if the food that keeps you alive is controlled by someone else. Food freedom is the first domino. When people can feed themselves, they can:

Educate their children how they want
Build local economies
Resist authoritarian overreach
Support one another during crises
Create parallel systems outside failing institutions

Food freedom makes political freedom possible. It makes economic freedom tangible. It makes human freedom non-negotiable.

Food Freedom Is the Beginning of the New Utopia If we want to build a society where:

✔ Everyone’s basic needs are met
✔ People are incentivized to dream and create
✔ Governance is local and human-centered
✔ Economies grow from cooperation instead of coercion
✔ Freedom is lived, not promised

—it all begins with the soil beneath our feet. Food freedom is not one piece of the new world. It is the foundation upon which everything else stands. And once the people reclaim their food, no system—political or economic—will ever again have the power to control them.

If food freedom is the foundation of a truly liberated society, then the PRIME Act—championed by Joel Salatin and introduced repeatedly in Congress—is one of the most important legislative keys to unlocking that freedom.

In a world where our goal is to build a new economic model—one where basic needs are met locally and individuals are free to create, innovate, and contribute—a single bottleneck stands in the way of food sovereignty across America: Federal control over how animals must be processed before they can be sold. The PRIME Act directly challenges that bottleneck.

What the PRIME Act Does

Under current federal regulations, small farmers cannot sell meat to the public unless the animal is processed in a USDA-inspected facility—a system built for industrial agriculture, not local food. This creates catastrophic problems:

There are too few USDA facilities.
They’re often hours away from small farms.
They prioritize large producers.
Farmers face months-long waitlists to process animals.
Costs are so high that many small farms simply cannot survive.

The PRIME Act (Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption) would allow:

✔ States to decide their own animal processing rules
✔ The sale of meat processed at custom slaughterhouses
✔ Small farms to sell directly to consumers, restaurants, and stores
✔ Local food economies to thrive
✔ Communities to reconnect with clean, transparent, trustworthy food sources

It removes federal overreach and returns power to the states—and ultimately to the people.

Why the PRIME Act Is Essential to a Utopian Future

1. It Rebuilds Local Economies From the Ground Up

The PRIME Act unleashes thousands of dormant local economies. When small farms can process and sell meat locally:

Rural towns gain new jobs
Micro-slaughterhouses and butchers reappear
Money circulates within the community
Families can run viable farms again

This is economic independence—not from corporations, not from the state, but from one another.

2. It Ends Industrial Food Dependence

Right now, America’s meat supply is dominated by a handful of corporations, Many outside the United States. If they fail—or choose profit over safety—entire regions suffer. Local meat processing decentralizes the entire system. It becomes impossible for a single failure, contamination, or political decision to break the food chain. Decentralization = resilience.

3. It Makes Ethical, Regenerative Farming Viable Again

Farmers like Joel Salatin, Will Harris, and regenerative producers nationwide want to raise animals humanely on pasture—without antibiotics, without confinement, without industrial cruelty. But they are shackled by processing laws designed for CAFOs and Big Ag.

The PRIME Act gives ethical farmers the ability to:

Process locally
Sell locally
Compete fairly
Reduce stress on animals
Improve transparency
Build trust with consumers

This aligns perfectly with a utopian world built on stewardship, responsibility, and respect for nature.

4. It Honors Consumer Choice and Bodily Autonomy

A free society begins with the right to decide what you put into your body. Right now, consumers are forbidden from buying locally raised meats unless the farmer pays into a federal system designed for giants. The PRIME Act restores:

Freedom of dietary choice
Freedom of trade
Freedom of relationship between farmer and customer

It removes the state from your dinner plate.

5. It Reinforces the Core Principle of Your New Governance Model

At the heart of your vision is this: The people most affected by decisions should have the most power in making them.

The PRIME Act embodies this better than almost any other proposed reform. It says:

Washington doesn’t decide your food.
Corporations don’t decide your food.
Local communities decide their own food systems.
States regain control over their own agricultural policies.

It is a return to bottom-up governance—real democracy, not distant bureaucracy.

6. It Reduces Food Costs and Increases Food Security

When small farms thrive, food becomes:

More affordable
More abundant
Higher quality
Closer to home
Safer
More resilient during national crises

No utopia can exist while families struggle to afford basic nourishment. The PRIME Act is a direct solution.

7. It Is the First Domino in Ending Corporate Capture

The same corporations that control meat processing also influence:

Regulations
Food policy
Subsidies
Land use
Market access

Passing the PRIME Act breaks one of the largest monopolistic choke points in America. When one domino falls, the others follow. This is how you begin dismantling systems that prioritize profit over people. The PRIME Act Isn’t Just a Policy — It’s a Revolution!

“If you control the food, you control the people.”

The PRIME Act is the first major step toward taking that control away from corporate and federal gatekeepers and returning it to farmers, families, and communities.

For the new world we are trying to build:

✔ Where basic needs are met
✔ Where people are free to dream
✔ Where governance starts locally
✔ Where communities are self-reliant
✔ Where systems are resilient instead of fragile
✔ Where prosperity grows from cooperation, not coercion

—food freedom is non-negotiable.

And the PRIME Act is one of the most important tools we have to make that freedom real.