America Is Leftist by Design

Why the American Right Must Always Lose

I. The Incompetence of the American Right

Don’t conserve the status quo where you’re the designated loser.

The most visible shortcoming of the American Right is its blindness to the country’s design. They imagine that the United States was crafted as a conservative bulwark, a republic of small towns, self-reliant farmers, and restrained government. They mistake surface trappings for substance. The truth is less flattering: America was designed to institutionalize equality and disorder, and it has never ceased to do so.

The Constitution’s machinery tilts toward leveling. Even when filtered through property requirements and elaborate checks, its principle remains: authority does not descend from hierarchy but ascends from mass agreement. This principle is Leftist to the core. By sacralizing “the people,” America set in motion a process where every appeal to order must pass through chaos first.

The Right in America never notices because it wraps its defeats in patriotic colors and willful stupidity. It salutes the flag, quotes the founders, and praises the same documents that engineer its own humiliation. In doing so, it becomes a parody of conservatism, defending the very instruments that dissolve hierarchy.

There are those who imagine that the system “went wrong” at some point, that it was corrupted or betrayed. But the corruption is the design. The nation was born in rebellion against authority, and rebellion cannot build a permanent order. Right-wingers cannot see it because to admit it would be to admit their loyalty is to a machine that exists to erase them.

II. Left vs. Right = Chaos vs. Order = Equality vs. Hierarchy

Satan: “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.” (Paradise Lost, Book I, line 263)

Thomas Jefferson: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal… that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive… it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.” (Declaration of Independence, 1776)

The axis of Left and Right is not a matter of policy but of principle. The Left seeks equality at any cost. The Right seeks hierarchy and order, even when unequal. Every political dispute circles back to this polarity, though most participants are too entangled in slogans to admit it.

Chaos is the method of the Left. By dissolving distinctions, ranks, and bonds, it creates a shifting field where no authority can settle. Equality demands constant motion, a restless dismantling of every structure that dares to stand above the crowd. The French Revolution showed it plainly: once a king falls, the guillotine must move on to aristocrats, priests, and eventually even its own inventors.

The Right, in contrast, builds upon the gravity of rank. Hierarchy is not mere preference but necessity, a recognition that human beings cannot exist in perpetual leveling without descending into barbarism. The Right values permanence and structure because only through them can greatness endure.

Democracy belongs to the Left because it treats order as an obstacle to be managed rather than a truth to be honored. The vote is a mechanism for chaos, a way for the crowd to unsettle what is higher. America, in choosing democracy as its foundation, codified the Left’s victory long before it had names for Left or Right. What unfolds now is only the inevitable flowering of that original seed.

III. America Was Founded in Defiance of Hierarchy

Satan: “Here at least we shall be free; the Almighty hath not built here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure.” (Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 258–261)

Patrick Henry: “Give me liberty, or give me death!” (Speech at the Virginia Convention, 1775)

The American Revolution was not a quarrel between gentlemen over taxes. It was a rebellion against hierarchy itself. The colonies rejected monarchy, nobility, and the entire framework of inherited rank that bound Europe together. In its place they elevated the creed of equality, giving it the dignity of sacred scripture.

The Declaration of Independence made the principle explicit. To say that all men are created equal is both a political adjustment and a metaphysical claim. It abolishes distinction before it even appears. Nobility, priesthood, lineage—all of these wither when set against a creed that sanctifies sameness. The Revolution was less a defense of rights than an assault on order.

What followed was a reconfiguration of society. Authority no longer descended from the crown but was manufactured in assemblies. Class lines weakened. The very act of being born in America meant inheriting suspicion of titles and contempt for hierarchy. Even the language of citizenship carried within it the seed of permanent rebellion, a refusal to bow to anything above “the people.”

Europe, in its traditions, had found ways to balance change with permanence. Thrones could adapt, parliaments could grow, yet the sense of order endured. America cut the cord and declared its freedom from such continuity. In doing so, it chained itself to perpetual upheaval. What was hailed as liberty was in truth the enthronement of chaos, and every generation since has been trained to defend it as though it were sacred truth.

IV. Caveats to Prevent Pure Democracy

Satan: “For who can think submission? War then, war it is.” (Paradise Lost, I.661) - reflecting his inability to fully restrain his followers’ passions.

Alexander Hamilton: “Your people, sir, is a great beast.” (Reported remark, c. 1787)

The founders, for all their rhetoric, knew damn well what they were doing. They spoke of equality but built firebreaks into the system, knowing that democracy left unchecked consumes itself. Property requirements limited who could vote. The Senate was insulated from popular tides. The Electoral College was meant to filter the passions of the mob into the sobriety of elites.

These caveats reveal an unease with the very principles they declared. They wanted to dethrone monarchy without handing the crown to the crowd. They dreamed of an aristocracy of merit, an orderless hierarchy that could manage chaos without admitting it was order. Yet such a dream is self-defeating. Merit is never fixed, and without tradition to anchor it, hierarchy dissolves into a revolving door of careerists.

Time erodes every safeguard. Property requirements vanish once they appear unjust by the logic of equality. The Senate drifts toward popular election. The Electoral College bends under pressure until it becomes a formality. Even the judiciary, once aloof, becomes an agent of political will.

Each restraint was a temporary dam against the current. With each generation, the current grows stronger, eroding what remains of the original barriers. The framers planted seeds of equality and built fences around them. But fences rot and seeds grow. America’s constitutional machinery, admired for its balance, was in fact a slow-moving surrender. It could delay democracy’s triumph, never prevent it.

V. Expansion of the Franchise as Natural Expression of Leftist DNA

Satan: “Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals?” (Paradise Lost, Book V, lines 794–796)

James Madison: “The government is derived from the great body of society, not from the rich or powerful.” (Federalist Papers, 1788)

Thomas Jefferson: “All men are created equal.” (Declaration of Independence, 1776)

Once the machinery of equality began turning, it could not stop. The franchise widened first to propertyless white men, then to blacks, then to women. Each step was hailed as moral victory, but it was less a triumph of conscience than the unfolding of the nation’s original code. Equality demanded expansion, and expansion meant the continual dilution of hierarchy.

The logic is straightforward. If political power is a birthright, then denying it to any category becomes indefensible. Every distinction collapses under the weight of the principle itself. To exclude one group is to invite the accusation of hypocrisy, and in a nation that worships equality, hypocrisy is the only unforgivable sin.

The inclusion of women in 1920 was not an aberration but the logical outcome of 1776. The Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act were not departures but consummations. Each reform tightened the grip of democracy’s original promise. A country founded on equality cannot defend boundaries, because its creed treats boundaries as injustice.

Right-wingers often blame these expansions for the collapse of their politics, as though reversing suffrage would restore order. Yet the expansions are symptoms, not causes. The seed was planted at the founding. To complain of its fruit while praising its root is incoherence. America’s franchise widened because America was designed to widen it. The promise of equality could not remain partial without tearing itself apart, so it grew until it consumed every barrier placed in its path.

VI. The Erasure of the Middle

Satan: “Orders and degrees jar not with liberty, but well consist.” (Paradise Lost, V.791–792)

Elbridge Gerry: “The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy.” (Constitutional Convention, 1787)

A society with a strong middle can temper both elites and masses. It restrains the ambitions of the powerful while curbing the demands of the crowd. In early America, small landowners, churches, and local notables filled this role. They provided ballast, preventing politics from becoming a direct contest between oligarchs and mobs.

That ballast has steadily eroded. Industrialization displaced the self-sufficient farmer. Urbanization concentrated populations where the individual voice was drowned in mass politics. The rise of national media shifted influence from local leaders to distant figures speaking to millions at once. The middle, once a living structure, dissolved into a statistically insignificant category.

Without a mediating class, power flows upward and downward at once. The state expands to manage the demands of the lowest, while entrenched elites grow secure behind its machinery. Those in the middle are not defenders of order but objects of extraction, taxed to fund both welfare and surveillance while stripped of real authority.

The erasure of the middle deepens democracy’s chaos. Mass politics becomes rawer, more unstable, more easily swayed by slogans and resentment. Elites, insulated by wealth and bureaucracy, grow harder to dislodge. The two feed each other: the masses depend on the state, the elites depend on the masses to justify the state, and the middle disappears into irrelevance.

This dynamic is not accidental. It is the natural progression of a system built to elevate equality. The middle cannot survive long in such a framework, because it represents the very hierarchy that democracy is designed to dismantle.

VII. Overbearing Government as Leftist Outcome

Satan: “To claim our just inheritance of old, with hell’s deep councils we must frame new dominion.” (Paradise Lost, II.310–312) - rebellion forces him to build a new regime even harsher than what was rejected.

James Madison: “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls would be necessary.” (Federalist No. 51, 1788)

An equal society cannot govern itself without force. The more distinctions are erased, the more regulation is required to manage what replaces them. America’s government grew not because it betrayed its founding creed but because it carried that creed to its logical end. Equality generates demands, and only an overbearing state can satisfy them.

Consider the nineteenth century. Every new wave of enfranchisement produced calls for expanded services, protections, and guarantees. When the state intervened, it was praised as liberty fulfilled. When it hesitated, it was condemned as betraying the people. The more voices entered the system, the more it needed machinery capable of organizing their clamor. That machinery became bureaucracy.

The twentieth century hardened this process. Welfare, social programs, and centralized agencies proliferated, each framed as correcting an imbalance. Yet each correction required more surveillance, more taxation, more authority drawn to the center. What conservatives decry as “big government” is the destiny of democracy known since the time of Plato.

The irony is sharp. Those who champion small government salute the Constitution, the same text that planted the conditions for its growth. The principle of equality makes government omnipresent, because equality cannot exist without constant enforcement. What America created was not a limited republic betrayed by later generations, but a leveling machine that expands until it regulates every corner of life. The overbearing government is not the negation of freedom. It is freedom redefined as equality, maintained by force.

VIII. The Patriotism Trap

Satan: “To bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee, and deify his power who from the terror of this arm so late doubted his empire—that were low indeed.” (Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 111–114)

Benjamin Franklin: “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” (Proposed motto for the Great Seal, 1776)

The American Right wraps itself in symbols that guarantee its defeat. The flag, the anthem, the Constitution—these are the icons of the egalitarian creed that strips hierarchy bare. To celebrate them is to kneel before the forces that engineer one’s humiliation. Yet countless conservatives do it with fervor, mistaking ritual devotion for strength.

This is the trap of patriotism. The more they proclaim loyalty to America’s founding principles, the more they bind themselves to equality. They imagine they defend tradition, when in reality they sanctify rebellion. Their patriotism becomes masochism: saluting a system that guarantees their loss while punishing any attempt to restore order.

In practice, this trap disarms them. When progressives appeal to the Declaration or the Constitution, conservatives lack the language to resist. Both sides share the same text, but the Left knows how to wield it while the Right treats it as holy writ. The debate is over before it begins, because the ground itself belongs to the egalitarian creed.

Societies rooted in hierarchy do not rely on parchment to justify themselves. Authority is lived and inherited, not abstracted into slogans about liberty and equality. America, having abandoned that inheritance, can only sustain itself through endless appeals to documents that accelerate its collapse. The Right’s patriotism, sincere as it may be, locks it into a cycle of loss. They defend the flag even as it flies above their undoing.

IX. Dictatorship and Surveillance State as the Logical Next Steps

Satan: “Millions of spirits for his fault amerced of Heaven, and from eternal splendors flung.” (Paradise Lost, I.609–611) — collective punishment imposed to enforce unity.

John Adams: “Liberty must be supported at all hazards. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we mean to have it, we must guard it as jealously as we would our lives.” (Letter to Abigail Adams, 1775)

Democracy, once mature, does not culminate in liberty. It culminates in control. The expansion of equality destabilizes society until only authoritarian measures can hold it together. The people are promised freedom, but freedom dissolves into chaos, and chaos demands order. That order comes not from tradition or hierarchy but from the cold instruments of surveillance and command.

The underclass, newly empowered, demands security and provision. The elites, threatened by instability, construct systems to manage it. Out of this alliance emerges a state more intrusive than any monarchy. Cameras, databases, and algorithms replace the king’s guard, enforcing a universal equality that no human ruler could impose. The tyranny of the mob becomes the tyranny of the machine.

Right-wingers will denounce this outcome, but their protests ring hollow. They have celebrated the values that made it inevitable. They glorify equality, individual rights, and universal suffrage, then recoil when those values require total oversight to function. Their outrage is misdirected, because the surveillance state is not a deviation from American ideals but their perfection.

History already hints at this trajectory. From the New Deal to the Patriot Act, every crisis has justified another layer of centralized control. Each was defended as necessary to preserve freedom, though each narrowed the space where freedom could breathe. The logic is clear: a system born in rebellion against hierarchy can only end in a hierarchy of technology, where authority hides in code and compliance is monitored without end.

X. The Only Solution: Abandon the System and Build Outside It

Satan: “Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.”
(Paradise Lost, Book II, line 432)

To believe America can be restored is to cling to a fantasy. A nation founded on rebellion against hierarchy cannot be persuaded back into order. The Constitution will not save it, nor will elections, nor will appeals to the intentions of men long dead. The design ensures collapse, and collapse is the destiny that unfolds.

The task, then, is not to reform the system but to outlive it. The dictatorship and surveillance state are already germinating. They will not be stopped by ballots or lawsuits. They will mature into the governing form of an egalitarian society that has consumed itself. The wise response is neither despair nor delusion but detachment.

Detachment does not mean passivity. It means building beyond the state’s reach. Parallel communities, private loyalties, and networks of hierarchy can be woven outside the official order. Where democracy dissolves bonds, these efforts can restore them. Where surveillance flattens life into data, these bonds can preserve dignity and meaning.

Those who cling to patriotism will be dragged down with the system they adore. Those who step away can shape something new. The future belongs to those who build the structures of order amid decay. To give up on the system is not surrender. It is the first act of sovereignty, a recognition that real authority is never granted by votes but remains where it has always been—in the Beginning and the End.