Mike Steger of Promethean Overviews lays out the case that the United States is facing a new kind of civil conflict — not between states, but between economic systems.
He argues that a modern confederacy has emerged through globalization, centered in sanctuary cities that function as political, financial, and cultural strongholds for a failing global order.
Steger traces how globalization hollowed out American cities, destroyed manufacturing, and replaced productive industry with dependency, crime, and economic despair.
He contends that today’s unrest, protests, and radical activism are not about immigration or justice, but about defending a modern plantation system that benefits globalist financial interests while keeping working Americans locked out of real opportunity.
Drawing on history from the Roman Empire through the British Empire and the American Civil War, the episode connects past systems of cheap labor and financial control to today’s global economic model.
Steger contrasts this with the American System of Hamilton, Washington, and Lincoln — an economic vision built on manufacturing, high wages, infrastructure, and national development.
The discussion also examines President Trump’s industrial and trade policies as a form of strategic economic warfare aimed at breaking the power of globalization and rebuilding the nation's productive capacity.
Steger argues that the real threat to globalist power is not protest movements, but a unified working class brought back into a shared national mission through industrial growth.
This episode explores who benefits from urban decay, why cities have been turned into zones of despair, and how rebuilding American industry is the key to restoring sovereignty, prosperity, and civilization itself.
Chapters
00:00 The Rise of a Modern Confederacy
01:16 Sanctuary Cities and Globalist Power
01:50 What Globalization Did to Our Cities
03:55 Who the Globalists Really Are
07:52 The Modern Plantation Economy
11:17 The Only Cure: Industrial Growth
16:24 Rebuilding Civilization
18:19 Time to Build
