On the fall of a currency and our constitution
By Robert Arnold YouTube September 21, 2025
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The oligarchs of the world do not care whether you live or die. They do not measure success by the stability of your job or the safety of your streets or the weight of your child’s lunchbox.
They live by rules so alien to working people that they may as well belong to another species. The laws are loopholes or boundaries or borders they can buy their way across and their loyalty is to no flag but the one with the dollar sign on it.
Look at Russia, a country with more billionaires than hospitals fit to treat its population.
And we should understand that the existence of wealth at the top has no correlation with well-being at the bottom. In fact, the two are often inverse related. The richer are the few, the poor are the many.
In United States right now, since January, the dollar has bled value. The dollar index, which measures dollar against the basket of major currencies, has slipped by more than an 8% this year.
Your groceries cost more, your paycheck buy less and the consumer price index shows a year over your increase in price is 6% well above the federal reserve target.
The American Dollar
At the same time for the first time since the dollar dethroned the pound sterling, the global holdings of the US dollar slipped roughly 57% of international reserves
That’s the lowest share in modern history. Numbers like that don’t lie, they’re not distractions. They are verdicts. The world is telling us that no longer trust our institutions.
Think about that. The very foundation of American power since World War II has not been our military might or our cultural dominance, but the simple, brutal fact that the world trusted our currency. Dollars were safe, dollars were stable. Dollars were the language of trade, that is sipping away and with it goes the illusion of permanence.
And this matters because losing reserve currency status is not some academic parlor debate. I means higher cost for every imported goods, from your morning coffee to your kids sneakers.
It means a dollar that buys less oil, less food, less medicine. It means inflation that doesn’t just sting but burns. It means the rest of the world is hedging against our decline, placing bets that America is no longer the bedrock, but a crumbling pillar.
Look at the BRICKS nations – Brazil Russia, China, South America, Africa are now openly discussing alternatives to the dollar. With China brokering trades, and Yen and Russia demanding payments rubles or gold.
Look at Central banks around the world increasing their gold reserves at the fastest pace in decades, signaling that they would rather trust the permanence of a metal dug from the earth than the paperback by our institutions, and when the world move it elsewhere, we will fill it most not in Wall Street boardrooms, but in our own kitchens and living rooms,
Oligarchs will remain rich, no matter what currency dominates — you will be the one holding in the bag.
And the response from the Trump administration is the centralized power to privatize what belong to the public, to strip away the independence of institutions until all that remains is loyalty to a throne.
They scream about communism but are building a system that looks suspiciously like Stalin’s Russia, where private profit is propped up by public sacrifice.
And where control matters more than liberty – nationalize, rationalize, centralize, monopolize, the strategies is as old as tyranny itself. Wall Street cheers and the stock flickers in the green and the oligarchs pour champagne, but I ask: what does your pocketbook say? Are you better off ?
Yes, what does your pocketbook say? Are you better off? Do you feel safer with tanks and rifles in your streets, as though democracy needed the bayonet to protect it .
Do you believe for a moment that a rising stock index makes up for the fact that your rent steels half of your paycheck, that your insurance premium steals what’s left, and your kids school is crumbling.
These are the questions of reality, not a market ticker. And let’s be clear on another point. Name me one truly free society that has ever used its own military against its own people inside its own cities?
You can’t because the moment that becomes an option the decline has already begun.
Rome turned its legions against its own people when the emperor feared its citizens more than they feared foreign enemies, and the republic was long gone by then.
The British Empire used its troops in Ireland, and every shot fired only revealed how fragile its grip had become. Stalin‘s Russia filled its streets with tanks in blood, and image of a man standing before it became a permanent monument to what happens when governments turn against their own subjects. People are not a free people, no matter how many flags are forced to salute or pledge as they are told to recite. The moment of government feels compelled to treat citizens enemies, is already confessed that its legitimacy is gone and the founding fathers for other flaws and hypocrisy understood One thing with crystal clarity, concentrated power, is the enemy of liberty, James Madison war and federal 10 factions whether they wear robes of monarchs or the suits of corporations or the uniforms of armies will always place their own ambition above the common good he didn’t imagine Goldman or Amazon, but he knew the danger of concentrated interest, and he gave us a warning Hamilton, in federal 28 spoke with the peoples ultimate right to resist when government becomes an enemy rather than a protector John Lock declared that government exists only by the consent of the governed, and when consent is betrayed revolution is not a crime of duty Taught us that liberty requires separation of powers of interest of the branches of government without it. He wrote Tenny Cresta and said that the social contract is not a thing of elite, but covenant finds us all a covenant is broken society collapses into a war of wolves, and what are all the wolves fatten on the lamb of the people. What is our condition now, but prove that the contract has been shredded in the name of profit and so we return to the simple truth that OLIVE do not care about NATIONS they do not care about communities or families or lives. They care about capital and capital no borders they will have rubles if it suits them and one in euros and their survival guaranteed and yours is negotiable And that is why we have to strip away this illusion that is our billionaires otherwise America’s billionaires otherwise the stock market proof otherwise your grocery bill proves otherwise the question is not whether the guard will look out for you because they won’t question whether you will reclaim the legacy Lock and Russ and you and Madison and Hamilton, handed you the right to say no the right to resist the right to remember that this government this economy this contract was supposed to serve the people not enslave them The right to look at soldiers in your street and ask is this what liberty looks like right down a collapsing dollar in demand who betrayed the faith of the world wants placed in us want you numb, silent, and afraid the philosophers want you awake and the founders for all their contradictions want you to find which boys will listen to?
Defiance til death!
