Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Look At These Idiots. Where do they come from? From the Universities.
When I was a university student, the liberals’ motto was a quote attributed to Voltaire: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” The liberals used this quote as permission to deconstruct the family, society, religion, and the belief system that held the diverse American population together.
Today liberals want to silence and even to arrest everyone who disagrees with them. Social media deplatform and cancel all who step outside official explanations, even experts, members of Congress, and the President of the United States. Amazon, Apple, and Google force alternative social media out of existence by denying service. Americans lose their jobs for being Trump supporters and even for using gender pronouns unapproved by woke idiots.
We have arrived at the point in university life that an ignorant quota admission “student” has more authority than a distinguished scholar or scientist and can get the scientist or distinguished scholar investigated and sanctioned by his own university. A total non-entity can cancel a person of lifetime accomplishments simply on the grounds that the non-entity is “offended.”
This is the Western world today. Who is left to defend it? To die for it? And what is it? The values are gone. The belief system is dissolved. Propaganda focuses us on Russians, Chinese, and Iranians. The real threats to our existence are in charge of our life. We live in the Matrix of their self-serving lies.
Clear evidence that liberals have created a new Dark Age is the demand of Harvard students that the university revoke the degrees of Trump supporters. All reason has departed university life. Reason is replaced with blind hate. Emotion rules. Truth-tellers are “enemies of the people.”
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My heart tells me to fight for an America that is in the past.
My head tells me not to bother and let America freely turn into what the useful idiots want.
Too bad they don’t realize what they are going to get.
Would they even appreciate my efforts or condem them? As of now, I know that answer but it’s too painful to acknowledge.
America will survive the United States.
Can we recognize the difference?
“America” will of course still be around, it just won’t be the America I once loved.
Some piece of “Old America” may survive, but there’s not a chance in Hell that it will be coterminous with the current 50 States.
There are quite a few people out there, as different as Aesop and Anne Barnhardt, who maintain that the territorial integrity of the USA is, for lack of a better word, sacrosanct. I understand their sentiments in this regard, but not their thinking.
My grandchildren and my great-grandchildren are the reason I must not let this experiment in freedom die. Much of it is on me, as I did not do enough in the past to keep it from happening.
Truth tellers are the enemies of the people.
There would be no teeth in that statement if not for the fact that American men (and women) have turned into spineless ninnies who didn’t open their mouths to challenge the change to cultural Marxism. Speak up, speak out and reject the narrative….. next time. Ya’ll missed the boat on this go-around. Fools.
When you raise a generation of spineless ninnies, it’s you who is at fault, more than the ninnies themselves.
August,
I think I have a good understanding of which you speak.
But, I disagree.
Did your children follow your footsteps? Or were they compromised?
Most of the teachers and university professors never spent a day in a real job and were never in the military. They went from public schools, to universities, to the classroom…..the brainwashed, brainwashing the next generation of the brainwashed and the vicious cycle continues.
I almost gave you a thumbs down. I think I agree with your overall point but 1) today’s (2021) military seems super “woke” and 2) we need to “starve the beast”. Howevermany reasons there may once have been to join the military (full disclosure, I never did), in 2021, joining the military only means putting yourself at the disposal of Joe Biden and Victoria Nuland and John Brennan and Nikki Haley and clodpole John Faux Kerry and the military industrial complex generally, ready to be deployed to the next “theater” which is none of our fucking business.
The most patriotic thing any young American can do now is NOT join the military. Then the evil fuckers would have to institute the draft (which would put the kibosh to their war plans right quick) or send the children of elites to fight their asinine wars. If anyone attacks the “homeland” we have 300 million guns.
(If “howevermany” isn’t a word, it should be.)
Funny, I always thought the military’s first priority is to give their recruits a brain-washing.
Maybe what’s missing are actually critical thinking skills? [in all directions]
Be like Gandhi
I’ve never bought into the “children are our future”. Same as if you stand by her side forever she will come to her senses and realize love was in front of her the whole time. They are both romanticized emotional fantasies invented by the media.
They could care less or even understand future repercussions of their selfishness. Our elders that have experienced life to understand human nature, events and patterns are the future because they were in the past. Americans have been misled into thinking a nursing home will empower your parents to be near their own playing dominoes. Why do you think Spanish, Asian, African American cultures are so “tight”?
Lord help us! PCR is right..I have grandkids I can’t even talk to. Different world entirely.
That was the govt schools’ goal.
I think this era in history will be debated and learned from for many generations, the yet to be born will gaze in amazement at the old infrastructure, and wonder how people cooperated to create and maintain it. They will discuss how and why it ended, and how it came to be that we stopped caring about them.
“Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.”…… Will Rogers
The criterion by which I judge those I respect and to whom I listen is whether they are honest. Nobody is perfectly honest, but some are mostly honest: Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Russell Brand, Glenn Greenwald, Steve Sailer, Ann Coulter, David Sirota, Bernie Sanders, Pat Buchanan.
While these young wokesters are coming after their own parents – ready to betray them to the mob and send them to the gulag – or worse, I pity them for their inability to ascribe benevolent motives to those with whom they disagree. When they believe that all Trump supporters are racist, how do they process the fact that 19% of black men voted for Trump in 2020? 19% isn’t a majority, but it’s a sizable number. Do the woksters think these black men were motivated by self-hatred? Can they not comprehend that an interest in a flourishing economy, for example, is a valid point of view – that supposed “racism” or boorishness might be more than offset by other concerns? Do they not attribute any sincerity to the belief that Trump at least deserved some credit for not kicking off a new war?
You didn’t scratch Buchanan off your list after several total bullshiffery articles he [or his ghostwriter] wrote over the past few months?
Actually, I also put “ignoring important [inconvenient] facts, by a person smart enough they absolutely should have realized them” into my judgment criteria.
That’s why Greenwald and Sanders drop off my list. (I don’t know Sirota.)
Rand Paul and Coulter are also wobbly cases to me, as their tendency to propagandize their latest assessment makes them look zigzagging, when they fine-tune their opinion later.
Russell Brand also leans towards that mode, I take Joe Rogan any day over him.
Umm… that picture, LOL. I’m not actually saying it is Joe Biden behind those shades and mask and beneath that cap, but from the neck hands and brow, I would say when he was last on campus as a student, he was wearing a bearskin coat and trying to score dates with flappers and playing Rudy Vallee records. Just sayin’
Do chickens have teeth?
Likewise, there is no such thing as “educated youth”.
Kids go to a GOVERNMENT school for 12 years. They are brainwashed, manipulated, and told what to think …. not, how to think.
Then they go to college the very next year … actually, a couple months after graduating high school. And, now, they suddenly know how to think? Riiiight. But, they believe they are … FREE! Unshackled from the tyranny of adults who ruled over them for the past 17 years. Yippee!!!
But … their “thinking” is dominated by emotion and testosterone (and whatever the equivalent is for women.) “Education” doe NOT occur under such circumstances. After 4 years they graduate dumber than when they started.
I know because this happened to me. And it takes almost a lifetime in The School Of Hard Knocks to overcome all that ….. shit!
“In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” Orwell I believe. Tell the truth anyway, be the revolution. No time like the present!
Romans 5:8 KJB… “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
Another Voltaire quote (at least I’ve seen it attributed to him): To find out who’s in charge, find out who you can’t speak out against.
I homeschool my kids. I teach history and literature. I study freedom and constantly discuss it with my children. I go to great lengths to protect them from the “woke” culture. And, even so, it is still VERY difficult to not lose my kids to our current culture. I would have to lock them up and shelter them completely for full protection. The culture is everywhere…friends, their parents, neighbors, TV, movies, even some churches, even in the homeschool community!
We live in a blue state and maybe that’s why I struggle protecting my kids’ minds so much. We are moving to a red state next month. Should have done this sooner. Regretful.
It’s so disheartening. Very difficult being a parent these days.
Proverbs 22:6 – Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
What do they say about a child’s first 7 years?
I’m sorry but when TSHTF, the real education begins and leftist better learn fast. There will be no special ed, no high school make up classes, no extra credit, no Black or gender studies; flunk a core class and you eat dirt.