{"id":166685,"date":"2023-05-08T16:53:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T20:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=166685"},"modified":"2023-05-08T16:53:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T20:53:07","slug":"the-demise-of-liberty-is-one-of-the-costs-of-being-a-multicultural-tower-of-babel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=166685","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The demise of liberty is one of the costs of being a multicultural Tower of Babel.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><em><strong>The American Population Is Not Defending Our Liberty<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Paul Craig Roberts<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, I am asked why I am so down on Americans, calling them insouciant and dumb shits.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The answer is that they do nothing about the erosion of their liberty and the erosion of the Constitution that protects their liberty.\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Less than 1 percent of the American population acts in defense of our liberty, and they are punished for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur\u201d government, acting not for us but for the ruling elite, conducts an operation against us\u20139\/11 for example, or the \u201cCovid pandemic,\u201d and blames it on a few Saudi Arabians who somehow outwitted the entire American National Security State and brought the greatest humiliation to a superpower in world history, or on the sale of bat meat in a Chinese market, and the American population buys such obviously false stories.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons this happens is that American conservatives have been primed for decades to see themselves under attack from foreign enemies.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The Cold War solidified this mindset.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Currently American conservatives and Republicans in Congress see the enemies as Russia and China.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>They are ready to go to war based on fake news reporting funded by the military\/security complex, which sees rising profits in the venture.\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But what is really happening is that the Democrats and Biden regime are criminalizing not only the First Amendment but all expressions of truth. Anything said that is not supportive of the official explanations is \u201cmisinformation,\u201d \u201cpropaganda in behalf of a foreign enemy,\u201d or \u201cdomestic terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Punishing truth-tellers in America is now an established practice.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Julian Assange, a journalist, has been imprisoned for a decade without due process of law (an innovation of the George W. Bush regime) for reporting documents leaked to him.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Tucker Carlson has been fired from Fox \u201cNews\u201d for telling truths unsupportive of the ruling elites.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, and James O\u2019Keefe have been dismissed from the alt media organizations that they founded or, in Taibbi\u2019s case, fired as the leading star of the magazine, all because they told truths instead of official lies.<\/p>\n<p>And what happens? Nothing. The American people continue to be insouciant dumb shits who are unconcerned that their liberties are being erased as they sit using social media, watching CNN, ABC, CBS, listening to NPR, reading the NYTimes, Washington Post. Instead of defending their liberties, they submit to brainwashing and indoctrination by the forces of tyranny and support those who deceive them with their patronage.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A country with a population this stupid has no future.<\/p>\n<p>The demise of liberty is one of the costs of being a multicultural Tower of Babel.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>In such a non-nation, there is no unity, and, therefore, no constraint on the ruling oligarchy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As our founding fathers feared, America hasn\u2019t lasted much beyond 200 years.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2023\/05\/08\/the-american-population-is-not-defending-our-liberty\/\">https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2023\/05\/08\/the-american-population-is-not-defending-our-liberty\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Population Is Not Defending Our Liberty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}