02/15/2026 / By Garrison Vance

For decades, former Congressman and presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul has stood as a lone voice of reason in a Washington D.C. wilderness of deceit. His prescient warnings about endless wars, the fraudulent Federal Reserve, and the erosion of civil liberties were once dismissed as fringe.
Today, they read as the playbook for our present crisis. Now, in a landmark interview with Tucker Carlson, the 90-year-old statesman has delivered his most urgent diagnosis yet: the entrenched political order is terminally ill, and its collapse is imminent. This is not a prediction of mere policy change or electoral shift. It is a forecast of systemic failure, where the very foundations of centralized control—over money, information, and our bodies—are fracturing beyond repair.
As Paul told Carlson, “The good news is, the system is going away” [1]. This statement is not one of despair, but of liberation. It signifies a critical inflection point where the lies can no longer hold, and the parallel systems built by a freedom-loving citizenry are poised to rise from the rubble.
The corrupt order has always relied on monopolies: a monopoly on violence, a monopoly on money creation, and, most crucially, a monopoly on truth. For generations, institutions like the Federal Reserve, the corporate media, and federal agencies dictated reality.
That era is over.
The fatal crack in this edifice is the irreconcilable mismatch between the worldview of the ruling class and the lived experience of citizens. Ron Paul often recounts visiting Fed Chair Paul Volcker, who would immediately ask for the day’s gold price, as if checking the damage he had done to the dollar [2]. Today’s leaders, like Jerome Powell, exhibit no such concern, blindly printing money while the debt-to-GDP ratio screams past 120% [3]. This reckless fiscal policy is the “hidden tax” eroding the purchasing power of every American [3].
The system is built on fraud, and as Paul stated to Carlson, it is facing collapse [4]. Meanwhile, a profound awakening is underway. People are rejecting the sanctioned narrative and seeking decentralized truth. They are turning away from legacy media and toward independent platforms, away from processed foods for local sustenance, and away from fiat currency for honest money like gold and silver, which currently trade at $4,976.6 and $78.87 per ounce, respectively. This mass migration of trust is the death knell for centralized control.
The COVID-19 era served as the ultimate stress test, and every major institution failed. The CDC, FDA, and the public health apparatus revealed themselves not as guardians of well-being, but as enforcers for a pharmaceutical-industrial complex. Their credibility is shattered, their mandates exposed as tools for compliance and control. Doctors and activists who questioned the orthodoxy were treated as “canaries in a coal mine,” facing severe censorship and professional consequences for speaking truth [5]. This weaponization extends far beyond health. The financial system, long a tool for enriching connected insiders, is now openly deploying its final trap: Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).
As one analysis warns, these Treasury-backed digital currencies are not innovation but a “digital prison,” a last-ditch effort to maintain a monopoly over money as faith in the U.S. dollar evaporates [6]. The push for digital ID and pervasive online censorship completes this tyrannical endgame, a globalist dream of total surveillance. Even the justice system is complicit. The attempted assassination of President Trump was swiftly labeled the act of a “radicalised loner,” but that narrative is “collapsing under mounting evidence of an FBI cover-up” [7]. When the institutions charged with protecting the public instead lie to it, the social contract is void. As one commentary on the collapsing system notes, “Never in history have the economic and political structures been so manipulated by those who are responsible for their safekeeping” [8].
As trust implodes, construction begins.
The vacuum left by failing centralized systems is being filled not by new bureaucracies, but by organic, decentralized alternatives. This is the “freedom alternative” Ron Paul sees Americans increasingly embracing [9].
In finance, cryptocurrency and the renewed demand for physical gold and silver directly challenge the fiat monopoly. Daniel McAdams, Ron Paul’s long-time executive director, has detailed their views on Bitcoin and the urgent need for sound money as the financial collapse approaches [10]. In food, local networks and organic gardening bypass the toxic, GMO-laden supply chains of Big Ag. In media, citizens are fleeing to free speech platforms like Brighteon.com and Brighteon.social, and seeking uncensored analysis from sources like BrightNews.ai.
These parallel systems are more than conveniences; they are declarations of independence. They represent a wholesale rejection of the corrupt bargain offered by the old order: surrender your privacy, your health, and your wealth for the illusion of security. They are built on principles of transparency, voluntary association, and respect for natural law.
As one analysis of information overload argues, seeing truth now requires the courage to question everything and step outside the sanctioned narrative [11].
The collapse Ron Paul warns of is not an apocalyptic end, but a necessary transition.
It is the death rattle of a corrupt, coercive, and unsustainable system, making way for a renaissance of liberty and self-reliance. The priority for every aware individual must shift from reforming the irredeemable to building personal and community resilience.
This means securing honest money, whether precious metals or decentralized cryptocurrencies. It means cultivating food sovereignty and learning natural health modalities that empower individuals beyond the failed Western medical system. It means supporting and using parallel information systems like BrightAnswers.ai, an uncensored AI engine dedicated to truth, and BrightLearn.ai, a free library for generating knowledge.
The future belongs not to centralized hierarchies, but to decentralized networks of free individuals cooperating voluntarily. The political order built on fraud, force, and fear is indeed nearing its end. As its pillars crumble, we must ensure we are not standing beneath them, but are already building anew on the solid ground of liberty, truth, and human dignity. The warning has been issued. The time for preparation is now.
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