Orthodox economic theory, too, has been consistently suppressed by those in power.
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution... has been gutted. As for the Fifth Amendment... the right to remain silent is treated as strictly a personal right. If you work for a corporation—as 99% of people do—you are not granted such rights, because corporations themselves do not possess them. When you look at things one by one... let’s consider a recently introduced bill. It would allow the military to operate domestically, denying people access to counsel and detaining them—even if they are citizens. There is no right to go to court, no right to hire a lawyer, and no right to a trial. One could even be held indefinitely until death—all in the name of "counter-terrorism." But how does one determine if someone is a terrorist? Normally, there should be a right to "due process," yet this new bill denies that right. You are simply detained; there is no lawyer, no judge, no public trial, and not even a right to know what charges have been brought against you. Nothing at all. In short, we are in a situation perilously close to Nazism.
This is exactly how Rome collapsed. In 238 AD, the Roman Emperor Maximinus declared that all the wealth of the Roman Empire belonged to him—much like the U.S. today. That was all it took. And what happened next—the same thing we are likely to see in the coming years—was that when the wealthy were targeted (as the Romans did), people began hoarding their funds. They stopped investing, hid their money away, and ceased depositing it in banks. Consequently, the velocity of money declined. And it is this drop in velocity that drives economic decline. Even during the Great Depression, interest rates fell to 1%, yet no one wanted to borrow money, because they saw no opportunities to generate a profit. We are repeating, one by one, every mistake made by every past government. The root cause of all this evil is a fraud that has engulfed the nation—an economic policy claiming everything is fine while ignoring the historical lesson that a country cannot sustain itself without curbing debt. Those in power never take action to address the situation by scaling back their own spending, and legitimate economic theories have been consistently suppressed by that very power.
Ultimately, the only solution is to change the political system rather than the economy—which means replacing the people involved. The U.S. operates under a republican system, where refusing military service leads straight to prison; in a democracy, however, such refusal is not legally punishable. The U.S. republican system is destined to collapse by 2032, giving way to a new political order; if this fails to happen, economic ruin will continue into a living hell with no way out. This is because the current system—driven by war and economics, devoid of politicians who prioritize self-restraint or public duty, and mired in a hell of bribery—has proven itself to be in a destructive phase.