Originally published Dec 12, 2025 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.
STAFF
“Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.” – John Locke
“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community.” – Valerie Jarrett
Our Bellwether storyline of 2025 is the dramatic erosion of individual liberty standards in three nations that were early leaders in the project that gave rise to those standards, “liberalism.” The first nation, England, may be ahead of the second nation, Canada, in killing that individual liberty spirit, but the third nation, America, is not far behind.
Last month, we suggested our top story of the year would be the first year of the second term of President Donald Trump. However, that story is only part of the much-larger story, the death of John Locke’s civilization and the emergence of a new one (or new ones).
In America, buttressed as it is through vast swathes of its territory populated by legally armed American citizens, John Locke is making a comeback in many ways, even if just it’s just in slowing down the bleeding.
In other ways, however, he’s all-but died already, especially (but not exclusively) behind enemy territory, Democrat-ruled lands.
We will highlight some of the bellwether stories within each nation’s own John Locke narrative. We will begin our analysis with a brief explanation of why we chose John Locke to be the bellwether of the larger story this year’s bellwether is framed within.
A. JOHN LOCKE’S BODY
John Locke was a 17th Century philosopher who created the underlying presupposition regarding the nature of valuing in governance that has created the civilizations featured in this report, Britain, Canada, and America. That underlying presupposition is that a society cannot progress if it cannot pursue truth. It cannot pursue truth if it does not respect the rights of others to be wrong.
The way we Americans would word it is this: Your rights end where your actions harm others. This is not only the standard individuals should live by, but it’s also the standard that will allow truth to flourish, and thus people to flourish, as a result. But where truth is oppressed in the name of protecting the weak from wrong thoughts, truth dies, followed by flourishing.
While Locke was a Christian, he was also an Empiricist, meaning he believed meaning was mostly derived from the perception of the material. He advocated the notion that the human mind was a blank slate, a tabula rasa.
He got to God through material understanding, saying, “We are capable of knowing certainly that there is a God. Though God has given us no innate ideas of himself; though he has stamped no original characters on our minds, wherein we may read his being; yet having furnished us with those faculties our minds are endowed with, he hath not left himself without witness: since we have sense, perception, and reason, and cannot want a clear proof of him, as long as we carry ourselves about us.”
The enemy attacking John Locke was born from his “liberalism,” though some “classic liberals” still claim a liberal center can hold. As of now, that does NOT appear to be case anymore for the liberal project. Perhaps it has hit that Kantean dialectical wall, where reasons pushes through into nonsense, which is what many claim liberalism ultimately did through “wokeness,” the alleged natural outcome of liberalism.
From Locke, for instance, we get the notion of “progress” as a necessary component of “human flourishing,” a notion the “Woke” still rely on today. From Locke, though, we get the American justification for these same restrictions on government power, though we add the assumption of a creator as the source for the recognition of “rights” of individuals. Still, that assumption of a creator is based on “reason” (or at least the mere capacity for reason), it does not come from a revelatory source.
This puts the liberal project in danger, but need we use the Lockean justification for an “individual liberty” respecting government or can we provide another justification for that claim? We believe we can provide an alternative justification, but one which is limited to communities that themselves are not compelled to use coercion as a means of socio-cultural or political influence.
This justification does not rest on anything but the pragmatic realization by such communities that a government bounded by individual liberty allows all participating communities opportunities to sustainably flourish on their own unique terms.
A government bounded by individual liberty allows member communities the space to freely practice their own standards and beliefs while also benefiting from the enriched value exchange potential between like-minded “neighbors,” other communities with their own standards and beliefs.
“Americanism” can be a pragmatic bridging standard between communities not willing to bear the sword in the name of their “god.”
This last year delivered serious blows to the corpse of John Locke. One hopes what rises has the spirit of individual liberty without the need for “justification” beyond an agreed standard between peaceful communities.
It is not the state’s role to settle such matters, it is merely the state’s sole justification for power, the fruit of a state that limits its power in recognition of individual liberty.
B. SOVIET UK
Here is the UK’s descent into madness told through the briefs we created through 2025. They are listed not in chronological order but in our editorial view of their importance and relation to one another. This format will be used for Canada and the U.S. as well:
- JANUARY 2025 – UK CONTINUES DESCENT INTO LEFTIST AUTHORITARIAN MADNESS – The Labour Party is making every effort it can to destroy what’s left of Britain, with three actions showcasing the further devolution of the country towards authoritarianism.
Kier Starmer went to Ukraine to sign a “100-year deal,” meaning he envisions a one-party state if he feels he can make such guarantees. That one-party state will move closer to the Chinese Social Credit Score model with the start of its authoritarian Digital ID program, which it hopes will make all of its citizens, especially the natives, trackable. The coup-de-gras might be the Labour Party’s decision to not open an inquiry on child rape gangs that have been forming in Pakistani “communities.”
- NOVEMBER 2025 – UK THINKS WE’RE STILL A COLONY? – Ofcom, the United Kingdom’s communications regulator has recently declared that Americans are not protected from UK prosecution for violating their soviet-styled speech laws when their social media posts reach their citizens. So far, talk of bills being written to deal with this foreign intrusion on American sovereignty is all that’s been seen in response to this assertion by the UK. They do this while they push forward with Online censorship, Digital ID, and now mass arrests of UK protesters.
- 3. SEPTEMBER 2025 – AFTER MASSIVE “UNITE THE KINGDOM” RALLY, STARMER’S RESPONSE IS TO CALL THE RALLY RACIST – Prime Minister Keir Starmer is relying on the old rules of engagement when dealing with resistance to his anti-British planvasion plans. This time, in response to a half a million plus rallying in support of the British nation and national identity, Starmer chose to spread misinformation and lies about the rally.
He declared, “People have a right to peaceful protest. It is core to our country’s values. But we will not stand for assaults on police officers doing their job or for people feeling intimidated on our streets because of their background or the color of their skin. Britain is a nation proudly built on tolerance, diversity, and respect. Our flag represents our diverse country, and we will never surrender it to those that use it as a symbol of violence, fear, and division.”
- JULY 2025 – UK LABOUR TO CHANGE VOTING LAWS TO MAKE CHEATING EASIER– The anti-UK government currently controlling the UK, Labour, has announced plans to rig the next election by lowering the voting age to 16 so they can get more freshly indoctrinated children to vote for their own demise. They also promise to “soften” voter ID laws to assure illegal alien invaders of the country can keep the anti-UK party in power.
- JUNE 2025 – BRITAIN PASSES BILL THAT LEGALIZES EUTHANASIA – The Terminally Ill Adults bill passed the UK parliament by a narrow 314-291 vote. The bill will allow mentally competent adults with 6 months or less to live to choose to be euthanized by medical staff. The concern is that the bill will start off with limited candidates for euthanasia, but keep expanding like Canada’s law has, which now even allows the mentally ill to “choose” death.
- APRIL 2025 – UK’S WOKE POLICIES LEADING TO “MISINFORMATION,” GOVERNMENT UNWITTINGLY ADMITS – The United Kingdom’s Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee issued a report that cited the policy of concealing the ethnicity of a suspect led to race riots. Those race riots happened after “false claims” spread online that an illegal immigrant stabbed three children to death. These “rumors” spread because the police failed to offer an identification to begin with.
ED.NOTE: The non-illegal was the son of illegal immigrants. Axel Rudakubana, 18, was the “British teen” the media reported on. His parents are Rwandan “immigrants.” He was later sentenced to 52 years minimum in prison, where he is currently enjoying reading Harry Potter books.
On December 18, 2026, Luke Yarwood was sentenced to 18 months in jail for tweeting in response to the Southport stabbings, which happened in 2024. His posts were seen a total of 33 times. They called for “slaughter in the streets” and encouraged people to “head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.”
C. CANADA
Canada’s descent into anti-liberty values can be seen in its doubling down on the “woke ideology” and its continued expansion of “euthanasia” as a means of culling from the social the unproductive and disruptive.
Here is the bellwether of their reality told in briefs from 2025:
- FEBRUARY 2025 – CANADA’S UNELECTED NEW PRIME MINISTER COMES OUT HARD AGAINST TRUMP, AMERICA – Now former PM Justin Trudeau’s party, the Liberal Party, has selected their new leader, and thus Canada’s new unelected Prime Minister, Mark Carney. The new PM faces re-election by this October. He has a well-documented history of being “anti-Trump.” He came to power after Trudeau announced his resignation in the face of wilting polling numbers for his party.
He began his campaign by telling his supporters, “Canada will never become part of America in any way, shape, or form… Donald Trump, as we know, has put unjustified tariffs on what we build, on what we sell, on how we make a living. He’s attacking Canadian workers, families, and businesses. We cannot let him succeed. And we won’t.” He later demanded, “American, SHOW US RESPECT.”
His bellicose anti-American rhetoric was presaged by a high-ranking member of his party, Chrystia Freeland, who was also a Liberal Party Leader candidate. She stated in her leadership campaign, “The U.S. is turning predator and so what Canada needs to do is work closely with our democratic allies, our military allies. I would start with our Nordic Partners, specifically Denmark, which is also being threatened, and our European NATO allies. I would be sure that France and Britain were there, who possess nuclear weapons.” Read full report
- MAY 2025 – CANADA DOUBLES DOWN ON WOKE AS ALBERTA CONSIDERS SEPARATION – Canada has doubled down on its commitment to woke authoritarianism, re-electing a Liberal government led by woke globalist Mark Carney, who promises to mostly keep the same dystopian course Canada is already going down.
At one point the conservative, Pierre Poilievre, led the Labor Party by 20 points, then PM Justin Trudeau stepped aside, and Poilievre chose to run away from Trump and MACA, Make Canada Great Again. Carney’s party holds a minority plurality with 170 seats, 2 seats short of a majority.
As a response, the province of Alberta has introduced Bill 54, which would allow for a referendum on Albertan separatism in light of Canada’s doubling down on a far-left government that puts ideology over people, party over Albertan sovereignty, and well-being. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith stated “I believe in Alberta sovereignty within a united Canada. However, there is a citizen referenda process that if citizens want to put a question on a ballot and get enough of their fellow citizens to sign that petition, then those questions will be put forward. Again, I don’t want to prejudge what a question might be.”
- APRIL 2025 – SUICIDE IS BEING PUSHED ON AILING CANADIANS? – Dr. Ramona Coelho, a committee member on Ontario’s MAiD Death Review Committee, is accusing doctors of pushing patients aggressively towards suicide in increasingly questionable situations. She accused the institution itself of “rushing to death” through quick approvals of Canada’s euthanasia program, called MAiD (Medical Aid in Dying).
She said, “These cases highlight how vulnerable individuals, having lost the capacity to consent, may be coerced or unduly influenced to die – whether through financial abuse, caregiver burnout, or other pressures – reminding us that the stakes are high – life and death, no less.”
- OCTOBER 2025 – 90K PEOPLE EUTHANIZED BY CANADA SINCE “ASSISTED SUICIDE” BECAME LAW IN 2016 – So far, 90,000 people have taken advantage of Canada’s law, MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) which legalizes assisted suicide. In 2024, there were 16,500 MAID suicides, which accounted for 5% of total deaths that year.
Canada’s average wait time to see a specialist is now at 27.7 weeks, an all-time high, and this fact alone has led to documented suicides, including from a Winnipeg woman who wrote just before her MAID suicide, “I could have had more time if I had more help.”
- NOVEMBER 2025 – CANADA WANTS MOLOCH TO HAVE A DOCTOR’S LICENSE – Canada is now moving to add children to the growing list of people who can be “eligible” for “medically assisted in dying” suicide (MAID). So far, being poor, being disabled, being chronically ill, being depressed, suffering for autism, suffering from PTSD (even if you’re a veteran) qualifies you for MAID. Now, euthanasia advocates are moving their demands from MAID for the ADULT TERMINALLY ILL ONLY to “let’s not let age be a limit.”
D. AMERICA
In America, we have Trump’s MAGA turning a blind eye while Trump does decidedly un-American things, while the DNC’s base increasingly supports violence as a means of political persuasion. The briefs of 2025 will follow first with the DNC, then with President Trump. The briefs start off with the true bellwether of the DNC Progmerica, Virginia’s Attorney General Jay Jones, who easily won the election despite being caught wanting to MURDER his political opponent and his family:
- OCTOBER 2025 – VA AG WANTS TO MURDER GOP CHILDREN, DEMOCRATS CONTINUE TO SUPPORT HIM – Virginia’s current Attorney General, Democrat Jay Jones had private text messages exposed that revealed his desire to kill his GOP opponent. He claimed that if he had two bullets, his GOP opponent, and two of the evilest people in human history, he’d use both bullets to kill his opponent. He later expressed desire to kill the opponent’s children.
Since his text messages were revealed, it’s also been exposed he promoted killing cops as a way to change their racist behavior. Yet despite all that, the Democratic Party, including their candidate for Governor, continue to support Jones. No top national Democrat has called on him to quit the race. He remains endorsed by all the major gun control groups and top members of the Virginia General Assembly.
ED.NOTE: He went on to win the election. Less than half of VA voters thought his text were disqualifying. John Locke’s spirit was not in Virginia that night.
- JULY 2025 – DNC CRIMINAL MEDIA, POLITICIANS, PUSH TO INCITE, ENABLE VIOLENCE AGAINST ICE AGENTS – The Democrat Party is overtly becoming the party of insurrection, inciting violence against Americans. Michigan Democrats are pushing for a law that would make it illegal for ICE agents to wear masks.
The criminal media is doing its part, pushing lies intended to incite violence against ICE agents. Daily Kos’ headline, “ICE is paying big bucks to come back and terrorize immigrants,” might as well be an order to its insurrectionist base to kill the fascist. Crooks and Liar’s headline, “Tom Homan Shifts ICE Detention Goal Posts, As Fascists Do,” puts an assassination target directly on the border czar himself. against the republic.
- SEPTEMBER 2025 – CALIFORNIA LAW WOULD UNMASK ICE; DHS TELLS THEM TO POUND SAND – The insurrectionist state of California passed legislation intended to blunt efforts by the Trump administration to remove illegal aliens from their lands. One bill, signed into law by Gavin Newsom (D-CA), would make it illegal for Federal ICE Agents to wear masks during their operations. The move is intended to help terrorists find the agents at their homes and hurt them and their families.
- NOVEMBER 2025 – FOREIGNERS GAVE THE DNC NGOS OVER $2 BILLION – In recent years, more than $2 billion has been sent to DNC-aligned far-left anti-Americanist groups, many with ties to Antifa affiliations, with no checks by regulators. A report from Americans for Public Trust (APT) has exposed the foreign money pipeline driving anti-American hate through DNC-affiliated groups.
- NOVEMBER 2025 – DEMOCRATS TELL SOLDIERS TO DISOBEY TRUMP’S ORDERS – Senator Mark Kelly (R-AZ) led 5 Democrat U.S. legislators in a viral video campaign appealing to the military to “refuse illegal orders.” Now, Kelly could face a military recall and court martial, while all six face potential treason charges, The video campaign was called “Don’t Give Up the Ship.” One legislator, Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), when pressed, could not identify any specific “illegal orders.”
President Trump’s suggestion that treason means hanging triggered House Democrats to call the Capital Police for reasons not given. Since the viral video, more Democrat legislators have come out in support of the open call for military members and intelligence officials to commit, in essence, treason.
- NOVEMBER 2025 – TRUMP ADMIN MOVING ONTO MILITARY BASES IN WAKE OF RISING PROGMERICAN THREATS – U.S. officials are increasingly moving themselves and their families onto military bases in response to rising threats from within that are connected to the usual Progmerican, DNC blue shirts threats. In addition to the DNC threats, the officials are also facing an “ongoing foreign threat.”
In response to this ratcheting up of threats, the Trump administration is building “a quick reactionary force” in every state through the National Guard to deal with the rising DNC blue-shirts threats. Some of the officials include Marco Rubio.
- SEPTEMBER 2025 – TRUMP LOOKS TO RESTORE GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA BAN LIFTED UNDER OBAMA, TO BE CALLED THE “CHARLIE KIRK ACT” – In what would be another blow to the DNC’s narrative control machine, President Trump has endorsed the plan to reactive the Smith-Mundt act. This act prevented the U.S. government from creating or paying for propaganda aimed at U.S. citizens. The act was rescinded in Section 1078 of the National Defense Authorization Act in 2013 under President Obama. The act will be called the Charlie Kirk Act.
ED.NOTE: This promise has yet to be fulfilled and appears largely forgotten.
- MAY 2025 – PALANTIR GIVEN KEYS TO SPY ON AMERICANS – The Trump administration has handed over American personal data to the data management company Palantir, a company headed by Peter Theil, who was also a major early supporter of Vice President JD Vance. The administration’s efforts to create a central database for multiple departments to share seem incongruous with his anti-Deep State public stance.
There is unease amongst Trump’s base about the creation of a tool the Deep State has always wanted to have, central monitoring of Americans’ personal daily data. Right now, Palantir will be (or allegedly has already been) using this tool to help round up illegal aliens, and it is in this guise that the administration may hope to convince his base to go along with such an anti-MAGA action.
- AUGUST 2025 – TRUMP DEFENDS DECISION TO ALLOW 600K CHINESE STUDENTS TO COME TO AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES – In a move that seems to be an absolute reversal of his previous policies, President Trump has announced plans to allow 600,000 Chinese students to go to American universities, though they can only stay for 4 years. Trump defended the decision, claiming, “We’re getting along very well with China…it’s very insulting to say ‘students can’t come here.’” The White House also clarified this is not allowing MORE students in than were already being allowed, it’s simply not decreasing in numbers from the previous administration.
He offered more defense, further claiming, “Because they’ll go out and start building schools … but I like that [China’s] students come here. I like that other countries’ students come here. And you know what would happen if they didn’t? Our college system would go to hell, very quickly. … And it wouldn’t be the top colleges; it would be colleges that struggle on the bottom. …
And I told this to President Xi: That we’re honored to have their students here. Now with that, we check, and we’re careful, and we see who’s there … But we have a tremendous college system, the best in the world. Nobody even close – that’s why China sends them here. You can call it an industry if you want … I’m honored to have the students from China come here.”
- AUGUST 2025 – IS NATIONALIZING INTEL THE CONSERVATIVE THING TO DO? – Efforts by Donald Trump to de facto nationalize a part of the chipmaking company Intel are being met by stiff resistance and confusion from his conservative base. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said of Trump’s plan to purchase 10% of the company, “If socialism is government owning the means of production, wouldn’t the government owning part of Intel be a step toward socialism? Terrible idea.”
SUMMARY
In the UK, a statement of faith in a public street could get you plaudits or prison, depending on whether your god was Christian or any other god. In the UK, a statement of pride in the English race will get you imprisoned, while a statement of pride in any “non-white” race will get you plaudits.
Now, their laws reflect the woke ideology. Social justice has replaced individual justice. The case is decided by the party’s social class; if it’s English, or even just culturally British, not only is it not protected, but defending it publicly is likely committing a felony.
In some ways Canada is ahead of the UK, but in other ways the UK is ahead of Canada. When it comes to free thought, the UK is now rocketing past Canada as far as assaulting it. Under Starmer, jury courts are now suspended for criminal charges threatening less than 3 years prison time. This unilateral decision alone should show the British that a constitution might be better than common law after all, for, in principle, the common law standards of the British would never allow such moves, not even from the King. Ask Charles I about overstepping his authority, or James II.
AP’s coverage of the news reflects its ties to the globalist left regime. It sanitizes the news with the sales pitch Labour itself is using. Its headline said, “UK government plans to scrap some jury trials in an attempt to clear a court backlog.”
While the UK is just pushing through Euthanasia bills, Canada reveals its assault on the principles of individual liberty by pushing euthanasia on an increasingly broad swathe of people, which soon will include children and already includes the disabled and the depressed.
In Canada, the wait list to see a doctor is already leading some to choose euthanasia instead.
The commodification of the soul is even more advanced in Canada than it is in the UK, though the UK most likely is about to surpass them should their power remain as consolidated as it currently is (despite the government’s historic unpopularity).
In all three nations we see the national press, the established press, the corporate press in each country acting as content marketers for the far-left party either in power or seeking to return to power. The press is not the fourth estate, as it would emerge first in England and then in America (and then, through most Western countries), it is the PARTY ESTATE.
In America, the press seems to push knowing lies intended to get Americans harmed or killed, all in service of the party, the DNC. The party itself is more than willing to incite violence against Americans and will openly continue to endorse major candidates for major offices even AFTER they are exposed as wanting to murder their political opponent’s family.
They are social justice warriors, meaning they’re willing to destroy things to change the values in America from individual justice to social justice. While this anti-American “justice” hasn’t fully taken over in American courts, it’s certainly increasingly encroaching on it.
So long as Democrats rule, it will continue to encroach until it becomes the new Rule of Law in a land that used to be America, but is now Progmerica, the nation that grew within America as a parasite then shed her dead body when the beast could emerge on its own.
Social Justice is justice based on your social identity, not American Rule of Law. Its standards are on their face unconstitutional whenever they are forced on Americans, be it by government or corporations. The case is not judged impartially, according to the facts, and according to the same legal standards that are applied to everyone else; the case is judged by the standing of your social identity.
Yet even the only credible opposition to the DNC, MAGA, is led by a man who appears to associate greatness with wealth more than he does individual liberty. Trump is to America what Canada once was to America, a close facsimile, but lacking a fundamental Americanist bulwark (as witnessed by how rapidly Canada lost its gun rights once the far left decided it was time to disarm the opposition).
Thus, this year, John Locke has nearly died in the UK, is all but dead in Canada, and is on his last legs in America.
FURTHER RESOURCES:
Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty – Dan Jones
America’s Founding Documents – National Archives
