Geopolitics
The Lockean Lie: How America's Founding Philosophy of Racism Paved the Path to Trump's Tyranny
The founding of the United States was a tragedy built on the genocide of Native Americans and the brutal enslavement of black people, with John Locke's philosophy providing the intellectual justification for this racialized violence. The greatest danger today is not the far-right's distortion of history, but a president actively dismantling democratic checks to pursue absolute power, revealing the enduring rot of a settler-colonial project that never truly valued freedom for all.
