Trump May Oppose CBDCs—But the Deep State Has Other Plans

De-Dollarization: The Empire Is Slipping The U.S. dollar once reigned supreme. But decades of reckless spending, debt monetization, and global bullying through sanctions have weakened trust. The BRICS nations—China, Russia, Brazil, India, and South Africa—aren’t just flirting with alternatives, they’re actively undermining the dollar. They’re not doing it with bullets, but with bytes. Digital currencies like China’s e-CNY are being tested for international trade. The goal? End the dollar’s reign without firing a shot. A CBDC is being sold as a defensive weapon to maintain dollar dominance. In reality, it’s a desperate act by a crumbling empire to cling to power—and it will be the American people who pay the price through surveillance, restricted access, and programmable limitations on how they can spend their own money. China’s Digital Yuan: Trojan Horse for Technocratic Tyranny The digital yuan isn’t just a currency—it’s an ideological virus. It fuses state surveillance with commerce, tracking every transaction, location, and individual behavior. And it’s already being exported across Asia and Africa like spyware disguised as convenience. In response, the D.C. war hawks and Wall Street technocrats are warning: “We need a digital dollar to compete.” That’s like saying we need our own prison because someone else built one first. The real risk isn’t being left behind in a currency race—it’s joining a global system of programmable, authoritarian money under the illusion of necessity. The Fed’s Quiet Coup: Project Hamilton and Beyond You didn’t vote for the Fed. You didn’t elect MIT researchers to decide how your money works. But here we are: Project Hamilton, a collaboration between the Boston Fed and MIT, is building the infrastructure of a CBDC under your nose. The same Federal Reserve that couldn’t foresee the 2008 crisis—or the inflation disaster of 2021—is now experimenting with a financial panopticon. Even if Trump halts this as president, the deep state within the Fed operates beyond electoral control. Central bankers are unelected and unaccountable. If they decide a digital dollar is coming, they’ll just wait for the “right crisis” to activate it. Programmable Money: Freedom With an Expiration Date CBDC advocates love to say “programmable money” makes stimulus faster. But let’s be clear: it also makes control absolute. Imagine this: the government deposits $2,000 in your digital wallet during a crisis—but you can’t spend it on gas, ammo, or meat. It expires in 30 days. You’re told where, when, and how you can use it. That’s not freedom—that’s rationing disguised as relief. The same playbook used during COVID—lockdowns, stimulus, mandates—could be replayed in a CBDC world with even tighter digital leashes. Big Banks and Fintechs: Wolves in Patriot Clothing CBDCs are marketed as a way to “bank the unbanked,” but don’t be fooled. The same institutions that redlined neighborhoods, financed wars, and laundered money for drug cartels are now lobbying to build the rails of this new system. Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, and Silicon Valley’s fintech crowd see dollar signs, not danger. CBDCs could eliminate clearing delays and automate compliance—but they’ll also automate censorship and seizure. The bankers want their cut. The government wants its control. You’re just the data point being harvested. Broken Payment Systems as a Pretext for Control Yes, ACH and check clearing are ancient relics. But the solution isn’t handing your wallet to the Federal Reserve. India’s UPI system is often touted as the gold standard for modernization. But it’s worth noting: UPI is tightly monitored, controlled by a central authority, and increasingly weaponized against dissent. The American version won’t be any better. It’ll just have a shinier PR campaign and bipartisan slogans like “inclusion,” “efficiency,” and “equity.” Financial Inclusion or State Dependency? Six million U.S. households are unbanked. That’s a failure of the current system, not a mandate to hand them over to a central bank’s control. Progressives argue that CBDCs will free the poor from payday lenders. But history tells us otherwise. Every time government steps in to “help,” dependency follows. Think food stamps, not freedom. If CBDCs replace cash and private banking, every American could be forced into a government wallet—and into permanent compliance. Sanctions-Proof Rivals: Digital Escapes From the Dollar Russia and Iran are building CBDCs to avoid SWIFT and bypass U.S. sanctions. The Beltway’s solution? Build a better surveillance system to track and weaponize global flows. But here’s the danger: in chasing foreign adversaries, Washington will destroy domestic liberty. Just like the Patriot Act targeted terrorists—then got turned on Americans. CBDCs aren’t about national security. They’re about total security for the state. Crisis as Cover: How Tyranny Gets Smuggled In Never forget: the income tax was “temporary.” So was the Federal Reserve. Both came during crisis. A CBDC will be rolled out under the same pretext—an emergency, a cyberattack, a financial collapse—and once it’s here, it won’t leave. Digital dollars will become the default, and cash will be vilified as dangerous, untraceable, or criminal. And if you opt out? You’re labeled a dissenter, a hoarder, or worse—a threat to democracy. Institutional Momentum: The Leviathan Doesn’t Sleep Even if Trump wins, he’ll be fighting a hydra. Every agency—the Fed, the Treasury, the IMF, the BIS—is already lining up behind CBDCs. The Bank of International Settlements has called CBDCs “the future of monetary systems.” This isn’t about partisan politics. It’s about global convergence. The real decision-makers wear no red or blue—they wear suits, speak in acronyms, and answer to no electorate. By the time America realizes what’s been built, the infrastructure will be in place, the contracts signed, and your freedom sold for convenience. Final Shot: This Ain’t About Technology—It’s About Power Trump’s anti-CBDC stance is a battle cry—but the war runs deeper. CBDCs aren’t just “inevitable innovation.” They’re a coordinated global shift toward programmable control over money, privacy, and movement. It’s the end of cash. The end of privacy. The end of permissionless exchange. And no, this train won’t stop at the ballot box. It stops when the people wake up, tear out the tracks, and reclaim what’s theirs. If history tells us anything, it’s this: tyrannies love crises. Empires collapse from within. And the greatest threat to freedom usually comes wrapped in a flag—and a promise to help.

Trump May Oppose CBDCs—But the Deep State Has Other Plans

Bill Brocius Jul 25

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