To Survive, America Must Find A Beneficial Equilibrium

An unstable nation will eventually find stability. We conservatives need to control that process or lose America.

Allan J. Feifer | March 7, 2026

A state of equilibrium is a requirement for any successful and long-lasting relationship, whether personal, corporate, national, or even global. America is out of balance today. A healthy equilibrium reflects Adam Smith’s invisible hand theory of economics, the idea that when individuals pursue their own interests within a competitive market, their actions unintentionally promote the broader good of society. The core claim—that order, coordination, and efficiency can emerge without central direction.

Traditionally, Americans relied on a version of Smith’s theory: government will do the work of the people, leaving us with an industrious, God-centered, and family-oriented society. By breaking that essential promise, a reckoning is inevitable.

Today, much of the foundation on which the American miracle was built is being challenged bit by bit. It has not gone unnoticed by the average American, especially the traditional middle class, that something is happening that threatens to transform a nation of producers and individualists into a gaggle of dependents valued for their political contributions to the State rather than their inherent value, skills, and industriousness, and entirely reliant on a shrinking class of productive individuals. As long as those productive individuals keep grinding away, the rest of the world looks at us with greedy eyes and evil designs.

Much has been written that describes how divided we are; much less on exactly what the drivers are, or what the natural extension of a protracted state of displeasure by millions means on a variety of subjects, from elections to work ethic, staying in or even joining the........

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