(This is a transcript from a YouTube video)

If I wanted America to fail, to follow not lead, to suffer not prosper, to despair not dream, I'd start with energy.

I'd cut of America's supply of cheap, abundant energy. I couldn't take it by force, so I'd make Americans feel guilty about using the energy that heats their homes, fuels their cars, runs their businesses and powers their economy.

I'd make cheap energy expensive, so that expensive energy would seem cheap. I would empower unelected bureaucrats to all but outlaw America's most abundant sources of energy; after banning its use in America, I'd make it illegal for American companies to ship it overseas.

If I wanted America to fail, I'd use their schools to teach one generation of Americans that their factories and their cars will cause a new ice age, and I'd muster a straight face so that I could teach the next generation that they're causing Global Warming. When it's cold out, I'd call it climate change instead.

I'd imply that Americas cities and factories could run on wind power and wishes, I'd teach children how to ignore the hypocrisy of condemning logging, mining and farming, while having roofs over their heads, heat in their homes and food on their tables.

I would never teach children that the free market is the only force in human history to uplift the poor, establish the middle class and create lasting prosperity. Instead, I'd demonize prosperity itself, so they will not miss, what they will never have.

If I wanted America to fail, I would create countless new regulations and seldom cancel old ones. They would be so complicated that only bureaucrats, lawyers and lobbyists could understand them, that way small businesses with big ideas wouldn't stand a chance, and I would never had to worry about another Thomas Edison, Henry Ford or Steve Jobs.

I would ridicule less flat earthers; those who urge them to lower energy costs by increasing supply, and when the evangelists of common sense try to remind people about the laws of supply and demand, I'd enlist the sympathetic media to drown them out.

If I wanted America to fail, I'd empower unaccountable bureaucracy seeded in a distant capital to bully Americans out of their dreams and their property rights. I'd send federal agents to raid guitar factories for using the wrong kind of wood, I'd force homeowners to tear down their own homes, Built on their own land, and make it almost impossible to farm, miners to mine, loggers to log and builders to built.

Because I don't believe in free markets, I'd invent false ones; I'd devise fictitious products like "Carbon Credits" and trade them in imaginary markets. I'd convince people that this would "Create Jobs" and be "Good for the Economy"

If I wanted America to fail, for every concern I'd invent a Crisis, and for every crisis I'd invent the cause, like shutting down entire industries and killing tens of thousands of jobs, in the name of saving Spotted Owls, and when everyone learned the stunning irony, that the owls where victims of their larger cousins and not people, it would already be decades to late.

If I wanted America to stop commerce than to start it, easier to kill jobs then create them, more fashionable to resent success then to seek it. When industries seek to create jobs I'd file lawsuits to stop them and make taxpayers pay-for my lawyers.

If I wanted America to fail, I'd would transform the Environmental Agenda from a document of conversation to an economic suicide pact. I would concede entire industries to our economic rivals by imposing regulations that cost trillions. I would celebrate those who preach environmental austerity in public while indulging a lavish lifestyle in private. I'd convince Americans that Europe has it right-and that America has it wrong.

If I wanted America to fail, I would prey on the goodness and the decency of ordinary Americans. I would only need to convince them that all of this was for the greater good.

If I wanted America to fail, I... I suppose I wouldn't change a thing.