WHERE ARE THE REAL AMERICANS?

America at the Tipping Point: Where Is Our Leader?

Where are the real Americans, and where is their leader?

There comes a time in a nation’s life when political drift becomes political collapse, when the pendulum no longer swings, but snaps, leaving the illusion of normalcy behind. That time has come for America, yet the American people, sedated by comfort, paralyzed by partisanship, or simply unaware of the scale of the threat, have failed to rise.

The government of the United States has been taken over. Not with tanks in the streets, but with suits in boardrooms, think tanks, and courtrooms. It has been taken over by fascists with a plan and billionaires with the money to make it happen. The Constitution is being shoved aside. The rule of law has become a malleable tool of executive will. And the only branch of government that now matters is the one controlled by the man at the top.

Let’s stop pretending otherwise. This is not politics as usual.

This is not a red-versus-blue moment.
This is democracy versus dictatorship.
This is the ascension of Project 2025, written by the Heritage Foundation, the fascist equivalent of a Communist Manifesto,  now being implemented by a convicted felon, moral degenerate, and puppet strongman named Donald J. Trump.

Trump is not the architect. He is the hammer.

The architects are the cynical and calculating intellectuals who, through Project 2025, have crafted a comprehensive blueprint to dismantle American democracy and replace it with a permanent, illiberal regime controlled by one man, one ideology, and one class of oligarchs.

They propose the elimination of the professional civil service, the politicization of every government office, the consolidation of unchecked power in the executive branch, and the criminalization of dissent. They plan to erase rights, reproductive, educational, environmental, civil, and remake the United States into a Christian-nationalist, authoritarian state with a smiling, orange face on top.

And what has been the reaction of the American people?

Silence.

Perhaps it’s understandable. Americans have been accustomed to the comforting swing of the political pendulum for generations — right, then left, then right again. Always within a range of tolerable moderation. Always within a framework of democratic norms.

But not this time.

This time, there is no pendulum. There is only a jackboot pressing down slowly, deliberately, and legally. Freedom won’t return in four years, not if they seize control again. This time, the damage will be permanent.

And yet, the people sleep.

Or worse, they eat.

Fat, dumb, lazy, and cowardly. Perhaps that’s too harsh. But if the boot fits...

Where is the outrage? Where are the mass demonstrations? Where is the general strike? Where is the organized resistance capable of stopping this march to tyranny?

More importantly, where is the leader?

We desperately need a figure who can rally the resistance, not just another senator with a fundraiser or a governor with a pollster, but a charismatic force of will, someone who can speak truth in plain words, organize people with purpose, and stand in the fire without flinching.

We do not need another bureaucrat.
We do not need another committee.
We need a Roosevelt for the digital age, a Mandela for the Constitution, a leader who makes the cowards tremble and the people stand.

The Democratic Party has shown itself to be impotent, too wedded to incrementalism, too afraid to speak in moral absolutes. They are still playing chess while the fascists are flipping the board. Their instincts remain polite in the face of coordinated evil.

The resistance needs a spine and a soul.

We must say it now, loudly and without apology: If no leader emerges, America may not survive. Movements without leadership die. They drift, fracture, and burn out.

There is still time. But not much.

We are approaching the tipping point, the threshold past which history no longer asks permission but acts. If we do not act before that moment, then action will no longer be ours to choose. It will be forced upon us, and it may be too late by then.

So we ask again: Where is the leader who will save the Republic?

Because we’re done waiting.

We’re done watching.

And we are just about out of time.

William James Spriggs