How the U.S. Government Constantly Lies to Impose Its Dictatorship

2 July 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

ABC News reported, on the morning of July 2nd, that the leadership of the U.S. House of ‘Representatives’ — all of whom are Republicans — said, about the Republican U.S. President’s tax-and-spend bill for the coming year, that “The American people gave us a clear mandate, and after four years of Democrat failure, we intend to deliver without delay,” his “Big Beautiful Bill” onto his desk, to sign into law. By “a clear mandate,” they were referring to the American people’s having been given a choice between the billionaires-funded Democratic National Committee’s (DNC’s) choices for President and for Congress, versus the billionaires-funded Republican National Committee’s (RNC’s) choices for President and for Congress, and chose the Republican billionaires’ choices, instead of the Democratic billionaires’ choices. That’s what they meant by saying “The American people gave us a clear mandate.”

However, all of the many polls specifically about the President’s “Big Beautiful Bill” for the coming fiscal year, make absolutely clear that the American people detest it; and here will be presented the most relevant examples of this overwhelming evidence that the Republican billionaires’ policy-priorities (as embodied in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”) are actually the exact opposite of — instead of representative of — the American people’s policy-priorities:

On February 14th, the AP headlined “Where US adults think the government is spending too much, according to AP-NORC polling”, and listed in rank-order according to the opposite (“spending too little”) the following 8 Government functions: 1. Social Security; 2. Medicare; 3. Education; 4. Assistance to the poor; 5. Medicaid; 6. Border security; 7. Federal law enforcement; 8. The Military. That’s right: the American public (and by an overwhelming margin) are THE LEAST SUPPORTIVE of spending more money on the military, and the MOST SUPPORTIVE of spending more money on Social Security, Medicare, Education, Assistance to the poor, and Medicaid (those latter five being the functions the Republican Party has always been the most vocal to call “waste, fraud, and abuse” and try to cut — but those 5 were the most-favored by the American public). Meanwhile, The Military, which actually receives 53% (and in the latest year far more than that) of the money that the Congress allocates each year and gets signed into law by the President, keeps getting, each year, over 50% of the annually appropriated federal funds. Furthermore, the U.S. Defense Department is the only Department of the federal Government so corrupt, so intensely corrupt, that it has never been audited.

Trump is increasing the military and border security, and decreasing education, assistance to the poor, Medicaid, federal law enforcement, and even Social Security and Medicare (the latter two by laying off many of the people who staff those bureaucracies).

This Government’s policy-priorities are like the public’s turned upside-down — in other words: are the REVERSE of the public’s — and therefore the U.S. Government right now is a perfect example of a dictatorship. One might say that this is so in only the Executive branch, but it’s not necessarily true: As always when one political faction (regardless whether it it is one Party or a coalition of Parties) has control over both the Executive and the Legislative branches of the Government — as now the case in the U.S. — these two branches (Executive and Legislative) function as one, and there then will even be a totalitarian dictatorship if they can get the Judicial branch or Supreme Court to call it “Constitutional.” Currently, the U.S. is slipping from a dictatorship towards being a totalitarian dictatorship; but America has been a dictatorship ever since at least 1980. And that is a dictatorship by the super-rich. (Click on those for the evidences for each.)

There is a civil war going on in this country between its billionaires versus its public, and its billionaires are always winning, but sometimes (such as now) it is the Republican billionaires, and other times it is the Democratic billionaires, that are ruling this Government; and, so, America’s Government is always a tug-of-war between these two groups of billionaires. Is THIS a democracy?

As the liberal (Democratic Party) wing of America’s aristocracy said, in the person of its Warren Buffett, “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” (He told this to the conservative Ben Stein, reporting in the aristocracy’s New York Times, under the headline “In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning”.)

In prior centuries and millennia, this type of government was callled an “aristocracy” — rule of a country by only its extremely richest few.

Here is how this is being done in the case of America’s ‘democracy’:

On September 28th of 2023, America’s People’s Party headlined “Majority of Americans Support RFK Jr. Running as an Independent”, and reported:

The Democratic Party is a dead end for Kennedy’s campaign. An incumbent president has never lost a party primary. In 2017, the DNC stated in court that its presidential primaries are a charade and that it picks the nominees. It stated that, as a private corporation, it is under no obligation to be impartial or follow its own rules. The court upheld this argument.

Furthermore, the DNC and the Biden campaign are essentially the same entity. Biden appointed DNC Chair Jamie Harrison, who is shutting down debates and rearranging the primary schedule according to Biden’s wishes. In February, the entire DNC unanimously endorsed Biden. The president’s campaign dictates the rules of the primary and can change them at will. At the convention, the party can even choose a nominee who didn’t run in the primary, as it did in 1968. This means that even if Biden dropped out, the DNC would still install someone like Gavin Newsom [i.e., a Biden-clone — it turned out to have been Kamala Harris instead].

The Biden campaign is also the biggest donor to the DNC. Donations to the Biden Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee with the DNC, financially sustain the party. It brings in hundreds of millions of dollars from big donors that flow to the DNC, all fifty state party organizations, and their vast array of staff, consulting firms, and vendors. The entire party ecosystem and everyone who profits from it would collapse if the party nominated Kennedy. This is why the party rigged the election against Bernie twice and why it will never choose RFK Jr. The party would rather lose with an establishment candidate who keeps the corporate money flowing than win with a populist.

In short: the DNC and RNC are private clubs, which select their own members, and only very few people are members; and both the DNC and RNC are extremely secretive organizations. For example, if you click onto Wikipedia’s article about the Democratic National Committee, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee, at the present time, it doesn’t even say how many members the DNC has. However it links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Democratic_National_Committee_chairmanship_election, which at the present time does say that back in 2017, there were “447 voting members of the DNC”. Those were the individuals who had made the decision to sabotage the candidacy of Senator Bernie Sanders for the Party’s Presidential nomination, in favor of appointing Hillary Clinton instead, becuse she was funded by many billionaires and Sanders was funded by none.

That People’s Party article was referring to this lawsuit against the DNC by supporters of Bernie Sanders who documented that their candidate had been cheated by the DNC out of delegates that he had won in primaries, and that the DNC had even “violated its charter, with staffers talking openly about how to” get Clinton nominated regardless of how Democrats in primaries and caucuses voted. But the Republican Ronald-Reagan-appointed judge ruled in favor of the DNC’s argument “that the party wasn't really bound by the votes cast in primaries or caucuses.” In other words: the DNC is a private club, and, as such, represents ONLY its members, regardless of what its charter says. The judge ruled that “the plaintiffs did not have standing” to sue the DNC; so the complainants’ case against the DNC couldn’t even be considered by a court. As his ruling said, “the Court finds that the named Plaintiffs have not presented a case that is cognizable in federal court.” Of course, every American who votes in elections would want to know that this is so; but, if they did know, then how many people in America would vote at all? Anyone who votes in the United States for ANY candidate of any Party should know about this case, in order to know what “the law” in this country is, regarding such matters. Why shouldn’t every registered voter in America be informed that this is so? And if they all should be informed, then could a law be passed saying that each polling-place must prominently place there a large poster saying “No voter in this country has a right for his/her vote to even be counted.”? Why not?

Anyway, back in 2017, there were “447 voting members of the DNC”. How small is the membership of the RNC? That’s likewise a secret. But, again, there are indications of the answer.

At present, Wikipedia’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_National_Committee says “As of 2011, the RNC has 168 members.^[8]”

It is generally believed that each of the Party’s members selects new members when an existing one (for whatever reason) becomes gone, but my Google-search for "How does a member of the DNC become replaced?” produced “Your search did not match any documents”; and my search for "How does a member of the RNC become replaced?” producd “No results found for "How does a member of the RNC become replaced?” So: both Committees are entirely secretive about how they function. However, it is virtually universally recognized that for each Party, the function of a Member is to maximize the dollar-value of the donations to both the Party and its various agencies, such as its propaganda-agencies such as the ‘news’-media (by slanting its ‘news’-stories and by endorsing or not endorsing given candidates) (and, of course, by their corporations, which advertise in and thus fund them), but also by speaking with the Party’s megadonors and their agents in order to determine what their policy-priorities (the mega-donors’ policy-priorities) are. The Parties don’t represent the public, but they do represent their megadonors.

What is being kept secret is the important facts; all the rest is in the news, and virtually all of it is in service to the billionaires, NOT to the public (though each Party pretends to the contrary).

I have proposed a replacement for this political system — a replacement of the competitive, Parties-based, elections-by-the-public — ‘democracies’; so as to produce instead a democracy: a government that has the same policy-priorities as the public does. In other words: this would replace the U.S.-and-allied system of Governments, by authentic democracies. It would be done one country at a time, so as to tweak the details in my proposal to improve the results over time, in order to approach ever-closer to the ideal: countries whose policy-priorities are the same as the public’s policy-priorities. Of course, that would boost the per-capita GDP PPPs while depressing the wealth of billionaires. (especially those who benefit the most from the existing system). So: the movement for it would need to come 100% from the public, not at all from any billionaire (because they’re all hostile toward it — they have already demonstrated this). No problem will solve itself, especially not a problem that has been going on already for thousands of years. The public doesn’t yet know about this problem, but I do everything I can to inform the public about it, so that maybe progress can finally start.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.