"Atlas Shouts" was first published in 2014, where it set the bar for providing powerful, historical evidence of widespread fiscal policy malpractice in the Federal government.  'Atlas' also showed banking law decay was commensurate with the evidence of broad social media manipulation on Facebook and Twitter, proven years later by Musk, the recent 2024 Missouri lawsuit, and recently admitted by Zuckerberg !  'Atlas' documents 2012 era connections between social media activists, the Democrat party, early forms of "safe spaces", coordinated media/social-influencer attacks, and social media embracing easily provable lies just after each lie appeared in legacy media headlines, as if by direct order.   All of these social trends were in full swing by 2014, yet "Atlas Shouts" was the only book to document it so carefully.   By 2017, this author was subsequently shadow banned after readership had risen to over 2000 people.  Shadow-banned for telling the truth. "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -Orwell "Atlas Shouts" was written years ago for the moment in the future when everyone woke up to the fact the media was widely misleading everyone.  Maybe 2024 is the year.  The book is a powerful "60 Minutes"-style narrative of the decay of social decorum and economic policy:  A powerful, fun to read book, written and organized in a manner which the common citizen can understand and digest quickly.  Clever summaries and quotes abound, to help remember the truths exposed within. Atlas Shouts A Modern Patriot Calls for Action By John Lofgren Abbott Press Copyright © 2014 John Lofgren All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-4582-1756-1 Contents Chapter 1: The Fog of Economic War, 1, Chapter 2: What Are The Nefarious Forces Driving Governance?, 27, Chapter 3: The Journey: Basic Economic Policy History, 40, Chapter 4: The Liberal Debates, 77, Chapter 5: The Columbo Deduction, 103, Chapter 6: Junto Club, 123, Chapter 7: What Happened? Why Did It Happen?, 128, Chapter 8: The Fraud, the Corruption, and the Peril: Six Mega-Corruptions of the Federal Government, 168, Chapter 9: Best Practices, 188, Chapter 10: Call to Action: Amend the Constitution, 203, Chapter 11: Appendix, 221, CHAPTER 1 THE FOG OF ECONOMIC WAR "History will have to record the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." —Martin Luther King, Jr. Fog has both physical and metaphorical implications. In the Civil War, the battle often could not be seen through cannon-blast smoke, musket smoke, and explosions. The total effect hid much of the carnage from viewers only a short distance away. Sometimes a messenger was lost or a message misunderstood causing battle confusion. General Stonewall Jackson was shot by one of his own soldiers as he crossed a picket line in the dark. That darkness was a type of metaphorical fog blinding his soldier from identifying his own leader. The commander who gets the best information, the one who sees through the fog of the battlefield and the fog of misinformation or excess information, can clearly make out a path forward to prosecute the battle and turn the enemy. That is what this book is—a path forward—a breeze to clear the fog. We must recognize ideological enemies for who they are by their actions, not their words. It is critical to note they are not military enemies—not yet—but ideological ones, and they are living among us. Secondly, as we move forward, we must learn to identify adversaries in order to learn how to work with them. (http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/25/ obama-tells-latinos-to-punish-our-enemies-the-gop/) What are two key ideologies now in play? The first is a belief that one man cannot be forced to serve another. Those who believe government cannot force an individual to serve another citizen call themselves "conservatives" or "constructionist" citizens. Their behaviors are gathered and described in Group 1 below. The second group is comprised of those who believe government can force an individual to serve others. They are called "socialists," "leftists," "Democrats," "progressives," the modern "Bush-Reagan" era neoconservatives, and "liberals." More detailed examples of their behaviors are described in Group 2. The behaviors of both are gathered and described in more detail in the following section. 1.1 Group 1—Conservatives, Constructionists For the course of this book, "conservatives" and "constructionists" are those who believe the government should focus on the following roles: • The federal government's role is protecting the individual from theft, deception, contract fraud, and rights abuse by the government, corporations or by fellow citizens. • The Constitution is to be read as intended by the Federalist Papers, which are constructionist principles. Constructionists demand the judiciary always rules by orig