Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
The United States has undergone a coup. Having observed no martial conflict, you might think that I have gone off my rocker. But not all coups are physically violent. They can occur because poisonous ideas take hold and subvert the society. The United States is defined by the Constitution, and when the Constitution is eroded away, so is the United States.
The Constitution has been eroding away for a long time. The liberals said the Constitution had to be a living document, which means that it is forever changing, which means redefined, which means eroded.
The Tenth Amendment was lost to Abraham Lincoln. George W. Bush got rid of habeas corpus in the name of national security when he declared that the “terrorist threat” gave him the power to hold American citizens indefinitely without presentation of evidence to a court, without trial and conviction. And he did. Obama one-upped Bush. He said he could execute American citizens on suspicion alone without due process of law. And he did. Bush and Obama were not held accountable for their violation of the US Constitution.
Today free speech and association are dead letter rights. Everyone can now censor our free speech–employers, school boards, people claiming they are “offended,” social media, print and TV media. People who say something “offensive” can be erased and never heard from again. What this means is that whoever controls the right to be “offended” can cancel the free speech of those who cannot claim to be “offended.” Without free speech, there is no debate, just the imposition of approved views.
In Woke America, this is the situation today.
You can also tell a coup has occurred when traditional patriots like Make America Great Again Trump supporters and Oath Keepers are demonized by media and government officials as “domestic extremists,” persecuted, and imprisoned on false charges, such as the Americans who attended a rally in support of Trump and were turned, with Republican complicity, into “insurrectionists” who tried to seize control of the government by taking selfies of themselves sitting in Nancy Pelosi’s chair.
When something so juvenile can be designated an insurrection, you know a coup has occurred. The message is clear. Those supporting the established order against the coup that is being imposed are enemies of the people.
You can also tell a coup has occurred when perversity of all kinds, particularly sexual, is celebrated and normality is derided as “fascism” or some form of phobia or other word of abuse. When the moral high ground is held by LGBT– people who cannot reproduce–and nature’s norm of heterosexual is regarded. as an unjustified definition of normality, the natural order has been overthrown.
That’s where we are today. Soon pedophilia will be declared normal, and there will be brothels where formerly depraved people, now normalized, can have sex with children.
Impossible, you say, but not, for once one perversity is legitimized, all others follow, as we have experienced. It is just a matter of time. Once the rot starts, it doesn’t stop until the job is finished. We already have one foot in Sodom and Gomorrah, and the other foot is drawing nearer.
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We are in what Christians call a Romans 1 moment in time. We forget God and in turn God takes his hands off our society and lets fallen human nature take its course. It happens to every advanced society and empire. Mankind becomes fat and happy and believes all this was his own doing.
As a result he forgets the Creator. Morality is soon compromised or forgotten altogether. Soon he pursues a life of leisure and hedonism. All sorts of perversions follow. (ie LGBT degeneracy). Greed is rampant. People stop having children because they’re a drain a resources. Soon after wars for resources and power are started abroad and the currency is debased beyond recognition.
I came to the conclusion, about eight years ago, that no politician or party can correct the direction of the country. The politicians are corrupt because the people are lazy, uninformed, immoral, and corrupt themselves. Only revival, massive repentance in sackcloth and ashes by millions of people, will change the direction of the nation. Knowing God through Christ is the only way.
Although I’m an atheist, I upvoted you for the general tone and especially your admission that the state, comprised of mere humans, and usually particularly bad ones, cannot be the answer. A hundred morons do not add up to a genius.
If a religion aids people in acting more thoughtfully and being less decadent, I’m for it. Too many churches went along with the plandemic and have supported every military action ever, so maybe a reform church or spiritual revival is needed.
There’s no way Jesus meant to blindly follow Caesar:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/?s=romans+13
100 morons?
That’s the U.S. Senate, no?
Some of them are evil geniuses.
house and senate puppets of the W.E.F. agenda 2030/UN control freaks.
It took me a few years longer and I came at it from a very different [originally atheistic] angle,
but now I fully agree with you,
and since 2019 I see myself as a Christian (not to be confused with ‘a follower of institutionalized Christianity.’)
The Reluctant Anarchist by Joe Sobran
My arrival (very recently) at philosophical anarchism has disturbed some of my conservative and Christian friends. In fact, it surprises me, going as it does against my own inclinations.
As a child I acquired a deep respect for authority and a horror of chaos. In my case the two things were blended by the uncertainty of my existence after my parents divorced and I bounced from one home to another for several years, often living with strangers. A stable authority was something I yearned for.
Meanwhile, my public-school education imbued me with the sort of patriotism encouraged in all children in those days. I grew up feeling that if there was one thing I could trust and rely on, it was my government. I knew it was strong and benign, even if I didn’t know much else about it. The idea that some people — Communists, for example — might want to overthrow the government filled me with horror.
G.K. Chesterton, with his usual gentle audacity, once criticized Rudyard Kipling for his “lack of patriotism.” Since Kipling was renowned for glorifying the British Empire, this might have seemed one of Chesterton’s “paradoxes”; but it was no such thing, except in the sense that it denied what most readers thought was obvious and incontrovertible.
Chesterton, himself a “Little Englander” and opponent of empire, explained what was wrong with Kipling’s view: “He admires England, but he does not love her; for we admire things with reasons, but love them without reason. He admires England because she is strong, not because she is English.” Which implies there would be nothing to love her for if she were weak.
Of course Chesterton was right. You love your country as you love your mother — simply because it is yours, not because of its superiority to others, particularly superiority of power.
This seems axiomatic to me now, but it startled me when I first read it. After all, I was an American, and American patriotism typically expresses itself in superlatives. America is the freest, the mightiest, the richest, in short the greatest country in the world, with the greatest form of government — the most democratic. Maybe the poor Finns or Peruvians love their countries too, but heaven knows why — they have so little to be proud of, so few “reasons.” America is also the most envied country in the world. Don’t all people secretly wish they were Americans?
READ REST: http://www.sobran.com/reluctant.shtml
Corp. 501c3 churches, their cowardly clergy, and their gov. controlled hierarchies are apostate and globalist gatekeepers running social clubs and businesses, allowing this country to be taken down:
Few indep. churches conservative are speaking out, few care.
Churches- part of the power structure as- it always has been. Love and respect God but don’t let anyone else tell you what or who God is. They don’t know- they lie.
The churches should have never taken the 501c3 deal.
“I see myself as a Christian (not to be confused with ‘a follower of institutionalized Christianity.’)”
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Well, Mr. Chud, you’ve certainly laid out a good line of BS there. Believe me your gods are not going to come down and save Humanity from their natures. Humans are herd animals and like lemmings will follow each other off the cliff to their own demise. Even if it means taking a killer fake vaccine. Why hasn’t your god stopped this, or saved us from ourselves? BECAUSE IT CAN’T, NOR WILL IT !!!
First off you have to understand just who and what your Gods are, and yes that was meant to be pluralized, because who you believe to be, “A God” is actually many as made apparent in Genesis. Do you know what the word, “US” means? It means many, so your God is many and they are not gods at all but an alien species who genetically engineered us into Homosapien Sapiens.
The only thing that will save us is for humanity to wake up and understand why we have morals and ethics, BECAUSE IT IS IN OUR TRIBE’S BEST INTEREST TO FOLLOW THEM, NOT BECAUSE A GOD DEMANDS IT OF US. ARE YOU A SLAVE? THEN STOP ACTING LIKE ONE !!!
“Why hasn’t your god stopped this, or saved us from ourselves? BECAUSE IT CAN’T, NOR WILL IT !!!”
If you follow the book of Romans you would learn the answer to your question.
CB is quite right; God gave us up, gave us over to follow ourselves and our own sinful passions rather than to follow Him as Romans one describes. He is a gentleman in that regard; He’s not forcing anyone to do anything. He is affording mankind the opportunity to repent (change his mind) about his situation and return to godly life by trusting in the death, burial and resurrection of His Son as payment for sin debt, which is death. He took your place on that cross where you belong and died the death you deserve to die. What He wants is recognition for offering you that most generous gift.
Make no mistake; He will eventually put a stop to this mess. You want to be on His good side when He does.
Rump., you Spin a pretty Grimm tale there.
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will heal their land.”
Ain’tgoing to happen (like in days of Sodom and G and Noah) we are too far gone, 90% of adults are nihilists and live only for self, social media and other trival activities, most glued to phones 24/7. America is no longer, we are under agenda 2030 and the soon reset, mass genocide.
Nineveh comes to mind… never so far gone that a rescue can’t be done… to say otherwise would be to put limits on what God can and cannot do… There are but two conditions to the rescue… seek and turn…
But… while a rescue is not outside the realm of Gods abilities I would say that we are rushing headlong into the final stretch before God calls the game…
More proof America (and the EU, etc) is cursed and fallen:https://virtueonline.org/clearest-sign-yet-god-has-given-america-over-depravity politicians deceive and lie and sell us out.. Congress is full of rinos and other ilk.
Politicians are a mere reflection of society at large.
Only if a radical intervention isn’t staged, such as surgery to cut out and neutralize the rot and antibiotics to kill any lingering infection from spreading.
Is there any stomach for that remaining in the West? If not, then the rot won’t stop until the job is finished and the host is devoured.
WEF/Davos seems to be planning a sort of radiation treatment for those of us without de luxe subterranean redoubts to ride out their engineered apocalyptic storm in. They regard us as a cancer, while we see them as one.
Fagen (IGY)
“Just machine to make big decisions – programmed by fellows with compassion and vision”. Lol
… programmed by FELONS…
. . . who also carry out the orders.
Exodus 23:2
The radical intervention will be the rapture, God’s seal, trumpet and bowl judgements and Jesus returning at Armageddon
I agree Eyes…but not on the timing…my Brother in Christ!
https://www.youtube.com/c/NelsonWalters/search?query=Rapture%20
Enough with the nonstop Bible stuff. If you can’t see yet that the stories are metaphors and the “rapture” and trumpets and all the rest aren’t meant to be taken literally, you need remedial.
Handle your business here and forget about applying all that crap to every fking thing going on in the world. Your head is filled with bullshit meant to keep you a passive spectator. Wake up.
Blindness to the fact that there’s something big and wrong about the compulsion to robotically dogma blather and is programming is the hardest red pill to swallow and a greater cognitive dissonance than libtardianism. Dogma babblers are totally in denial of the righteous arrogance of their babbling and how much they would hate it if they had to constantly endure the other 1000’s of religions babbling in their faces.
There’s too much talking, often grandstanding, and not enough DOING. If you can’t live it, you don’t believe it.
Agreed.
James 2:17
Eyes is a friend of mine and if you don’t like what he posts and we/others discuss…skip it…or if it really bothers you that much downvote…and move on…otherwise your comment is a fart in the Burning Platform windstorm.
But thanks for the lecture.
That’s the cognitive dissonance hypocrisy that babblers refuse to acknowledge. Why don’t I get to express any opinion TOO and you ignore it if YOU don’t like it? Bible babblers think they have the right to make their righteous babbling some sacred ‘exempt’ subject from free speech!
The rancid acid that instantly forms in babblers guts when someone challenges their sacred security blanket and they feel the compulsion to attack someone elses right to speak is a huge indication of a very dark trap. Something is very wrong when you have to proselytize constantly with the arrogance of ‘I can tell you but don’t you dare tell me back’.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus
Look full in his wonderful face
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim
In the light of his glory and grace
His word shall not fail you he promised
Believe him and all will be well
Then go to a world that is dying
His perfect salvation to tell
Relax ATarese…just get another roll of scotch tape….
The simplest minds take it literally,
the more intelligent take it figuratively,
and the deep thinkers take it metaphorically.
Just as needed.
Eyes…check this out…KJ…ATarese…DON’T WATCH…that is a direct order cuz…well just cuz!
We are The Christian Nazis KJ…ATarese…NO PEARLS FOR YOU!!!
Some say the world will end in fire,some say in ice.
I vote fire
It’ll be a shame either way, because it’s a choice. The many could hit the brakes on the plans of the few. Instead, we abet them.
Which makes the many the few, too … many.
A tyranny that controls the entire system, yet people still just shrug their shoulders and think they can vote tyranny out. As if tyrants have ever in the history of the world listened to the people they hate and given up power. It’s the equivalent of the left saying real communism hasn’t been tried before.
Every time it got worse I wondered if this was going to be the moment people organized, but not even normalizing grooming/having sex with our kids or the government backing a shot that for all purposes kills you has gotten people to care enough.
There’s still plenty of bread and circuses, and people have become so self-absorbed that if it doesn’t happen to them personally, who cares?
Interesting that Retired General Don Bolduc, candidate for US Senate in New Hampshire, put out a joint op ed with Tulsi Gabbard today on Fox (linked at Real Clear Politics) calling for ending funding to the US proxy war against Russia in the Ukraine and calling out Biden for committing US troops to fight for Taiwan (without a declaration of war by congress). Hopefully Bolduc can take out Hassan. It’d be nice to see a general put chickenhawks like Cotton and Graham in their place.
Hardscrabbled Farner – how’s Bolduc doing up there?
The overthrow of america was completed in 1913. Everything since then has been leading to the takeover of all nations and peoples on planet earth. IMO.
I’d say it was begun in 1913, but completed in 1965 when they took the silver out of the coinage. Until the complete destruction of intrinsic value money what was begun in 1913 still had some limiting factors.
It began in May 1787 with the clandestine coup-d’etat at Philadelphia perpetrated by two-thirds of the attendees, which replaced the Articles of Confederation, against the will of the people – who were supposedly represented by the delegates.
Actually, somebody closed the window in 1971. Seems it was a hot stuffy day in August and the A/C was on, I suppose. De Gaulle calls and wanted an agreed upon payment. He was offered, you know, the kind of offer one cannot refuse, freshly printed paper. Now the races were on. The only problem is the this race is to the bottom.
It has been a long and torturous ride, but seems we’ll make it to the bottom. My guess is that Amerika will perhaps be first! USA number one! USA number one!
The gold standard only applied to foreign central banks and America didn’t have the gold.
That’s why de Gaulle was able to call America’s bluff. The gold theft had already occurred.
It wasn’t the event itself, but the admission of the event.
That, of course, led to the rushed creation of the so called petrodollar and made Saudi Arabia the tail that wags the American dog.
Joining the UN after ww2 was the big turning point of allowing nations to be controlled by the elite now based in Geneva, Swit. (WEF, WHO, BIS central world bank, etc dictators).
Is it just a coincidence that the elite seem to have long been headquartered in Switzerland and this country never seems to suffer the horrors and destruction of the wars that these elitists bring to most other countries?
Gods Judgment is coming upon America.
You mean is filling the cup of wrath, yes…
Probably Putin’s fault, because he didn’t act resolutely enough some years ago…
Putin may have become insouciant…..
Wheres the US of A??? the land of serfdom???
Unlike Americans, they understand the consequences of a communist regime taking over.
Here we have latte sipping morons who can’t be bothered to look up from their phone long enough celebrating their 40th shot to even see what’s happing around them.
I know… how sad the ending is… freedom, given up with not so much as a whimper…
WANT SOME TRUTH ??? Hysteria is just as infectious as is COVID if not more so, and no one in the media, alternative or otherwise, is questioning the reasons why. How is it that humans jump on the first idiotic bandwagon that speaks to possible threats to their existence? YOU HAVE A BRAIN, SO USE IT AND STOP FALLING FOR GOVERNMENT BS. For instance if you listen Anthony Fauci you have become dumber just by hearing the stupidity coming out of his mouth, as “I AM THE SCIENCE” line of BS !!!
1000 upvotes for you! General public is stupid and afraid because they watch and listen to MSM
Sadly a lot of so called Christian leaders are leading followers down this road to ???
Let me correct you some… charlatans, false teachers, money changers… Real CHRISTIANS follow Christ, not sanitized, buy my studies and newest books profiteers that dream up doctrines ill supported by scriptures. Like the Nar mob, the blab-it-grab-its, or liberal theologians… no shortage of these peoples…
Mercola had this to say yesterday …
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/10/31/faith-leaders-promotes-covid-vaccine.aspx
Great scene.
“As in the days of Noah”…. so will it be the same just before the flush lever is hit again.
The dna was corrupted, people had no restraints, sexually or otherwise.
You know what happened the last time. Only this time, minus the water.
It’s just heading down hill at high velocity and gaining speed.
Constitutional convention was the coup PCR describes here as having happened more lately. But not really the start, was it?
Start at the start or disqualify yourself from the race.
Articles of Confederation. The Revolution. The Mayflower. Britain. Europe. Renaissance. Reformation. Dark Ages. Ancient history. Pre-history.
Wo/Man.
In Mises terms the praxeolgy catallactics are you gotta a Cadillac ~ built, bought or stolen ~ &/but you are literally surrounded by carjackers & redlights & other signs of Slavic instruction. Cue Five Man Electrical Band.
Hardly anybody in this coup de ville but them pale-pale yellow-yolk chickens. Caddys? Not for yellow-yolk volkswageneers … unless they steal ‘em.
What’s an extrovert? Its one who gets its energy from other people.
What’s a vampire?
That’s the true energy crisis, right there. And no “Tesla” free energy device/tech dusted off from the shelf TPTB have sequestered it to can solve it (unless maybe it electrocutes extroverts). Electricity, etc ain’t the energy extros run on.
And the making of virtue out of necessity, the curve-fitting to the bright side, all that psychic/emotional/character rot is just the “free energy” that keeps this perp/etual motion machine chugging along.
Thanks PCR. As usual, you nailed it. Most still naively think next week’s mid-terms or Trump will cure the rot. Perish the thought. Obama never exited the throne. He and the WEF will rule until they don’t.
There was a revolution with nary a shot fired. The Russians fought a five year civil war against their Bolshevik revolution. Today we see a revolutionary movement that now is consolidating power, absolute power. Elections have never, and will never turn back an anti-democratic, liberty oriented revolution. Never
Brazil – Lessons and Observations
On Sunday night, the Brazilian run-off election got underway. Bolsonaro supporters were thrilled because Bolsonaro maintained a commanding lead all day. While it wasn’t a rout, he had it in the bag.
Something happened in those last few hours though. Lula made a surprising comeback in just one region. Although Bolsonaro won 6 of the 7 major regions, Lula’s lead in the single region was enough to push him over the top. Does this sound familiar? Oh, wait, this is from CNN, the “most trusted name in news”:
“According to the election authority’s final tally, Lula da Silva received the most votes in Brazilian history – more than 60 million votes“…
Immediately after the election, where Lula had campaigned on releasing people from prison and reducing criminal penalties, despite a crime wave of epic proportions, Lula supporters took to the streets to celebrate. This is where our first lesson comes into play. These Lula supporters rushed out and begin beating, and in several cases, killing outright, anyone wearing a Bolsonaro shirt. They called them “Bolsonaristas”, which sounds suspiciously like “Trumpers”…
The lesson is that this is where the rhetoric of “the other side is fascist” leads.
if you think pedoville is the last stop on the cray cray train… last stop is MolechTown