Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
The founding principles of the United States, including those embodied in the Constitution, have been taking hits for a long time. Where shall we begin? As this essay is instructional, not inclusive, let’s begin with Lincoln’s invasion of the Confederate States of America. Lincoln’s initiation of the most costly war in terms of lives in US history was a death blow to the principle of self-determination, the principle upon which the US was created.
The next step toward America’s destruction was taken when the right to vote was extended beyond its confinement to male property owners to all regardless of property ownership and the 19th Amendment in 1920 gave women the right to vote. These changes fundamentally changed the character of the American political system.
Our Founding Fathers knew their history. They understood from Plato and Aristotle that self-rule ends up in mob rule. After the death of Pericles the Demagogues led the Athenian Assembly into catastrophic and emotionally driven errors. Our founding fathers were familiar with the bread and circuses paid from the public purse to pacify the Roman mob. For this reason our Founding Fathers restricted governance to male property owners who had a stake in the system. Not only were most property owners male, but also the male gender was, and is today, regarded as more rational and less emotional than women. Doom always follows the triumph of emotion over rational thought.
The removal of the property restriction on voting created the American mob. Now political parties can increase their votes by agitating for subsidies paid to the deprived by “the rich,” a development that female empathy enabled–“oh, the poor dears.” By 1913 the subsidies required from property owners demanded an income tax, which resurrected slavery by giving government as representative of the public interest a claim to the labor and thereby income of Americans.
Few, if any, Americans know and understand that the historical definition of a free person is a person who owns his own labor. A medieval serf was not free, because he owed 20% and at times as much as 30% of his income to his feudal lord. In exchange in the initial centuries of the relationship the formerly free household received protection from marauding bands of Vikings, Saracens, and Huns or Magyars. As the threats receded, the serfs’ obligations remained.
A slave on a 19th century Caribbean or Southern US plantation or in South America owed the surplus of his labor over his own maintenance to his owner. Generally the tax rate was about 50%. What the 1913 income tax Amendment did was to re-enserf Americans and to turn them into slaves as the tax rates quickly rose and thresholds lowered.
Americans do not understand that they are slaves, because they think slaves were restricted in their movements. But in 18th and 19th century America everyone was restricted in their movements. There were no cars, buses, trains, airliners. To get anywhere over land required horses or walking, and the progress was slow for rich and poor alike.
Americans due to their historical indoctrination by white liberals do not understand that many slaves were leased out by owners to businesses in towns and were permitted to retain a part of the income they produced, which they used to purchase their freedom. Try to purchase your freedom from the IRS.
In 1913 an equally disastrous Constitutional Amendment was passed–the 17th Amendment. Until April 8, 1913, US senators were appointed by the state legislatures. This tied their interest to their state’s interest. Progressives, or more accurately destroyers, replaced this safeguard provided by our Founding Fathers with direct election of the US Senate. This fatal error brought money into politics. Now senators can be purchased, upheld by recent Supreme Court decisions as a First Amendment right, by organized interests from outside their state and even by foreign interests. Today the US Senate is purchased by Big Pharma, Agri-business, AI corporations, Wall Street and the banks, and by foreign governments, such as the many US senators who support with American blood and money Americans fighting wars for Israeli hegemony over the Middle East.
Did the dumbshit progressives who created the situation in which money purchases the US Senate understand the unintended consequences? Did they understand, for example, that Americans would one day be fighting Israel’s wars for hegemony? Of course not. They were too stupid to understand anything. They were emoting like women. Yes, I know, I am not making friends with feminists, but truth cannot be sacrificed for feminists’ feeling or anyone else’s. If feelings prevail over truth, there is no point to anything.
It is a different story, but 1913 also brought Americans the Federal Reserve System, a central bank controlled by a few that has used its manipulation of inflation and unemployment to monopolize the US economy.
It was the stupid progressives who in their delusions thought that regulatory agencies would protect Americans health, food, and financial security. All regulatory agencies are captured by the industries that are supposed to regulate them. Big Pharma, for example, owns the FDA, CDC, NIH, and not even the Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., can do anything about it. The ability of Big Pharma to purchase the House and Senate is more power than the Secretary of Health has.
By 1913 our Founding Fathers’ design of a government of separated powers, legislative, judicial, and executive, constrained by a Constitution that defined the USA was in tatters. It has worsened since.
To be brief, Congress has abandoned its own Constitutional right to permit or forbid the country being taken to war by the executive. The executive has a free hand as Trump’s attack on Iran for Israel demonstrates, as numerous previous attacks on foreign countries by US presidents have demonstrated.. The Trump regime also has demonstrated, as have governors and legislatures of 38 American states, total contempt for the First Amendment. Trump illegally prevented US university students from protesting the Israeli genocide in Palestine. There are 38 US states, bought and paid for by the Israel Lobby, that refuse a government job or contract to any American citizen or business who participates in a boycott against Israel. In other words, Israel comes ahead of the First Amendment. So where is the power of the US Constitution?
The Constitution’s fate suffered even worse under the George W. Bush and Obama regimes. President Bush declared in violation of habeas corpus that he could detain American citizens indefinitely on suspicion alone without due process. President Obama declared that he had the right to execute American citizens on suspicion alone without due process, and he did so. These are impeachable offenses against the US Constitution. But no effort was made to defend the Constitution by impeaching either of the destroyers of the US Constitution, acts of high treason. The presidential attacks on the Constitution were explained as a national defense matter despite the fact that no national defense was involved..
So we have come to the point where destroying the US Constitution is a protective measure. We are said to be safer without the Constitution’s protections of liberty.
In the 1960s federal bureaucrat Alfred Blumrosen at the Orwellian named Equal Employment Opportunity Commission misused the 1964 Civil Rights Act to deny white males equal protection under the 14th Amendment. Blumrosen established an illegal and unconstitutional regime of race and gender preferences for university admission, employment and promotion called “affirmative action” that made white males second class citizens and assigned them to the back of the bus. Yet these second class citizens are said to have “white privilege.” After 61 years nothing has been done about this ongoing violation of the 14th Amendment.
Today who defends the US Constitution, or what little is left of it? Not the law schools. Not the media. Not Federal judges. Not the New York Times 1619 Project. Not Democrats, progressives, or the Democrat Socialists who are taking over the Democrat Party, and not even by American conservatives who are always willing, repeatedly, to sacrifice the Constitution to “national defense,” always a hoax.. The US Constitution has been redefined from being a protector of liberty to being an obstacle to change.
Generally speaking, revolutionaries are killed by their revolutions. The French Revolution “devoured its own children”, turning its radical Jacobin leadership into victims of the very mechanisms of state terror they had created. The Bolsheviks who led the Russian Revolution were destroyed by Stalin. Chinese Communists were victims of Mao’s purges. Abdul El-Sayed, Melat Kiros, and Alexndria Ocasio-Cortez will be victims of the revolution they are launching.
Revolutions unfold according to their own dynamic. When they run out of designated opponents, they find them in their own ranks. The poetic justice in this will not save America from destruction.
Flag-wavers have lost their country. Their insouciance made them incapable of defending America. Today America is abandoned without defenders, sacrificed to Israel and Democrat Socialist revolutionary aspirations.
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[ H/T The Burning Platform ]
The founding principles of the United States, including those embodied in the Constitution, have been taking hits for a long time. Where shall we begin? As this essay is instructional, not inclusive, let’s begin with Lincoln’s invasion of the Confederate States of America. Lincoln’s initiation of the most costly war in terms of lives in US history was a death blow to the principle of self-determination, the principle upon which the US was created.
The next step toward America’s destruction was taken when the right to vote was extended beyond its confinement to male property owners to all regardless of property ownership and the 19th Amendment in 1920 gave women the right to vote. These changes fundamentally changed the character of the American political system.
Our Founding Fathers knew their history. They understood from Plato and Aristotle that self-rule ends up in mob rule. After the death of Pericles the Demagogues led the Athenian Assembly into catastrophic and emotionally driven errors. Our founding fathers were familiar with the bread and circuses paid from the public purse to pacify the Roman mob. For this reason our Founding Fathers restricted governance to male property owners who had a stake in the system. Not only were most property owners male, but also the male gender was, and is today, regarded as more rational and less emotional than women. Doom always follows the triumph of emotion over rational thought.
The removal of the property restriction on voting created the American mob. Now political parties can increase their votes by agitating for subsidies paid to the deprived by “the rich,” a development that female empathy enabled–“oh, the poor dears.” By 1913 the subsidies required from property owners demanded an income tax, which resurrected slavery by giving government as representative of the public interest a claim to the labor and thereby income of Americans.
Few, if any, Americans know and understand that the historical definition of a free person is a person who owns his own labor. A medieval serf was not free, because he owed 20% and at times as much as 30% of his income to his feudal lord. In exchange in the initial centuries of the relationship the formerly free household received protection from marauding bands of Vikings, Saracens, and Huns or Magyars. As the threats receded, the serfs’ obligations remained.
A slave on a 19th century Caribbean or Southern US plantation or in South America owed the surplus of his labor over his own maintenance to his owner. Generally the tax rate was about 50%. What the 1913 income tax Amendment did was to re-enserf Americans and to turn them into slaves as the tax rates quickly rose and thresholds lowered.
Americans do not understand that they are slaves, because they think slaves were restricted in their movements. But in 18th and 19th century America everyone was restricted in their movements. There were no cars, buses, trains, airliners. To get anywhere over land required horses or walking, and the progress was slow for rich and poor alike.
Americans due to their historical indoctrination by white liberals do not understand that many slaves were leased out by owners to businesses in towns and were permitted to retain a part of the income they produced, which they used to purchase their freedom. Try to purchase your freedom from the IRS.
In 1913 an equally disastrous Constitutional Amendment was passed–the 17th Amendment. Until April 8, 1913, US senators were appointed by the state legislatures. This tied their interest to their state’s interest. Progressives, or more accurately destroyers, replaced this safeguard provided by our Founding Fathers with direct election of the US Senate. This fatal error brought money into politics. Now senators can be purchased, upheld by recent Supreme Court decisions as a First Amendment right, by organized interests from outside their state and even by foreign interests. Today the US Senate is purchased by Big Pharma, Agri-business, AI corporations, Wall Street and the banks, and by foreign governments, such as the many US senators who support with American blood and money Americans fighting wars for Israeli hegemony over the Middle East.
Did the dumbshit progressives who created the situation in which money purchases the US Senate understand the unintended consequences? Did they understand, for example, that Americans would one day be fighting Israel’s wars for hegemony? Of course not. They were too stupid to understand anything. They were emoting like women. Yes, I know, I am not making friends with feminists, but truth cannot be sacrificed for feminists’ feeling or anyone else’s. If feelings prevail over truth, there is no point to anything.
It is a different story, but 1913 also brought Americans the Federal Reserve System, a central bank controlled by a few that has used its manipulation of inflation and unemployment to monopolize the US economy.
It was the stupid progressives who in their delusions thought that regulatory agencies would protect Americans health, food, and financial security. All regulatory agencies are captured by the industries that are supposed to regulate them. Big Pharma, for example, owns the FDA, CDC, NIH, and not even the Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., can do anything about it. The ability of Big Pharma to purchase the House and Senate is more power than the Secretary of Health has.
By 1913 our Founding Fathers’ design of a government of separated powers, legislative, judicial, and executive, constrained by a Constitution that defined the USA was in tatters. It has worsened since.
To be brief, Congress has abandoned its own Constitutional right to permit or forbid the country being taken to war by the executive. The executive has a free hand as Trump’s attack on Iran for Israel demonstrates, as numerous previous attacks on foreign countries by US presidents have demonstrated.. The Trump regime also has demonstrated, as have governors and legislatures of 38 American states, total contempt for the First Amendment. Trump illegally prevented US university students from protesting the Israeli genocide in Palestine. There are 38 US states, bought and paid for by the Israel Lobby, that refuse a government job or contract to any American citizen or business who participates in a boycott against Israel. In other words, Israel comes ahead of the First Amendment. So where is the power of the US Constitution?
The Constitution’s fate suffered even worse under the George W. Bush and Obama regimes. President Bush declared in violation of habeas corpus that he could detain American citizens indefinitely on suspicion alone without due process. President Obama declared that he had the right to execute American citizens on suspicion alone without due process, and he did so. These are impeachable offenses against the US Constitution. But no effort was made to defend the Constitution by impeaching either of the destroyers of the US Constitution, acts of high treason. The presidential attacks on the Constitution were explained as a national defense matter despite the fact that no national defense was involved..
So we have come to the point where destroying the US Constitution is a protective measure. We are said to be safer without the Constitution’s protections of liberty.
In the 1960s federal bureaucrat Alfred Blumrosen at the Orwellian named Equal Employment Opportunity Commission misused the 1964 Civil Rights Act to deny white males equal protection under the 14th Amendment. Blumrosen established an illegal and unconstitutional regime of race and gender preferences for university admission, employment and promotion called “affirmative action” that made white males second class citizens and assigned them to the back of the bus. Yet these second class citizens are said to have “white privilege.” After 61 years nothing has been done about this ongoing violation of the 14th Amendment.
Today who defends the US Constitution, or what little is left of it? Not the law schools. Not the media. Not Federal judges. Not the New York Times 1619 Project. Not Democrats, progressives, or the Democrat Socialists who are taking over the Democrat Party, and not even by American conservatives who are always willing, repeatedly, to sacrifice the Constitution to “national defense,” always a hoax.. The US Constitution has been redefined from being a protector of liberty to being an obstacle to change.
Generally speaking, revolutionaries are killed by their revolutions. The French Revolution “devoured its own children”, turning its radical Jacobin leadership into victims of the very mechanisms of state terror they had created. The Bolsheviks who led the Russian Revolution were destroyed by Stalin. Chinese Communists were victims of Mao’s purges. Abdul El-Sayed, Melat Kiros, and Alexndria Ocasio-Cortez will be victims of the revolution they are launching.
Revolutions unfold according to their own dynamic. When they run out of designated opponents, they find them in their own ranks. The poetic justice in this will not save America from destruction.
Flag-wavers have lost their country. Their insouciance made them incapable of defending America. Today America is abandoned without defenders, sacrificed to Israel and Democrat Socialist revolutionary aspirations.
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[ H/T The Burning Platform ]
