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I love this country.
I love it the way you love something you're terrified of losing with eyes wide open, hands trembling, and a heart full of both gratitude and grief. I love it the way every American loves it who has ever watched their child recite the Pledge of Allegiance and felt their throat tighten with pride. I love it the way I love Fourth of July and fireworks and hot dogs and apple pie.
And I'm writing this because I believe we are losing it.
Not to a foreign enemy. Not to a political party. But to a structure of power that the Constitution never anticipated, that "We the People" never approved, and that operates in plain sight while remaining almost entirely invisible.
I'm talking about the Fourth Branch of government: the one you were never taught about in civics class. The one that doesn't appear in any founding document. The one that now controls more wealth than most nations on Earth.
According to the Federal Reserve's own data, nonprofit organizations in the United States now control $14.1 trillion in total assets.
Let that number wash over you.
$14.1 trillion.
That's $4.0 trillion in real estate. $3.1 trillion in corporate equities. And here's the part that should make your blood run cold: $3.6 trillion in assets that the Federal Reserve doesn't even categorize. Three-point-six trillion dollars in something, and nobody is required to tell you what.
@YoungBlood some nonprofits, from your local church to some parachurch organizations haven't taken government money or take limited government grants. Others get their funding primarily from government so seem less like NGOs and more like... GOs. It's important to make a distinction.
Numbers like this for all nonprofits must include every church property, for example. Is that really the problem? Or is it the organizations used as an extension of government? Huge difference.
