Book Review: The Patriot's History of Globalism by Larry Schweikart

 

A Patriot's Guide to Globalism: Its Rise and Decline

Larry Schweikart

There were two things I really liked about this book. First, it was titled A Patriot's History of Globalism, and that is exactly what it was. It starts with monarchical globalism and moves through militaristic, diplomatic, scientific, financial, medical, and finally spiritual, as represented by Earth worship. All these overlapped; none succeeded. All of which builds to an optimistic final chapter, which demonstrates that globalism is in decline. Thus, the book is also true to its subtitle. A nonfiction book that delivers on its title. How often does that occur?

One concern I have about the final chapter's optimism is the series of seven preceding schemes. When an approach to global domination fails, the power-crazed just slip right over to another game plan. You can’t defeat these people. They are relentless. The Founders understood this characteristic of autocrats and designed a government that would hem them in with a constitutional republic that limited power, balanced it among the branches of government, and checked its exercise.  

As proof that the Founders understood globalists, Gouverneur Morris, the stylist or “Penman of the Constitution,” said during the Constitutional Convention,

"As to those philosophical gentlemen, those Citizens of the World as they call themselves, I did not wish to see any of them in our public Councils. I do not trust them. The men who can shake off their attachments to their own Country can never love any other.”

I concur with Morris. I do not trust them. I have never heard a globalist explain the structure of this governing body of an entire planet. It certainly won’t be modeled after the United States system. It has been around 250 years, and nobody has copied the most successful republic in history. In an autocrat’s eyes, our Constitution has two fatal flaws. The “checks and balances” thing throws a monkey wrench in authoritative control. The second flaw is that our system is far too simple for a bureaucrat. (The rejected European Constitution was 66,647 words in English; more than ten times the length of the U.S.A Constitution.) To a globalist, laws must be so complex only ordained priests can interpret them. 

You know, “trust the experts.”