Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
One thing that we know with certainty about our time is that no Western government represents the people it rules.
Western governments represent the interests of those whose campaign contributions elect the government. The government is simply purchased by campaign contributors. It is not a government in the sense of the word used by Thomas Jefferson and Albert Jay Nock. In the United States, the Supreme Court has legalized the purchase of the government by special interests who use government for their agendas. The Supreme Court actually ruled that it is a First Amendment right to purchase the government.
Elsewhere in the Western world it is even worse, because the governments must first represent Washington’s interest. As representing Washington seldom conforms to their interests, no Western government has the support of the people.
I recently posted the approval ratings of the German chancellor, the British prime minister, and the French president, and they were even lower than Biden’s. The German chancellor has an approval rating of 17% In other words, 83% of Germans disapproved. Yet he rules them.
Everywhere in Europe approval ratings are disapproval ratings with European leaders disapproved by 65 to 70% of the populations.
How can this be called democracy? It can’t.
Albert Jay Nock told us the truth of our situation in 1935 in the most important book describing the American political system that has ever been written. If you read and understand Nock’s book and read a couple of Charles Beard’s political histories of the US, you will have a very clear understanding why freedom in America is being extinguished.
Albert Jay Nock distinguishes between social power and state power. Social power is when people have power. Then you have government. State power is when the state has power. Then you have tyranny. This situation is one in which government becomes privatized by powerful interests, including government agencies, to serve their agendas and is transformed into an unaccountable state.
Thomas Jefferson intended for the new nation to be governed by social power, that is, by the people. But other of the founding fathers wanted state power that they could enlist to privilege their pursuit of their own interest. Nock provides examples of this by the original founders. In my opinion, perhaps the best example of this was 60-70 years later with Abe Lincoln’s service to the railroads and support of the northern manufacturers for a tariff that would serve their interest at the expense of higher prices for the population. It was Lincoln’s support of the tariff that caused the secession of the Southern states and Lincoln’s invasion of the Confederacy. To cover up the fact that Lincoln was nothing but a shill for economic interests, historians invented a false account of Lincoln’s war against the Confederacy.
In the Western world democracy is merely an exercise used to convince the people that they are in control. I am not going to explicate Nock’s explanation of how we were doomed from the start. It began with the replacement of popular sovereignty with the state. Today unthinking patriots support the state at the expense of country and popular sovereignty.
Originally, state power grew by handing out special favors to support the interests of those who gained control of the state. Today the situation has greatly worsened. The state is used to suppress those who object to the special interest agendas.
For example, consider the massive repression of popular sovereignty. Websites, such as vDare.com, that point out the adverse consequences of the state turning a nation into a tower of babel are being suppressed by the state.
vDare.com has been explaining that massive immigration of unassimilable people into a country in the name of “diversity” and “multiculturalism” actually means the destruction of the nation. The ultimate effect is to eliminate diversity.
A country without an ethnic basis, a common language, a common religion and morality is a tower of babel, not a nation. The liberal-left and the Democrat Party have been turning America into a tower of babel for many years.
Apparently, vDare.com has had enough impact to arouse the state’s suppression of vDare. The same corrupt NY “justice system” arrayed against President Trump has been deployed against vDare. The state has now leaned on banks to refuse to process credit card donations to the vDare website. The purpose is to deprive vDare of revenues and to force the website to close down. https://vdare.com/articles/regime-suppresses-credit-card-donations-to-vdare-com-but-you-can-still-give-and-buy-livestream-tickets-to-conference-by-e-check-or-real-check
What libertarians who place hope in the freedom of expression in alternative media do not understand is that every alternative website can be closed down in the same way.
Where is accountability when free speech guaranteed by the US Constitution can be shut down by banks under pressure from the state?
Under popular sovereignty–government by the people–government’s functions are to protect property, free expression, and to provide justice.
Under state rule the function of the state is to deliver special benefits to serve the interests of those who gain control of the state.
The regime in which Americans have lived since the early overthrowing of Thomas Jefferson’s intent by other of the founding fathers is the special interest regime in which we live today.
The complete and total defeat of popular sovereignty has left Americans living a life of increasing tyranny, in which they are forced to pay in reduced freedom, income and living standards for the riches of the favored few.
America’s top 1% get $2 trillion richer: https://www.rt.com/business/595089-us-richest-wealth-record-high/ There is a massive difference between $11 million and $1,000 million, but both qualify for the top one percent. Multi-billionaires have many thousands of millions. The real rich are the top one-tenth of one percent.
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Yet the GOP in the House at least wants to give the Government the right to block, ban, shutdown or force the sale of websites they don’t like. Tic Toc will only be the first, how long before Biden then shuts down Truth Social? Yes I know it is supposed to be only if “owned by foreign entities” but how long before the government prove the shares owned are to high by their definition of foreign owners.
The situation seems obvious to me – Using a popular vote to elect those who lead the country is a system with too many vulnerabilities to rely on.
We need another way to have a government that responds to the needs of the country in accordance with a clearly laid out set of responsibilities and prohibitions. A Constitution would be required. Also necessary is that the mechanism be resistant to entrenched or powerful interests having undue sway over it.
Depending upon how the next few years go, we as a people may have a chance to establish a new system of governance. It would be useful to begin the discussions before the requirement is upon us.
Only those that own property outright and pay taxes on their property should be allowed to vote.
While that would help handle the voter-ignorance issue, without checks that would lead to an oligarchy where those with the most power would warp the system to do their bidding, much like the current system.
Charges of elitist cronyism would fucking ABOUND forever! It would be the new “racism”.
And isn’t class envy/warfare a Communist goal?
Property taxes mean that you never truly own your property. See what happens when you quit paying.
property taxes are a big part of human enslavement/control
Vote scaling dependent upon the proportion of your income that is taken away in tax, minus any credits or payments you get from .gov. If half your income is taken away in tax, you get 50 votes. If only 10% is taken away, you get 10 votes. If you are a net recipient and not a net payer, no votes for you.
God tried that already. Our ancestors basically told Him to go stuff Himself.
Maybe NOW you’ll understand why shit is such a mess these days. That’s where it ALL started.
We thought we could do better than God! Pardon the pun, but where in the HELL did THAT thought come from in the first place?
And it’s not like WE got a say in any of it.
This headline is 180 degrees ass backwards. We now live under a fascist dictatorship.
For fits and giggles, tell us how you define ‘fascist’!
No, in a Capitalist government a small number of special interest groups control half or more the nation’s wealth. In a Communist nation 6 or 7 people control all the wealth. Which is why big money special interest groups steer the rudder ever closer to global Communism.
In a Fascist nation central banking is bypassed and the economy is based on real world product. Special interests serve the nation, instead of the other way around. Which is why Fascist nations are falsely accused of genocide and genocide is visited upon that nation by the central banking controlled nations of the world, both Capitalist and Communist.
Feel free to try to prove me wrong and direct us all to a National Socialist gas chamber which would facilitate human euthanasia in the real world.
started good but, show me a National Socialist ‘gas chamber’, you can,t the communists killed more people than both world wars
I sincerely wish we did live under a fascist dictatorship. It would have way more accountability than jewish anal democracy.
The comments above on tariffs were/are the way politicians were paid before the socialists threw up woody wilson. Honest Abe was a kickback railroad lawyer. The Morrill tariff of 1860 was the last straw. It carried a 47% tariff to purchase votes for the republicans. 85% of the federal budget came from the south through tariffs. The vast majority of the money extracted was spent in the north as they had no money otherwise. The south got pissed and left. The question becomes when or will our current population stand up.
When peaceful change is impossible, violent revolution is inevitable.
So, you’re asking for a head-shot too?
Feudalism. Every socio-economic system eventually reverts to feudalism which can be expressed as favoritism. Governments go to the highest bidder.
The USA was founded by private interests for private interests. I think it took way longer to fully subvert than they expected, though.
The real reason is you took GOD out of the GODvernment.
You’re ONLY about 150 years late with THIS headline , you fucking antiquated dinosaur!
Damn, motherfucker! Seek a nursing home NOW!!! If you’re lucky, Joe Biden can be your room mate.
So, it is or isnʼt G.R.E.E.D?
No state represents the interests of it’s citizens – EXCEPT Israel. The reason you cannot acknowledge this reality is that you must have deep rooted antagonism against Israel and Jewish people. The effort against Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the endless list of antagonists of Western Culture and interest – has near complete support of Israeli citizens – who despite complaints against Netanyahu – completely know what the Arab and Muslim countries will do if given the opportunity.