Sliced White Bread And The American Dream

The Founders gave us a system that allowed us to create our own futures, but the Progressive federal government gave it away in 1913.

M. E. Boyd | July 24, 2026

Many respected national political commentators are breathless in their assessment of Marxism in all its forms as a national governing system. “It doesn’t work!” they say. When words fail, the mocking quips begin. The problem is, none of these commentators ever answer the logical question—“Why doesn’t socialism or communism, work?”

Perhaps it is because the answer is complex. The answer requires a sophisticated understanding of human nature, including its odd affinity for attaining the best and then substituting it for the worst. Fortunately for America, the Founders did tackle deep questions. About human nature, they concluded that: human beings are both good and evil; human beings respond to authority closest to their existence; and human beings require time to develop their full potential.

Though relatively young, many of the Founders were well educated in ancient, medieval, and then-modern governance systems and were determined to avoid mistakes made by civilizations that eventually declined. The chief error, they concluded, was a misunderstanding of the nature of man. The Founders, therefore, created a defensive system of diffused bottom-up power that they hoped would help lessen human evil and incentivize human good. Put another way, instead of simply controlling human beings through homogenization and brute force, the system the Founders created grants human beings a conditional........

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