Most folks think America has mastered science because we are putting out so much amazing technology today. Nope, America today is flunking the greatest, grandaddiest science of all, political science. Because of that we are poised to lose all the rest of our science, including all our glorious technology.

Have you ever heard of the Dark Ages? The Dark Ages are the thousand years or so when Europe fell into monarchy and couldn’t get out of it. Natural science and social science became unpopular. Education went south. Libraries fell into disuse or were destroyed. The only thing the people had to know was how and when to do what the king said to do. It took a scientific revolution to get out of the mess that monarchy created in Europe. Today, we are poised to relive that whole plunge into scientific darkness. Forget about Mars, folks, we are headed back to hell-on-earth autocracy.

There are only two basic systems of political science—democracy and monarchy. The first is based on good science, and the second is based on the worst possible fake science imaginable. Today we are plunging headlong into monarchy. Have you noticed how much we love anything fake today, including fake truth, i.e., lies? Monarchy is the most discredited, anti-science, anti-humanitarian political system ever invented. It is also something America knows virtually nothing about, because America never opens up a history book about any other country than our own. European-style monarchy is about to eat us for dinner, folks, and all we can think about is the upcoming football or basketball game, or the latest winter fashion. Political science is the thing that can save us from our current free fall into chaos and tyranny.

Here is how we do politics today. We size up the physical look of the candidates, listen to them speak, check out their policies, and go out and vote. Nothing else concerns us. Whatever we vote for is what we live with for four years. The only problem is, when we vote for monarchy without realizing it, we have to live with monarchy for maybe 40 years, or more likely 400 years. Unfortunately, both political parties are headed for autocracy and ultimately monarchy. It’s just that one party is headed there more quickly than the other.

The 5,500-year recorded history of the earth matters folks. That history, no matter whether east or west, is focused 100% on political science. Our own Bible is a perfect example. People think it is a book about religion, the kind of religion that we practice when we go to church today. It is not. It is about history and everything that happens in history. It is therefore all about science, and every variety of science. In fact, religion was originally all about science, all about exploring the unknown, including getting in touch with God, or the gods, to help people figure out how to manipulate the natural world to our advantage.

To be even more specific, the history of the earth and all its peoples, as summarized in books like the Bible, and, say, the Vedas in east Indian culture, is about the great grandaddy science of all, political science. In our own Bible, the Ten Commandments is the political science text that both Judaism and Christianity used to guide their democracies. In that brief body of law, there are statements like the sixth commandment, “Thou shalt not kill,” and the eighth commandment, “Thou shalt not steal.” In monarchist political science, those two highly ethical democratic laws are transformed into “Thou shalt kill any and every rival for the crown,” and “Theft of the property of the common folk by the wealthy aristocracy is a must-do way of life.”

The second commandment against graven images is a frontal assault against kingship as well. Kings publish images of themselves on precious metal coins to encourage people to worship the crown, and they accumulate national treasury items like molten idols or gold bullion to keep themselves in power.

It is incumbent on Americans today to pick up a book of European or Middle Eastern or Asian royalist history. History reveals all. England would be a good place to start for English speakers. After learning a bunch of stuff that will shock you, go out there and fight for democracy.